A39690:253
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.
I beseech thee, Reader, if thy deceased friend have left thee any solid ground of hope that he dyed interested in Christ, and the Covenant; that thou wilt distinctly ponder these admirable supports, which the doctrine of the Resurrection affords.
I beseech thee, Reader, if thy deceased friend have left thee any sollid ground of hope that he dyed interessed in Christ, and the Covenant; that thou wilt distinctly ponder these admirable supports, which the doctrine of the Resurrection affords.
First, That the same body which was so pleasant a spectacle to thee, shall be restored again; yea, the same numerically, as well as the same specifically: so that it shall not only be the what it was, but the who he was: These eyes shall behold him, and not another, Job 19. 27. &c. The very same body you laid, or are now to lay in the grave, shall be restored again; Thou shalt find thine own husband, wife, child, or friend again: I say the self same and not another.
Secondly, And farther, this is supporting, that as you shall see the same person that was so dear to you: So you shall know them to be the same that were once endeared to you on earth in so near a tie of Relation.
Secondly, And farther, this is supporting, that as you shall see the same person that was so dear to you: So you shall know them to be the same that were once endeared to you on earth in so near a tye of Relation.