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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.
8. Plea.
But my troubles are upon a higher score, and account. My child or friend is passed into Eternity, and I know not how it is with its soul. Were I sure that my Relation were with Christ, I should be quiet; but the fears of the contrary are overwhelming, O it's terrible to think of the damnation of one so dear to me.
1. Answer.
Admit what the objection supposes, that you have real grounds to fear the eternal condition of your dear Relation, yet it's utterly unbeseeming you, even in such a case as this, to dispute with, or repine against the Lord.
I do confess it's a sore and heavy trial, and that there is no case more sad, and ⟨p. 138⟩