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The Heart's Ease, or a Remedy Against All Troubles. to Which Is Added Two Papers Printed in the Time of the Plague, 1665. Repr
The Heart's Ease or a Remedy Against All Troubles to Which Is Added Two Papers Printed in the Time of the Plague 1665 Repr Author:Simon Patrick General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1847 Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million book... more »s for free. Excerpt: SECTION 5. Which contains Comforts against the loss of Children, Parents, Consorts, Friends, upon a due consideration what every one of them is. LET us consider well who it is for whom we make our lamentations. Who is it, I say, that death hath taken away from us ? Perhaps it is an Infant, a poor little weakling newly crept into the light. And this hath the least of wonder in it of all other things, that such a little spark of life should be blown out. A greater wonder it is that it , was not strangled in the Gate of the Womb. A little while ago it had no life, and it is now but as it then was. We were once content without it; why cannot we be content without it now? It never loved us, nor was capable to show any affection to us, and therefore we may the better part with it. It was scare tied to our heart, and therefore it need not make the Strings crack. It was not unwilling to go out of the World, and if it had lived longer Death would have been more against its will. It hath lost no great matter, for it knew not the benefits of life. It hath cost us nothing, or we have been but at a small charge about it, and therefore our loss is not so great neither, as we make it. If it could have known the miseries of living, and it had heen put to its choice, very likely it would not have chosen to live, hut to be what now it is. It hath not blotted its Soul by any sin, nor deflowered the Virgin purity wherein it was born. If it have any thing to complain of, it is only this, That it was born. And therefore let us be content; for it is better perhaps for it, and not much the worse for us. If we weep so much ...« less