A39690:469
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.
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. ⟨p. 149⟩If Christ cry in extremity, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? Then sure we need not wonder, as if some strange thing had happened to us.
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 alwaies fill'd his soul formerly. ⟨p. 149⟩If Christ cry in extremity, My God, my God, why hast thou for saken me? Then sure we need not wonder, as if some strange thing had happened to us.