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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.
CHAP. XVI. The Shout, the Voice of the Arch-angel, the sounding of the Trumpet: The ministration of Angels. The Dead shall be raised, before the [then] Living shall be changed. Both shall meet the Lord in the Air.
IS it nothing to assuage our Sorrow, believingly to consider the Shout, the Summons, and Call that shall be given to the Dead, to awake, arise, and come forth of their Graves, and the Attendance and Ministration of the Glorious Angels, in reference to the Dead then raised? 1 Thes. 4.16. The Lord himself shall descend from Heaven with a Shout, with the voice of the Archangel, and with the Trump of God. 1 Cor. 15.52. In a moment, in the twinkling of an Eye, at the last Trump, (for the Trumpet shall sound) and the dead shall be raised incorruptible. What a potent Call, what a mighty Sound, what Almighty Power shall that be, which shall quicken all the Dead in a moment, in the twinkling of an Eye? What is shorter than a moment? what is sooner done than the twinkling of the Eye? and yet with such quick dispatch the Dead ⟨p. 184⟩shall be made to live, they are sleeping in their Graves as before: Christ comes, the Trumpet sounds; the Lord calls, the Dead arise; they all start up, they all come forth, and look up, and see the Lord is come, and who it was that made them Live. Concerning this Trumpet of God, this hath been said of old, Tuba •irum spargens sonum P•r Sepulchra Rgionum, Coget omnes ante Thronum. At the last Trumpets sound, The Dead, tho' under ground, Shall rise, his Throne surround.