A39690:464
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.
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.
1. Answer.
Though you want at present sensible comfort, yet you have reason to be thankful for gracious supports. Though the light of Gods countenance shine not upon you; yet you find the everlasting arms are underneath you; the care of God worketh for you, when the consolations of God are withdrawn from you.
2. Answer.
To have God hide his face in time of trouble is no new, or unusual thing. God's dearest Saints, yea his own Son hath experienced it; who in the deeps of inward and outward trouble, when wave called unto wave, felt not those sweet sensible influences of comfort from God which had always filled his soul formerly.