A39690:290
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.
Hannah waited humbly upon the Lord for the blessing of children, and the Lord remembered her, he enlightened her condition ⟨p. 96⟩with that comfort, when she was as a Lamp despised. There's no comfort you have lost, but God can restore it, yea, double it in kind, if he see it convenient for you. And if not then
Hanah waited humbly upon the Lord for the blessing of children, and the Lord remembred her, he enlightened her condition ⟨p. 96⟩with that comfort, when she was as a Lamp despised. There's no comfort you have lost, but God can restore it, yea, double it in kind, if he see it convenient for you. And if not then
13. Consid. Consider, though he should deny you any more comforts of that kind, yet he hath far better to bestow upon you: such as these deserve not to be named with.
You have an excellent Scripture to this purpose in Isa. 56. 4, 5. For thus saith the Lord unto the Eunuchs that keep my Sabbaths, and choose the things that please me, and take hold of my Covenant; even to them will I give in my house, and within my walls a place and a name better than of sons and of daughters: I will give them an everlasting name that shall not be cut off.