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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.
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.
Satan is called the Ruler of the darkness of this world, Eph. 6. 12. (i. e.) his Kingdom is supported by darkness. Now there is a twofold darkness, which gives Satan great advantage: the darkness of the mind, viz. ignorance, and the darkness of the condition, viz. trouble and affliction. Of the former the Apostle speaks chiefly in that Text: but the latter also is by him often improved, to carry on his designs upon us: When it's a dark hour of trouble with us, then is his fittest season to tempt.