A39690:379
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. Answer.
But if your Relation sleep in Jesus, he will appear ten thousand times more lovely in the morning of the Resurrection, than ever he was in this world. What is the exactest purest beauty of mortals, to the incomparable beauty of the Saints in the Resurrection: Then shall the righteous shine forth as the Sun, in the Kingdom of their Father, Mat. 13. 43. In this hope you part with them, therefore act suitably to your hopes.
But if your Relation sleep in Jesus, he will appear ten thousand times more lovely in the morning of the Resurrection, than ever he was in this world. What is the exactest purest beauty of mortals, to the incomparable beauty of the Saints in the Resurrection: Then shall the righteous shine forth as the Sun, in the Kingdom of their Father, Mat. 13. 43. In this hope you part with them, therefore act sutably to your hopes.
3. Plea.
O but my child was nipped off by death in the very bud, I did but see, and love, and part: had I enjoyed it longer, and had time to suck out the sweetness of such an enjoyment, I could have born it easier, but its months or years with me were so few, that they only served to raise an expectation, which was quickly, and therefore the more sadly disappointed.