A39690:78
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.
Hath God smitten thy child or friend? and didst thou not foresee some sharp trial coming? Did not thy fond secure carnal temper need such a scourge, to awaken, quicken and purge thee? Or if you did not foresee it, its now your duty to search and examine your selves. So the Church in their afflictions resolved, Lam. 3. 40. Let us search and try our ways. When God is smiting we should be searching. Surely our iniquities will enquire after us, if we will not enquire after them. Yea, in the day of affliction, a gracious soul is inquisitive about nothing more than the procuring and provoking cause of his troubles, Job 10. 2. Show me wherefore thou contendest with me? q. d. Lord what special corruption is it that this rod is sent to rebuke? What sinful neglect doth it come to humble me for? O discover it now to me, and recover me now from it.
Hath God smitten thy child or friend? and didst thou not foresee some sharp trial coming? Did not thy fond secure carnal temper need such a scourge, to awaken, quicken and purge thee? Or if you did not foresee it, its now your duty to search and examine your selves. So the Church in their afflictions resolved, Lam. 3. 40. Let us search and try our wayes. When God is smiting we should be searching. Surely our iniquities will enquire after us, if we will not enquire after them. Yea, in the day of affliction, a gracious soul is inquisitive about nothing more than the procuring and provoking cause of his troubles, Job 10. 2. Shew me wherefore thou contendest with me? q. d. Lord what special corruption is it that this rod is sent to rebuke? What sinful neglect doth it come to humble me for? O discover it now to me, and recover me now from it.
And having found the root and cause of their troubles, ingenuous souls will shame themselves for it, and give glory to God by an humble submission, and vindication of the equity of his proceedings,