A39690:292
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.
You have an excellent Scripture to this purpose in Isa. 56. 4, 5. For thus saith the Lord unto the Eunuchs that keep my Sabbaths, and choose the things that please me, and take hold of my Covenant; even to them will I give in my house, and within my walls a place and a name better than of sons and of daughters: I will give them an everlasting name that shall not be cut off.
Mens names are said to be continued in their Issue, in their male Issue especially, and consequently 1to fail in such as wanted Issue, Numb. 17. 4. And a numerous Issue is deemed no small honour, Psal. 127. 4, 5. God therefore promiseth here to supply and make good the want of Issue, and of whatsoever either honour here, or memorial hereafter ⟨p. 97⟩might from it have accrued to them; by bestowing upon them matter of far greater honour, and more durable; a name better or before the name of Sons and Daughters.
- 1Vide English Annotations in Loc.
It's a greater honour to be a child of God, than to have the greatest honour or comfort that ever children afforded their parents in this world.