A39690:17
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.
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⟩with praise. How sweet is it to hear the afflicted soul say when God is loosing his bands, It's good for me that I have been afflicted!
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⟩with praise. How sweet is it to hear the afflicted soul say when God is looseing his bands, It's good for me that I have been afflicted!
Thirdly, I heartily wish, that these searching afflictions may make the most satisfying discoveries, that you may now see more of the evil of sin, the vanity of the Creature, and the fullness of Christ, than ever you yet saw. Afflictions are searchers, and put the soul upon searching and trying its ways, Lam. 3. 40. When our sin finds us out by affliction, happy are we, if by the light of affliction we find out sin. Blessed is the man whom God chasteneth, and teacheth out of his Law, Psal. 94. 12. There are unseen causes many times of our troubles; you have an advantage now to sift out the seeds and principles from which they spring.