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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.
Q. 3. Which is most fitting in your Reason and Judgment, That God should be just in the Damnation of an impenitent Sinner, tho he were your Relation; or that he should deal ⟨p. 104⟩with his separated Soul in a way of Mercy, contrary to his Truth, because he was your Relation? Is it not more sitting that God should punish him for ever for his sinal• unbelief, and impenitent hardness of Heart, tho he were your Husband, or your Son, than that God should viol••e his own word in saving him in an unconverted state, because he was your Husband, or your Son? Do not you know that God is no respectre of Persons? Rom. 2.11. And would not this be a respect o• a Person, to save him in his Sin, when he died in his Sin merely because he was while he li•ed so related unto you? Think of this to quiet your Heart, and make your sorrow less Passionate, but more Rational, and so more moderate: For is not his damnation more grievous to you, because he was yours, than the damnation of another never related to you, tho the Soul of the one is equally Immortal and Miserable as the other? And why should you have harder Thoughts of God in your sorrow for punishing yours, because yours, than of punishing of others, when yours were equally sinful in Life, and equally impenitent at death, as others were?
Q. 3. Which is most fitting in your Reason and Judgment, That God should be just in the Damnation of an impenitent Sinner, tho he were your Relation; or that he should deal ⟨p. 104⟩with his separated Soul in a way of Mercy, contrary to his Truth, because he was your Relation? Is it not more sitting that God should punish him for ever for his sinal• unbelief, and impenitent hardness of Heart, tho he were your Husband, or your Son, than that God should viol••e his own word in saving him in an unconverted state, because he was your Husband, or your Son? Do not you know that God is no respecter of Persons?