A39690:156
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.
1. Consid. Consider in this day of sorrow, who is the framer and author of this rod by which you now smart, Is it not the Lord? and if the Lord have done it, it becomes you meekly to submit. Psal. 46. 10. Be still and know that I am God.
Man and man stand upon even ground, if your fellow creature do any thing that displeases you, you may not only enquire Who did it, but Why he did it? You may demand his grounds and reasons for what he hath done; but you may not do so here: It is expected that this one thing, The Lord hath done it, should without any farther disputes or contests silence and quiet you, what ever it be that he hath done, Job 33. 13. Why dost thou strive against him? for he giveth not an account of ⟨p. 50⟩any of his matters. The supreme being must needs be an unaccountable and uncontrollable being.
Man and man stand upon even ground, if your fellow creature do any thing that displeases you, you may not only enquire Who did it, but Why he did it? You may demand his grounds and reasons for what he hath done; but you may not do so here: It is expected that this one thing, The Lord hath done it, should without any farther disputes or contests silence and quiet you, what ever it be that he hath done, Job 33. 13. Why dost thou strive against him? for he giveth not an account of ⟨p. 50⟩any of his matters. The supream being must needs be an unaccountable and uncontroulable being.