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 Gods afflicted ones prescribed / by J.F.

6. Rule.

Carefully shun and avoid whatsoever may renue your sorrow, or provoke you to im∣patience.

Increase not your sorrow by the sight of, or discourses about sad objects, but labour to avoid them as occasions pre∣sented by the enemy of your souls, to draw forth the corruptions of your hearts.

I told you before, why Jacob would not have the child of which Rachel dyed called after the name his wife had given, Benoni, the Son of my sorrow; lest it should prove a daily occasion of renu∣ing his trouble for the loss of his dear Wife; but he called his name Benjamin.

Your impatience is like tinder, or Gun-powder, so long as you can prevent the

sparks from falling on it, there is no great danger: But you that carry such dangerous prepared matter in your own hearts, cannot be too careful to prevent them. Do by murmuring as you do by blasphemous thoughts, think quite ano∣ther way, and give no occasion.