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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. 5. Have not you more cause to Joy and Rejoice at, to give Thanks and Praise to God for your well-grounded Hopes of Heaven, than to discompose your self for this Work by your vexing sorrow, because others are lost without hopes of finding Mercy? What if the nearest to you in Relation shall for their wilful, final ⟨p. 106⟩refusing of Remedying Grace perish for ever, should not you admire and magnify, praise and celebrate the free distinguishing Grace and differencing Mercy of God to you, that you shall be for ever saved? And say, Will God show Eternal Mercy to me, when he will pour out his Eternal Wrath upon my Father or Mother, Brother or Sister, Husband or Wife, or Child? What was I more than they, that they should be Damned, and I should be saved, after Death? Was not I equally involved in the Guilt of Adam's Sin as they were? Was not I born a Child of Wrath as well as they? Was not my Heart as bad, my Sin as great, my Nature as corrupt as theirs was? Was not I as backward to good, as prone to evil as they were; and it may be more too? Should not I with others cry out and say, Eph. 1.3. Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us, (and me amongst them) with spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ? Should not I give thanks and praise to God for blessing me with such blessings which tend to Eternal Glory, which Christ hath purchased, promised, prepared and possessed for me, tho others near to me are Cursed with an Everlasting Curse in Hellish Places, justly inflicted on them for their Sin, and continuing finally Impenitent under the same? And can you be lifted up in such high ⟨p. 107⟩praises of your God for his Mercy to you, when you are so cast down into depths of sorrow at the Thoughts of God's punishing Justice with others?
Q. 5. Have not you more cause to Joy and Rejoice at, to give Thanks and Praise to God for your well-grounded Hopes of Heaven, than to disc•mpose your self for this W•rk by your vexing sorrow, because others are lost without hopes of finding Mercy? What if the nearest to you in Relation shall for their wilful, final ⟨p. 106⟩