A39690:99
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 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, 1 Sam. 4. 19, 20. O that was the sinking, the killing word; had the messenger stopped at the death of his two Sons, like enough he had supported that burden, but the loss of the Ark was more to him than sons or daughters.
And it was a good evidence of the graciousness and publickness of Elies spirit who sitting in the gate anxiously waiting for tydings 1from the Army, when the tydings came that Israel fled before the Philistins, that his two Sons Hophni and Phineas 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, 1 Sam. 4. 19, 20. O that was the sinking, the killing word; had the messenger stopt at the death of his two Sons, like enough he had supported that burden, but the loss of the Ark was more to him than sons or daughters.
- 1Cumque ille nominasset Arcam dei, q- d. nondum integram, sed inchoatam audiens narrationem, meant praevolans & exitum presagiens ruebat. Meneoz. in Loc.Cumque ille nominasset Arcam dei, q- d. nondum integram, sed inchoatam audiens narrationem, mente praevolans & exitum presagiens ruebat. Meneoz. in Loc.