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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.
Can a woman, the more affectionate sex, forget her sucking child; her own child, and not a nursing child: her own child whilst it hangs on the breast, and together with the milk from the breast, draws love from its mothers heart: Can such a thing as this be in nature? Possibly it may; for creature love is fickle and variable: But I will not forget thee, its an everlasting Covenant.
Can a woman, the more affectionate sex, forget her sucking child; her own child, and not a nursing child: her own child whilst it hangs on the brest, and together with the milk from the breast, draws love from its mothers heart: Can such a thing as this be in nature? Possibly it may; for creature love is fickle and variable: But I will not forget thee, its an everlasting Covenant.
Secondly, As he will never forget you in your troubles; so he will order all your troubles for your good; Its a well ordered Covenant, or a Covenant orderly disposed: So that every thing shall work together for your good.
The Covenant so orders all your trials, ranks, and disposes your various troubles so, as that they shall in their orders and places sweetly co-operate and join their united influences to make you happy.
The Covenant so orders all your tryals, ranks, and disposes your various troubles so, as that they shall in their orders and places sweetly co-operate and joyn their united influences to make you happy.