A39690:21
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.
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⟩submission to the rod of your Father. We had Fathers of our flesh who corrected us, and we gave them reverence, shall we not much more be in subjection to the Father of spirits and live? Is it comely for children to contest and strive with their Father? Or is it the way to be freed from the yoke by struggling under it? Oh that your hearts might be in a like frame with his, that said, Lord, thou shalt beat, and I will bear. It was a good observation that one made, Anima sedendo, & quiescendo fit sapiens. The Soul grows wise by sitting still and quiet under the rod. And the Apostle calls those excellent fruits which the Saints gather from their sanctified afflictions, The peaceable fruits of Righteousness, Heb. 12. 11,
Fifthly, That you may be strengthned 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⟩submission to the rod of your Father. We had Fathers of our flesh who corrected us, and we gave them reverence, shall we not much more be in subjection to the Father of spirits and live? Is it comely for children to contest and strive with their Father? Or is it the way to be freed from the yoak by struggling under it? Oh that your hearts might be in a like frame with his, that said, Lord, thou shalt beat, and I will bear. It was a good observation that one made, Anima sedendo, & quiescendo fit sapiens. The Soul grows wise by sitting still and quiet under the rod. And the Apostle calls those excellent fruits which the Saints gather from their sanctified afflictions, The peaceable fruits of Righteousness, Heb. 12. 11,