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MOURNER:

OR THE

AFFLICTED

RELE V E D.

BY

BENJAMIN GROSVENOR, D. D. K

The FOURTH EDITION,

As one that comforteth the Mourners. Fob 39. 25.
To him that is afflicted, Pity should be fhewed. Job. 6. 14.
Cur doleas, fi periiffe non credis ? Tert.

LONDON:

Printed for GEORGE KEITH, in Grace-church-treet,

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TO THE

MOURNERS,

Whofe later Sorrows have been especially regarded in the following Papers.

MY DEAR FRIENDS:

S foon as you caft your Eyes upon this little Piece, fome of you will imme

diately think of the good Husband who is no more; or of the tender Parent who has given the laft Bleffing. Others will remember the dear Wife, the Defire of your Eyes; the pretty Child, in whofe

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Life your own feemed to be bound up; the Brother will come into mind, who was as your own Soul; and the excellent Friend, who fometimes ticketh clofer than a Brother. I have had all these Cafes in my Eye; and with a Sympathy that can only arife from fome Experience and Benevolence in conjunction, have endeavored to affwage and improve your Sor rows at the fame time.

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It is fomewhat neceffary to have: been acquainted with Grief, in order to address suitably to the Tendernefs of its Nature; to obviate the Subtlety of its Pleas and Pretenfions for Excefs, and to manage its Operations and Effects. There is danger, otherwife, of in

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creafing the Anguish we would alleviate, and the Wound is made to bleed afresh*: Even Balm itself may be painfully applied.

There are, indeed, fome Wounds that will heal of themselves.

Give

them a little Time, and the Stock of Sorrow is not fo great but it will quickly be spent: The hafty Showers will foon be over. But the real Mourner is apt to have the Reasons of his Anguish continually before him; and to be more intent upon wafting his Spirits than his Sorrows: Fond of Solitude and Silence, that he may indulge his Paffion, and provoke the Emotion of that Grief which is ready to devour him; taking a fort of Pleafure to lye down under its Oppres

*Curando fieri quædam majora videmus
Vulnera, quæ melius non tetigiffe fuit.

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