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

I knew a gracious person, now in heaven, who for many weeks in her last sickness complained, that she found it hard to part with a dear Relation, and that there was nothing proved a greater clog to her soul than this. 'Tis much more easy to think of going to our friends, ⟨p. 117⟩who are in heaven before us, than of parting with them, and leaving our desirable and dear ones behind us.

I knew a gracious person, now in heaven, who for many weeks in her last sickness complained, that she found it hard to part with a dear Relation, and that there was nothing proved a greater clog to her soul than this. 'Tis much more easie to think of going to our friends, ⟨p. 117⟩who are in heaven before us, than of parting with them, and leaving our desireable and dear ones behind us.

And who knows what cares and distracting thoughts you may then be pestered and distracted with upon their account? What shall become of these when I am gone! I am now to leave them God knows to what wants, miseries, temptations, and afflictions, in the midst of a deceitful, defiling, dangerous world.

And who knows what cares and distracting thoughts you may then be pestred and distracted with upon their account? What shall become of these when I am gone! I am now to leave them God knows to what wants, miseries, temptations, and afflictions, in the midst of a deceitful, defiling, dangerous world.

I know its our duty to leave our fatherless children, and friendless Relations with God; to trust them with him that gave them to us: And some have been enabled cheerfully to do so when they were parting from them, Luther could say, Lord, thou hast given me a wife and children, I