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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.
The godly are not so to be minded, as that the other be wholly neglected, they have as strong and tender, though not as regular affections to their Relations, and must not be wholly suffered to sink under their unrelieved burdens.
The godly are not so to be minded, as that the other be wholly neglected, they have as strong and tender, though not as regular affections to their Relations, and must not be wholly suffered to sink under their unrelieved burthens.
Here therefore I must have respect to two sorts of persons, whom I find in tears upon the same account; I mean the loss of their dear Relations, the Regenerate, and the unregenerate, I am a debtor to both, and shall endeavour their support and assistance; for even the unregenerate call for our help and pity, and must not be neglected 1and wholly slighted in their afflictions. We must pity them, that can't pity themselves. The Law of God commands us to help a beast, if fallen under its burden; How much more a man sinking under a load of sorrow?
Here therefore I must have respect to two sorts of persons, whom I find in tears upon the same account; I mean the loss of their dear Relations, the Regenerate, and the unregenerate, I am a debtor to both, and shall endeavour their support and assistance; for even the unregenerate call for our help and pitty, and must not be neglected 1and wholly slighted in their afflictions. We must pitty them, that can't pitty themselves. The Law of God commands us to help a beast, if fallen under its burden; How much more a man sinking under a load of sorrow?
- 1Nil miserius misero non miser ante seipsum.