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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. The Dead in Christ being raised first, and after that the Living changed, both shall be caught up together in the Clouds, to meet the Lord in the Air. v. 17. Are our Hearts almost dead with sorrow? Where is our Faith? Here is the Word of the li•ing, faithful God, declaring Wonders that shall be done for the Dead in Christ, but where is our Faith? Here is our sorrow, but where is our Faith? Behold, the Lord comes down from Heaven; behold, the Dead come up out of their Graves, behold, they that long lodged and slept under ground, are caught up, and carried from off this Earth into the Air, where their Lord and they do meet: O happy, joyful meeting! not only Bodies and Souls do now meet, after so long a parting, but which is more, their Lord and they do meet, after so long sleeping: Lord, here is our Faith, and our sorrow is abated.
5. The eternal Enjoyment of God and Christ in the highest Heavens. V. 17. —and so shall we ever be with the Lord. Now we see where they that are Lodged in the Grave, sleeping in Jesus, shall at last be Lodged, rejoicing in Jesus, and therefore now let us be the less sorrowful. And that our Faith concerning these may be increased, and thereby our sorrow may be diminished, let us take them up, and view them again.
5. The eternal Enjoyment of God and Christ in the highest Heavens. V. 17. —and so shall we ever be with the Lord. Now we see where they that are Lodged in the Grave, sleeping in Jesus, shall at last be Lodged, rejoycing in Jesus, and therefore now let us be the less sorrowfull. And that our Faith concerning these may be encreased, and thereby our sorrow may be diminished, let us take them up, and view them again.