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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.
Surely you will bless that merciful hand which removed the obstructions, and adore the divine wisdom and goodness, that by such a device as this recovered you to himself. Now you can pray more constantly, more spiritually, more affectionately than before. Oh blessed rod which buds and blossoms with such fruits as these! Let this be written among your best mercies; for you shall have cause to adore and bless God eternally for this beneficial affliction.
Surely you will bless that merciful hand which removed the obstructions, and adore the divine wisdom and goodness, that by such a device as this recover'd you to himself. Now you can pray more constantly, more spiritually, more affectionately than before. Oh blessed rod which buds and blossoms with such fruits as these! Let this be written among your best mercies; for you shall have cause to adore and bless God eternally for this beneficial affliction.
17. Consid. Suffer not your selves to be transported by impatience, and swallowed up of grief; because God hath exercised you under a smart rod; for as smarting as it is, it's comparatively a gentle stroke to what others as good as your selves have felt.
17. Consid. Suffer not your selves to be transported by impatience, and swallowed up of grief; because God hath excercised you under a smart rod; for as smarting as it is, it's comparatively a gentle stroke to what others as good as your selves have felt.
Your dear Relation is dead; be it so; here is but a single death, before you, but others have seen many deaths contrived into one upon their Relations, to which yours is nothing.