A39690:20
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.
Fourthly, I wish that all the love and delight you bestowed upon your little one, may now be placed to your greater advantage upon Jesus ⟨image 5⟩Christ: and that the stream of your affection to him, may be so much the stronger, as there are now fewer channels for it to be divided into. If God will not have any part of your happiness to lye in children; then let it wholly lye in himself. If the Jealousy of the Lord hath removed that which drew away too much of your heart from him, and hath spoken by this rod, saying, Stand aside child, thou art in my way, and fillest more room in thy Parents hearts than belongs to thee. O then deliver up all to him, and say, Lord, take the whole heart entirely and undividedly to thy self. Henceforth let there be no parting, sharing or dividing of the affections betwixt God and the Creature, let all the streams meet and centre in thee only.
Fourthly, I wish that all the love and delight you bestowed upon your little one, may now be placed to your greater advantage upon Jesus ⟨image 5⟩Christ: and that the stream of your affection to him, may be so much the stronger, as there are now fewer chanels for it to be devided into. If God will not have any part of your happiness to lye in children; then let it wholly lye in himself. If the Jealousie of the Lord hath removed that which drew away too much of your heart from him, and hath spoken by this rod, saying, Stand aside child, thou art in my way, and fillest more room in thy Parents hearts than belongs to thee. O then deliver up all to him, and say, Lord, take the whole heart intirely and undividedly to thy self. Henceforth let there be no parting, sharing or deviding of the affections betwixt God and the Creature, let all the streams meet and center in thee only.
Fifthly, That you may be strengthened with all might in the inner man to all patience, that the peace of God may keep your heart and mind. Labour to bring your hearts to a meek ⟨image 6⟩