A39690:449
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.
And as to what you now charge upon your self, that the neglect of duty did spring from the want of love to your Relation. Your sorrows at parting may evidence that your Relation was rooted deep in your affection: but if your love was not so spiritual and pure, to love and ⟨p. 143⟩enjoy them in God; that was undoubtedly your sin, and is the sin of most Christians; for which, both you, and all others ought to be humbled.
10. Plea.
God hath blessed me with an Estate, and outward comforts in the world, which I reckoned to have left to my posterity, and now I have none to leave it with, nor have I any comfort to think of it; the purposes of my heart are broken off, and the comfort of all my other enjoyments blasted by this stroke, in one hour. How are the pains and cares of many years perished!