A39690:255
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.
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.
For we may allow in that state all that knowledge which is cumulative and perfective, whatsoever may enlarge and heighten our felicity and satisfaction, as this must needs be allowed to do. Luther's judgement in this point, being by his friends asked at supper the evening before he dyed; replied thus, What (said he) befell 1Adam? He never saw Eve; but was in a deep sleep when God formed her; yet when he awaked and saw her, he asked not, What she was, nor whence she came? But saith, she was flesh of his flesh, and bone of his bone: now how knew he that? He being full of the holy Ghost, and endued with the knowledge of God, spake thus. After the same manner we also shall be in the other life renewed by Christ, and shall know our parents, our wives and children.