A token for mourners, or, The advice of Christ to a distressed mother bewailing…

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?

Didst tell him, Lord I will be content thou shalt when thou pleasest take any thing I have, save only this Husband, this Wife, or this dear child; I reserve this out of the bargain: I shall never endure that thou shouldst kill this comfort. If so, thou didst in all this but prove thy self an hypocrite: If thou wast sincere in thy Covenant, as Christ had no reserves on his part, so thou hadst none on thine.

It was all without any exception thou then resignedst to him, and now wilt thou go back from thy word, as one that had out promised himself, and repents the bargain? Or at least as one that hath forgotten these solemn transactions in the days of thy distress. Wherein hath Christ failed in one tittle that he promised thee? Charge him if thou canst with the least unfaithfulness: He hath been faithful to a tittle on his part, O be thou so upon thine; this day its put to the proof, remember what thou hast promised him.

It was all without any exception thou then resignedst to him, and now wilt thou go back from thy word, as one that had out promised himself, and repents the bargain? Or at least as one that hath forgotten these solemn transactions in the dayes of thy distress. Wherein hath Christ failed in one tittle that he promised thee? Charge him if thou canst with the least unfaithfulness: He hath been faithful to a tittle on his part, O be thou so upon thine; this day its put to the proof, remember what thou hast promised him.