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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 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?
9 Q. Tho your Relations are cut down and withered like Grass, yet doth not the Word of the Lord stand and continue for your Support? Isa. 40.6, 7, 8. And cannot you find as much Comfort in all the standing Promises of God, as you did in a withering Creature? Go and try, by reading, believing, applying of them as your Case requires, and by turning Promises into Prayers.