A39690:79
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.
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, Job. 7. 20. I have sinned, what shall I do unto thee, thou preserver of men? He thinks it no shame freely to discover unto ⟨p. 22⟩God, and deeply to abase himself before him, for his folly.
I remember a choice note that *Mr. Brightman hath in his commentary upon the Canticles.
- *Nec enim pudet sanctos viros postquam renovata corda fuerint per resipiscentiam, lapsus sui & dedecoris ad dei gloriam meminisse. Nihil nobis decedit quod cedit in illius honorem. Brightman in Cant. cap. 1. ver. 4. pag. 11.
Holy men (saith he) after their hearts are renewed by repentance, are not ashamed to remember and confess their slips and shameful falls, to the glory of God: for they account that glory which such confessions take from them is not lost, whilst it goes to the glory of God. If his glory may rise out of our shame, how willing should we be to take such shame to us? Holy David was not ashamed to acknowledge, Psal. 38. 5. My wounds stink and are corrupt, because of my foolishness. He is the wisest man that thus befooles himself before God.