A39690:157
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.
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.
Its a shame for a child, to strive with his Father; a shame for a servant to contend with his Master: but for a creature to quarrel and strive with the God that made him, O how shameful is it? Surely tis highly reasonable that you be subject to that will whence you proceeded, and that he who formed you and yours, should dispose of both as seemeth him good. It is said, 2 Sam. 3. 36. That whatsoever the King did, pleased all the people: and shall any thing the Lord doth displease you? He can do no wrong. If we pluck a Rose in the bud as we walk in our Gardens, Who shall blame us for it, it is our own, and we may crop it off when we please; Is not this the case? Thy sweet bud which was cropped before it was fully blown, was cropped off by him that owned it, yea by him that formed it. If his dominion be absolute, sure his disposal should be acceptable.