A39690:172
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.
3. Consid. Always remember that how soon and unexpected soever your parting with your Relations was, yet your Lease was expired before you lost them, and you enjoyed them every moment of the time that God intended them for you.
3. Consid. Alwaies remember that how soon and unexpected soever your parting with your Relations was, yet your Lease was expired before you lost them, and you enjoyed them every moment of the time that God intended them for you.
Before this Relation whose loss you lament, was born, the time of your enjoyment and separation was unalterably fixed and limited in heaven, by the God of the spirits of all flesh; and although it was a secret to you, whilst your friend ⟨p. 56⟩was with you: yet now it is a plain and evident thing, that this was the time of separation before appointed; and that the life of your friend could by no means be protracted or abbreviated, but must keep you company just so far, and then part with you.
Before this Relation whose loss you lament, was born, the time of your enjoyment and separation was unalterably fixed and limited in heaven, by the God of the spirits of all flesh; and although it was a secret to you, whilst your friend ⟨p. 56⟩was with you: yet now it is a plain and evident thing, that this was the time of separation before appointed; and that the life of your friend could by no means be protracted or abreviated, but must keep you company just so far, and then part with you.
This position wants not full and clear Scripture authority for its foundation, how pregnant and full is that Text,