A39690:55
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.
And for their Relations, though it be some comfort to receive them again from the dead; yet the consideration, that they are returned to them into the stormy Sea, to partake of new sorrows and troubles, from which they were lately free; and in a short time they must part with them again, and feel the double sorrows of a parting pull, which others feel but once: surely such a particular Resurrection considered in it self, is no such ground of comfort as at first we might imagine it to be.
It remains then, that the ground of all solid Comfort and relief against the death of our Relations, lies in the General and last 1Resurrection, and what is in a particular one, is but as it is a Specimen, and evidence of the general: and there the Apostle places our relief, 1 Thes. 4. 17. that we shall see & enjoy them again at the Lords coming. And surely this is more, than if with this Mother (in the Text) we should presently receive them from the dead, as she did her Son: And if we judge not so, it is because our hearts ⟨p. 13⟩are carnal, and measure things rather by time, and sense, than by faith and eternity.
It remains then, that the ground of all solid Comfort and reliefe against the death of our Relations, lyes in the General and last 1Resurrection, and what is in a particular one, is but as it is a Specimen, and evidence of the general: and there the Apostle places our relief, 1 Thes. 4. 17. that we shall see & enjoy them again at the Lords coming. And surely this is more, than if with this Mother (in the Text) we should presently receive them from the dead, as she did her Son: And if we judge not so, it is because our hearts ⟨p. 13⟩