N30070:26
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
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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.
Our dear Parents are gone, our lovely and desirable Children are gone, our Bosom Relations that were as our own Souls are gone: ⟨image ?⟩And do not all these Warning-Knocks at our Doors acquaint us, that we must prepare to follow shortly after them.
O that by these things, our own Death might be both easy and familiar to us! the oftener it visits us, the better we should be acquainted with it; and the more of our beloved Relations it removes before us, the less of either Snare or Entanglement remain for us when our Turn comes.
O that by these things, our own Death might be both easie and familiar to us! the oftner it visits us, the better we should be acquainted with it; and the more of our beloved Relations it removes before us, the less of either Snare or Intanglement remain for us when our Turn comes.
My dear Friends, my Flesh and my Blood, I beseech you for Religion Sake, for your own sake, and for my sake, whose Comfort is in great part, bound up in your Prosperity and Welfare, that you read frequently, ponder seriously, and apply believingly these Scripture-Consolations and Directions, which in some haste, I have gathered for your Use; And the God of all Consolation be with you.