A39690:108
A token for mourners, or, The advice of Christ to a distressed mother bewailing…
A token for mourners, or, The advice of Christ to a distressed mother bewailing the death of her dear and only son wherein the boundaries of sorrow are duly fixed, excesses restrained, the common pleas answered, and divers rules for the support of Gods afflicted ones prescribed / by J.F.
London: printed for Robert Boulter, 1674
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Fourthly, Then you may also conclude your sorrows to be excessive and sinful, When they so overload and oppress your bodies, as to endanger your lives, or render them useless and unfit for service.
Worldly Sorrow works death, 2 Cor. 7. 10. that is, Sorrow after the manner of worldly men, sorrow in a mere carnal natural 1way, which is not relieved by any spiritual reasonings and considerations: This falls so heavy sometimes upon the body, that it sinks under the weight, and is cast into such diseases as are never more wrought off, or healed in this world. Heaviness in the heart of a man makes it stoop, saith Solomon, Prov. 12. 25. The stoutest body must stoop under heart pressures.
Worldly Sorrow works death, 2 Cor. 7. 10. that is, Sorrow after the manner of worldly men, sorrow in a meer carnal natural 1way, which is not relieved by any spiritual reasonings and considerations: This falls so heavysometimes upon the body, that it sinks under the weight, and is cast into such diseases as are never more wrought off, or healed in this world. Heaviness in the heart of a man makes it stoop, saith Solomon, Prov. 12. 25. The stoutest body must stoop under heart pressures.
- 1Tristitia mundi est tristitia secundum, mundum, quae ex amore mundi nascitur. Estius in Loc.