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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.
First in this Article of our Faith (from whence I check my Sorrow for the Dead, ⟨p. 160⟩that it may be kept within bounds) three things in God, (so considered by us, tho one in him) remove my Doubts, confirm my Hopes in this Case: 1. The Wisdom. 2. The Power. 3. The Will of God.
1. God being Infinite in Wisdom and Knowledge, I am fully satisfied, that he knoweth the number of the dead, and where their Bodies were buried, or consumed, and which are the bones and Skull, and Dust of one, and which of another: for this is knowable in it self, and therefore God knows these, and all other circumstances of the Dead, or else his Knowledge would be limited and finite Knowledge, and not extended to every thing that may be known, which is contrary to Natural Reason, to Scripture and Religion, and to the Infinite Perfection of the Divine Nature; to deny this Knowledge in God, is to Blaspheme him.
2. God being Infinite in Power, is able to raise all the Dead, all which, and every particle of all of them being thus known to him; to raise the Dead is an Act of Power, and not of weakness, and is possible, and not a contradiction. Cannot the same Power that made all things out of nothing, cause these dead-out of something to live again? Cannot the same Power that at first formed Mans Body of the dust of the ground, and caused it to live, make these Bodies to live again, though ⟨p. 161⟩they be turned into dust? Cannot God do what he hath done? Cannot he do all that is possible to be done? Is not that which hath been done to some, possible to be done to others? Are there not many Examples in the Scripture that this hath been done? Have not many Dead been raised to Life? The Resurrection of the Dead being in the rank of things possible, comes within the reach of Divine Almighty Power, which to deny is to blaspheme, these two being manifest; to complete the Argument, add,