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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 4 › Application 2: USE II.Sermon › Proposition 4 › Application 2: VSE II.
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 II.
VSE II.
Learn hence that the greatest griefs and greatest comforts may meet in the same subject, and from the same occasion. There is no such consolation in the Death of any, as of such as die in Christ, and yet no grief in the loss of any is comparable to it. The greater is their gain, the more is our cause of Joy, but because herein we suffer the ⟨p. 39⟩greatest loss, there is also the most occasion for our sorrow: the one is for them, the other is for our selves: only the due compounding of these will bring all to a right temper.
USE III.
VSE III.
This tells us that those who part with their Friends without sorrow, are guilty of a trespass both against nature and Religion. The Apostle speaks of some that are without natural affection,