A39690:284
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.
O say not what shall I do for friends and Relations? Death hath robbed me of all comfort in them. Why, the Lord is able to give you much more. But then, as ever you expect to see your future blessings multiplied, look to it, and be careful that you neither dishonour God, or grieve him, by your unsubmissive and impatient carriage under the present Rod.
O say not what shall I do for friends and Relations? Death hath rob'd me of all comfort in them. Why, the Lord is able to give you much more. But then, as ever you expect to see your future blessings multiplyed, look to it, and be careful that you neither dishonour God, or grieve him, by your unsubmissive and impatient carriage under the present Rod.
God took away all Jobs children, and that at one stroke, and the stroke immediate and extraordinary: and that when they were grown up, and planted ⟨p. 94⟩(at least some of them) in distinct families: Yea, whilst they were endearing each other by the mutual expressions of affection. This must be yielded to be an extraordinary trial; yet he meekly receives, and patiently bears it from the hand of the Lord.
God took away all Jobs children, and that at one stroke, and the stroke immediate and extraordinary: and that when they were grown up, and planted ⟨p. 94⟩(at least some of them) in distinct families: Yea, whilst they were endearing each other by the mutual expressions of affection. This must be yeilded to be an extraordinary tryal; yet he meekly receives, and patiently bears it from the hand of the Lord.