A39690:232
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.
Dost thou sit alone and mourn to think whitherto thy hopes and comforts are now come?
Dost read over these words of Job, ⟨p. 75⟩Chap. 29. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. and comment upon them with many tears, O that I were as in months past, as in the day when God preserved me! when his candle shined upon my head, and when by his light I walked through darkness! As I was in the days of my youth, when the secret of God was upon my Tabernacle, when the Almighty was yet with me, when my children were about me.
Dost read over these words of Job, ⟨p. 75⟩Chap. 29. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. and comment upon them with many tears, O that I were as in months past, as in the day when God preserved me! when his candle shined upon my head, and when by his light I walked through darkness! As I was in the dayes of my youth, when the secret of God was upon my Tabernacle, when the Almighty was yet with me, when my children were about me.
Yet let the Covenant God hath made with thee comfort thee in this thy desolate condition.