A39690:56
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.
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⟩are carnal, and measure things rather by time, and sense, than by faith and eternity.
- 1In eo futurae resurrectionis illustre habemus Specimen. Call. in Loc.In eo futurae resurrectionis illustre habemus Specimen. Cal. in Loc.