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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,…

Name: The mourner directory, guiding him to the middle way betwixt the two extremes, defect,…
Author: Thomas Doolittle

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 ...

Thomas Doolittle 1632?–1707London: printed by J.A. for Tho. Cockeril, 1693

[8], 238, [2] p. · 58k words · Wing D1888 · ESTC R17535

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THE Mourners Directory. › Chapter 14: The Resurrection of the Dead great ground of Comfort in our Sorrow for them: As also th…

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:247p. 165¶7

7. Gods People then are weakened for doing or suffering, v. 58.

:248p. 165¶8

8. Then Gods Covenant with his People is broke, Mat. 22.39, &c.

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Secondly, Besides the certainty of the Resurrection of the Dead, the consideration of the Properties, Qualities and Endowments of their Bodies which shall arise, administers more Comfort to us, and consequently will be a further mitigation of our Sorrow. God hath not only assured us that these dry Bones, consumed Bodies shall live, but also hath foretold us what manner of Bodies they then shall be, far more noble and excellent than when they lived or died.

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1. They shall be raised Immortal and Incorruptible Bodies. While they lived with us they were always mortal, and did administer matter of fe•r unto us, while we often said, […] thought, What if my Husband should die? or what i my Father or Mother should die? These were fretting fears, and caused many distracting Cares, or troubled us sitting at our Table, or lying in our Beds, because we knew they were always subject to Death, and liable to its stroke, and we knw not how soon (tho in Health) they might be taken from us; and so the fears of their dying abated our Comfort in th m while they were living, because we looked upon them as dying Comforts, and going from us, whilst they were with us. But when the, live again, they shall die no more, Death shll have no more dominion over them: Then thy shall be above the stroke of death and the fears thereof, and it shall be no more a King of Terrors unto them: But as Christ their Hed hath said,

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The book

Title as printed

Author

Thomas Doolittle 1632?–1707

Place

London

Printer

J.A.

Bookseller

Tho. Cockeril

Year

1693

Size

[8], 238, [2] p.

Words

57,630

Catalogue

Wing D1888 · ESTC R17535

Text

EEBO-TCP A36322

Passages

390

Sections

Title page

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,…

CHAP. XV. The Fourth Remedy against excessive Sorrow, the Antecedents, Concomitants, and Consequents of the Resurrection of those that sleep in Jesus. The First, Christ Himself will come for their Redemption from the Grave.

CHAP. XV. The Fourth Remedy against excessive Sorrow, the Antecedents, Concomitants, and Consequ•nts of the Resurrection of those that sleep in Jesus. The First, Christ Hims•lf will come for their Redemption from the Grave.

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Reformers309

Puritans1,782

Westminster Assembly24

Evangelicals36

CHAP. XV. The Fourth Remedy against excessive Sorrow, the Antecedents, Concomitants, and Consequents of the Resurrection of those that sleep in Jesus. The First, Christ Himself will come for their Redemption from the Grave.

CHAP. XV. The Fourth Remedy against excessive Sorrow, the Antecedents, Concomitants, and Consequ•nts of the Resurrection of those that sleep in Jesus. The First, Christ Hims•lf will come for their Redemption from the Grave.

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