The mourners cordial against excessive sorrow discovering what grounds of hope Gods people have…

WE live in a dying World. Our dearest Friends and most precious Relations are ever and anon bidding us a sorrowful farewell. To sanctify God in a duly moderated Mourning at such a time, is a great but difficult Duty. God is most dishonoured by our admitting our passions to carry us beyond bounds; and a Christian never more needs relief, than on such occasions, when Nature influenced by corruption carries him into unbecoming transports of ungoverned Affections. God hath therefore, in his word, provided excellent Cordials to revive the Spirits of his Children, and keep them from fainting under these trials. One of them, and none of the least, is presented you in the following Discourse. These Sermons were Preached in a time when Death rode in Triumph among us; when many were carried daily to their long home, and Mourners went thick about our streets; and they were not, through Gods blessing, without their desired effect. And since there will be frequent occasions for you to make use of this Receipt, as long as you converse with Mortality, it hath been desired to be exposed ⟨p. 4⟩in Print for the benefit of more than had the advantage to hear it. If in an Hour of Temptation, God shall please to make it any way serviceable to your faith, and enable you to suck out any Consolation from it, let him have the praise, to whose blessing I commend it, who am

WE live in a dying World. Our dearest Friends and most precious Relations are ever and anon bidding us a sorrowful farewel. To sanctifie God in a duly moderated Mourning at such a time, is a great but difficult Duty. God is most dishonoured by our admitting our passions to carry us beyond bounds; and a Christian never more needs relief, than on such occasions, when Nature influenced by corruption carries him into unbecoming transports of ungoverned Affections. God hath therefore, in his word, provided excellent Cordials to revive the Spirits of his Children, and keep them from fainting under these trials. One of them, and none of the least, is presented you in the following Discourse. These Sermons were Preached in a time when Death rode in Triumph among us; when many were carried dayly to their long home, and Mourners went thick about our streets; and they were not, through Gods blessing, without their desired effect. And since there will be frequent occasions for you to make use of this Receipt, as long as you converse with Mortality, it hath been desired to be exposed