N30070:65
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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There is also another Extreme, and that is Fainting: If when Goods are taken away, the Heart be taken away, and when Children die, then the Spirit of the Parent dies also; this is fainting under the Rod. Thou lamentest, saith Seneca, thy deceased Friend, but I would not have thee grieve beyond what is meet: That thou shouldest not grieve at all, I dare not require thee; Tears may be excused, if they do not exceed: Let thine Eyes therefore be neither wholly dry, nor yet let them overflow; Weep thou mayest, but Wail thou must not.
There is also another Extream, and that is Fainting: If when Goods are taken away, the Heart be taken away, and when Children die, then the Spirit of the Parent dies also; this is fainting under the Rod. Thou lamentest, saith Seneca, thy deceased Friend, but I would not have thee grieve beyond what is meet: That thou shouldest not grieve at all, I dare not require thee; Tears may be excused, if they do not exceed: Let thine Eyes therefore be neither wholly dry, nor yet let them overflow; Weep thou maist, but Wail thou must not.
Happy Man that still keeps the golden Bridle of Moderation upon his Passions and Affections, and still keeps the Possession of himself, whatsoever he lose the Possession of.
Now the Method in which I purpose to proceed shall be, 1. To discover the Signs of immoderate Sorrow. 2. To dissuade from the Sin of immoderate Sorrow. 3. To remove the Pleas of immoderate Sorrow. 4. To propose the Cure of immoderate Sorrow.
Now the Method in which I purpose to proceed shall be, 1. To discover the Signs of immoderate Sorrow. 2. To disswade from the Sin of immoderate Sorrow. 3. To remove the Pleas of immoderate Sorrow. 4. To propose the Cure of immoderate Sorrow.