A39690:144
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.
First, That of all persons in the World, thou hast most reason to be tender over thy life and health, and careful to preserve it; for if thy troubles destroy thee, thou art eternally lost, undone for ever. Worldly sorrow (saith the Apostle) works death. ⟨p. 45⟩And if it works thy death, it works thy damnation also; for Hell follows that pale horse, Revel. 6. 8. If a believer dyes, there's no danger of Hell to him, the second death hath no power over him; but woe to thee if it overtake thee in thy sin; beware therefore what thou dost against thy health and life. Don't put the candle of sorrow too near that thread by which thou hangest over the mouth of Hell.
First, That of all persons in the World, thou hast most reason to be tender over thy life and health, and careful to preserve it; for if thy troubles destroy thee, thou art eternally lost, undone for ever. Worldly sorrow (saith the Apostle) works death. ⟨p. 45⟩And if it works thy death, it works thy damnation also; for Hell follows that pale horse, Revel. 6. 8. If a believer dyes, there's no danger of Hell to him, the second death hath no power over him; but wo to thee if it overtake thee in thy sin; beware therefore what thou dost against thy health and life. Don't put the candle of sorrow too near that thread by which thou hangest over the mouth of Hell.
O its far better to be childless, or friendless on earth; than hopeless, and remediless in hell.