A39690:364
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.
1. Plea.
You press me by many great considerations to meekness and quiet submission under this heavy stroke of God: but you little know what stings my soul feels now in it.
This child was a child of many prayers, it was a Samuel begged of the Lord, and I concluded when I had it, that it brought with it the returns and answers of many prayers. But now I see it was nothing less: God had no regard to my prayers about it; nor was it given me in that special way of mercy as I imagined it to be. My child is not only dead, but my prayers in the same day shut out and denied.
This child was a child of many prayers, it was a Samuel beg'd of the Lord, and I concluded when I had it, that it brought with it the returns and answers of many prayers. But now I see it was nothing less: God had no regard to my prayers about it; nor was it given me in that special way of mercy as I imagined it to be. My child is not only dead, but my prayers in the same day shut out and denyed.