A39690:507
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.
7. Rule.
In the day of your mourning for the death of your friends, seriously consider your own death as approaching, and that you and your dead are distinguished but by a small interval and point of time.
In the day of your mourning for the death of your friends, seriously consider your own death as approaching, and that you and your dead are distinguisht but by a small interval and point of time.
2 Sam. 12. 23. I shall go to him. Surely the thoughts of your own death, as approaching also, will greatly allay your sorrows for the dead, that are gone before you.
We are apt to fancy a long life in the world, and then the loss of those comforts which we promised our selves so much of the sweetness and comfort of our lives from, seems an intolerable thing.
We are apt to fancy a long life in the world, and then the loss of those comforts which we promised our selves so much of the sweetness and comfort of our lives from, seems an intollerable thing.