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- Submission To Divine Providence In The Death Of Children
Table of Contents
- Title Page
- THE PREFACE.
- POSTSCRIPT.
- 2 KINGS IV. 25, 26.
- I. THERE is surely Reason, in such a Case, to say it is well,--because GOD doth it.
- II. PIOUS PARENTS, under such a Dispensation, may conclude it is well for them in particular,--because he, who hath done it, is their Covenant GOD.
- III. PIOUS PARENTS, in such a Circumstance, have farther Reason to say, It is well,--as they may observe an apparent Tendency in such a Dispensation to teach them a Variety of the most instructive and useful Lessons, in a very convincing and effectual Man
- 1. WHEN GOD takes away our Children from us, it is a very affecting Lesson of the Vanity of the World.
- 2. THE Removal of our Children by such awful Strokes may warn us of the Approach of our own Death.
- 3. THE Providence before us may be farther improved to quicken us in the Duties of Life, and especially in the Education of surviving Children.
- 4. THE Providence before us may have a special Tendency to improve our Resignation to the Divine Will; and if it does so, it will indeed be well.
- IV. THAT pious Parents have Reason to hope it is well with those dear Creatures who are taken away in their early Days.
- 1. LET pious Parents, who have lost hopeful Children in a maturer Age, join with others in saying, It is well.
- 2. FROM what we have heard, let us learn not to think of the Loss of our Children with a slavish Dread.
- 3. LET us not sink in hopeless Sorrow, or break out into clamorous Complaints, if GOD has brought this heavy Affliction upon us.
- 4. LET those of us who are under the Rod, be very solicitous to improve it aright, that in the End it may indeed be well.
- Footnotes.