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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.
(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.
2 Q. If you would have them Live again, can your sorrow multiplyed 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.
3 Q. Who hath done this, that you mourn so much for? Was it not by the Providence of God? And will you quarrel with him, or call him to an account, why he hath done so? Or should not his Hand quiet your Heart? Read Job 33.13. 1 Sam. 3.18. Psal. 39.9.