A39690:274
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.
Cares may break our sleep, yea, break our hearts; but they cannot add to our stature either in a natural, or in a civil notion: So your sorrowing may sooner break your hearts, than the yoke God hath laid on you.
Cares may break our sleep, yea, break our hearts; but they cannot add to our stature either in a natural, or in a civil notion: So your sorrowing may sooner break your hearts, than the yoak God hath laid on you.
Alas what is all this, but as the fluttering of a bird in the net, which instead of freeing, doth but the more entangle it self? It was therefore a wise resolve of David in this very case, when the will of God was signified in the death of his child, 2 Sam. 12. 23. But now he is dead, wherefore should I fast? Can I bring him back again? I shall go to him, but he shall not return to me.
Can I bring him back again? No, I can no more alter the purpose and work of God, than I can change the seasons of of the year, or alter the course of Sun, Moon, and Stars, or disturb the order of day and night; which are all unalterably established by a firm constitution and ordinance of heaven.