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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.
CHAP. IX. Eight Questions propounded to such who pierce themselves through with almost-distracting sorrow for those that lived wickedly, and died impenitent.
Q. 1. DID you sorrow for their Sin while they lived, as you do for their Damnation (dying impenitently) now they are dead? Did you shed as many Tears for the one, as you do for the other? Did the one cause as deep abiding sorrow in your Heart as the other doth? If it were so, your sorrow for their Sin might assuage your sorrow for their Damnation, because you sorrowed for the cause as well as for the effect: For that whereby they did dishonour God, as well as for their Misery that hath befallen them: If it were not so, what kind of sorrow is this, that you sorrow for the hurt of a Creature, and did not sorrow for that dishonour which that Creature did to God? What kind of sorrow do you call that, wherein the Misery of a Creature lieth nearer to your Heart, than his Eclipsing and Clouding the Glory of God by his Sins, and Impenitency under ⟨p. 102⟩them, ever did in the time of his Life? Examine by this sorrow for the Creatures Misery, and not for God's dishonour by his Sin, which was in your Eyes and esteem the greatest evil, sin against God, or the Creatures suffering for his Sin?
Q. 1. DID you sorrow for their Sin while they lived, as you do for their Damnation (dying impenitently) now they are dead? Did you shed as many Tears for the one, as you do for the other? Did the one cause as deep abiding sorrow in your Heart as the other doth? If it were so, your sorrow for their Sin might asswage your sorrow for their Damnation, because you sorrowed for the cause as well as for the effect: For that whereby they did dishonour God, as well as for their Misery that hath befallen them: If it were not so, what kind of sorrow is this, that you sorrow for the hurt of a C•eature, and did not sorrow for that dishonour which that Creature did to God? What kind of sorrow do you call that, wherein the Misery of a Creature lyeth nearer to your Heart, than his Eclipsing and Clouding the Glory of God by his Sins, and Impenitency under