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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.
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. Zech. 12. 10, They shall mourn for him, (namely Christ whom they pierced) as one mourneth for an only Son.
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 onely Son, most bitter Lamentation. Yea, so deep and penetrating is this grief that the holy Ghost borrows it to express the deepest spritual troubles by it. Zech. 12. 10, They shall mourn for him, (namely Christ whom they pierced) as one mourneth for an only Son.
Fourthly, And yet to heighten the affliction it 1is super added, ver. 12. And she was a Widow. So that the staff of her age, on whom she leaned was broken: She had now none left to comfort or assist her in her helpless comfortless State of Widowhood; which is a condition not only void of comfort, but exposed to oppression and contempt.
Fourthly, And yet to heighten the afflliction it 1