A36322:324
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.
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.
10 Q. Did not your Relation live out the Time appointed by God? Job 14.5. Or did he not die, when God did foreknow he would die? And do you thus take on because Gods Purpose is performed? Would you have a Child tarry in the Womb beyond its appointed time, or in the World beyond what God intended it should?
11 Q. Did not you know your Relations were mortal, or do you sorrow because they were so? Is not that to sorrow because they were Men, or Women, or Children? Would you have had them to have been here Immortal, that they might not have been subject to Death? Did you ever see any Men, Women or Children that were not mortal?