N30070:208
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.
In removing thy Friends before Hand he seems to say to thee as he did to Peter. John 14.7. What I do thou knowest not now, but hereafter thou shalt know it. The Eye of Providence hath a Prospect far beyond thine; it would be in Probability an harder Ta•k for thee to leave them behind, than to follow them.
A Tree that is deeply rooted in the Earth, requires many Strokes to fell it, but ⟨p. 62⟩when its Roots are loosened before hand, then an easy Stroke lays it down upon the Earth.
A Tree that is deeply rooted in the Earth, requires many Strokes to fell it, but ⟨p. 62⟩when its Roots are loosened before hand, then an easie Stroke lays it down upon the Earth.
6. Consider. A Parting Time must needs come, And why is not this as good as another? You knew before-hand, your Child or Friend was Mortal, and that the Thread that linketh you together, must be cut. If any one, saith, Basil, *had asked you, when your Child was born, what is that which is born? What would you have answered; Would you not have said, It is a Man? And if a Man; then a Mortal vanishing Thing. And why then are you surprised with Wonder to see a dying Thing dead?
6. Consider. A Parting Time must needs come, And why is not this as good as another? You knew before-hand, your Child or Friend was Mortal, and that the Thread that linketh you together, must be cut. If any one, saith, Basil,