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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 3: USE III.Sermon › Proposition 4 › Application 3: VSE III.
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 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, 2 Tim. 3.3. among other ways wherein this is to be discovered, this is one: and though men may boast of it as a commendable virtue, to bear up unconcerned under such Providences, yet it is here disapproved, and there is blame in despising as well as in fainting under afflictions.
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, 2 Tim. 3.3. among other ways wherein this is to be discovered, this is one: and though men may boast of it as a commendable vertue, to bear up unconcerned under such Providences, yet it is here disapproved, and there is blame in despising as well as in fainting under afflictions.