A39690:162
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.
Now seeing the case stands thus, that Lord hath done it, it is his pleasure to have it so; and if it had not been his will, it could never have been as it is: He that gave thee, (rather lent thee thy Relation) hath taken him. O how quiet should this consideration leave thee! If your Landlord who hath many years suffered ⟨p. 52⟩you to dwell in his house, do at last warn you out of it, though he tell you not why; you will not contend with him, or say he hath done you wrong: much less if he tell you, it will be more for his profit and accommodation to take it into his own hand, than let it to you any longer.
Doubtless reason will tell you, you ought quietly to pack up and quit it. Its your great Landlord from whom you hold (at pleasure) your own, and your Relations lives, that hath now warned you out from one of them, it being more for his glory (it may be) to take it in hand by death; And must you dispute the case with him?
Come Christian, this no way becomes thee, but rather, The Lord gave, and the Lord hath taken, blessed be the name of the Lord. Look off from a dead creature, lift up thine eyes to the Sovereign, wise, and holy pleasure that ordered this affliction: Consider who he is, and what thou art; yea, pursue this consideration till thou canst say, I am filled with the will of God.
Come Christian, this no way becomes thee, but rather, The Lord gave, and the Lord hath taken, blessed be the name of the Lord. Look off from a dead creature, lift up thine eyes to the Soveraign, wise, and holy pleasure that ordered this affliction: Consider who he is, and what thou art; yea, pursue this consideration till thou canst say, I am filled with the will of God.