A39690:381
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. 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.
O but my child was nipt 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.
1. Answer.
Did your friend dye young, or was the bond of any other Relation dissolved almost as soon as made? let not this seem so intolerable a load to you; for if you have ground to hope they died in Christ, then they lived long enough in this world. It's 1truly said, he hath sailed long enough, that hath won the Harbour; and he hath fought long enough that hath obtained the victory; he hath run long enough, that hath touched the Goal; and he hath lived long enough on earth, that hath won heaven, be his days here never so few.