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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.
21 Q. Will you compare with God in point of Wisdom in governing and disposing of his Creatures, with all the circumstances of Life and Death? Are you wiser than he? dare you entertain such a Thought? would you not resist it with abhorrence? why then do you think it would have been better for you that your Relation should have lived longer? Is not this to set ⟨p. 210⟩your Folly against Gods Wisdom? Doth not he best know what is the most fitting time for any to be born, how long to live, and when to die? If so, why do you oversorrow for that which is done with highest Wisdom?
22 Q. Why hath God implanted such Graces in your Heart as are suitable for a time of Affliction, but that you should exercise them in their season? As Faith, and Patience, and Submissiveness of will to his holy Will and Pleasure: Are not Habits given for Act? and when will you act your Patience and Submission, but when Trials are upon you? but doth your excessive Sorrow look like Patience under, or fretting against the hand of God?
22 Q. Why hath God implanted such Graces in your Heart as are suitable for a time of Affliction, but that you should exercise them in their season? As Faith, and Patience, and Submissiveness of will to his holy Will and Pleasure: Are not Habits given for Act? and when will you act your Patience and Submission, but when Tryals are upon you? but doth your excessive Sorrow look like Patience under, or fretting against the hand of God?
23 Q. Do you say you did exceedingly desire their Eternal Good in Gods accepted time, and excessively sorrow for their Death, and can you reconcile those Desires with this Sorrow? If you did desire it, when God should please to bestow it, why do you so sorrow now (by death the way of all Believers to it) they have obtained what you did desire? when without the one they were not to have the other.