A39690:254
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.
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.
Indeed, you shall know them no more in any carnal Relation, death dissolved that bond: But you shall know them to be such as once were your dear Relations in this world, and be able to single them out among that great multitude, and say, ⟨p. 83⟩This was my Father, Mother, Husband, Wife, or Child: This was the person for whom I wept and made supplication, who was an instrument of good to me, or to whose salvation God then made me instrumental.