A39690:362
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.
3. I now proceed to the third thing proposed, namely to remove the Pleas and excuses for this immoderate grief. It s natural to men, yea to good men to justify their excesses, or at least extenuate them, by pleading for their passions, as if they wanted not cause and reason enough to excuse them. If these be fully answered, and the soul once convinced, and left without Apology for its sin, it is then in a fair way for its cure, which is the last thing designed in this Treatise.
3. I now proceed to the third thing proposed, namely to remove the Pleas and excuses for this immoderate grief. It s natural to men, yea to good men to justifie their excesses, or at least extenuate them, by pleading for their passions, as if they wanted not cause and reason enough to excuse them. If these be fully answered, and the soul once convinced, and left without Apology for its sin, it is then in a fair way for its cure, which is the last thing designed in this Treatise.
My present business therefore is to satisfy those Objections, and answer those Reasons which are commonly pleaded in this case, to justify our excessive grief for lost Relations. And though I shall carry ⟨p. 120⟩it in that line of Relation to which the Text directs, yet its equally applicable to all other.
My present business therefore is to satisfie those Objections, and answer those Reasons which are commonly pleaded in this case, to justifie our excessive grief for lost Relations. And though I shall carry ⟨p. 120⟩