A39690:185
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.
Thus he that is wicked dies before his time; (i. e.) the time he might attain to in an ordinary way: but not before the time God had appointed. And so in all the other objected Scripture.
It is not proper at all in a Subject of this nature to digress into a controversy. Alas, the poor Mourner, overwhelmed with grief hath no pleasure in that; it is ⟨p. 60⟩not proper for him at this time; and therefore I shall for present wave the controversy, and wind up this consideration with an humble and serious motion to the afflicted; that they will wisely consider the matter, the Lords time was come. Your Relations lived with you every moment that God intended them for you, before you had them.
It is not proper at all in a Subject of this nature to digress into a controversie. Alas, the poor Mourner, overwhelmed with grief hath no pleasure in that; it is ⟨p. 60⟩not proper for him at this time; and therefore I shall for present wave the controversie, and wind up this consideration with an humble and serious motion to the afflicted; that they will wisely consider the matter, the Lords time was come. Your Relations lived with you every moment that God intended them for you, before you had them.
O Parents! mind this I beseech you; the time of your child's continuance in the womb, was fixed to a minute by the Lord; and when the parturient fullness of that time was come, Were you not willing it should be delivered thence into the world? The tender Mother would not have it abide one minute longer in the womb how well soever she loved it: And is there not the same reason we should be willing when Gods appointed time is come, to have it delivered by death out of this state, which in respect of the life of Heaven is but as the life of a child in the womb, to its life in the open world.