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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 5 › Application 1: USE I.Sermon › Proposition 5 › Application 1: VSE I.
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 I.
VSE I.
For Reprehension. This consideration will afford matter of rebuke to a great many professed Christians; and convince them of their sinful carriage in their sorrowing for their dead. We forb•d them not to mourn and weep too on such occasions, but if they ⟨p. 46⟩forget themselves in it, they are to be rebuked: and this truth condemns.
1. All excess in this respect. Not to mourn at all, is unnatural; and to mourn beyond the stinted bounds is unChristian: and here in brief, •et this be observed, That, whatsoever demeanour of ourselves under such bereaving providences, carries in it the discovery of a non submission to the Holy Spotless Sovereignty of GOD in what befalls us. Whatsoever gives an obstruction to our careful and suitable attendance upon our Christian Duties, and wha•soever dr••es us to carry it discontentedly or d•scouragedly in the service of GOD; is of this nature, and lays us under this blame They mistake themselves who think that Moses, or GOD either justified Aon, upon that excuse which he made for his not eating the offering, according to the institution,