A39690:34
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.
In the words we are to consider, both the Condition of the woman, and the Counsel of Christ with respect unto it.
First, The condition of this Woman, which appears to be very dolorous and distressed; her groans and tears moved and melted the very heart of Christ, to hear and behold them: When he saw her, he had Compassion on her.
How sad an hour it was with her when Christ met her, appears by what is so distinctly remarked by the Evangelist, in ver. 12. where it is said, Now when they came nigh to the Gate of the City, behold, there was a dead man carried out, the only Son of his Mother, and she was a Widow, and much people of the City was with her.
How sad an hour it was with her when Christ met her, appears by what is so distinctly remark't by the Evangelist, in ver. 12. where it is said, Now when they came nigh to the Gate of the City, behold, there was a dead man carried out, the only Son of his Mother, and she was a Widdow, and much people of the City was with her.
In this one Verse, divers heart piercing circumstances of this affliction are noted.