A39690:131
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 Gods afflicted ones prescribed / by J.F.
London: printed for Robert Boulter, 1674
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.
Thus obstinately fixed are many in their trouble, that no words of advice or comfort find any place with them: yea, I have known some exceeding quick and ingenious, even above the rate of their common parts and abilities in inventing shifts, and framing objections to turn off comfort from themselves; as if they had been hired to plead against their own interest: and if they be driven from those pleas, yet they are settled in their troubles too fast to be moved: say what you will they mind it not; or at most it abides not upon them. Let proper seasonable advice or comfort be tendered they refuse it, your counsel is good, but they have no heart to it now. Thus Psal. 77. 10. My foul (saith he) refused to be comforted.
Thus obstinately fixed are many in their trouble, that no words of advice or comfort find any place with them: yea, I have known some exceeding quick and ingenious, even above the rate of their common parts and abilities in inventing shifts, and framing objections to turn off comfort from themselves; as if they had been hired to plead against their own interest: and if they be driven from those pleas, yet they are setled in their troubles too fast to be moved: say what you will they mind it not; or at most it abides not upon them. Let proper seasonable advice or comfort be tendred they refuse it, your councel is good, but they have no heart to it now. Thus Psal. 77. 10. My foul (saith he) refused to be comforted.
To want comfort in time of affliction, is an aggravation of our affliction; but to refuse it, when offered us, wants not ⟨p. 41⟩sin. Time may come, when we would be glad to receive comfort, or hear a word of support, and shall be denied it.
To want comfort in time of affliction, is an aggravation of our affliction; but to refuse it, when offered us, wants not ⟨p. 41⟩