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,…

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?

14 Q. Hath any thing befallen you, that hath not been the common Case of all the Generations before you, will shortly be of all this Age, and of following, except those that shall be found alive at the Coming of Christ? And would you have your State to be singular? Or if it be not, will you be sullen?

15 Q. Could your Relations Souls have gone to Heaven, if their Bodies had not died? Or would you have had them never lodged there, except as Enoch and Elijah, without seeing Death? If the Soul could not have been happy above, except the Body dyed, and took the Grave in its way to Glory, are you excessively troubled for a dead Body, which must be, for the greater advantage of the Immortal Soul?

15 Q. Could your Relations Souls have gone to Heaven, if their Bodies had not died? Or would you have had them never lodged there, except as Enoch and Elias, without seeing Death? If the Soul could not have been happy above, except the Body dyed, and took the Grave in its way to Glory, are you excessively troubled for a dead Body, which must be, for the greater advantage of the Immortal Soul?