A39690:302
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.
The gracious and tender Lord hath his divine Cordials reserved on purpose for such sad hours: these are sometimes given before some sharp trial to prepare for it, and sometimes after to support under it.
The gracious and tender Lord hath his divine Cordials reserved on purpose for such sad hours: these are sometimes given before some sharp tryal to prepare for it, and sometimes after to support under it.
I have often heard it from the mouth, and found it in the Diary of a sweet Christian now with God, That a little ⟨p. 100⟩before the Lord removed her dear husband by death, there was such an abundant out-let of the love of God into her soul, for several days and nights following; that when the Lord took away her husband by death, though he were a gracious, sweet tempered, and by her most tenderly beloved husband; she was scarce sensible of the stroke, but carried quite above all earthly things, their comforts, and their troubles; so that she had almost lost the thoughts of her husband in God. And had not the Lord taken this course with her, she concluded that blow had not been possible to be born by her, she must have sunk without such a preparative.
I have often heard it from the mouth, and found it in the Diary of a sweet Christian now with God, That a little ⟨p. 100⟩before the Lord removed her dear husband by death, there was such an abundant out-let of the love of God into her soul, for several days and nights following; that when the Lord took away her husband by death, though he were a gracious, sweet temper'd, and by her most tenderly beloved husband; she was scarce sensible of the stroke, but carried quite above all earthly things, their comforts, and their troubles; so that she had almost lost the thoughts of her husband in God. And had not the Lord taken this course with her, she concluded that blow had not been possible to be born by her, she must have sunck without such a preparative.