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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.
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?
13 Q. When would you have been willing to have parted with them? If God had continued your Child ten years longer, would not you have been more unwilling, and so more sorrowful than now you are? After Forty years would you be willing?