A39690:193
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.
O saith Marullus, Had my child lived with me, to how great modesty, gravity, and prudence, 1might my discipline have formed and moulded him? But, saith Seneca, (which is more to be feared) he might have been as others mostly are; for look (saith he) what children come even out of the worthiest families; such who exercise both their own and others lusts; in all whose life there is not a day without the mark of some notorious wickedness upon it.
O saith Marullus, Had my child lived with me, to how great modesty, gravity, and prodence, 1might my discipline have formed and moulded him? But, saith Seneca, (which is more to be feared) he might have been as others mostly are; for look (saith he) what children come even out of the worthiest families; such who exercise both their own and others lusts; in all whose life there is not a day without the mark of some notorious wickedness upon it.
- 1Senecas Epist. p. 84.
I know your tender love to your children will scarce admit such jealousies of them; they are for present sweet, lovely, innocent companions; and you doubt not but by your care of their education, and prayer for them, they might have been the joy of your hearts.
Why, doubtless Esau, when he was little and in his tender age, promised as much comfort to his parents as Jacob did; and I question not but Isaac and Rebecca (a gracious pair) spent as many prayers, and bestowed as many holy counsels upon him as they did upon his brother: But when the child grew up to riper years, then he became a sharp affliction to his Parents; for its said in