A39690:307
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.
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.
That cowardly spirit falls upon the people of God when they are down and low in spirit, as well as state. Satan would never have desired that the hand of God should have been stretched out ⟨p. 102⟩upon Jobs Person, Estate, and children; but that he promised himself a notable advantage therein to poison his spirit with vile thoughts of God: Do this (saith he) and he will curse thee to thy face.
That cowardly spirit falls upon the people of God when they are down and low in spirit, as well as state. Satan would never have desired that the hand of God should have been stretched out ⟨p. 102⟩upon Jobs Person, Estate, and children; but that he promised himself a notable advantage therein to poyson his spirit with vile thoughts of God: Do this (saith he) and he will curse thee to thy face.