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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. XIV. The Resurrection of the Dead great ground of Comfort in our Sorrow for them: As also the Qualities and Endowments of their Bodies, when raised.
THE Third Remedy against Excessive Sorrow for the Dead, is sure knowledge, and firm belief of the Resurrection unto Life: Death is opposed to Life, as being the privation of it; the Resurrection is opposed to Death, as being a restoration to Life: The one is the cause of our Sorrow, the other is a solid ground of Christian Comfort. It is a Doctrine unknown by the Light of Nature, it is undeniably proved by the Holy Scripture. The Heathens hearing Paul preach the Resurrection of the Dead, did deride and mock, Act 17.32. for they did judge it a thing incredible, that the dead should be raised, Act 26.8. This was the reason they sorrowed for their de•d so immoderately, because they had no hope that they should live ⟨p. 159⟩again; and the Resurrection and Christian Hope are conjoined, the one being the Foundation of the other. Act. 23.6. Of the hope and resurrection of the dead, I am called into question. Act. 24.14. And have hope towards God, which they themselves also allow, that there shall be a Resurrection of the dead, both of the just and unjust. If the Resurrection be granted, hope must be allowed, and the more hope of this, the more mitigation of sorrow for the Dead, because they shall live again.
THE Third Remedy against Excessive Sorrow for the Dead, is sure knowledge, and firm belief of the Resurrection unto Life: Death is opposed to Life, as being the privation of it; the Resurrection is opposed to Death, as being a restoration to Life: The one is the cause of our Sorrow, the other is a solid ground of Christian Comfort. It is a Doctrine unknown by the Light of Nature, it is undeniably proved by the Holy Scripture. The Heathens hearing Paul preach the Resurrection of the Dead, did deride and mock, Act 17.32. for they did judge it a thing incredible, that the dead should be raised, Act 26.8. This was the reason they sorrowed for their ded so immoderately, because they had no hope that they should live