A39690:212
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.
Possibly you think this is the worst time for parting that could be; had you enjoyed it longer, you could have parted easier, but how are you deceived in that? The longer you had enjoyed it, the lother still you would have been to leave it: the deeper it would have rooted it self in your affection.
Possibly you think this is the worst time for parting that could be; had you enjoyed it longer, you could have parted easier, but how are you deceiv'd in that? The longer you had enjoyed it, the lother still you would have been to leave it: the deeper it would have rooted it self in your affection.
Had God given you such a privilege as was once granted to the English Parliament; that the union betwixt you and your friend should not be dissolved, till you your self were willing it should be dissolved; When think you would you have been willing it should be dissolved?
Had God given you such a priviledge as was once granted to the English Parliament; that the union betwixt you and your friend should not be dissolved, till you your self were willing it should be dissolved; When think you would you have been willing it should be dissolved?
Its well for us and ours, that our times are in Gods hand, not in our own. And how immature soever it seemed to be when it was cut down; yet it came to the grave in a full age, as a shock of corn in its season, Job 5. 26. They that are in ⟨p. 69⟩Christ, and in the Covenant, never dye unseasonably whensoever they dye. (Saith one upon the Text) They dye in a good old age; yea,