A39690:470
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.
3. Answer.
May not your unsubmissive carriage under the rod provoke God to hide his face from you? Pray consider it well, nothing is more probable than this, to be the cause of Gods with-drawment from you. Could you in meekness and quietness receive that cup your Father hath given you to drink; accept the punishment of your iniquities: say good is the word of the Lord, it is the Lord let him do what he will. You would soon find the case altered with you: but the comforting spirit finds no delight nor rest in a turbulent and tumultuous breast.
May not your unsubmissive carirage under the rod provoke God to hide his face from you? Pray consider it well, nothing is more probable than this, to be the cause of Gods with-drawment from you. Could you in meekness and quietness receive that cup your Father hath given you to drink; accept the punishment of your iniquities: say good is the word of the Lord, it is the Lord let him do what he will. You would soon find the case altered with you: but the comforting spirit finds no delight nor rest in a turbulent and tumultuous breast.
And thus I have satisfied the most considerable Pleas urged in justification of our Excesses.