A token for mourners, or, The advice of Christ to a distressed mother bewailing…

Zedekiah saw his children murdered before his eyes, and then had those eyes (alas too late) put out. The worthy ⟨p. 111⟩Author of that excellent book forementioned, tells ¹us of a choice and godly Gentlewoman in the North of Ireland, who when the Rebellion brake out there, fled with three children, one of them upon the breast; they had not gone far before they were stripped naked by the Irish, who to admiration spared their lives (its like, concluding that cold and hunger would kill them) afterwards going on, at the foot of a River which runs to Locheach, others met them, and will have them cast into the River: but this godly woman, not dismayed, asked a little liberty to pray; and as she lay naked on the frozen ground, got resolution not to go on her own feet to so unjust a death, upon which having called her, and she refusing, was dragged by the heels along that rugged way to be cast in with her little ones and company.

Zedekiah saw his children murdred before his eyes, and then had those eyes (alas too late) put out. The worthy ⟨p. 111⟩Author of that excellent book foremention'd, tells ¹us of a choice and godly Gentlewomanin the North of Ireland, who when the Rebellion brake out there, fled with three children, one of them upon the brest; they had not gone far before they were stript naked by the Irish, who to admiration spared their lives (its like, concluding that cold and hunger would kill them) afterwards going on, at the foot of a River which runs to Locheach, others met them, and will have them cast into the River: but this godly woman, not dismai'd, asked a little liberty to pray; and as she lay naked on the frozen ground, got resolution not to go on her own feet to so unjust a death, upon which having called her, and she refusing, was drag'd by the heels along that rugged way to be cast in with her little ones and company.

1. 1The fulfilling of the Scriptures.The fullfilling of the Scriptures.