A39690:225
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.
Blessed Jesus, thy poor creature cometh to thee upon these encouragements: I come, O but it is with many staggerings, with many doubts and fears of the Issue, yet I am willing to come, and make a Covenant with thee this day.
I take thee this day to be my Lord, and submit heartily to all thy disposals: Do what thou wilt with me or with mine: let me be rich or poor, any ⟨p. 73⟩thing or nothing in this world, I am willing to be as thou wouldst have me. And I do likewise give my self to thee this day to be thine, all I am, all I have shall be thine; thine to serve thee, and thine to be disposed at thy pleasure. Thou shalt henceforth be my highest Lord, my chiefest good, my last end.
Now Christian, make good to Christ what thou so solemnly promisedst him. He, I say, He hath disposed of this thy dear Relation as pleased him; and is thereby trying thy uprightness in the Covenant which thou madest with him: Now where is the satisfaction and content thou promisedst to take in all his disposals? Where is that Covenanted submission to his Will? Didst thou except this affliction that is come upon thee?