A39690:209
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.
6. Consid. A parting time must needs come, and why is not this as good as another? You knew before hand, your child or friend was mortal, and that the thread that linked you together, must be cut. If any one (saith Basil) had asked you, when your 1child was born, What is that which is born? What would you have answered? Would you not have said it is a man? and if a man, than a Mortal vanishing thing. And why then are you surprised, with wonder to see a dying thing dead?
6. Consid. A parting time must needs come, and why is not this as good as another? You knew before hand, your child or friend was mortal, and that the thred that linked you together, must be cut. If any one (saith Basil) had asked you, when your 1child was born, What is that which is born? What would you have answered? Would you not have said it is a man? and if a man, than a Mortal vanishing thing. And why then are you surprized, with wonder to see a dying thing dead?
- 1Aequo animo excipenecessaria, quam multi post luctum tuum lugent? Sen. Ep. 99.
He (saith Seneca) who complains that one is ⟨p. 68⟩1dead, complains that he was a man. All men are under the same condition, to whose share it falls to be born, to him it remains to dye.
He (saith Seneca) who complaines that one is ⟨p. 68⟩1dead, complains that he was a man. All men are under the same condition, to whose share it falls to be born, to him it remains to dye.