A39690:402
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.
If God will not have your comfort to lye any more in children, then resolve to place them in himself, and you shall never find cause to complain of loss by such an exchange. You will find that in ⟨p. 130⟩God which is not to be had in the creature: one hours communion with him shall give you that, which the happiest Parent never yet had from his children; you will exchange brass for gold, perishing vanity, for solid and abiding excellency.
6. Plea.
But the suddenness of the stroke is amazing, God gave little or no warning to prepare for this trial: Death executed its commission, as soon as it opened it. My dear Husband, Wife, or Child, was snatched unexpectedly out of my arms, by a surprising stroke; and this makes my stroke heavier than my complaint.
But the suddenness of the stroke is amazing, God gave little or no warning to prepare for this tryal: Death executed its commission, as soon as it open'd it. My dear Husband, Wife, or Child, was snatcht unexpectedly out of my arms, by a surprizing stroke; and this makes my stroke heavier than my complaint.