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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.
Ans. 5. In kindly sorrow for our dead, there will be an hearkening to, and a receiving of Alleviations of our sorrow propounded to us by men, upon grounds of Reason and Religion. Arguments for ••••gating of our g•••f from the Promises of God, from the common case of all Men, even most beloved of God, that they have died, as Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, Moses, Aaron and Samuel, the Prophets, Apostles, and all believing Primitive Christians, and more still must: From the happy state of those that die in the Lord, the Evils they are delivered from, the Good they are possessed of, the Joys they are ⟨p. 58⟩filled with, the Holy, Heavenly Work they are employed in, will find Entertainment with you, and will be hearkened to, and considered by you. But turbulent Passions of corrupt Nature will put by all that tends to the assuaging of it, after all Arguments from Reason, and all Topics from Religion, will refuse to be comforted. Thus Jacob's sorrow for Joseph, when he supposed he was dead, was too Exorbitant, when all his Sons, and all his Daughters rose up to comfort him, and he refused to be comforted. When if they had not spoken one word of Comfort to him, the very sight of so many Sons and Daughters living might have assuaged his sorrow for one (supposed to be) dead. Gen. 37.33, 34, 35. So Rachel, Jer. 31.15. A voice was heard in Ramah, lamentation and bitter weeping, Rachel weeping for her children, refused to be comforted for her children, because they were not.
Ans. 5. In kindly sorrow for our dead, there will be an hearkning to, and a receiving of Alleviations of our sorrow propounded to us by men, upon grounds of Reason and Religion. Arguments for ••••gating of our g•••f from the Promises of God, from the common case of all Men, even most beloved of God, that they have died, as Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, Moses, Aaron and Samuel, the Prophets, Apostles, and all believing Primitive Christians, and more still must: From the happy state of those that die in the Lord, the Evils they are delivered from, the Good they are possessed of, the Joys they are