A39690:32
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.
How apt we are to transgress the bounds both of Reason and Religion under a sharp affliction, appears, as in most mens experience, so in this Woman's example, to whose excessive Sorrow, Christ puts a stop in the Text: He saw her, and had Compassion on her, and said to her, Weep not.
How apt we are to transgress the bounds both of Reason and Religion under a sharp affliction, appears, as in most mens experience, so in this Womans example, to whose excessive Sorrow, Christ puts a stop in the Text: He saw her, and had Compassion on her, and said to her, Weep not.
The Lamentations and wailings of this distressed mother, moved the tender compassions of the Lord in beholding it, and stirred up more pity in his heart for her, than could be in her heart for her dear and only Son.
The Lamentations and waylings of this distressed mother, moved the tender compassions of the Lord in beholding it, and stirred up more pitty in his heart for her, than could be in her heart for her dear and only Son.
In the words we are to consider, both the Condition of the woman, and the Counsel of Christ with respect unto it.