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The mourners cordial against excessive sorrow discovering what grounds of hope Gods people have…
The mourners cordial against excessive sorrow discovering what grounds of hope Gods people have concerning their dead friends / by Samuel Willard, teacher of a church in Boston. ; [Five lines from II Corinthians]
Boston: printed by Benjamin Harris, 1691
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Sermon › Proposition 2 › Application 4: USE IV.Sermon › Proposition 2 › Application 4: VSE IV.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
USE IV.
VSE IV.
It may exhort us to get all the benefit we may by the People of God, whilst they live. Are we sure that these Excellent Ones must die shortly? let us then make use of them ⟨p. 24⟩presently; now let us improve them for our spiritual advantage, and get all that we can out of them. When once they are gone hence, we shall have no farther liberty or opportunity for converse with them, till we follow them unto, and overtake them in that blessed Sanhedrin: and if we now neglect to improve their graces for our instruction and edification, it will then repent us, when they are taken away from us, and we can come no more at them. There is no going to the house of darkness, to ask them any question there, or to e•quire after their Experiences▪ if you should call at their graves, there will be no hearing nor answer: i• then you would have any ben fit from them, seek it now, and so you will have abundant cause to bless God for them when they are gone hence, their memorial will be precious to you, and invite you to follow hard after, that you may be with them for ever.
It may exhort us to get all the benefit we may by the People of God, whilst they live. Are we sure that these Excellent Ones must die shortly? let us then make use of them ⟨p. 24⟩