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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
THE Mourners Directory. › Chapter 1: The Introduction and Explication of the Text.
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.
Nature and Religion binding me to promote the temporal and spiritual Good of so near a Relation all a long, pressed more hard upon me to give my utmost diligence to assist her in her last Sickness by Night and Day, by Prayer and Discourse, that she might (and God through his rich Grace and Mercy in Christ to her Soul did enable her) with abiding comfort, and settled hope of Heaven, look Death in the face, overcome this King of Terrors, and conquer the Fears thereof, when Death by its stroke without a Sting did conquer her.
Nature and Religion binding me to promote the temporal and spiritual Good of so near a Relation all a long, pressed more hard upon me to give my utmost diligence to assist her in her last Sickness by Night and Day, by Prayer and Discourse, that she might (and God through his rich Grace and Mercy in Christ to her Soul did enable her) with abiding comfort, and setled hope of Heaven, look Death in the face, overcome this King of Terrors, and conquer the Fears thereof, when Death by its stroke without a Sting did conquer her.
This Portion of Scripture from the Text to the end of this Chapter was the last I read and urged, before she left her own to go to her Father's house, which I do make the first to explain and apply in this place for my own and your sake: Wherein are three generals.
1. A Doctrinal Conclusion concerning Sorrow for such as sleep in Jesus, or dye in the Lord, v. 13.