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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.
3. It is most frequently used concerning the death of holy and believing persons, that they may familiarize it to themselves, and get as great a willingness to die, as to go to Bed and sleep. So God said to Moses, he should sleep with his Fathers, Deut. 31.16. So of David, 2 Sam. 7.12. So Mat. 9.24. When Christ said our Friend Lazarus sleepeth; the Disciples thought he spake of his taking natural rest in sleep, but after explained his meaning, saying, ⟨p. 144⟩he is dead, John 11.11, 12, 13. So Acts 13.36.
3. It is most frequently used concerning the death of holy and believing persons, that they may familiarize it to themsel•es, and get as great a willingness to die, as to go to Bed and sleep. So God said to Moses, he should sleep with his Fathers, Deut. 31.16. So of David, 2 Sam. 7.12. So Mat. 9.24. When Christ said our Friend Lazarus sleepeth; the Disciples thought he spake of his taking natural rest in sleep, but after explained his meaning, saying, ⟨p. 144⟩he is dead, John 11.11, 12, 13. So Acts 13.36.