A39690:214
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.
Its well for us and ours, that our times are in Gods hand, not in our own. And how immature soever it seemed to be when it was cut down; yet it came to the grave in a full age, as a shock of corn in its season, Job 5. 26. They that are in ⟨p. 69⟩Christ, and in the Covenant, never dye unseasonably whensoever they dye. (Saith one upon the Text) They dye in a good old age; yea, 1though they dye in the spring and flower of youth, they dye in a good old age. (i. e.) They are ripe for death when ever they dye. When ever the godly dye, its harvest time with him: though in a natural capacity he be cut down while he is green, and cropped, in the bud or blossom; yet in his spiritual capacity he never dyes before he is ripe; God can ripen his speedily, he can let out such warm rays and beams of his spirit upon them, as shall soon maturate the seeds of grace into a preparedness for glory.
Its well for us and ours, that our times are in Gods hand, not in our own. And how immature soever it seemed to be when it was cut down; yet it came to the grave in a full age, as a shock of corn in its season, Job 5. 26. They that are in ⟨p. 69⟩Christ, and in the Covenant, never dye unseasonably whensoever they dye. (Saith one upon the Text) They dye in a good old age; yea, 1though they dye in the spring and flower of youth, they dye in a good old age. (i. e.) They are ripe for death when ever they dye. When ever the godly dye, its harvest time with him: though in a natural capacity he be cut down while he is green, and cropt, in the bud or blossom; yet in his spiritual capacity he never dyes before he is ripe; God can ripen his speedily, he can let out such warm rayes and beams of his spirit upon them, as shall soon maturate the seeds of grace into a preparedness for glory.
- 1Car. in Loc.