A39690:352
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.
But if God never repair your loss, in things of the same kind, you know he can abundantly repair it in himself.
Ah Christian! Is not one kiss of his mouth, one glimpse of his countenance, one seal of his spirit, a more sweet and substantial comfort than the sweetest Relation in this world can afford you! If the stream fail, repair to the Fountain, there's enough still, God is where he was, and what he was, though the creature be not.
19. Consid. Though you may want a little comfort in your life, yet surely it may be recompensed to you by a more easy death.
19. Consid. Though you may want a little comfort in your life, yet surely it may be recompensed to you by a more easie death.
The removal of your friends before you may turn to your great advantage, when your hour is come that you must follow them. Oh how have many good souls been clogged and ensnared in their dying hour, by the loves, cares, and fears they have had about those they must leave behind them in a sinful evil world!