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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.
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.
I. Is it nothing for the assuaging of our sorrow, that our Lord will come himself from Heaven, to raise them up out of their Graves? If you say, Who can cause these dry Bones to live, and clothe them with flesh, and cover them both with skin, and bring them out of these deep and dark sleeping places? the Answer is ready, the Lord can: He can, but the Question is, whether he will? he hath declared and promised that he will. He will? While he was on Earth he raised some, but now he is gone to Heaven, and there he doth abide, and except he come from Heaven, the Dead must abide in their Graves. Say you so? weep not: for he HIMSELF will come, and he will surely have them forth. Did he at his first coming die for their Bodies as well as for their Souls, and will he be content to have their Souls only with him in the Heavens, and their Bodies to lie always in the Grave? Did he purchase their Bodies as ⟨p. 178⟩well as their Souls with the price of his own most precious Blood, and will he for ever lose such a part of his purchase? Are not the Bodies as well as the Souls of Believers Christs own by right of Redemption?