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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.
But admit, they should prove civil and hopeful children, yet mightest thou not live to see more misery come upon them, than thou couldst endure to see? O think what a sad and doleful sight was ⟨p. 65⟩that to Zedekiah, Jer. 50. 10. The King of Babylon brought his children and slew them before his eyes. Horrid spectacle! and that leads to the
But admit, they should prove civil and hopeful children, yet mightest thou not live to see more misery come upon them, than thou couldst endure to see? O think what a sad and doleful sight was ⟨p. 65⟩that to Zedekiah, Jer. 50. 10. The King of Babilon brought his children and slew them before his eyes. Horrid spectacle! and that leads to the
5. Consid. How know you but by this stroke which you so lament, God hath taken them away from the evil to come?
It is Gods usual way when some extraordinary calamities are coming upon the world, to hide some of his weak and tender ones out of the way by death, Isa. 57. 1, 2. He leaves some, and removes others, but taketh care for the security of all. He provided a grave for Methuselah before the flood. The grave is an hiding place to some, and God sees it better for them to be under ground, than above ground in such evil days.