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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.
And it is the sensuality of our hearts that causes us to affect them so inordinately, and grieve for the loss of them so immoderately, as if we had not enough in God without these creature-supplements.
Is the fullness of the Fountain yours? and yet do ye cast down your selves, because ⟨p. 115⟩the broken Cistern is removed. The best Creatures are no better, Jer. 2. 13. Cisterns have nothing but what they receive, and broken ones cannot hold what is put into them. Why then do ye mourn as if your life were bound up in the creature? You have as free an access to the Fountain, as you had before. It is the advice of an Heathen, (and let them take the 1comfort of it) to repair by a new earthly comfort, what we have lost in the former.
Is the fulness of the Fountain yours? and yet do ye cast down your selves, bebecause ⟨p. 115⟩the broken Cistern is removed. The best Creatures are no better, Jer. 2. 13. Cisterns have nothing but what they receive, and broken ones cannot hold what is put into them. Why then do ye mourn as if your life were bound up in the creature? You have as free an access to the Fountain, as you had before. It is the advice of an Heathen, (and let them take the 1comfort of it) to repair by a new earthly comfort, what we have lost in the former.
- 1Quem amabas extulisti quaere quem ames: satius est amicum reparare quam flere. Seneca's Ep. p. 637.