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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.
CHAP. XIII. The Second Remedy against excessive Sorrow, is the Glorified State of the Soul immediately after its separation, proved. The Souls Triumph in its first entrance into Heaven. The Meditation thereof— The Survivors Comfort.
THE Second Remedy against Excessive Sorrow for the Death of those that dyed in the Lord, is the knowledge and belief of the Glorious State of the separated Soul, while the Body lies sleeping in the Grave.
The Body is the more ignoble part, the Grave a more formidable place; yet from thence there is something of Support, when both are considered according to what is s•id of both in the Scripture, as to such as were truly holy when they lived: But if we call off our Thoughts from the Body and the Grave, that they may ascend and follow the Soul, the more precious part, into the highest Heavens, the most Glorious place, what cause of Joy, what matter of Rejoicing, what reason of changing our Mourning into Garments of Praise, and our Spirit of heaviness into gladness and lively thankfulness to ⟨p. 153⟩God, that those that are gone from us are received by him: That whom we have lost, he hath found, and those whom we must enjoy on Earth no more, are enjoying God in yonder glorious highest Heavens for evermore.
The Body is the more ignoble part, the Grave a more formidable place; yet from thence there is something of Support, when both are considered according to what is s•id of both in the Scripture, as to such as were truly holy when they lived: But if we call off our Thoughts from the Body and the Grave, that they may ascend and follow the Soul, the more precious part, into the highest Heavens, the most Glorious place, what cause of Joy, what matter of Rejoycing, what reson of changing our Mourning into Garments of Praise, and our Spirit of heaviness into gladness and lively thankfulness to