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

Probably such thoughts you have had, and raised up to your selves great expectations of comfort in your old age ⟨p. 79⟩from it; but now you see you built upon the sand; And where were you now, if you had not a firmer bottom to build upon? But blessed be God, the Covenant mercies are more sure and solid: God, Christ, and heaven, never start or fade as these things do.

Probably such thoughts you have had, and raised up to your selves great expectations of comfort in your old age ⟨p. 79⟩from it; but now you see you built upon the sand; And where were you now, if you had not a firmer bottom to build upon? But blessed be God, the Covenantmercies are more sure and solid: God, Christ, and heaven, never start or fade as these things do.

The sweetest creature enjoyments you ever had or have in this world, cannot say to you as your God doth, I will never leave thee nor forsake thee. You must part with your dear Husbands, how well soever you love them; you must bid adieu to the wife of your bosom, how nearly soever your affections be linked, and heart delighted in her. Your children and you must be separated, though they be to you as your own soul.

But though these vanish away, blessed be God there is something that abides. Though all flesh be as grass, and the goodliness of it as the flower of the grass; though the grass withereth, and the flower thereof fadeth because the spirit of the Lord bloweth upon it; yet the word of our God shall stand for ever, Isa. 40. 6, 7, 8. There is so much of supported contain in this one consideration, that could but your faith fix here, to realize, and apply it, I might lay down my pen at this period,