A39690:454
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.
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.
2. Answer.
Though your children be gone, yet God hath many children left in the world whose bowels you may refresh with what he hath bestowed upon you; and your charity to them will doubtless turn to a more comfortable account, than if you had left a large Estate to your own posterity.