A39690:425
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.
3. Answer.
To conclude, times of great affliction are ordinarily times of great temptation, and it's usual with Satan then to charge us with more sins than we are really guilty of, and also to make those things seem to be sins, which upon impartial examination will not be found to be so.
Indeed, had your neglect or miscarriage been knowing and voluntary; or had you really preferred a little money (being able to give it) before the life of your Relation; so that you did deliberately choose to hazard this, rather than part with that; no doubt then but there had been much evil of sin mixed with your affliction: and your Conscience may justly smite you for it as your sin. But in the other case which is more common, and I presume yours; it's a false charge, and you ought not to abet the design of Satan in it.
Indeed, had your neglect or miscarriage been knowing and voluntary; or had you really prefer'd a little money (being able to give it) before the life of your Relation; so that you did deliberatly chuse to hazard this, rather than part with that; no doubt then but there had been much evil of sin mixed with your affliction: and your Conscience may justly smite you for it as your sin. But in the other case which is more common, and I presume yours; it's a false charge, and you ought not to abet the design of Satan in it.