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lord_n	aaron_n	abraham_n	jacob_n	70	3	7.2589	4	false

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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

my duty and I will obey Ans 4. In ki●dly Sorrow for the dead the heart is much quieted by returns of prayers made by God to the Requests that in our Sorrow we made to him When we prayed while they lived and we prayed that they might longer live if our Prayers were consistent with his purpose or that by his Grace and Spirit he would help them to dye prepared and to make an happy and comfortable end and give us grounds of hope that if they may not live with us on Earth they should live with him in Heaven That if God would take them from us he would take them to himself out of ours into Abraham 's Bosom The one he did deny which we thought would have been good for us that live the other he did grant which in sober Reason and in a composed Mind we cannot but judge to be better for them they did dye contrary to our prayers they did dye with peace and comfort and hope of Heaven according to our prayers in our kindly Sorrow for them when dead the Heart is much quieted the Mind composed we grive but are sedate we Mourn but the Spirit is calm within we Sorrow with bitter sorrow but our Sorrow is sweetned that when God did deny our prayers he did hear our prayers when he denied them in one kind he heard them in another which in his Wisdom he saw best for the Persons prayed for Thus David praying and fasting and mourning for his Child when Sick that it might live or be saved if it died when it was dead his heart was quiet in hopes that his Prayers were heard that tho the Body was for the Grave yet the Soul was for Heaven whither he also hoped he himself should go to it So after the Relation is dead we go and pray against the Workings of Corruption by reason of God's Dispensation that we might not murmur nor repine nor charge God foolishly for his dealings with us we find Sin stirring we cry to God and they are crushed we feel Temptations assaulting of us we call to Heaven s●t help to resist them and they are repelled we are sensible of our own weakness with Patience and due Submission to bear so great a Trial God by his Grace comes and makes it more easie than we thought it could have been our sorrow for our dead being kindly sorrow gives place to our minding of these returns of Prayer that in my sorrow I have so much leisure for consideration as to observe and say Tho God hath taken away my dear Relation for whom I prayed and therefore do sorrow yet he hath taken away my S●n and taken ●own the power of it against which I prayed t●a● in my sorrow I might not sin and my sorrow shall not s● far blind me that I should not s●e what at my Prayers God hath done for me He hath taken my Relation from me but I have prayed he would not take away himself nor his quickning Spirit nor the sense of his Love and he hath not the Creature is gone from me but God continues with me the one I shall see no more in this World but God I often since have conversed with and he hath shewed his Love to me and such returns must quiet my Heart in the time of my grief and sorrow But turbulent sorrow not meerly natural but becoming Vitious and Exorbitant by the workings of Corrupt Nature stirred up by the grievousness of our Affl●ction hinders the exercise of Grace and blind● us that we cannot see nay makes us to deny that God doth hear our Prayers though he doth while our Affliction do●h remain Job 9.16 If I had called and he had answered me yet would I not believe that he had hearkened to my voice God takes a Mercy from you and yet he gives demonstrations of his Love unto you but in your turbulent sorrow you say You will not believe that God is reconciled to you you will not believe but his anger and displ●asure is kindled and burns against you He he●rs your Prayers but you cannot see it and you will not believe it This is sorrow not of meer but of corrupt Nature Ans 5. In kindly sorrow for our dead there will be an hearkning to and a receiving of Alleviations of our sorrow propounded to us by men upon grounds of Reason and Religion Arguments for ●●●●gating of our g●●●f from the Promises of God from the common case of all Men even most beloved of God that they have died as Abraham Isaac and Jacob Moses Aaron and Samuel the Prophets Apostles and all believing Primitive Christians and more still must From the happy state of those that die in the Lord the Evils they are delivered from the Good they are possessed of the Joys they are filled with the Holy Heavenly Work they are imployed in will find Entertainment with you and will be hearkened to and considered by you But turbulent Passions of corrupt Nature will put by all that tends to the asswaging of it after all Arguments from Reason and all Topicks from Religion will refuse to be comforted Thus Jacob's sorrow for Joseph when he supposed he was dead was too Exorbitant when all his Sons and all his Daughters rose up to comfort him and he refused to be comsorted When if they had not spoken one word of Comfort to him the very sight of so many Sons and Daughters living might have asswaged his sorrow for one supposed to be dead Gen. 37.33 34 35. So Rachel Jer. 31.15 A voice was heard in Ramah lamentation and bitter weeping Rachel weeping for her children refused to be comforted for her children because they were not A●s 6. In kindly sorrow for our dead we shall be more ready to justifie God in his dealings with us and rather accuse our selves than him and say The Lord is righteous in his ways and holy in all his works I have sinned but he is just I am bad but he is good and though I think his Hand is heavy upon me yet he hath laid less upon me than mine I●iquities have deserved Hath he laid my Relations in the Grave he might have lodged me in Hell Hath he denied longer Life to one I could have wished might have longer lived he might deny to me Eternal Life Hath he bereaved me of the Comforts of a Creature he might deny me all the Comforts of his Spirit Doth Natural Affection move me to mourn for my Loss so Natural Reason teacheth me that God herein hath done me no wrong because all is his own in that he is the Maker of all and the Light of Nature doth instruct me God might give or take away whatsoever is his own and I may not call him to an account saying to him What dost thou or why hast thou done so And whilst my sorrow is not yet ris●n to be tu●bulent I have leisure to look what Scripture saith and to see what the light of Grace doth shew That

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