A39690:175
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.
The time of our life as well as the place of our habitation was prefixed before we were born.
It will greatly conduce to your settlement and peace to be well established in this truth: That the appointed time was fully come, when you and your dear Relation parted; for it will prevent and save a great deal of trouble which comes from our after Reflections.
O if this had been done, or that omitted; had it not been for such miscarriages and over-sights; my dear husband, wife, or child, had been alive at this day? No, no, the Lords time was fully come, and all things concurred and fell in together to ⟨p. 57⟩bring about the pleasure of his will; let that satisfy you; had the ablest physicians in the world been there, or had they that were there, prescribed another course, as it is now, so it would have been, when they had done all. Only it must be precautioned, that the decree of God no way excuses any voluntary sinful neglects or miscarriages. God over-rules these things to serve his own ends, but no way approves them: but it greatly relieves against all our involuntary and unavoidable oversights and mistakes about the use of means, or the timing of them; for it could not be otherwise than now it is.
O if this had been done, or that omitted; had it not been for such miscarriages and over-sights; my dear husband, wife, or child, had been alive at this day? No, no, the Lords time was fully come, and all things concurred and fell in together to ⟨p. 57⟩bring about the pleasure of his will; let that satisfie you; had the ablest physitians in the world been there, or had they that were there, prescribed another course, as it is now, so it would have been, when they had done all. Only it must be precaution'd, that the decree of God no way excuses any voluntary sinful neglects or miscarriages. God over-rules these things to serve his own ends, but no way approves them: but it greatly relieves against all our involuntary and unavoydable oversights and mistakes about the use of means, or the timing of them; for it could not be otherwise than now it is.