A39690:237
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.
And as it comforted him, although his house did not increase, and those that were left were not such as he desired: So it may abundantly comfort you also, whatever troubles or deaths be upon your families, who have an interest in the Covenant. For,
First, If you be Gods Covenant people, though he may afflict, yet he will never forget you, Psal. 3. 5. He is ever mindful of his Covenant. You are as much upon his heart in your deepest afflictions, as in the greatest flourish of your prosperity.
You find it hard to forget your child, though it be now turned to an heap of corruption and loathsome rottenness; O how doth your mind run upon it night and day! your thoughts tire not upon that object: Why, surely its much more easy for you to forget your dear child whilst living and most endearing, much more when dead and undesirable; ⟨p. 77⟩than it is for your God to forget you. Isa. 49. 15. Can a woman forget her sucking child, that she should not have compassion upon the son of her womb? Yea, they may forget, yet will not I forget thee.
You find it hard to forget your child, though it be now turned to an heap of corruption and loathsome rottenness; O how doth your mind run upon it night and day! your thoughts tire not upon that object: Why, surely its much more easie for you to forget your dear child whilst living and most endearing, much more when dead and undesireable; ⟨p. 77⟩than it is for your God to forget you.