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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.
If you would not mourn excessively for the loss of creature-comforts, then beware that you set not your delight and love excessively or inordinately upon them whilst you enjoy them.
Strong affections make strong afflictions, the higher the Tide, the lower the Ebb. According to the measure of our delight in the enjoyment, is our grief in the loss of these things. The Apostle knits these two graces Temperance and Patience together in the Precept, 2 Pet. 1. 16. And it's very observable how Intemperance and Impatience are inseparably linked in experience, yea, the experience of the best men. You read Gen. 37. 3. How Israel loved Joseph more than all his children, because he was the son of his old age; and he made him a coat of many colours.
Strong affections make strong afflictions, the higher the Tyde, the lower the Ebb. According to the measure of our delight in the enjoyment, is our grief in the loss of these things. The Apostle knits these two graces Temperance and Patience together in the Precept, 2 Pet. 1. 16. And it's very observable how Intemperance and Impatience are inseparably linked in experience, yea, the experience of the best men. You read Gen. 37. 3. How Israel loved Joseph more than all his children, because he was the son of his old age; and he made him a coat of many colours.
This was the darling, Jacobs heart was exceedingly set upon him, his very life was bound up in the life of the Lad. ⟨p. 151⟩