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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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3. Tho sorrow for the Dead, as such, be no Grace, yet it becometh Christians, and should be ⟨p. 32⟩their care so to exercise their Grace in and about this sorrow, that their sorrow might not be provoking, but pleasing unto God. Many Graces in our sorrow are to be drawn into Act, as our Faith and Hope concerning their Resurrection to Eternal Glorious Life: Patience under his Rod, Love to God, tho he doth afflict us, Blessing God when he taketh from us, as well as when he giveth to us; and thankfulness to God for his Mercy and Grace to our departed Friends for their preparation for death, and his assistance in enabling them to conquer the fears of death, for the happy End that they did make, and rejoicing in God for the receiving of their Souls to the Mansions in our Fathers House; sorrow for the dead, that is no Grace, mixed with the Actings of these Graces, and regulated by them, is more becoming Christians, than when it is alone, and separated from them.
3. Tho sorrow for the Dead, as such, be no Grace, yet it becometh Christians, and should be ⟨p. 32⟩their care so to exercise their Grace in and about this sorrow, that their sorrow might not be provoking, but pleasing unto God. Many Graces in our sorrow are to be drawn into Act, as our Faith and Hope concerning their Resurrection to Eternal Glorious Life: Patience under his Rod, Love to God, tho he doth afflict us, Blessing God when he taketh from us, as well as when he giveth to us; and thankfulness to God for his Mercy and Grace to our departed Friends for their preparation for death, and his assistance in inabling them to conquer the fears of death, for the happy End that they did make, and rejoicing in God for the receiving of their Souls to the Mansions in our Fathers House; sorrow for the dead, that is no Grace, mixed with the Actings of these Graces, and regulated by them, is more becoming Christians, than when it is alone, and separated from them.