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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.
4. They shall be raised glorious Bodies. Now our bodies are vile Bodies, Phil. 3.21. How full of ill Humours, and loathsome Corruption! Why should any be proud of a comely Face, when he might think what he is within? Now they are Cottages of Clay, Tabernacles of Earth, a Mass of breathing, walking Mould. God did mend the Matter, else our Bodies are as vile as the Earth we tread upon; for out of it they were taken, and into it they are returning; but this is wonderful, that Bodies so vile while they live, and more loathsome when dead, and rotting in the Grave, should at last be raised as glorious as so many glittering Stars, Dan. 12.3. Did I say, as glittering Stars? Christ saith as so many shining Suns. Mat. 13.43. Then shall the Righteous shine forth as the Sun in the Kingdom of their Father. Who can express the difference betwixt a dead Body in the Grave, and the Sun shining in the Heavens? Yet so much shall be the difference between the same Body in the Grave, and raised at the last day. 1 Cor. 15.43. It is sown in dishonour, it is raised in glory.
4. They shall be raised glorious Bodies. Now our bodies are vile Bodies, Phil. 3.21. How full of ill Humours, and loathsome Corruption! Why should any be proud of a comely Face, when he might think what he is within? Now they are Cottages of Clay, Tabernacles of Earth, a Mass of breathing, walking Mould. God did mend the Matter, else our Bodies are as vile as the Earth we tread upon; for out of it they were taken, and into it they are returning; but this is wonderderful, that Bodies so vile while they live, and more loathsome when dead, and rotting in the Grave, should at last be raised as glorious as so many glittering Stars, Dan. 12.3. Did I say, as glittering Stars? Christ saith as so many shining Suns. Mat. 13.43. Then shall the Righteous shine forth as the Sun in the Kingdom of their Father. Who can express the difference betwixt a dead Body in the Grave, and the Sun shining in the Heavens? Yet so much shall be the difference between the same Body in the Grave, and raised at the last day.