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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.
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.
Possibly you can't see how the present affliction should be for your good, you ⟨p. 78⟩are ready to say with Jacob, Gen. 42. 36. Joseph is not, and Simeon is not; and ye will take Benjamin away; all these things are against me. But could you once see how sweetly and orderly all these afflictions work under the blessing and influence of the Covenant to your eternal good; you would not only be quiet, but thankful for that which now so much afflicts and troubles you now.