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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

presentiate them unto us tho yet they are future that it may be the substance or subsistence or as it were the ready presence of such things hoped for and the evidence or convincing demonstration of things not yet seen as if we did now behold them with our Eyes which is the nature power and working of a lively Faith Heb. 11.1 then should we now wipe tears from our Eyes in the fore-believing views thereof as God will do then when we shall actually behold them then our Sorrow would now be turned into Joy and our Heaviness into Rejoycing now we know and say they are dead and therefore Sorrow filleth our Hearts but let us believe what is revealed concerning them that they shall be raised and what great and glorious things shall then be done to them and for them and let the Faith of the one make us as joyfull as the Knowledge of the other at present makes us sorrowfull These Remedies for the asswaging of our sorrow may be reduced to these five general Heads But remember it is not the bare Notion of them nor cursory talking of them nor superficial thinking of them but our serious pondering and powerful practical Believing of them and the Spirits effectual applying and laying them warm to our Hearts that must he the Cure to those that are deeply sorrowfull for their Dead 1. The Lord Himself will descend from Heaven to fetch them out of their Graves v. 16. 2. The Solemnity of his Coming and his Attendants waiting upon him and the Call that shall then be given to them to awake arise and come forth out of their Graves For he shall come with a shout with the Voice of the Archangel and of others and with the Trump of God v. 16. 3. The Prerogative of those that sleep in Jesus above those that then shall be found alive the Dead shall have the precedency of the Living that the Dead shall be raised before the then Living shall be changed V. 15. For this we say unto you by the Word of the Lord that we which are alive and remain unto the Coming of the Lord shall not prevent them which are asleep V. 16. the Dead in Christ shall rise first 4. The Dead in Christ being raised first and after that the Living changed both shall be caught up together in the Clouds to meet the Lord in the Air. v. 17. Are our Hearts almost dead with sorrow Where is our Faith Here is the Word of the li●ing faithful God declaring Wonders that shall be done for the Dead in Christ but where is our Faith Here is our sorrow but where is our Faith Behold the Lord comes down from Heaven behold the Dead come up out of their Graves behold they that long lodged and slept under ground are caught up and carried from off this Earth into the Air where their Lord and they do meet O happy joyful meeting not only Bodies and Souls do now meet after so long a parting but which is more their Lord and they do meet after so long sleeping Lord here is our Faith and our sorrow is abated 5. The eternal Enjoyment of God and Christ in the highest Heavens V. 17. and so shall we ever be with the Lord. Now we see where they that are Lodged in the Grave sleeping in Jesus shall at last be Lodged rejoycing in Jesus and therefore now let us be the less sorrowfull And that our Faith concerning these may be encreased and thereby our sorrow may be diminished let us take them up and view them again I. Is it nothing for the asswaging of our sorrow that our Lord will come himself from Heaven to raise them up out of their Graves If you say Who can cause these dry Bones to live and cloath them with flesh and cover them both with skin and bring them out of these deep and dark sleeping places the Answer is ready the Lord can He can but the Question is whether he will he hath declared and promised that he will He will While he was on Earth he raised some but now he is gone to Heaven and there he doth abide and except he come from Heaven the Dead must abide in their Graves Say you so weep not for he HIMSELF will come and he will surely have them forth Did he at his first coming die for their Bodies as well as for their Souls and will he be content to have their Souls only with him in the Heavens and their Bodies to lie always in the Grave Did he purchase their Bodies as well as their Souls with the price of his own most precious Blood and will he for ever lose such a part of his purchase Are not the Bodies as well as the Souls of Believers Christs own by right of Redemption 1 Cor. 6.20 and will he lose his own so dearly bought for want of looking after them Hath he redeemed them from Sin and Hell and will not he redeem them from the Grave And is not the deliverance out of the Grave called the Redemption of the Body and do his People and Redeemed ones while they live wait believe and hope and like a Woman in Travel groan for Deliverance and long for the Blessed Inheritance and full possession of the Blessed State above both in Body and Soul at the Resurrection and will he suffer them to be disappointed Are they Adopted hereunto as well in their Bodies as in their Souls and did they here receive the Spirit of God as the Pledge and Earnest and First-fruits of Glory and shall he let them be for ever without it Rom. 8.23 Were they Sanctified in their Bodies as well as in their Souls and Spirits 1 Thes 5.23 and shall not their sanctified Bodies be glorified Bodies at the coming of Christ Did their Bodies partake with their Souls in the serving of their God in Hearing Praying and Religious Fasting and shall not they partake with the Souls in the heavenly and Eternal Reward thro' the Riches of his Grace Did they present their Bodies when alive a Living Sacrifice holy and acceptable unto God giving up their Bodies wholly to him to do and suffer what he did call them to tho' it were to Death Rom. 12.1 and will he suffer them to remain for ever as Prisoners of Death and not call them from thence to be partakers of Eternal Life Did both parts serve and yield Obedience to him and shall one only be saved and rewarded by him He was the Redeemer and Sanctifier of both and he will be the Saviour of both And if Angels sent from Heaven cannot deliver them out of their Graves he will come HIMSELF and bring them out When he would redeem Israel from the Bondage of Egypt he sent Moses but to Ransom Redeem and set the Bodies of those that died in him from the bonds of Death with which they are tyed hand and foot it being a Work too great for any meer Creature he will come himself and break these bonds that tho'