A39690:358
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 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 1have little to leave them; nourish, teach, and keep them; O thou Father of the fatherless, and Judge of widows. But every Christian hath not a Luther's faith. Some find it an hard thing to disentangle their affections at such a time: but now, if God have sent all yours before you, you have so much the less to do. Death may be easier to you than others.
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 chearfully to do so when they were parting from them, Luther could say, Lord, thou hast given me a wife and children, I 1have little to leave them; nourish, teach, and keep them; O thou Father of the fatherless, and Judge of widows. But every Christian hath not a Luthers faith. Some find it an hard thing to disentangle their affections at such a time: but now, if God have sent all yours before you, you have so much the less to do. Death may be easier to you than others.