A token for mourners, or, The advice of Christ to a distressed mother bewailing…

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.^*

1. *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.

Many a mans Soul is to his Body, as a sharp knife to a thin sheath, which easily cuts it through; and what do we by poring and pondering upon our troubles, but whet the knife that it may cut the deeper and quicker? Of all the Creatures that ever God made (Devils only excepted) man is the most able and apt to be his own tormentor.

Many a mans Soul is to his Body, as a sharp knife to a thin sheath, which easily cuts it through; and what do we by poreing and pondering upon our troubles, but whet the knife that it may cut the deeper and quicker? Of all the Creatures that ever God made (Devils only excepted) man is the most able and apt to be his own tormentor.