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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.
O What a shame is it that Religion should in this case make no more difference betwixt man and man? Wherefore show to the world (whatever their common censures are) that it is not so much your care to differ from them in some opinions, and little strictness, as in humility, meekness, contempt of the world, and heavenly mindedness; and now let these graces display themselves by your cheerful patient deportment under all your grievances.
O What a shame is it that Religion should in this case make no more difference betwixt man and man? Wherefore shew to the world (whatever their common censures are) that it is not so much your care to differ from them in some opinions, and little strictness, as in humility, meekness, contempt of the world, and heavenly mindedness; and now let these graces display themselves by your chearful patient deportment under all your grievances.
Wherefore hath God planted those excellent graces in your souls, but that he might be glorified, and you benefited by the exercises of them in tribulation? Should these be supperest and hid, and nothing but the pride, passion, and unmortified earthliness of your hearts set on work and discovered in time of trouble, what a slur, what a wound will you give to the glorious name which ⟨p. 107⟩is called upon by you? And then if your hearts be truly gracious, that will pierce you deeper than ever your affliction which occasioned it did.
Wherefore hath God planted those excellent graces in your souls, but that he might be glorified, and you benefited by the exercises of them in tribulation? Should these be supprest and hid, and nothing but the pride, passion, and unmortified earthliness of your hearts set on work and discovered in time of trouble, what a slur, what a wound will you give to the glorious name which ⟨p. 107⟩is call'd upon by you? And then if your hearts be truly gracious, that will pierce you deeper than ever your affliction which occasioned it did.