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Title: Submission to Divine Providence in the Death of Children
Recommended and inforced, in a sermon preached at
Northampton, on the death of a very amiable and hopeful
child, about five year

Author: Phillip Doddridge

Release Date: July 21, 2008 [EBook #26097]

Language: English

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_Submission to Divine Providence in the Death of Children, recommended
and inforced,_

IN A

SERMON

PREACHED at

_NORTHAMPTON_,

On the DEATH

Of a very amiable and hopeful CHILD, about Five Years old.

_Published out of Compassion to mourning_ PARENTS.

By _P. DODDRIDGE_, D. D.

_Neve Liturarum pudeat; qui viderit illas,_

_De Lachrymis factas sentiat esse meis._ OVID.

The SECOND EDITION.

_LONDON_,

Printed for R. HETT, at the _Bible_ and _Crown_ in the _Poultry_. MDCCXL.

THE PREFACE.

_THE Discourse which I now offer to the Publick was drawn up on a very
sorrowful Occasion; the Death of a most desirable Child, who was
formed in such a Correspondence to my own Relish and Temper, as to be
able to give me a Degree of Delight, and consequently of Distress,
which I did not before think it possible I could have received from a
little Creature who had not quite compleated her Fifth Year._

_Since the Sermon was preached, it has pleased_ GOD _to make the like
Breaches on the Families of several of my Friends; and, with Regard to
some of them, the Affliction hath been attended with Circumstances of
yet sorer Aggravation. Tho' several of them are removed to a
considerable Distance from me, and from each other I have born their
Afflictions upon my Heart with cordial Sympathy; and it is with a
particular Desire of serving them, that I have undertaken the sad Task
of reviewing and transcribing these Papers; which may almost be called
the Minutes of my own Sighs and Tears, over the poor Remains of my
eldest and (of this Kind) dearest Hope, when they were not as yet_
buried out of m