N30070:182
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 God's afflicted ones prescribed. / By John Flavel, Preacher of the Gospel of Christ at Dartmouth in Devon. ; [Two lines of Latin text]
Boston: printed by S. Kneeland, 1730
Title page typeset from the transcription.
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.
The wicked and Blood-thirsty Man shall not live out half his Days (i. e.) half so long as he might live according unto the course of Nature, or the Vigour and Soundness of his natural Constitution; for his Wickedness either draws Nature in an Excess of Riot and Luxury, or exposes him to the Hand of Justice, which cuts him off for his Wickedness before he hath accomplished half his Days.
Again, we must distinguish of the Term or Limit for Death, which is either General or Special.
The General Limits are now Seventy or Eighty Years, Psal. 90.10. The Days of […] years are threescore years and ten, and if […] reason of Strength they be fourse re years yet •s their Strength Labour and Sorrow. To ⟨p. 54⟩this short Limit the Life of Man is generally reduced since the Flood; and tho' there be some few Exceptions, yet the General Rule is not thereby destroyed.
The General Limits are now Seventy or Eighty Years, Psal. 90.10. The Days of 〈…〉 years are threescore years and ten, and if 〈…〉 reason of Strength they be fourse re years yet •s their Strength Labour and Sorrow. To ⟨p. 54⟩this short Limit the Life of Man is generally reduced since the Flood; and tho' there be some few Exceptions, yet the General Rule is not thereby destroyed.