A39690:371
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.
2. Answer.
Your prayers may be answered, though the thing prayed for be withheld, yea, or though it should be given for a little while and snatched away from you again. There are four ways of Gods answering prayers: by giving the thing prayed for presently, Dan. 9. 23. or by suspending the answer for a time, and giving it afterwards, Luk. 18. 7. or by withholding that mercy which you ask, from you, and giving you a much better mercy in the room of it, Deut. 3. 24. compared with Deut. 34. 4, 5. or lastly, by giving you patience to bear the loss or want of it, 2 Cor. 12. 9.
Your prayers may be answered, though the thing prayed for be withheld, yea, or though it should be given for a little while and snatcht away from you again. There are four ways of Gods answering prayers: by giving the thing prayed for presently, Dan. 9. 23. or by suspending the answer for a time, and giving it afterwards, Luk. 18. 7. or by withholding that mercy which you ask, from you, and giving you a much better mercy in the room of it, Deut. 3. 24. compared with Deut. 34. 4, 5. or lastly, by giving you patience to bear the loss or want of it, 2 Cor. 12. 9.