A39690:300
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.
Oh what a sweet exchange had he made! Surely he had Gold for brass, a pearl for a pebble; a treasure for a trifle; for so great, yea, and far greater is the disproportion betwixt the sweet light of Gods Countenance, and the faint dim light of the best creature-enjoyment.
Would it please the Lord to make this sun arise and shine upon you: now when the stars that shined with a dim and borrowed light are gone down, you would see such gain by the exchange, as would quickly make you cast in your votes with him we now mentioned, and say, Lord, let every day be such as this funeral day, let all my hours be as this, so that I may see and taste what I now do. How gladly would I part with the dearest and nearest creature-comfort I own in this world.
The gracious and tender Lord hath his divine Cordials reserved on purpose for such sad hours: these are sometimes given before some sharp trial to prepare for it, and sometimes after to support under it.
The gracious and tender Lord hath his divine Cordials reserved on purpose for such sad hours: these are sometimes given before some sharp tryal to prepare for it, and sometimes after to support under it.