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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.
6. Death as a Sleep suggests to our Thoughts, that the Bodies of th•se that Sleep in Jesus shall be much altered for the best, when they awake out of their sleep. If you are weary with Working or Travelling all the Day, you go to sleep at Night, and in the Morning you say, tho you went weary to Bed, yet by Sleep you are greatly refreshed, and as fit to Work or Travel as you were the Day before. When your Child complains he is not well, you hasten to have him to Bed, and say, go to sleep, You will be better after you have slept. Sure I am, these Bodies that are sick, and weak, and weary, when they fall Asleep in Jesus will be wonderfully refreshed, and be ⟨p. 149⟩much better, when after this Sleep they shall awake.
7. Death as a Sleep teacheth us, that it is no trouble to them that are in their Graves, that they do not know when they shall awake. Is this any trouble to a living Man fast asleep in his Bed, that he knows not when the day will dawn, and the Morning-light appear, and he awake? he sleeps on, and concerns himself with no such Thoughts. We that are alive think, when shall our Dead arise? how long must they sleep there? That which troubles us is no trouble unto them.
8. Death it self, as a Sleep, ch•cks our Immoderate Sorrow for those that are fallen asleep. They sleep, and you take on as if you had no hope that they would ever wake. What saith the Text, they are fallen asleep; do not ye sorrow as those that have no hope. When did you mourn, because your Relation in due season went to sleep? If they have been Sick, and could not sleep, it grieve your Heart, and so it also would, if your nearest Friends lay sick, and full of pain, tormented day and night, with sighs and groans piercing your Ears and Hearts, should they long lie thus, and could not recover, nor yet dye, it would grieve you that they could not dye, insomuch that by such sights and hearings of the Sick and pained, whom they loved with entire Love, some have gone to