A39690:484
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. Rule.
If you would not be overwhelmed with grief for the loss of your Relations, be exact and careful in discharging your duties to them while you have them.
The testimony of your Conscience that you have laboured in all things to discharge the duties you owed to your Relations whilst they were with you, will ⟨p. 152⟩prove an excellent allay to your sorrows for them, when they are no longer yours. 'Tis not so much the single affliction, as the guilt charged upon us in times of affliction, that makes our load so heavy.
O what a terrible thing is it to look upon our dead, whilst Conscience is accusing and upbraiding us for our duties neglected, and such or such sins committed? O you little think how dreadful a spectacle this will make the dead body of thy friend to thee.