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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.
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.
PROPOSITION IV. When Godly ones die, it is lawful and a duty for their Friends to Mourn over them.
PROPOSITION IV. When Godly ones dy, it is lawful and a duty for their Friends to Mourn over them.
Sorrow for the Death of Pious relations, ⟨p. 33⟩is, so far from being a sin, that the Omission of it would be so. Our Apostle doth not here tell them, that he would not have them to sorrow at all: but he only regulates this Mourning; we have therefore in the Scripture the examples of the most eminent and holy men recorded for this without any the least reflection made upon them for it; yea Jesus Christ himself wept at the grave of Lazarus: we shall farthermore find, that it is one Judgement, which God hath in his word threatened to befall some, that they shall die unlamented. We may take this brief account of the ground or reason of this conclusion.
Sorrow for the Death of Pious relations, ⟨p. 33⟩is, so far from being a sin, that the Omission of it would be so. Our Apostle doth not here tell them, that he would not have them to sorrow at all: but he only regulates this Mourning; we have therefore in the Scripture the examples of the most eminent and holy men recorded for this without any the least reflection made upon them for it; yea Jesus Christ himself wept at the grave of Lazarus: we shall farthermore find, that it is one Judgement, which God hath in his word threatned to befal some, that they shall die unlamented. We may take this brief account of the ground or reason of this conclusion.