A39690:443
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.
9. Plea.
O but I have sinned in this Relation, and now God hath punished my sin in dissolving it. O saith one, my heart was set too much upon it, I even idolized it, ⟨p. 241⟩that was my sin. And saith another, I wanted due affections, and did not love my Relation, at least not so spiritually as I ought, that was my sin. Now God is visiting me for all the neglects and defects that have been in me towards my Relation.
O but I have sinned in this Relation, and now God hath punisht my sin in dissolving it. O saith one, my heart was set too much upon it, I even idoliz'd it, ⟨p. 241⟩that was my sin. And saith another, I wanted due affections, and did not love my Relation, at least not so spiritually as I ought, that was my sin. Now God is visiting me for all the neglects and defects that have been in me towards my Relation.