A39690:297
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.
This some have found when their children have been cut off from them, and that in so eminent a degree, that they have little valued their comfort in children in comparison with this comfort.
I will here set down a pregnant instance of the point in hand, as I find it ⟨p. 98⟩recorded by the grave and worthy Author of that excellent book entitled, The fulfilling of 1the Scripture.
- 1Fulfilling of the Scripture, p. 491.
Another notable instance of grace, with a very remarkable passage in his condition, I shall here mention. One Patrick Mackewrath who lived in the West parts of Scotland, whose heart, in a remarkable way, the Lord touched, and after his conversion (as he showed to many Christian friends) was in such a frame so affected with a new world, wherein he was entered, the discoveries of God, and of a life to come; that for some months together he did seldom sleep, but was still taken up in wondering. His life was very remarkable for tenderness, and near converse with God in his walk; and which was worthy to be noticed, one day after a sharp trial, having his only Son suddenly taken away by death, he retired alone for several hours, and when he came forth did look so cheerfully, that to those who asked him the reason thereof, and wondered at the same in such a time; he told them, He had got that in his retirement with the Lord, that to have it afterwards renewed, he would ⟨p. 99⟩be content to lose a Son every day.