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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.
And how know you, but God hath bid these earthly comforts stand aside this day, to make way for heavenly ones? It may be God is coming to communicate himself more sweetly, more sensibly than ever to your souls; and these are the providences which must cast up and prepare ⟨p. 101⟩the way of the Lord. Possibly Gods meaning in their death is but this, Child stand aside thou art in my way, and fillest my place in thy parents heart.
And how know you, but God hath bid these earthly comforts stand aside this day, to make way for heavenly ones? It may be God is coming to communicate himself more sweetly, more sensibly than ev•r to your souls; and these are the providences which must cast up and prepare ⟨p. 101⟩the way of the Lord. Possibly Gods meaning in their death is but this, Child stand aside thou art in my way, and fillest my place in thy parents heart.
14. Consid. Be careful you exceed not in your grief for the loss of earthly things, considering that Satan takes the advantage of all extremes.
14. Consid. Be careful you exceed not in your grief for the loss of earthly things, considering that Satan takes the advantage of all extreams.
You cannot touch any extreme, but you will be touched by that enemy; whose greatest advantages lye in assaulting you there.
You cannot touch any extream, but you will be touched by that enemy; whose greatest advantages lye in assaulting you there.