A39690:463
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.
These are but small circumstances and trivial things in themselves; but by these little things, Satan manages a great design against your souls, to deject or exasperate it: And surely this is not your business at this time; you have greater things than the words and actions of children to mind: To search out Gods end in your affliction: To mortify the corruption it's sent to rebuke, to quiet your heart in the will of God: This is your work.
These are but small circumstances and trivial things in themselves; but by these little things, Satan manages a great design against your souls, to deject or exasperate it: And surely this is not your business at this time; you have greater things than the words and actions of children to mind: To search out Gods end in your affliction: To mortifie the corruption it's sent to rebuke, to quiet your heart in the will of God: This is your work.
12. Plea.
Lastly, It's Objected, O but God hides his face from me in my affliction, it's dark within as well as without, and this makes my case most deplorable, greatly afflicted, and sadly deserted.