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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.
(3.) Rather than the Dead shall lye in their Graves for ever, Christ as soon as the appointed time is come, will Himself in his own Person come, and with a shout, with the Voice of the Archangel, and sounding Trumpet call them out of their Graves, and they shall hear, and shall come forth: Comfort your selves, and one another with these words.
(4.) When the Dead in Christ shall be raised, and the Living changed, they shall all be caught up together in the Clouds to meet the Lord in the Air, and shall there be acquitted and absolved, and adjudged to everlasting Life; therefore ⟨p. 201⟩comfort your selves, and one another with these words.
(5.) After this they shall go into the highest Heavens in Body and Soul, to be with the Lord for ever; wherefore comfort your selves, and one another with these words.
Now upon the survey of the whole matter, what have you most cause for, your Sorrow, or your Joy? What if yours do not live with you? is it not better that they died in the Lord, than to live [as such] with you? what if they are in the Grave for a while, and after that shall be with the Lord for ever? Cease Excessive Sorrowing, and encourage, and comfort your selves, and one another, (as the Death of any requires) with the lively Belief, the joyful Hopes, and often mention of this most Blessed Time and State.