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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.
2. Answer.
The loveliness and beauty of our children and Relations though it must be acknowledged a good gift from the hand of God; yet it is but a common gift, and oftentimes becomes a snare, and is in its own nature but a transitory vanishing thing; and therefore no such great aggravation of the loss as is pretended.
I say it's but a common gift; Eliab, Adonijah, and Absalom, had as lovely a presence as any in their generation. Yea, it's not only common to the wicked, with the godly, but to brute animals as well as men, and to most that excel in it, it becomes a temptation; the souls of some had been more beautiful and lovely, if their bodies had been less so. Beside, it's but a flower which flourishes in its month, and then fades. This therefore should not be reflected on as so great a ⟨p. 124⟩circumstance to aggravate your trouble.
I say it's but a common gift; Eliab, Adonijah, and Absolom, had as lovely a presence as any in their generation. Yea, it's not only common to the wicked, with the godly, but to bruit animals as well as men, and to most that excel in it, it becomes a temptation; the souls of some had been more beautiful and lovely, if their bodies had been less so. Beside, it's but a flower which flourishes in its month, and then fades. This therefore should not be reflected on as so great a