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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.
4. Death as a sleep, tho it be a deep sleep, helps us to the Thoughts how easy it will be for God to awaken them: They sleep so fast, that no created power can raise them out of their sleep, but it is more easy to Almighty Power to awaken those that are sleeping in their Graves, than for you to awaken one that is sleeping in his Bed. Lazarus was sleeping in his Grave, Christ gave a call, spoke the word, Lazarus come forth, and he that was dead, came forth; and tho' he was bound hand and foot with Grave-clothes, yet he came forth, Joh. 11.43, 44. So Christ with a word, with a call, waked Jairus his Daughter out of the sleep of Death, Jesus called, saying, Maid arise, and her Spirit came again, and she arose straightway, Luke 8.54, 55. So also the Son of the Widow of Nain, dead and carried out to be Buried, Christ did but touch the Bier, or Coffin, and say, Young man, I say to thee, arise, and he that was dead sat up, and began to speak. Luk 7.14, 15. If Death be a sleep, this is our Comfort, it is easy for God to awaken them.
4. Death as a sleep, tho it be a deep sleep, helps us to the Thoughts how easie it will be for God to awaken them: They sleep so fast, that no created power can raise them out of their sleep, but it is more easie to Almighty Power to awaken those that are sleeping in their Graves, than for you to awaken one that is sleeping in his Bed. Lazarus was sleeping in his Grave, Christ gave a call, spoke the word, Lazarus come forth, and he that was dead, came forth; and tho' he was bound hand and foot with Grave-cloaths, yet he came forth, Joh. 11.43, 44. So Christ with a word, with a call, waked Jairus his Daughter out of the sleep of Death, Jesus called, saying, Maid arise, and her Spirit came again, and she arose straightway, Luke 8.54, 55. So also the Son of the Widow of Naim, dead and carried out to be Buried, Christ did but touch the Bier, or Coffin, and say, Young man, I say to thee, arise, and he that was dead sat up, and began to speak. Luk 7.14, 15. If Death be a sleep, this is our Comfort, it is easie for God to awaken them.