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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.
18 Q. Is not this Ingratitude to God, that the loss of one should make you unsensible of the many Mercies of your own Life? Is all gone in one? Look about you, and you will see the abundant goodness of God to you, in your outward. Accommodations in this World, many spiritual Blessings, as Pledges of Eternal Glory, and will you bury your Thankfulness for these in the Grave of your dead?
19 Q. Do not you provoke God hy your sinful ⟨p. 209⟩excessive Sorrow to go on to make more Breaches by Death, that you might have something more to sorrow for? Do you sorrow thus for one? Might not God say, There is another Child, Death, lay it dead, and bring it out, and lodge it by the other. There is an Husband, or a Father yet left, Death go and seize him, and have him away, and if they are delighted in such discontented Sorrow, let them hav• more to sorrow for.
20 Q. Have not they lived a long life before they die, they enter into Eternal glorious life when they die? Do you sit and sorrow, and say, if he had not died so soon, if he had not died so young. How soon? if he lived to be Converted, to be sanctified and prepared for Heaven, did he not live longer than a Man at Sixty, and then dies in Sin, and is Damned at last? Do you reckon length of Life by multitude of years, or ripeness and fitness for Heaven? When you Sorrow he died so soon, Bless God he lived so long as to be saved when he died.