A39690:57
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.
Thus you see the Counsel, with its ground, which for the most part is common to other Christian mourners with her; the difference being but inconsiderable, and of little advantage.
Thus you see the Councel, with its ground, which for the most part is common to other Christian mourners with her; the difference being but inconsiderable, and of little advantage.
Here then you find many aggravations of sorrow meeting together; A Son, an only Son, is carrying to the grave, yet Christ commands the pensive Mother, not to Mourn.
Hence we note,
Doct. That Christians ought to moderate their Sorrows for their dead Relations, how many afflicting circumstances and aggravations soever do meet together in their Death.