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The mourner directory, guiding him to the middle way betwixt the two extremes, defect,…The mourner directory, guiding him to the middle way betwixt the two extreams, defect,…
The mourner directory, guiding him to the middle way betwixt the two extremes, defect, excess of sorrow for his dead to which is added, The mourners soliloquy / by Thomas Doolittle ...The mourner directory, guiding him to the middle way betwixt the two extreams, defect, excess of sorrow for his dead to which is added, The mourners soliloquy / by Thomas Doolittle ...
London: printed by J.A. for Tho. Cockeril, 1693
Letter: THE EPISTLE To the Congregation Assembling in Mugwell-street, London.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Death that by the God of Life for many Years had been restrained from my Family, at last by a Commission from him brake in, and hath taken from me One that was nearest to me; the smallness of the Gift presented to you at her Funeral begs its Excuse from the greatness and necessity of the Subject [LOVE TO CHRIST] and from her Desire, t••• that Book might be the last Token of her Love to the followers of her Body to its long (but blessed be God, which is one of my great Supports, not to its last) Home, being lodged there only till the Lord shall come: and this one thing was all the Care she took about the Circumstances of her Funeral, for your Spiritual good to beget, and more and more to inflame your Love to the Lord Jesus, both ours and yours.
DEath that by the God of Life for many Years had been restrained from my Family, at last by a Commission from him brake in, and hath taken from me One that was nearest to me; the smallness of the Gift presented to you at her Funeral begs its Excuse from the greatness and necessity of the Subject [LOVE TO CHRIST] and from her Desire, t••• that Book might be the last Token of her Love to the followers of her Body to its long (but blessed be God, which is one of my great Supports, not to its last) Home, being lodged there only till the Lord shall come: and this one thing was all the Care she took about the Circumstances of her Funeral, for your Spiritual good to beget, and more and more to inflame your Love to the Lord Jesus, both ours and yours.
Her Death was the Occasion of this ensuing Discourse; first studied for my own use, when my design was to labour after, till I had attained these two things, A lively sense of Gods afflicting Hand in the Death of one so dear, and a quietness of Mind, patiently submitting to his Wise, Righteous and Holy Will: next preached ⟨image 3⟩to you; and because Death will also part you and yours, now presented to your view, for the Comfort, Guidance and Support of those that shall be the sorrowful Survivors.