A39690:271
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.
When Jacob heard his Joseph was Lord of Egypt, he rather wished himself with Joseph, than his Joseph with him, in wants and straights: So should it be with you. You are yet rolling and tossing upon a tempestuous Sea, but your friend is gone into the quiet harbour; desire rather to be there, then that he were at Sea again with you.
When Jacob heard his Joseph was Lord of Egypt, he rather wisht himself with Joseph, than his Joseph with him, in wants and straights: So should it be with you. You are yet rowling and tossing upon a tempestuous Sea, but your friend is gone into the quiet harbour; desire rather to be there, then that he were at Sea again with you.
II. Consid. Consider how vain a thing all your trouble and self-vexation is; it no way betters your case, nor eases your burden.
II. Consid. Consider how vain a thing all your trouble and self-vexation is; it no way betters your case, nor eases your burthen.
As a Bullock by wrestling and sweating in the furrow, may make his yoke to be more heavy, gall his neck, and spend his strength the sooner, but no way helps himself by that. Why thus stands the ⟨p. 90⟩case with thee, if thou be as a Bullock unaccustomed to the yoke. What Christ saith of caring, we may say of grieving (Mat. 6. 27.) Which of you by taking thought can add one Cubit to his stature?
As a Bullock by wrestling and sweating in the furrow, may make his yoak to be more heavy, gall his neck, and spend his strength the sooner, but no way helps himself by that. Why thus stands the