A39690:513
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.
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.
But would you realize your own deaths more, you would not be so deeply concerned for their death as you are. Could you but look into your own graves ⟨p. 159⟩more seriously, you would be able to look into your friends grave more composedly.
But would you reallize your own deaths more, you would not be so deeply concerned for their death as you are. Could you but look into your own graves ⟨p. 159⟩more seriously, you would be able to look into your friends grave more composedly.
And thus I have finished what I designed from this Scripture. The Father of mercies, and God of all comfort, whose sole Prerogative it is to comfort them that are cast down, write all his truths upon your hearts, that they may abide there, and reduce your disordered affections to that frame which best suits the will of God, and the profession you make of subjection and resignation thereunto.
And thus I have finished what I designed from this Scripture. The Father of mercies, and God of all comfort, whose sole Prerogative it is to comfort them that are cast down, write all his truths upon your hearts, that they may abide there, and reduce your disorder'd affections to that frame which best suits the will of God, and the profession you make of subjection and resignation thereunto.