A39690:41
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.
Omnis in Ascanio stat chary cura Parentis. All her 1affections were contracted into this one object. If we have never so many children, we know not which of them to spare. If they 2stand like Olive plants about our Table, it would grieve us to see the least twig amongst them broken down. But surely the death of one out of many, is much more tolerable than of all in one.
Omnis in Ascanio stat chari cura Parentis. All her 1affections were contracted into this one object. If we have never so many children, we know not which of them to spare. If they 2stand like Olive plants about our Table, it would grieve us to see the least twigg amongst them broken down. But surely the death of one out of many, is much more tolerable than of all in one.
- 1Virgil.
- 2Nibil charius unico filio: sic dolor de morte ipsius intenfissimus existit. Carthus. in Loc.
Hence its noted in Scripture as the greatest of earthly Sorrows, Jer. 6. 26. O daughter of my people gird thee with Sackcloth, and wallow thy self in Ashes. ⟨p. 6⟩Make thee mourning as for an only Son, most bitter Lamentation. Yea, so deep and penetrating is this grief that the holy Ghost borrows it to express the deepest spiritual troubles by it.