A39690:359
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.
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.
- 1Melchior Adam in vita Lutheri.
20. Consid. But if nothing that hath been yet said will stick with you; then, Lastly, remember, that you are near that state and place which admits no sorrows nor sad reflections upon any such accounts as these.