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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.
2. Death as a Sleep affords us the meditation of that freedom that our Dead have from those pains, and sense of them which they had before they fell Asleep: Then they did complain of pain in one part, and sometimes in another, and another while that their pain was all over in every part: Are not the sound of their ⟨p. 146⟩words yet in our Ears, You do not know what we do feel. All their wearisome days are now over, and their tedious nights are past and gone; there is no more wishing in the Evening, O that it were Morning; nor in the Morning, O that it were Evening: There is no more complaining, This Night is a long Night, because it is a painful Night; and this Day is a tedious Day, because it is a Day of so great and sharp Affliction: Their Life is gone, and all their Sickness, Pain and bodily Griefs are all gone. As when a Person in his Sickness hath something given him to cause him to sleep, in his sleep he is not sensible of his Sickness; so those that are fallen asleep, in that sleep are no more sensible of such Pains that with us they complained of.
2. Death as a Sleep affords us the meditati•n of that freedom that our Dead have from those pains, and sense of them which they had before they fell Asleep: Then they did complain of pain in one part, and sometimes in another, and another while that their pain was all over in every part: Are not the sound of their ⟨p. 146⟩words yet in our Ears, You do not know what we do feel. All their wearisome days are now over, and their tedious nights are past and gone; there is no more wishing in the Evening, O that it were Morning; nor in the Morning, O that it were Evening: There is no more complaining, This Night is a long Night, because it is a painful Night; and this Day is a tedious Day, because it is a Day of so great and sharp Affliction: Their Life is gone, and all their Sickness, Pain and bodily Griefs are all gone. As when a Person in his Sickness hath something given him to cause him to sleep, in his sleep he is not sensible of his Sickness; so those that are fallen asleep, in that sleep are no more sensible of such Pains that with us they complained of.