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A65690	Comfort for parents, mourning over their hopeful children, that dye young In a funeral discourse upon Jer. 31. xvii. And there is hope in thine end, saith the Lord. By Thomas Whitaker, minister of the Gospel at Leeds, in York-shire.	Whitaker, Thomas, 1650 or 51-1710.	1693 (1693)	Wing W1713; ESTC R221995	29,944	125

Dawnings of that Glorious Day but to breathe after clearer Discoveries of the Love and Favour of God in and through a Saviour This must certainly be a Frame of Soul that carries not a little Encouragement in it It 's a very encouraging Symptom in grown Persons and much more in Children What was it but the sweet Breath of a Gracious Heart when the Holy Psalmist address'd himself in such a Pathetick Prayer to Heaven Psa 106.4,5 Remember me O Lord with the Favour of thy People Oh visit me with thy Salvation that I may see the Good of thy Chosen Two Evidences of a Sincere Gracious Soul are observable in the Prayer First That no less would satisfie his Panting Heart than the Favour that was peculiar to God's own People the good of his Chosen And secondly that could not content him neither but he must have the sensible Refreshing Evidence of that Favour Such Heavenly Breathing have sometimes appear'd in young ones that nothing could satisfie them but some chearing Glimps of the Salvation of God and what can be the Spring of such Divine Bubblings but an Heart season'd with an Heavenly Tincture from above It 's an Argument that Christ lies near the Heart when the Desires are so strong after Clearness of Interest Heaven must both be understood and valued where the Soul is so sollicitous for a sure and clear Title and would not only have some Hope but rejoyce in Hope in the Glory of God 11. Willingness to be gone to be with Christ is the last Gracious Symptom I shall mention It 's not to be doubted but Death in its self must be as terrible to Children as to others The Separation of two such dear Intimates as Soul and Body cannot but look with a frightful Aspect upon them as well as more grown Persons the utter Extinction of all Worldly Relations and Earthly comforts cannot but be very unwelcome and uneasie to Flesh and Blood Isa 38.11 To be taken from the Land of the Living and lodged in the Dark and hideous Mansions of the Grave where they shall see Man no more with the Inhabitants of the Earth cannot but make recoil in them as well as others And yet it 's very remarkable how welcome this Grim and Melancholy Messenger has been to some young Ones and how willing have they been to leave the World and to go to the House prepared for all Living tho' they have but just begun to taste the Sweet and Pleasure of the World and have felt little of the Bitter to wean their Hearts from it yet how contented have they been to bid it Farewel with all its Delights and Pleasures and have entertained Death with a very sweet and resigning Composure of Mind Now what could thus reconcile the King of Terrors to them but the Thoughts and hopes of something beyond the Grave to recompence the loss of what they leave here It 's an argument of their Faith that they believe a future State and that the Happiness thereof infinitely exceeds all the Felicities of this present state of Time It 's an Evidence they have got some Peep within the Vail where they have seen great and wonderful Things far surpassing all the Enjoyments of this lower Region It 's a demonstration of their Love to and Valuation of Christ that they esteem the Fruition of him more worth than all the World and are willing to be absent from the Body that they may be present with the Lord. 2 Cor. 8. 5. It 's an argument they have some Inin God as their God they are so willing to go to Him though it be through such a Gloomy Passage And that they love their Fathers House since the Messenger is so welcome tho' but a frightful One that 's sent to fetch them thither It 's an intimation they know and have felt something of Heaven when they can be so content to exchange Things seen for unseen the visible sensible Comforts of this World for the invisible Delights of Heaven In a Word I'ts an evident Proof that Christ is their Life their Joy their Hope their Happiness their Portion their All when they can so freely throw off all the Courtships of Flesh and the World Phil. 1.23 that they may be with their Exalted Redeemer as the best of all The pale Horse of Death could not meet with such a welcome and submissive Reception but that he carries them thither whither their Hearts are already gone And siher their Hearts are Above it is an Argument their Treasure is there also It is not to be expected that Children should hove such clear and explicite Apprehensions as more mature Christians But however when they know so much as to esteem it a Being with Christ and upon that account not only Heaven is truly desirable but Death is welcome as the Way thither it cannot but be reckon'd as a very hopeful Presage And what can suggest more affecting and refreshing Hopes to Mourning Parents than to see their departing Children thus preter being with Christ before their Continuance in this Vain and Changeable World Thus I have endeavoured to take afflicted Parents by the Hand and to lead them to some of those Cordial-Springs of Hope which may minister good Encouragement as to the good Estate of their Dying Children And tho' it 's a rare Happiness to find all these Blessed Symptoms in a sweet Conjunction yet where there is any of them it may give some Support and Hope And the more that appears the higher may our Hopes advance towards an holy Confidence 2. I come now to shew In what respects these Grounds of Hope in Dying Children minister Matter of Support and Comfort to their Surviving Parents and Relations 1. Having such Grounds of Hope Parents may be satisfied that their Children are not lost but laid up It 's a Thought that oftentimes perplexeth the Minds of tender Parents not a little what becomes of their dear Children when they go hence into what Hands they fall and whither they are transported and carried And that which renders the Parting many times more Bitter and Afflictive is the Perplexity of this But having the forementioned Grounds of Hope the Perplexity is presently removed Your Children though gone out of your Sight and Care yet they are not lost but safely lodg'd up Not lost among the Infernal Apostate Fiends of Hell those Robbers and Murderers of precious Souls Malach. 3.17 but safely laid up amongst God's Jewels who will have them all forth-coming another Day Psal 57.4 Not lost in Satan's Territories among those raging Lyons of Prey but happily conducted to their Heavenly Father's Bosom where they are laid up in Peace and Safety As God has stamped the Lineaments of his own Image upon them in True though not in such Large Characters so will he not take care of those whom he has set his own Child's-mark upon Will he lose his Children whom he hath adopted into the Line of

Comfort for Parents Mourning over their Hopeful Children THAT DYE YOUNG In a Funeral Discourse upon JER 31. xvii And there is Hope in thine End saith the Lord. By Thomas Whitaker Minister of the Gospel at Leeds in York-shire LONDON Printed for John Dunton at the Raven in the Poultrey 1693. THE PREFACE AT the Desire of Mr. Nicholas Dunwell who was particularly concerned both for the Preaching and Publication of the following Sermon I write this Preface In his Hopeful Child he saw many Pleasant and Amiable things but now that dear Comfort of his Life being withdrawn as he acquiesces in the Holy Providenee of God that causes many times those Flowers to wither by an Early Decay which perhaps we should be very apt to doat upon so he doubts not but this Discourse made by that Minister under whose Instructions he sits with great Delight will contribute to the Good of others especially those who are yet in the Morning of their Age. I could not in Civility refuse the prefexing my poor Name such as it is tho' the worthy Author needs no Recommendation much less mine his Skill in Spiritual Affairs and the Success wherewith God has blest his zealous Eudeavours for the Good of Souls render it needless for me to say any thing that hath so much as the Shew of Flattery he neither expects it nor does my Genius lead me to say much of one who is too modest to hear his own just Praises and who has so many Witnesses of his fitness for his Honourable Work amongst his Numerous and Happy Auditory which was I doubt not Edified at the Hearing of the following Sermon and will be more so at the Reading of it it must be their own fault if they receive not considerable Benefit from a Subject so suited to the use of Parents and Children and which is so well managed I shall only speak a little to those that are Young and to those Parents who are shedding Tears for the Loss of Hopeful Children Those that are Young have but little Experience of the Sorrows and Calamities of Life and in a World where they have been for so short a space every thing appears to them as Gay and Fine they are but beginning to Travel and finding no Pain nor Trouble at present promise to themselves many smooth Years and to be at ease a long while and being Charmed and Blinded with sensual Pleasures they put afar off the Evil Day But I would desire them to consider that they may be taken away betimes that their Sun may be Clouded a little after be is risen and that now in their full Strength and Vigor it is the most proper seasson wherein to prepare for another World and if they should live to be old they 'll find no Inconveniencies from such an Early Preparation it will be the Joy of their Parents and their own Joy God will multiply his Favours and he will be pleased to see them in his Vineyard in the Dawn of Life this will enable them to run their Christian Race with an eager haste and the Brightness of their Examples will allure others to run for the same Blessed Crown whereas if they be secure careless and unthoughtful of Eternity their Minds will be laid waste and be like the Field of the Sluggard all overgrown with Thorns and Bryers with every evil and unpleasant thing This Earth with its fair Charins and Tentations will chain them to its self and the Devil will lead them Captive at his Will he will insult over them in their growing Age and strive to keep them from deserting his Service when they were before his Volunteers And it must be a doleful and Melancholy Prospect to their poor Parents to see their dear Children run in the way of Hell and like to be the fuel of Eternal Flames I would beg of them to read this Sermon and other good Discourses that may give them a right sense of things and especially to delight in the Holy Scriptures the frequent perusal of which will keep them from the Vanities of Youth and with admirable Clearness and Efficacy direct them to cleanse their ways and while they read in so Divine a Book to pray to the great Father of Lights that he would irradiate their Souls with Vital Beams that they may not only see the Light but feel the warmth of Truth and then if they die early if they go to Bed betimes they 'll fall asleep in Jesus and never complain that they were in Heaven too soon if they be good 't is no great matter whether their Lamps be extinguished at Midnight or at Noon As to Parents who have lost good Children whom they loved with all imaginable Tenderness tho' it is impossible for them not to shed tears at the pleasant Images of themselves their pretty Carriage their little innocent Actions their serious Discourse and their Holy Prayers yet they have a great many things to sweeten the bitterness of their Grief Oh what a Spiring is it of daily Consolation to think that a part of themselves is in Heaven And that tho' Death has pluckt from their Embraces a Child that was so Amiable and so good yet instead of groaning under the miseries of Life he is praising God above with Loud and Chearful Hallelujahs How reviving must it be to think that the Supream Ruler whose they and theirs are has removed the sweet Flowers that they look'd upon with Joy into the Coel stial Paradise It is reviving to think that these little Vessels are filled with an Early Glory and gone to see the Face of their Heavenly Father as their Angels did before the Parents of such Children ought not to shed unprofitable Tears for all their Sorrows will not cause a Spring in the Grave nor make the lovly plants to grow again They should not alway keep their Finger on the Sore for the Rod that chastens them is dipt in Honey and managed by a Father's Hand who must be more to them than many Sons and Daughters Their Love to these Amiable things sho●ld not exceed their Love to God he must be more to them than their Life which yet is a dearer and sweeter thing than all their other Comforts What Graces soever adorned the Bodies of their Children what Perfections soever enriched their Souls yet it should support them to think that whilst they are left to many a Cold and Stormy Winter they whom they once loved are arrived at their home and tho' they see them no more in their Families yet they shall meet them with Pleasure at the Great Day and never part again and then those Bodies which the Grave for a season preyed upon shall be like the Glorious Body of our Lord. You that are Parents may Lawfully drop some tears over the Graves of your departed Children but you ought not to bury your selves alive nor to be made unserviceable to God by excess of Grief You prayed that they might be good and they