A39690:310
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.
What the Psalmist observes of natural, is as true of metaphorical darkness, Psal. 104. 20. Thou makest darkness and it is night, wherein all the beasts of the forest do creep forth, the young Lions roar after their prey.
When its dark night with men, its noonday with Satan (i. e.) our suffering time, is his busiest working time, many a dismal suggestion he then plants and grafts upon our affliction, which are much more dangerous to us than the affliction it self.
Sometimes he injects desponding thoughts into the afflicted soul. Then said I, I am cut off from before thine eyes, Psal. 31. 22. & Lam. 3. 18, 19. My hope is perished from the Lord, remembering my affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall.
Sometimes he injects desponding thoughts into the afflicted soul. Then said I, I am cut off from before thine eyes, Psal. 31. 22. & Lam. 3. 18, 19. My hope is perished from the Lord, remembring my affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall.