A39690:258
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.
And this among other things was that with which Augustine comforted the Lady Italica after ⟨p. 84⟩1the death of her dear husband, telling her that she should know him in the world to come, amongst the glorified Saints. Yea, and a greater than either of these, I mean Paul, comforted himself that the Thessalonians, whom he had converted to Christ should be His joy and Crown of rejoicing in the presence of the Lord Jesus Christ at his coming, 1 Thes. 2. 19, 20. which must needs imply his distinct knowledge of them in that day, which must be many hundred years after death had separated them from each other. Whether this knowledge shall be by the glorified eyes discerning any lineaments or property of individuation remaining upon the glorified bodies of our Relations? or whether it shall be by immediate revelation as Adam knew his wife; or as Peter, James, and John, knew Moses and Elijah in the Mount, as it is difficult to determine, so it is needless to puzzle our selves about it.
And this among other things was that with which Augustine comforted the Lady Italica after ⟨p. 84⟩1the death of her dear husband, telling her that she should know him in the world to come, amongst the glorified Saints. Yea, and a greater than either of these, I mean Paul, comforted himself that the Thessalonians, whom he had converted to Christ should be His joy and Crown of rejoycing in the presence of the Lord Jesus Christ at his coming, 1 Thes. 2. 19, 20. which must needs imply his distinct knowledge of them in that day, which must be many hundred years after death had separated them from each other. Whether this knowledge shall be by the glorified eyes discerning any lineaments or property of individuation remaining upon the glorified bodies of our Relations? or whether it shall be by immediate revelation as Adam knew his wife; or as Peter, James, and John, knew Moses and Elias in the Mount, as it is difficult to determine, so it is needless to puzel our selves about it.