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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.
Sixthly, Our sorrows exceed due bounds, when we continually excite and provoke them by willing irritations.
Grief like a Lyon loves to play with us before it destroy us. And strange it is that we should find some kind of pleasure in rousing our sorrows. Its *Seneca's observation, and ⟨p. 38⟩experimentally true, that even sorrow it self hath a certain kind of delight attending it.
Grief like a Lyon loves to play with us before it destroy us. And strange it is that we should find some kind of pleasure in rouzing our sorrows. Its *Seneca's observation, and ⟨p. 38⟩experimentally true, that even sorrow it self hath a certain kind of delight attending it.
- *In est quidam dulce tristitiae, cum occurant sermones eorum jucundi, conversatio hilaris officiosa pietas: tunc occuli velut in gaudio relaxantur. Sen. Ep. 806.
The Jews that were with Mary in the house to comfort her, When they saw that she went out hastily, followed her, saying, she goeth to the grave to weep there, Joh. 11. 32. As they do (saith Calvin) that seek to provoke their 1