A39690:261
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.
Fourthly, You shall have an everlasting enjoyment of them in Heaven, never to part again. The children of the Resurrection can dye no more, Luk. 20. 36. You shall kiss their pale lips and cold cheeks no more; you shall never fear another parting pull, but be together with the Lord for ever, 1 Thes. 4. 17. And this the Apostle thought an effectual Cordial in this case, when he exhorted the Thessalonians to comfort one another with these words.
10. Consid. The present felicity into which all that dye in Christ are presently admitted, should abundantly comfort Christians over the death of such as either carried a lively hope out of the world with them, or have left good grounds of such an hope behind them.
Some there are that carried a lively hope to heaven with them, who could evidence to themselves and friends their interest in Christ and in the Covenant. Yea, though they had dyed in silence, yet their conversations would speak for them, and the tenor of their lives leave no ground of doubting touching their death: others dying in their infancy or youth, though they carried not such an actual hope with them, yet they have left good grounds of hope behind them.
Some there are that carried a lively hope to heaven with them, who could evidence to themselves and friends their interest in Christ and in the Covenant. Yea, though they had dyed in silence, yet their conversations would speak for them, and the tenour of their lives leave no ground of doubting touching their death: others dying in their infancy or youth, though they carried not such an actual hope with them, yet they have left good grounds of hope behind them.