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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.
Thus, O my Soul, hast thou followed thy Dead unto the Grave, and dost know and believe that this Body shall rise again, and be an happy and glorious Body, prepare to follow, cease excessively to sorrow, rejoice in Hope that the Lord will come, when his shall be with him for ever.
Thus, O my Soul, hast thou followed thy Dead unto the Grave, and dost know and believe that this Body shall rise again, and be an happy and glorious Body, prepare to follow, cease excessively to sorrow, rejoyce in Hope that the Lord will come, when his shall be with him for ever.
Be with with him for ever! Are they now ⟨p. 234⟩dead amongst the Dead, and shall live with him for ever that doth live for ever? Is not this it that Christ did bleed, and sweat, and suffer and die for? Is not this it that Christ did rise from the dead for, that those that sleep in him might also rise? Is not this it for which he ascended to Heaven, to prepare a place for them? Is not this it for which he intercedes, that all those that the Father hath given him might be where he is, that they may behold his Glory? Is not this it for which he will come again, and take (the Quick and Dead in him) all of them unto himself, that where he is, there they might be also? Lord, hast thou said it, and shall I not believe it? Lord I believe, help thou my Unbelief.
And dost thou indeed believe these sayings of thy Lord, O my Soul, and yet sit sorrowing with excessive sorrow for thy Dead, that shall so surely live, and be with him? Doth not some other Frame and Temper more become thee? Dost thou believe the future happy State of their Bodies, whose present death thou dost bewail, yet canst thou not abate thy sorrow? nor turn it yet into the actings of some other Affections, nor into the exercises of some Grace? which if thou dost, will it not more tend to the Glory of God, to thine own Comfort, and to the Encouragement of thine own Relations,