A39690:406
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.
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⟩the changes ringing round about you in other families; you frequently saw other Parents, Husbands, and Wives carrying forth their dead; And what were all these but warnings given you to prepare for the like trials?
That the death of your Relation was so sudden and surprizing, 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⟩the changes ringing round about you in other families; you frequently saw other Parents, Husbands, and Wives carrying forth their dead; And what were all these but warnings given you to prepare for the like tryals?