A39690:456
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.
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.
Surely we are not sent into this world to heap up great estates for our children; and if you have been too eager in this design, you may now read Gods just rebuke of your folly. Bless God you have yet an opportunity to serve God eminently by your Charity: and if God deny you other Executors, let your own hands be your Executors, to distribute to the necessity of the Saints; that the blessings of them that are ready to perish may come upon you.