A39690:43
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.
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 1is super added, ver. 12. And she was a Widdow. 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 Widdowhood; which is a condition not only void of comfort, but exposed to oppression and contempt.
- 1Duplici nomine charissimus fuit tum quod esset unigenitus tum quod esset solatium, & quasi bacunlus viduitatis ipsius. Pisc. in Loc.Duplici nomine charissimus fuit tum quod esset unigenitus tum quod esset solatium, & quasi bacūlus viduitatis ipsius. Pisc. in Loc.
Yea, and being a Widow, the whole burden lay upon her alone; she had not an Husband to comfort her, as Elkana did Hannah in 1 Sam. 1. 8. Why weepest thou? and why is thy heart grieved? •m not I more to thee than ten Sons? This would have been a great relief; but her Husband was dead as well as her Son: both gone, and she only surviving, to lament the loss of those comforts that once ⟨p. 7⟩she had. Her calamities came not single, but one after another, and this reviving and aggravating the former. This was her case and condition when the Lord met her.