A39690:159
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.
It was so to good Eli, 1 Sam. 3. 18. It is the Lord, let him do what seemeth him good. And it was so to David, Psal. 39. 9. I was dumb, I opened not my mouth; because thou didst it. O let it ⟨p. 51⟩be for ever remembered, That he whose name alone is Jehovah, is the most high over all the earth, Psal. 83. 18.
It was so to good Eli, 1 Sam. 3. 18. It is the Lord, let him do what seemeth him good. And it was so to David, Psal. 39. 9. I was dumb, I opened not my mouth; because thou didst it. O let it ⟨p. 51⟩be for ever remembred, That he whose name alone is Jehovah, is the most high over all the earth, Psal. 83. 18.
The glorious sovereignty of God is illustriously displayed in two things, his decrees, and his providences. With respect to the first he saith, Rom. 9. 15. I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy. Here is no ground of disputing with him; for so its said, ver. 20. Who art thou O man, that replyest against God? Shall the thing formed say to him that formed it, Why hast thou made me thus? Hath not the potter power over the clay?
The glorious soveraignty of God is illustriously displayed in two things, his decrees, and his providences. With respect to the first he saith,