A39690:182
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.
Again we must distinguish of the Term or limit set for death, which is either, General or Special.
The general limit is now seventy or or eighty years, Psal. 90. 10. The days of our years are threescore years and ten, and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labour and sorrow. To this short limit the life of man is generally reduced since the flood; ⟨p. 59⟩and though there be some few exceptions, yet the general rule is not thereby destroyed.
The general limit is now seventy or or eighty years, Psal. 90. 10. The dayes of our years are threescore years and ten, and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labour and sorrow. To this short limit the life of man is generally reduced since the flood; ⟨p. 59⟩and though there be some few exceptions, yet the general rule is not thereby destroyed.
The special limit is that proportion of time which God by his own counsel and will hath allotted to every individual person; and it is only known to us by the event: This we affirm to be a fixed and unmovable term, with it all things shall fall in, and subserve the will of God in our dissolution at that time. But because the general limit is known, and this special limit is a secret hid in Gods own breast; therefore man reckons by the former account, and may be said when he dyes at thirty or forty years old to be cut off in the midst of his days; for it is so, reckoning by the general account: though he be not cut off till the end of his days, reckoning by his special limit.