A39690:497
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.
Secondly, As a Fathers hand correcting thee in love and faithfulness, Prov. 3. 11. ⟨p. 155⟩Whom the Lord loveth he correcteth, as a Father the Son in whom he delighteth. O if once you could but see affliction as a rod in a Fathers hand, as proceeding from his love, and intended for your eternal good; How quiet would you then be!
And surely if it draw your heart nearer to God, and mortify it more to this vain world; it is a rod in the hand of special love: If it end in your love to God, doubt not but it comes from Gods love to you.
And surely if it draw your heart nearer to God, and mortifie it more to this vain world; it is a rod in the hand of special love: If it end in your love to God, doubt not but it comes from Gods love to you.
Thirdly, As a just and righteous hand: Hast thou not procured this to thy self by thy own folly? Yea, the Lord is just in all that is come upon thee: Whatever he hath done, yet he hath done thee no wrong.