A39690:201
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.
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.
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 dayes.
Just as a careful and tender Father, who hath a Son abroad at school, hearing the Plague is broken out in, or near the place, sends his Horse presently to fetch home his Son before the danger and difficulty be greater. Death is our Fathers pale Horse, which he fends to fetch home his tender children, and carry them out of harms way.
Surely, when National calamities are drawing on, its far better for our friends to be in the grave in peace, than exposed ⟨p. 66⟩to the miseries and distress that are here, which is the meaning of Jer. 22. 10. Weep not for the dead, neither bemoan him; but weep for him that goeth away, for he shall return no more, nor see his native Country.