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,…

Besides this, O my Soul, be further satisfied and quieted within me, forasmuch as ⟨p. 230⟩thy Lord hath not only said that those that sleep in Jesus shall rise again, but hath also foretold what Bodies they shall then be, tho the same for substance, yet their Properties, Qualities, and Endowments far more excellent, than when they lived or died. Dost thou sorrow because her Body was Mortal and did die? why dost thou not rejoice, because it shall be raised Immortal, and then shall die no more? Art thou grieved at the remembrance of its weakness, sickness and pains, why art thou not comforted at the believing Foresight that it shall be raised a Powerful and Impassible Body, and shall be sick and pained no more for ever? Or art thou cast down because that Natural Body by Food and Physic could no longer be supported, nor maintained in Life? Why doth not this raise thy Comfort, that it shall be raised a Spiritual Body, and need Food, and Physic, and Sleep, no more than the Angels in Heaven? Is it matter of thy trouble to consider how vile and loathsome Death hath made it; why doth it not delight thee to believe, it shall be raised in such Glory, that it shall shine as a glittering Star, yea as the Sun in the Kingdom of God; and that Beauty shall be its Clothing all over? Why doth sorrow daily fill thy Heart, because the Soul is gone, and left the Body a lifeless piece of Earth, a mass of breathless ⟨p. 231⟩Mould, and dost not rejoice, that the Soul already is made like to Christs Glorious Soul; and the day is coming, and it hastens when the Body shall be fashioned like to Christs glorious Body? Like to Christs Glorious Body! Lord, who that doth believe these words of thine, may not cease to sorrow in excess, because now the Body is so like the dust in which it lodgeth, and begin to joy, that in thine appointed time it shall be like the Glorious Body of an exalted Jesus.

Besides this, O my Soul, be further satisfied and quieted within me, forasmuch as ⟨p. 230⟩thy Lord hath not only said that those that sleep in Jesus shall rise again, but hath also foretold what Bodies they shall then be, tho the same for substance, yet their Properties, Qualities, and Endowments far more excellent, than when they lived or died. Dost thou sorrow because her Body was Mortal and did die? why dost thou not rejoyce, because it shall be raised Immortal, and then shall die no more? Art thou grieved at the remembrance of its weakness, sickness and pains, why art thou not comforted at the believing Foresight that it shall be raised a Powerful and Impassible Body, and shall be sick and pained no more for ever? Or art thou cast down because that Natural Body by Food and Physick could no longer be supported, nor maintained in Life? Why doth not this raise thy Comfort, that it shall be raised a Spiritual Body, and need Food, and Physick, and Sleep, no more than the Angels in Heaven? Is it matter of thy trouble to cosider how vile and loathsom Death hath made it; why doth it not delight thee to believe, it shall be raised in such Glory, that it shall shine as a glittering Star, yea as the Sun in the Kingdom of God; and that Beauty shall be its Cloathing all over? Why doth sorow daily fill thy Heart, because the Soul is gone, and left the Body a lifeless piece of Earth, a mass of breathless