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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.
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, 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?
And as to his Providences, wherein his Sovereignty is also manifested. Its said, Zech. 2. 13. Be silent O all flesh before the Lord, for he is raised up out of his habitation. Its spoken of his providential working in the changes of Kingdoms, and desolations that attend them.
And as to his Providences, wherein his Soveraignty is also manifested. Its said, Zech. 2. 13. Be silent O all flesh before the Lord, for he is raised up out of his habitation. Its spoken of his providential working in the changes of Kingdoms, and desolations that attend them.