A39690:319
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.
But what will they say, if they should hear you your selves unbelievingly cry out; where is our God? Will they not be ready to cry; This is the Religion they make such boast of, which you see how little it ⟨p. 105⟩does for them in a day of extremity: they talk of promises, rich and precious promises; but where are they now? Or to what purpose do they serve? They said they had a treasure in heaven. What ails them to mourn so then if their Riches be there?
O beware what you do before the world; they have eyes to see what you can do, as well as ears to hear what you can say. And as long as your carriage under troubles is so much like their own, they will never think your principles are better than theirs. Carnal worldlings will be drawn to think that whatever fine talk you might have about God and heaven, your hearts were most upon the same things that theirs were, since your grief for their removal is as great as theirs.
They know by experience, what a stay it is to the heart to have an able, faithful friend to depend upon, or to have hopes of a great Estate shortly to fall to them; and they'll never be persuaded you have any such ground of comfort; if they see you as much cast down, as they that pretend to no such matter.
They know by experience, what a stay it is to the heart to have an able, faithful friend to depend upon, or to have hopes of a great Estate shortly to fall to them; and they'le never be perswaded you have any such ground of comfort; if they see you as much cast down, as they that pretend to no such matter.