A39690:281
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.
It is but a few months or years past, and these comforts whose loss you now lament were not in being; nor did you know whence they should arise to you, yet the Lord gave the word, and commanded them for you: and if he please he can make the death of these but like a sith to the Meadow that is mown down, or a razor to the head that is shaved bare; which though it lay you under the present trouble and reproach of barrenness, yet doth but make way for a double increase, a second spring with advantage.
It is but a few months or years past, and these comforts whose loss you now lament were not in being; nor did you know whence they should arise to you, yet the Lord gave the word, and commandèd them for you: and if he please he can make the death of these but like a sythe to the Meadow that is mown down, or a razor to the head that is shaved bare; which though it lay you under the present trouble and reproach of barrenness, yet doth but make way for a double increase, a second spring with advantage.
So that as it was with the Captive Church in respect of her spiritual Children, in the day of her Captivity and reproach, ⟨p. 93⟩the Lord made up all with advantage to her, even to her own astonishment, Isa. 49. 20. The children which thou shalt have after thou hast lost the other, shall say again in thine ears, the place is too straight for me, give place to me that I may dwell.
Thus may he deal with you as to your natural children and Relations: So that what the man of God said to Amaziah, 2 Chron. 25. 9. may be applied to the case in hand, Amaziah said to the man of God, but what shall we do for the hundred Talents? And the man of God answered, the Lord is able to give thee much more than this.