A token for mourners, or, The advice of Christ to a distressed mother bewailing…

Though it be an evil to neglect and slight the means ordained by God for recovery of health, yet it's no less evil to ascribe too much to them, or rely too much on them. The best means in the world are weak and ineffectual without Gods assistance and concurrence, and they never have that his assistance or concurrence, when his time is come; and that it was fully come in your friends case, is manifested now by the event. So that if your friend had had the most excellent helps the world affords, they would have availed nothing. This consideration takes place only in your case, who see what the will of God is by the issue, and may not be pleaded by any whilst it remains dubious and uncertain, as it generally doth in time of sickness.

Though it be an evil to neglect and slight the means ordained by God for recovery of health, yet it's no less evil to ascribe too much to them, or rely too much on them. The best means in the world are weak and ineffectual without Gods assistance and concurrence, and they never have that his assistance or concurrence, when his time is come; and that it was fully come in your friends case, is manifested now by the event. So that if your friend had had the most excellent helps the world affords, they would have avail'd nothing. This consideration takes place only in your case, who see what the will of God is by the issue, and may not be pleaded by any whilst it remains dubious and uncertain, as it generally doth in time of sickness.