N30070:104
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 God's afflicted ones prescribed. / By John Flavel, Preacher of the Gospel of Christ at Dartmouth in Devon. ; [Two lines of Latin text]
Boston: printed by S. Kneeland, 1730
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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.
Thirdly, Our Sorrows then become sinful and exorbitant, When they divert us from or distract us in our Duties, so that our intercourse with Heaven is stopped and interrupted by them.
Thirdly, Our Sorrows then become sinful and exorbitant, When they divert us from or distract us in our Duties, so that our intercourse with Heaven is stopt and interrupted by them.
How long can we sit alone musing upon a dead Creature? Here our Thoughts easily flow, but how hard to fix them upon the Living God! when our Hearts should be in Heaven with our Christ, they are in the Grave with our Dead. May not many afflicted Souls justly complain, that their Troubles had taken away their Christ from them, I mean as to sweet sensible Communion, and laid the dead Child in his Room?
Poor Creature, cease to weep any longer for thy dead Relation, and weep rather for thy dead Heart. Is this thy Compliance with God's Design in afflicting thee? What to grow a greater Stranger to him than before! or is this the Way to thy Cure and Comfort in Affliction, to refrain Prayer, and turn thy Back upon God?