A39690:391
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.
1. Answer.
Religion allows not to Christians a liberty of expressing the death of their dear Relations by so hard a word as the loss of them is. They are not lost but sent before you. 1And it is a shameful thing for a Christian to be reproved for such an uncomely expression by an Heathen. It's enough to make us blush to read what an Heathen said in this case, Never say thou hast lost any thing (saith Epictetus) but that it's returned. Is thy Son 2dead? he is only restored. Is thy inheritance taken from thee? It is also returned. And a while after he adds, [Greek or Hebrew]. (i. e.) Let every thing be as the Gods will have it.
Religion allows not to Christians a liberty of expressing the death of their dear Relations by so hard a word as the loss of them is. They are not lost but sent before you. 1And it is a shameful thing for a Christian to be reproved for such an uncomely expression by an Heathen. It's enough to make us blush to read what an Heathen said in this case, Never say thou hast lost any thing (saith Epictetus) but that it's returned. Is thy Son 2dead? he is only restored. Is thy inheritance taken from thee? It is also returned. And a while after he adds, 〈non-Latin alphabet〉. (i. e.) Let every thing be as the Gods will have it.
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