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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.
(5.) Were you grieved for them on their dying Beds, to see what they endured, and what cold Sweats the Pangs of Death did put them to? and yet would you have them live again, that they may die again? Do you sorrow that they have died once, and will you sorrow on, except you could have them live again, that they may die twice? would you have them have two deaths for one? Is this your Love to them?
(6.) Is once mourning for them so grievous, and would you have them live again, and so die again, and you Mourn again for their Second dying, if you should out live them, or leave them behind you, for them to Mourn for you; whereas where they are now, they have done Mourning, and are strangers to it?
(7.) Would not you be more Kind to your self and them, to prepare and desire to go to them, than to have them return to you, if such a thing could be? Do not you know which to choose, and yet sorrow in this manner?
2 Q. If you would have them Live again, can your sorrow multiplied ten times more, help you to your Will? May you not by this sorrow bring your self to the Grave, sooner than fetch them out? Say what good this excessive sorrow doth, or else moderate it.