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Evans-TCP · Early American imprints

The Mourners Cordial Against Excessive Sorrow

by Samuel Willard · 1640–1707

Published: 1691
Length: 32,577 words
Reading: ~2 hours
Divisions: 31

From the title page

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, and John Allen. 1691. Very suitable to be given at funerals.

Original spelling, as transcribed by the Text Creation Partnership.

Contents

Front matter
Title page
To the reader
Text
Sermon
Floating text
1 doctrine
Proposition 1PROPOSITION I. That Gods People have consolations which others are strangers unto.
3 applications
Proposition 2PROPOSITION II. That Grace doth not secure any against Dying▪ or, Gods Children must dye as well as other men.
4 applications

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Proposition 3

PROPOSITION III. The Death of the Godly is but a sort of sleep.

2 applications

Proposition 4PROPOSITION IV. When Godly ones dy, it is lawful and a duty for their Friends to Mourn over them.

5 applications

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Proposition 5PROPOSITION V. Christians in their mourning ought not to imitate the rest of the World.
2 applications
Proposition 6PROPOSITION VI. GODS People have an Hope concerning theirs that are asleep, with which they ought to…
3 applications
Back matter
Publishers advertisementADVERTISEMENTS.

31 divisions in the TEI outline

Subjects

DeathImmortalityFuture lifeSermons · 1691Booksellers' advertisements · Massachusetts · Boston

Details

Author: Samuel Willard (1640–1707)
Imprint: Boston Printed by Benjamin Harris, and John Allen. 1691. Very suitable to be given at funerals.
Extent: 4, 137, [1] p. ; 15 cm. (8vo)
Language: English
Catalogue: Evans 583 · Wing W2287
Source: TCP N00460
Licence: CC0 1.0 Universal (Text Creation Partnership)

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The Danger of Taking Gods Name in Vain

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The Sinfulness of Worshiping God with Mens Institutions

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Rules for Discerning the Present Times

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The Doctrine of the Covenant of Redemption

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