A39690:451
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.
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!
1. Answer.
How may are there in the world, yea, of your own acquaintance, whom God hath either denied, or deprived both of the comforts of children and Estates too? If he have left you those outward comforts you ought to acknowledge his goodness therein, and not to slight these because he hath deprived you of the other.
How may are there in the world, yea, of your own acquaintance, whom God hath either denyed, or deprived both of the comforts of children and Estates too? If he have left you those outward comforts you ought to acknowledge his goodness therein, and not to slight these because he hath deprived you of the other.