A39690:488
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. Rule.
If you would not be overwhelmed by trouble for the loss of your Relations, then turn to God under your trouble, and pour out your sorrows by prayer into his bosom.
This will ease and allay your troubles: Blessed be God for the ordinance of prayer; How much are all the Saints beholding ⟨p. 153⟩to it at all times, but especially in heart sinking and distressful times! It's some relief, when in distress we can pour out our trouble into the bosom of a Wife, or faithful Friend; How much more when we leave our complaint before the gracious, wise and faithful God? I told you before of that holy man, who having lost his dear and only Son, got to his Closet; there poured out his soul freely to the Lord, and when he came down to his friends that were waiting below to comfort him, and fearing how he would bear that stroke; he came from his duty with a cheerful countenance, telling them, he would be content to bury a Son (if it were possible) every day, provided he might but enjoy such comfort as his soul had found in that private hour.
This will ease and allay your troubles: Blessed be God for the ordinance of prayer; How much are all the Saints beholding ⟨p. 153⟩