A39690:421
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.
Do you not unjustly charge and fault your selves, for that which is not really your fault or neglect? How far you are chargeable in this case will best appear, by comparing the circumstances you are now ⟨p. 135⟩in, with those you were in when your Relation was only arrested by sickness; and it was dubious to you what was your duty and best course to take.
Possibly you had observed so many to perish in Physicians hands, and so many to recover without them, that you judged it safer for your friend, to be without those means, than to be hazarded by them.
Possibly you had observed so many to perish in Physitians hands, and so many to recover without them, that you judged it safer for your friend, to be without those means, than to be hazarded by them.
Or if diverse methods and courses were prescribed and persuaded to, and you now see your error in preferring that which was most improper, and neglecting what was more safe and probable; yet as long as it did not so appear to your understanding at that time; but you followed the best light you had to guide you at that time, it were most unjust to charge the fault upon your selves, for choosing that course that then seemed best to you, whether it were so in it self or not.