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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.
The Helps against Immoderate Sorrow for our dead given in this Chapter might be reduced to these Four General Heads of Argument.
1. The consideration of the state of the Bodies of departed Believers. They are fallen asleep; and if they sleep in Jesus (as they do, v. 14.) they shall do well.
2. The Knowledge and Belief of the state of the separated Soul. Their Souls are with Christ Triumphant in Heaven, while their Bodies are sleeping in the Grave; and these Souls he will bring back with him when he comes.
3. The certainty of the Resurrection of the Dead by the Re-union of the same Souls with the same Bodies, and so Christ will bring the entire Man with him at the day of Judgment. Thus the Hope in the Text, is the Hope of the Resurrection of the Dead, and confirmed by the next words.