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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.
2. Answer.
It's no fit expression to say you have lost all in one, except that one be Christ, and he being once yours, can never be lost. Doubtless your meaning is, you have lost all your comfort of that kind; And ⟨p. 128⟩what though you have? are there not multitudes of comforts yet remaining of a higher kind, and more precious and durable nature? If you have no more of that sort, yet so long as you have better, what cause have you to rejoice?
It's no fit expression to say you have lost all in one, except that one be Christ, and he being once yours, can never be lost. Doubtless your meaning is, you have lost all your comfort of that kind; And ⟨p. 128⟩what though you have? are there not multitudes of comforts yet remaining of a higher kind, and more precious and durable nature? If you have no more of that sort, yet so long as you have better, what cause have you to rejoyce?
3. Answer.
You too much imitate the way of the world in this complaint; they know not how to repair the loss of one comfort, but by another of the same nature, which must be put in its room, to fill up the vacancy: But have you no other way to supply your loss? Have you not a God to fill the place of any creature that leaves you? Surely this would better become a man whose portion is in this life, than one that professes God is his all in all.