A39690:494
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.
If you would bear the loss of your dear Relations with moderation, eye God in the whole process of the affliction more, and secondary causes and circumstances of the matter less.
I was dumb, I opened not my mouth; because thou didst it, Psal. 39. 9. Consider the hand of the Lord in the whole matter: And that
First, As a Sovereign hand, which hath right to dispose of thee and all thy comforts without thy leave or consent, Job 33. 13.
First, As a Soveraign hand, which hath right to dispose of thee and all thy comforts without thy leave or consent, Job 33. 13.