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,…

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?

7 Q. Is not God Sovereign Lord, and absolute Disposer of all in the World? Are not Kingdoms and Nations, Princes, Lords and Nobles at his disposal? And what are you above all others in the World, that you and yours should be exempted from the disposing Hand of God?

7 Q. Is not God Soveraign Lord, and absolute Disposer of all in the World? Are not Kingdoms and Nations, Princes, Lords and Nobles at his disposal? And what are you above all others in the World, that you and yours should be exempted from the disposing Hand of God?

8 Q. Did your Happiness lie in the Enjoyment of the Creatures you have lost? In them or in God? If in them, you are miserable; if in God, tho they are dead, yet he doth Live: Why then do you thus mourn, so long as your Happiness remains?