A39690:167
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 is the mistaking of the quality and nature of our enjoyments, that so plunges us into trouble when we lose them. We think there is so necessary a connection betwixt these creatures and our happiness, that we are utterly undone when they fail us.
It is the mistaking of the quality and nature of our enjoyments, that so plunges us into trouble when we lose them. We think there is so necessary a connexion betwixt these creatures and our happiness, that we are utterly undone when they fail us.
But this is our mistake, there is no such necessary connection or dependence, we may be happy without these things. It is not father, mother, wife, or child, in which our chief good and felicity lies, we have higher, better, and more enduring things than these, all these may perish, and yet our soul secure and safe, yea and our comfort in the way, as well ⟨p. 54⟩as end; may be safe enough though these be gone. God hath better things to comfort his people with than these, and worse rods to afflict you with than the removal of these: had God let your children live and flourish, and given you ease and rest in your Tabernacle; but in the mean time inflicted spiritual Judgements upon your souls, How much more sad had your case been?
But this is our mistake, there is no such necessary connection or dependance, we may be happy without these things. It is not father, mother, wife, or child, in which our chief good and felicity lyes, we have higher, better, and more enduring things than these, all these may perish, and yet our soul secure and safe, yea and our comfort in the way, as well ⟨p. 54⟩as end; may be safe enough though these be gone. God hath better things to comfort his people with than these, and worse rods to afflict you with than the removal of these: had God let your children live and flourish, and given you ease and rest in your Tabernacle; but in the mean time inflicted spiritual Judgements upon your souls, How much more sad had your case been?