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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.
4 Q. Do not you hereby contradict your Prayers? Do not you pray his Will might be done, and submitted to when it's done? Do not you see it was his Will to have your Relation from you, and is this your submission to it? Is it so done in Heaven, as you do it upon Earth?
5 Q. Hath God herein taken any from you, but what he first gave unto you? Who gave you your Children, or Husband, or Wife? were they not the Gifts of God? Did not this quiet Job? Chap. 1.21.
6 Q. Whose was He or She that is dead, that you so Immoderately do Mourn for? Do you say, it was my Child, my Father, or my Mother, my Husband or my Wife? If it had not been mine, I should not thus have mourned. But were they not Gods own, more than your own? When God gave them you, did he give away his own right? Might not God do what he will with his own, but you must take on, as if he had taken something he had no right unto? What had you to do to keep his Own from him, when he would have them with him?