A39690:164
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.
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.
2. Consid. Ponder well the quality of the comfort you are deprived of, and remember, that when you had it, it stood ⟨p. 53⟩but in the rank and order of common and inferior comforts.
2. Consid. Ponder well the quality of the comfort you are deprived of, and remember, that when you had it, it stood ⟨p. 53⟩but in the rank and order of common and inferiour comforts.
Children and all other Relations are but common blessings, which God indifferently bestows upon his friends and enemies, and by the having or losing of them, no man knows either love or hatred. It is said of the wicked, Psal. 77. 14. That they are full of children; yea, and of children that do survive them too; for, They leave their substance to their babes. Full of sin, yet full of children, and these children live to inherit their parents sins and estates together.