A39690:97
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.
Secondly, And no less sinful are our Sorrows, When they so wholly engulf our hearts, that we either mind not at all, or are little or nothing sensible of the public evils and calamities which lye upon the Church and people of God.
Secondly, And no less sinful are our Sorrows, When they so wholly ingulph our hearts, that we either mind not at all, or are little or nothing sensible of the publick evils and calamities which lye upon the Church and people of God.
Some Christians have such public spirits that the Churches troubles swallow up their personal troubles. Melanchthon ⟨p. 28⟩seemed to take little notice of the death of his child, which he dearly loved, being almost overwhelmed with the miseries lying on the Church.
Some Christians have such publick spirits that the Churches troubles swallow up their personal troubles. Melanchton ⟨p. 28⟩seemed to take little notice of the death of his child, which he dearly loved, being almost overwhelm'd with the miseries lying on the Church.
And it was a good evidence of the graciousness and publicness of Eli's spirit who sitting in the gate anxiously waiting for tidings 1from the Army, when the tidings came that Israel fled before the Philistines, that his two Sons Hophni and Phinehas were dead, and that the Ark of God was taken; just at the mention of that word, The Ark of God, before he heard out the whole narration, his mind quickly presaging the issue, he sank down and died,