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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
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.
His words made an Impression upon them, and they yield Obedience to him, and had Faith in him, even to and for the raising of the Dead. John 11.19, to 45. Kindly Sorrow leaves room for Faith and Obedience; Faith and Obedience keeps Sorrow from degenerating into a turbulent Passion, which is nourished by Unbelief and Disobedience; and in this Sorrow men can deride what they should believe. Luke 8.49. Jairus his Daughter was dead. 52. They wept and bewailed her. Christ said, Weep not, she is not dead, but sleepeth. 53. They laughed him to scorn, knowing that she was dead. But Christ by his call and command to arise, brought her Soul into her again, to the astonishment of the Father, and the Mother of the Maiden, 54, 55, 56. who in their kindly Sorrow did believe, what others in their turbulent Passion did deride.
His words made an Impression upon them, and they yi•ld Obedience to him, and had Faith in him, even to and for the raising of the Dead. John 11.19, to 45. Kindly Sorrow leaves room for Faith and Obedience; Faith and Obedience keeps Sorrow from degenerating into a turbulenc Passion, which is nourished by Unbelief and Disobedience; and in this Sorrow men can deride what they should believe. Luke 8.49. Jairus his Daughter was dead. 52. They wept and bewailed her. Christ said, Weep not, she is not dead, but sleepeth. 53. They laughed him to scorn, knowing that she was dead. But Christ by his call and command to arise, brought her Soul into her again, to the astonishment of the Father, and the Mother of the Maiden, 54, 55, 56. who in their kindly Sorrow did believe, what others in their turbulent Passion did deride.
Tho we have not Christ visibly, corporally present with us in our Sorrow to go unto, yet we have his Word to go unto, and his Ministers to go unto, and to hear the words of Christ