A39690:404
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.
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.
1. Answer.
That the death of your Relation was so sudden and surprising, was much your own fault; who ought to have lived in the daily sense of its vanity, and expectation of your separation from it: you knew it to be a dying comfort in its best estate; and it is no such wonderful thing to see that dead, which we knew before to be dying: Besides, you heard ⟨p. 131⟩