A39690:448
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.
Admit that which the Objection supposes, that God hath afflicted you for your sin, and removed that comfort from you which you Idolized and too much ⟨p. 142⟩doted on; yet there is no reason you should be so cast down under your affliction; for all this may be, and probably is the fruit of his love to, and care over your soul. Rev. 3. 19. He tells the afflicted for their comfort, Whom I love, I rebuke and chasten. How much better is it to have an Idolized enjoyment taken from you in mercy, than if God should say concerning you as he did of Ephraim, Hos. 4. 17. He is joined to Idols, let him alone.
Admit that which the Objection supposes, that God hath afflicted you for your sin, and removed that comfort from you which you Idolized and too much ⟨p. 142⟩doted on; yet there is no reason you should be so cast down under your affliction; for all this may be, and probably is the fruit of his love to, and care over your soul. Rev. 3. 19. He tells the afflicted for their comfort, Whom I love, I rebuke and chasten. How much better is it to have an Idolized enjoyment taken from you in mercy, than if God should say concerning you as he did of Ephraim, Hos. 4. 17. He is joyn'd to Idols, let him alone.