A39690:16
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.
First, That you will not be too hasty to get off the yoke which God hath ⟨image 4⟩put upon your neck. Remember when your child was in the Womb, neither of you desired it should be delivered thence, till Gods appointed time was fully come; and now that you travail again with sorrow for its death. O desire not to be delivered from your sorrows one moment before Gods time for your deliverance be fully come also. Let patience have its perfect work; that Comfort which comes in Gods way and season, will stick by you, and do you good indeed.
First, That you will not be too hasty to get off the yoak which God hath ⟨image 4⟩put upon your neck. Remember when your child was in the Womb, neither of you desired it should be delivered thence, till Gods appointed time was fully come; and now that you travail again with sorrow for its death. O desire not to be delivered from your sorrows one moment before Gods time for your deliverance be fully come also. Let patience have its perfect work; that Comfort which comes in Gods way and season, will stick by you, and do you good indeed.
Secondly, I desire, that though you and your afflictions had a sad meeting, yet you and they may have a Comfortable parting. If they effect that upon your hearts which God sent them for, I doubt not but you will give them a fair testimony when they go off.
If they obtain Gods blessing upon them in their operation, surely they will have your blessing too at their valediction. And what you entertained with fear, you will dismiss ⟨image 5⟩