A39690:341
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.
The next day the two boys, having crept aside, found the hide of a beast which had been killed, at the root of a tree; which the Mother cast over them lying upon the Snow. The next day a little boat goes by, unto whom she calls for Gods sake to take them out, but they being Irish refused: they desired a little bread, but they said they had none: then she begs a coal of fire which she obtained, and thus with some fallen chips made a little fire, and the children taking a piece of the hide laid it on the coals, and began to gnaw the Leather; but without an extraordinary divine support, what could this do?
Thus they lived ten days without any visible means of help, having no bread, but ice and snow, nor drink except water. The two boys being near starved, she pressed them to go out of her sight, not able to see their death: yet God delivered them as miraculously at last, as he had supported them all that while.
But, judge whether a natural death, in an ordinary way, be comparable to such a trial as this! And yet thus the Lord did by this choice and eminently gracious woman.
But, judge whether a natural death, in an ordinary way, be comparable to such a tryal as this! And yet thus the Lord did by this choice and eminently gracious woman.