A39690:95
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.
O think then what you have done, by provoking the Lord through your vile ingratitude! Its a dangerous thing to provoke God, when he is already in a way of Judgement. And if you be his own people, and so out of the danger of this last and worst stroke: yet know, you have better mercies to lose, than any you have yet lost. Should God cloud your soul with doubts, let loose Satan to buffet ⟨p. 27⟩you, remove joy and peace from your inner man, How soon would you be convinced, that the funeral of your dearest friend is but a trifle to this?
Well then, Whatever God takes, be still thankful for what he leaves. It was the great sin of Israel in the wilderness, that though God had delivered them from their cruel servitude in Egypt, miraculously fed them in the desert, and was leading them on to a Land flowing with milk and honey; yet as soon as any want did but begin to pinch them, presently all these mercies were forgotten, and slighted, Numb. 14. 12. Would to God (say they) we had died in Egypt. And Numb. 11. 6. There is nothing at all beside this Manna. Beware of this O ye mourning and afflicted ones. You see both the sin that is in it, and the danger that attends it?
Well then, Whatever God takes, be still thankful for what he leaves. It was the great sin of Israel in the wilderness, that though God had delivered them from their cruel servitude in Egypt, miraculously fed them in the desert, and was leading them on to a Land flowing with milk and hony; yet as soon as any want did but begin to pinch them, presently all these mercies were forgotten, and slighted, Numb. 14. 12. Would to God (say they) we had died in Egypt. And Numb. 11. 6. There is nothing at all beside this Mannah. Beware of this O ye mourning and afflicted ones. You see both the sin that is in it, and the danger that attends it?