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enemy_n	death_n	sting_n	victory_n	1,403	5	9.4621	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A36322	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 ...	Doolittle, Thomas, 1632?-1707.	1693 (1693)	Wing D1888; ESTC R17535	114,706	250

him may assuredly satisfie us that such shall also be raised Firmly believe the one and you cannot or need not doubt of the other 1 Cor. 15.12 Now if Christ be preached that he rose from the dead how say some among you that there is no Resurrection of the dead 13. But if there be no Resurrection of the dead then Christ is not risen 15. Whom he raised not up if so be the dead rise not 16. For if the dead rise not then is not Christ raised 1 Thes 4.14 For if we believe that Jesus dyed and rose again even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him Thirdly The gross Absurdities that unavoidably follow the denial of the Deads being raised may confirm us that they shall be raised They are such as these 1. Then Christ is not risen 1 Cor. 15.13 2. If Christ be not risen and so the Dead shall not be raised then Ministers preaching and Peoples believing is all in vain v. 14. 3. Then the Apostles were Liars and false for they affirmed both 1 Cor. 15.15 and in other Texts 4. Then those that are Dead in Christ are perished v. 18. 5. Then the best men are the most miserable v. 19. 6. Then a floodgate is opened to all wickedness v. 32. 7. Gods People then are weakened for doing or suffering v. 58. 8. Then Gods Covenant with his People is broke Mat. 22.39 c. Secondly Besides the certainty of the Resurrection of the Dead the consideration of the Properties Qualities and Endowments of their Bodies which shall arise administers more Comfort to us and consequently will be a further mitigation of our Sorrow God hath not only assured us that these dry Bones consumed Bodies shall live but also hath foretold us what manner of Bodies they then shall be far more noble and excellent than when they lived or died 1. They shall be raised Immortal and Incorruptible Bodies While they lived with us they were always mortal and did admi●ister matter of fe●r unto us while we of●en said 〈◊〉 thought What if my Husband should die or what i● my Father or Mother should die These were fretting fears and caused many distr●cting Cares or troubled us sitting at our Table or lying in our Beds because we knew they were always subject to Death and li●ble to its stroke and we kn●w not how soon tho in Health they might be taken from us and so the fe●rs of their dying abated our Comfort in th m while they were living because we looked upon th●m as dying Comforts and going from us whilst they were with us But when the● live again they shall die no more Death sh●ll have no more dominion over them Then th●y shall be above the stroke of death and the fears thereof and it shall be no more a King of Terrors unto them But as Christ their He●d hath said Rev. 1.18 I am he that liveth and was dead and behold I am alive for evermore Amen so all these his Members shall say We are they that live and were dead and behold we are alive for evermore Amen This is truth so it is When Death came in by Sin all mankind became subject unto Death When Sin was turned out by death and these Bodies shall be raised no more polluted with it they shall be as free from Death as they shall from Sin before they did die they were to die When they were dead and shall live again Death hath done its worst hath done its all and hath no more that it can do Death did conquer them and laid and kept them Prisoners in the Grave but when they shall be raised to Life and redeemed from the Grave they sh●ll conquer Death and then this last Enemy shall be destroyed and in the morning of the Resurrection these revived Bodies united to their Souls shall sing that triumphant Song O Death where is thy sting O Grave where is thy victory Death and Grave did swallow us up but now the Destroyers are destroyed the Spoilers are spoiled and both are swallowed up in victory Thus the Bodies that were sown in corruption shall be raised in incorruption 1 Cor. 15.42.54 55. then Mortality shall be swallowed up of Life 2 Cor. 5.4 2. They shall be raised powerful and impassible Bodies While they lived here they were weak and suffering Bodies enduring hunger and cold and thirst crying out of Pains and Sickness or torments by Chollick Gout and Stone and Rheumatisms shaken by Agues and scorched by Feavors and swelling with Dropsie torn with Coughs overflowed with Catarrhs and liable to hundreds of Diseases insomuch that they died daily yea died many Deaths before they died and many Sicknesses put them to more and greater pains in time of Life than Death it self did put some of them to in the point of Death but when they shall live again as they shall die no m●re so they shall suffer no more nor be sick any more feel hunger and thirst no more and so shall grieve nor groan weep or sigh or sob no more for ever no more aking He●ds no more pained Bowels no more Griefs of any sort whatsoever Indeed the Bodies of the Wicked shall be raised Immortal but subject to suffering they shall feel more pains and torments after they are raised than ever they did before they died and their Immortality shall be the aggravation of their misery for die again they would but cannot return to their Grave again where they felt nothing they would but must not because they must live for ever they must be tormented for ever Immortality of Bodies at the Resurrection to the Wicked is a Curse and Plague to the Godly it is a Blessing and a Favour conferred upon them for tho' they were sown in weakness they shall be raised in power 1 Cor. 15.43 3. They shall be raised Spiritual Bodies not turned into Spirits for then they would not be Bodies Spirits have not material Eyes with which Job said he should see his Redeemer at the last day with those he then had and not with others if it were not the same Bodies in substance it would not be a Resurrection but a new product on They shall then be Spiritual Bodies in this respect that their manner of Life shall be like the Life of Spirits having no need of Meat or Drink or Sleep or any such things whereby our Natural Bodies in this Life are supported and maintained In which respect Christ asserts that they shall be as the Angels Mat. 22.30 In the Resurrection they neither marry nor are given in Marriage but are as the Angels of God in Heaven This will be a great priviledge of Bodies raised from the dead at the last day for n●● we spend a great part of our Life in Sleep for the refreshing of our Natural Bodies ar● in that time we are not nor cannot be taken up with Admirations of God nor Contemplations of Divine things but after the Resurrection there shall be no

none but Death could untye This Vnion none but Death could dissolve God that hath given a charge that no Man should part asunder such as he had joined together hath given a Commission Alas he hath given a Commission to Death to part them as to that relation for ever In one instant I could say this Woman is my VVife in the next thou even thou O powerful Death didst both stop her Breath and tye my Tongue that I could no longer call her mine Mine and not mine in that instant and not in this that was joined to the former Lord give me leave to sorrow that that which was most mine is no longer mine 2. VVhen Death snatcheth away Children out of their Parents Arms and Bosoms which before were in their Loins the Parents have sorrowed and lamented Deaths doings Jacob when he did but suppose his Son Jos●ph was dead did grieve and sorrow as though his Heart would break and refused to be comforted Comfort me Is Joseph dead and do ye speak of Comfort My Son dead and I admit of comfort no I will give place to sorrow My Son is dead and my sorrow shall live as long as I live and I will go sorrowing to my Grave to him Gen. 37.32 And they sent the coat of many colours and they brought it to their father and said This have we found know now whether it be thy sons coat or no. 33. And he knew it and said It is my sons coat an evil beast hath devoured him Joseph is without doubt rent in pieces 34. And Jacob rent his clothes and put sackcloth upon his loins and mourned for his son many days 35. And all his sons and all his daughters rose up to comfort him and he refused to be comforted and he said for I will go down into the grave unto my son mourning thus his father wept for him David grieved for the death of his Son Amnon 2 Sam. 13.37 David mourned for his son every day and for his son Absalom 2 Sam. 18.33 and 19. 1. It was told Joab Behold the king weepeth and mourneth for Absolom 2. The people heard say that day how the king was grieved for his son 4. The king covered his face and the king cried with a loud voice O my son Absalom O Absalom my son my son 1. This sorrow is used to express degrees of sorrow for the afflicted Church Should not we mourn for the Miseries of the Church for the Calamities of the best Men Should we not grieve and sorrow when the Sword of an Enemy and fear is round about us When the Spoiler comes upon us And should not the degree of our sorrow be equal to the degrees of the evil that befalls us What are those degrees Such as are equal to the degrees of sorrow of Parents for the death of an only Son When the Spirit of God chuseth out such sorrow for a pattern of sorrow for the Church in great distress doth it not import that such sorrow for Children removed by death is great sorrow Jer. 6.25 The sword of the enemy and fear is on every side 26. O daughter of my people gird thee with sackcloth and wallow thy self in ashes make thee mourning as for an only son most bitter lamentation for the spoiler shall suddenly come upon thee Let Parents that are little affected with the death of a Child inquire where are their natural affections their sense and feeling of the Hand of God in so severe a blow when God himself ranks girding with sackcloth wallowing in ashes bitter lamentations and mourning for an only Son as equalizing each other in degrees of sorrow 2. To set forth the degrees of sorrow under sore and heavy Judgments When God threatneth to bring such sore and heavy Judgments that shall cause Mens Mirth to cease their Joy to be banished their Sorrow to be multiplied he compares it to the mourning for an only Son as what useth to be in highest degree Amos 8.10 And I will turn your feasts into mourning and all your songs into lamentation and I will bring up sackcloth upon all loins and baldness upon every head and I will make it as the mourning of an only son and the end thereof as a bitter day 3. The degrees of sorrow of convinced repenting Sinners This manner of mourning is used to set forth the great degrees of sorrow that the repenting Jews should have when they should be convinced of their Barbarous and Bloody Fact in Murdering of the Son of God Zech. 12.10 And I will pour upon the house of David and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem the spirit of grace and of supplications and they shall look upon me whom they have pierced and they shall mourn for him How much As one mourneth for his only son and shall be in bitterness for him as one that is in bitterness for his first-born All these shew not only what sorrow is allowed but what degree also is required and hath been in Parents for the death of Children that have had a due sense of God's afflicting Hand in taking their Children from them by death Even sorrow setting forth 1. The sorrow for the Calamities of the Church 2. The greatness of the sorrow Men are filled with when God's heavy Judgments are upon them 3. The sorrow of true Penitents for their sinful carriage to God's own Son Though the parallel will not hold in all respects yet the greatness of the sorrow of the one is made use of to declare the greatness of the others which is sufficient evidence that such sorrow is great in it self Though Love doth descend from Parents to Children more than it doth ascend from Children to Parents yet Children the more dutiful they were to their Living Parents the more they mourned for them when removed from them by Death 1. For their Father So Joseph with the rest of his Brethren for Jacob. Gen. 49.33 When Jacob had made an end of commanding his sons he gathered up his feet into the bed and yielded up the ghost and was gathered to his people Gen. 50.1 And Joseph fell upon his father's face and wept upon him and kissed him 7. Joseph went up to bury his father 8. And all the house of Joseph and his brethren and his fathers house 10. And they came to the threshing-floor of Atad which is beyond Jordan and there they mourned with a very great and very sore lamentation and he made a mourning for his father seven days 11. The inhabitants of the place when they saw the mourning said this is a very grievous mourning 2. The Death of Mothers hath been no less lamented by their Children Isaac mourned for his Mother Gen. 24.67 When David would express the greatness of his sorrow for others he aggravates it by this I was bowed down as one that mourneth for his mother Psal 35.14 3. When breaches have been made by Death betwixt Brethren and Sisters the Surviving have greatly sorrowed for those that were