A39690:438
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.
But pray examine the grounds of your fear, whether it may not proceed from the strength of your affections to the eternal welfare of your friend, or from the subtlety of Satan designing hereby to over-whelm and swallow you up in sorrow, as well as from just grounds and causes? In two cases it's very probable your fear may proceed only from your own affection or Satan's temptation.
But pray examine the grounds of your fear, whether it may not proceed from the strength of your affections to the eternal welfare of your friend, or from the subtilty of Satan designing hereby to over-whelm and swallow you up in sorrow, as well as from just grounds and causes? In two cases it's very probable your fear may proceed only from your own affection or Satans temptation.
First, If your Relation died young, before it did any thing to destroy your hopes. Or,
Secondly, If grown and in some good degree hopeful; only he did not in life, or at death manifest and give evidence of grace, with that clearness as you desired.