A39690:354
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.
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!
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 clog'd 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!
Your love to them might have proved a snare to you, and caused you to hang back as loath to go hence; for these are the things that make men loth to dye. And thus it might have been with you, except God had removed them before hand, or should give you in that day such sights of Heaven, and tastes of Divine love, as should master and mortify all your earthly affections to these things.
Your love to them might have proved a snare to you, and caused you to hang back as loath to go hence; for these are the things that make men loth to dye. And thus it might have been with you, except God had removed them before hand, or should give you in that day such sights of Heaven, and tasts of Divine love, as should master and mortifie all your earthly affections to these things.