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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.
Now they would rejoice because they are with the Lord, and anon they would grieve because they are not to be with him for ever, and so they would be miserably happy, and sorrowfully joyful, which is not the happiness and Joy of Heaven, which for degrees is full, for duration everlasting; full, because they are with the Lord, everlasting, because they shall be with the Lord for ever. Methinks I hear their triumphant Songs, their Holy Admirations: O what is the difference betwixt these Bodies now, and what once they were! Behold the Glory of this Place, how far different it is from those Graves where we did lye, and are now delivered from! We were in our Graves for a time, that time is out, its past and gone, and we are with the Lord, for ever, we are with the Lord for ever! O this is it that is she Crown of all, we are with the Lord for ever! In this Eternity there is no Nights and Days, no Weeks, and Months, and Years, here is no Death and Graves, and end, for we shall be with the Lord for ever!
Now they would rejoyce because they are with the Lord, and anon they would grieve because they are not to be with him for ever, and so they would be miserably happy, and sorrowfully joyfull, which is not the happiness and Joy of Heaven, which for degrees is full, for duration everlasting; full, because they are with the Lord, everlasting, because they shall be with the Lord for ever. Methinks I hear their triumphant Songs, their Holy Admirations: O what is the difference betwixt these Bodies now, and what once they were! Behold the Glory of this Place, how far different it is from those Graves where we did lye, and are now delivered from! We were in our Graves for a time, that time is out, its past and gone, and we are with the Lord, for ever, we are with the Lord for ever! O this is it that is she Crown of all, we are with the Lord for ever! In this Eternity there is no Nights and Days, no Weeks, and Months, and Years, here is no Death and Graves, and end, for we shall be with the Lord for ever!
USE. What is the Use of all? what should it be, but what the Apostle makes of it? v. 18. Wherefore comfort one another with these words: What words? Review them, and Recollect what hath been said upon them.