A39690:151
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.
O Consider poor pensive creature, that which stole away thy heart from God is now gone: That which eat up thy time and thoughts, that there was no room for God, soul, or eternity in them, is gone: All the vain expectations thou raisedst up to thy self, from that poor creature which now lies in the dust, are in one day perished. O what an advantage hast thou now for heaven, beyond what ever ⟨p. 48⟩thou yet hadst! If God will but bless this rod, thou wilt have cause to keep many a thanksgiving day for this day.
O Consider poor pensive creature, that which stole away thy heart from God is now gone: That which eat up thy time and thoughts, that there was no room for God, soul, or eternity in them, is gone: All the vain expectations thou raisedst up to thy self, from that poor creature which now lyes in the dust, are in one day perished. O what an advantage hast thou now for heaven, beyond what ever ⟨p. 48⟩thou yet hadst! If God will but bless this rod, thou wilt have cause to keep many a thanksgiving day for this day.
I pray let these three things be pondered by you: I can bestow no more comforts upon you, your condition bars the best comforts from you; they belong to the people of God, and you have yet nothing to do with them.
I pray let these three things be pondred by you: I can bestow no more comforts upon you, your condition bars the best comforts from you; they belong to the people of God, and you have yet nothing to do with them.
I shall therefore turn from you to them, and present some choicer comforts to them to whom they properly belong, which may be of great use to you in reading; if it be but to convince you of the blessed privilege and state of the people of God in the greatest plunges of troubles in this world; and what advantages their interest in Christ gives them for peace and settlement beyond that state you are in.