N30070:195
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.
I know your tender Love to your Children will scarce admit such Jealousies of them, they are for the present, sweet, lovely, innocent Companions; and you doubt not but by your Care of their Education, and Prayer for them, they might have been the Joy of your Hearts.
Why, doubtless Esau, when he was little and in his tender Age, promised as much Comfort to his Parents as Jacob did, and I question not but Isaac and Rebecca (a gracious pair) spent as many Prayers, and bestowed as many Holy Counse is upon him as they did upon his Brother: But when the Child grew up to riper Years, then he became a sharp Affliction to his Parents; for it is said in Gen. 26.34. That when Esau was Forty Years old, he took to Wife Judith the Daughter of Berith the Hittite, which was a Grief of Mind to Isaac and Rebecca. The Word in the Original, comes ⟨p. 58⟩from a Root that signifies to embitter:1 This Child embittered the Minds of his Parents by his Rebellion against them, and despising their Counsels.
Why, doubtless Esau, when he was little and in his tender Age, promised as much Comfort to his Parents as Jacob did, and I question not but Isaac and Rebecca (a gracious pair) spent as many Prayers, and bestowed as many Holy Counse is upon him as they did upon his Brother: But when the Child grew up to riper Years, then he became a sharp Affliction to his Parents; for it is said in Gen. 26.34. That when Esau was Forty Years old, he took to Wife Judith the Daughter of Berith the Hittite, which was a Grief of Mind to Isaac and Rebecca. The Word in the Original, comes ⟨p. 58⟩from a Root that signifies to imbitter:1