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

Name: The mourners cordial against excessive sorrow discovering what grounds of hope Gods people have…
Author: Samuel Willard

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]

Samuel Willard 1640–1707Boston: printed by Benjamin Harris, 1691

4, 137, [1] p. ; 15 cm. (8vo) · 33k words · Evans 583 · Wing W2287

Title page typeset from the transcription.

Sermon › Proposition 5: PROPOSITION V. Christians in their mourning ought not to imitate the rest of the World.

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.

[ Earlier:93–108 of 247

:93p. 41–42¶2

2. Nor doth this caution forbid us to use all outward expressions of our sorrow in our mourning. Such as weeping; when our Saviour said to the woman at the bier of her dead Son, weep not; it was not a reproof of her action, but a preparatory to her comfort, in the restoring of him to life again: and the putting of themselves into a mourning garb; although there be a great ⟨p. 42⟩deal of vanity and excess used by many […] this regard; yet the thing in it self is no• forbidden, and Gods People in former time• were wont to use such expressions of grief as these; such as covering of the lips, and putting on Sackcloth, &c and if the inward affection be a thing lawful, the sober discovery […] it cannot be denied, if it be not in it self a thing unworthy of a Christian, and reproachful to his Profession; but

2. Nor doth this caution forbid us to use all outward expressions of our sorrow in our mourning. Such as weeping; when our Saviour said to the woman at the bier of her dead Son, weep not; it was not a reproof of her action, but a preparatory to her comfort, in the restoring of him to life again: and the putting of themselves into a mourning garb; although there be a great ⟨p. 42⟩deal of vanity and excess used by many 〈…〉 this regard; yet the thing in it self is no• forbidden, and Gods People in former time• were wont to use such expressions of grie• as these; such as covering of the lips, and putting on Sackcloth, &c and if the inward affection be a thing lawful, the sober discovery 〈…〉 it cannot be denied, if it be not in it self a thing unworthy of a Christian, and reproachful to his Profession; but

:94p. 42¶2

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

USE I.

VSE I.

USE II.

VSE II.

PROPOSITION VI. GODS People have an Hope concerning theirs that are asleep, with which they ought to alleviate their sorrow in Mourning over them.

Reformers309

Puritans1,782

Westminster Assembly24

Evangelicals36

USE I.

VSE I.

USE II.

VSE II.

PROPOSITION VI. GODS People have an Hope concerning theirs that are asleep, with which they ought to alleviate their sorrow in Mourning over them.