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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. XVII. After their meeting with the Lord, THEY shall be with HIM for EVER. Comfort from all Recollected.
Shall not a believing Prospect, that those that sleep in Jesus, shall awake and live with the Lord for ever, make some abatement of our sorrow? or rather turn it into Joy in the hopes thereof? This is the last, and highest and most Sovereign Remedy, the Apostle giveth in this place against Excessive Sorrow, saying, and so shall we ever be with the Lord. Short words, but matter of lasting, everlasting Joy: Soon said, but not so soon understood, for indeed they contain more than we can conceive, and none know so well as they that are with him: Yet that we may have a relish of this Remedy, and a taste of this Spiritual Comfort, for the correcting of extravagant Sorrow, let it be enquired,
SHall not a believing Prospect, that those that sleep in Jesus, shall awake and live with the Lord for ever, make some abatement of our sorrow? or rather turn it into Joy in the hopes thereof? This is the last, and highest and most Soveraign Remedy, the Apostle giveth in this place against Excessive Sorrow, saying, and so shall we ever be with the Lord. Short words, but matter of lasting, everlasting Joy: Soon said, but not so soon understood, for indeed they contain more than we can conceive, and none know so well as they that are with him: Yet that we may have a relish of this Remedy, and a taste of this Spiritual Comfort, for the correcting of extravagant Sorrow, let it be enquired,
1. With whom it is that these must be? with the Lord: and what it is to be with him?