A39690:206
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.
Thy friend hy an Act of favour is disbanded by death, whilst thou thy self art left to endure a great fight of affliction: And now if troubles come, thy cares and fears will be so much the less, and thy own death so much the easier to thee; when so much of thee is in heaven already. In this case, the Lord by a merciful dispensation is providing both for their safety, and thy own easier passage to them.
Thy friend hy an Act of favour is disbanded by death, whilst thou thy self art left to endure a great fight of affliction: And now if troubles come, thy cares and fears will be so much the less, and thy own death so much the easier to thee; when so much of thee is in heaven already. In this case, the Lord by a mercifull dispensation is providing both for their safety, and thy own easier passage to them.
In removing thy friends before hand, he seems to say to thee as he did to Peter, Joh. 13. 7. What I do thou knowest not now, but hereafter thou shalt know it. The eye of Providence hath a prospect far beyond thine; it would be in probability an harder task for thee to leave them behind, than to follow them.
A tree that's deeply rooted in the earth, requires many strokes to fell it, but when its roots are loosened before hand, then an easy stroke lays it down upon the earth.
A tree thats deeply rooted in the earth, requires many strokes to fell it, but when its roots are loosned before hand, then an easie stroke layes it down upon the earth.