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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.
It is with the mind of man (saith one) as with the stone Tyrhenus: as long as its whole it swimeth, but once broken it sinks presently. Grief is a moth which getting into the mind, will in short time, make the body, be it never so strong and well wrought a piece, like an old seary garment.
Philosophers and Physicians generally reckon sorrow among the chief causes of shortening life. Christ was a man of sorrows, and acquainted with griefs, and this some think was the reason, that he appeared as a man of fifty, when he was little more than thirty years old, Joh. 8. 57. But his ⟨p. 33⟩sorrows were of another kind.*
Philosophers and Physitians generally reckon sorrow among the chief causes of shortning life. Christ was a man of sorrows, and acquainted with griefes, and this some think was the reason, that he appeared as a man of fifty, when he was little more than thirty years old, Joh. 8. 57. But his ⟨p. 33⟩sorrows were of another kind.*
- *Haec tibi scribo qui tam immodice flevi ut (quod minime velim) inter exempla sim eorum quos dolor vicit: hodie tamen factum meum damno. Seneca Ep. 63. p. mihi 637.