A39690:504
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.
6. Rule.
Carefully shun and avoid whatsoever may renew your sorrow, or provoke you to impatience.
Carefully shun and avoid whatsoever may renue your sorrow, or provoke you to impatience.
Increase not your sorrow by the sight of, or discourses about sad objects, but labour to avoid them as occasions presented by the enemy of your souls, to draw forth the corruptions of your hearts.
I told you before, why Jacob would not have the child of which Rachel dyed called after the name his wife had given, Benoni, the Son of my sorrow; lest it should prove a daily occasion of renewing his trouble for the loss of his dear Wife; but he called his name Benjamin.
I told you before, why Jacob would not have the child of which Rachel dyed called after the name his wife had given, Benoni, the Son of my sorrow; lest it should prove a daily occasion of renuing his trouble for the loss of his dear Wife; but he called his name Benjamin.