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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. XVIII. Additional Questions propounded to Mourners, for the Moderating of Excessive Sorrow.
BUT if your Sorrow be Excessive after all these Remedies alleged, made known to us by Divine Revelation, doth it not argue ⟨p. 202⟩Want or Weakness of Faith, and slowness of Heart to Believe? If you do not believe, will you reason the Case with your self, that we may bring it to this Issue, that your Immoderate Sorrow is irrational, contrary both to Faith and Reason: Which will appear by that time you consider the Matter well, and give in a deliberate Answer to these following Questions briefly offered to you.
BUT if your Sorrow be Excessive after all these Remedies alleadged, made known to us by Divine Revelation, doth it not argue ⟨p. 202⟩Want or Weakness of Faith, and slowness of Heart to Believe? If you do not believe, will you reason the Case with your self, that we may bring it to this Issue, that your Immoderate Sorrow is irrational, contrary both to Faith and Reason: Which will appear by that time you consider the Matter well, and give in a deliberate Answer to these following Questions briefly offered to you.