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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. 6. Do not the Holy Angels and Blessed Saints above, know as much of the Torments of Hell, and of the Misery of the Damned as you do, and yet are they filled with such sorrow because of any being there, as you are? Do saved Souls above sorrow there because they do not find the Souls of others there whom they knew on Earth, and were Related to, that died before them? As they do rejoice to see others there whom they were here acquainted with and Related to? And will you pretend to be more Compassionate and Merciful than Angels and Saints in a perfect state of Bliss and Glory?
Q. 7. Shall not you your self, being a Penitent Believer, approve the Righteous Sentence of Damnation upon those that were your nearest Relations in this World, but died impenitently in their Sins? Do not you know the Saints shall judge the World; final-unbelieving Men, and Apostate Angels? 1 Cor. 6.2, 3. And shall you sorrow then, or rejoice at the Condemning Sentence of Jesus Christ ⟨p. 108⟩upon all the ungodly, tho many of your Relations should be amongst them? And if you are to come as near to pleasing of God, and being pleased in what he doth, now as what you shall hereafter be, why should you have so much vexing sorrow at that now▪ for which you shall have none in that day, tho others be condemned? Do you think this Self-tormenting sorrow for the Damned proceeds from such Mercy in you to them in your imperfect state on Earth, when you shall have no Mercy to them, nor sorrow fo• them in your perfect state in Heaven?
Q. 8. Should not your Zeal for, Love to, Desire after, Delight in the Glory of God, overpower, and overcome all your passionate sorrow at the concernment of the Creature? Is your own Salvation to be sought in subordination to the Gloy of God? And would you have the salvation of yours stand in competition with it, or be prferred before it? Would you have God lose his Glory in giving ing to your Relations? If they did not, an indeed would not glorify him by pent confssing of their Sin, by serious tuning to him, by thankful consenting to a Saviour freely and frequently offered to them, but went on in Sin, despised his Grace,