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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
THE Mourners Directory. › Chapter 3: Want of Sorrow blameable. Conclusions premised.
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USE I. Tho some are to be blamed for sorrowing too much for the dead, yet it cannot be denied but that there are those that are weary of their Relations while they live, wish ⟨p. 31⟩they were dead, and rather please themselves because they are eased of them by death, than sorrow because they are dead. The death of a Child, of a Wife, of an Husband, of a Father or Mother is an heavy stroke; and as some lay it too much to heart, and mourn as if they had no Grace to moderate their sorrow; so some make so light of it, as if they had no natural Affection to move them to mourn on such a mournful occasion. O Lord, are not thine Eyes upon the Truth? thou hast stricken them, but they have not grieved, Jer. 5.3. These turn not to the Lord that smiteth them, neither do they seek the Lord of Hosts, Isa. 9.13. But to prevent mistakes, misinterpretations and misapplications, I judge it necessary to premise these Conclusions.
ƲSE I. Tho some are to be blamed for sorrowing too much for the dead, yet it cannot be denied but that there are those that are weary of their Relations while they live, wish ⟨p. 31⟩they were dead, and rather please themselves because they are eased of them by death, than sorrow because they are dead. The death of a Child, of a Wife, of an Husband, of a Father or Mother is an heavy stroke; and as some lay it too much to heart, and mourn as if they had no Grace to moderate their sorrow; so some make so light of it, as if they had no natural Affection to move them to mourn on such a mournful occasion. O Lord, are not thine Eyes upon the Truth? thou hast stricken them, but they have not grieved, Jer. 5.3. These turn not to the Lord that smiteth them, neither do they seek the Lord of Hosts, Isa. 9.13. But to prevent mistakes, misinterpretations and misapplications, I judge it necessary to premise these Conclusions.