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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.
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?
12 Q. If so, did not you know a parting time would come? Was there not some Intimation and mention of Deaths separating you in your conjugal Covenant? And do you now mourn as if something had befallen you, that you never knew or heard of? Is it so intolerable ⟨p. 207⟩to you to see a dying Creature, dead?