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

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.

And Mr. Wall in his none-but-Christ, relates as sad a passage of a poor Family in Germany, who were driven to that extremity in the famine, that at last the Parents made a motion one to the other to sell one of the children for bread to sustain themselves and the rest: but when they came to consider which child it should be, their hearts so relented and yearned upon every one, that they resolved rather all to dye together. Yea we read in Lam. 4. 10. The hands of the pitiful women have sodden their own children.

And Mr. Wall in his none-but-Christ, relates as sad a passage of a poor Family in Germany, who were driven to that extremity in the famine, that at last the Parents made a motion one to the other to sell one of the children for bread to sustain themselves and the rest: but when they came to consider which child it should be, their hearts so relented and yerned upon every one, that they resolved rather all to dye together. Yea we read in