N30070:130
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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Seventhly, Lastly, Our Sorrows may then be pronounced sinful, when they deafen our Ears to the wholesome and seasonable Words of Counsel and Comfort offered us for our Relief and Support. Jer. 31.15. A Voice was heard in Ramah, Lamentation and bitter weeping; Rachel weeping for her Children, would not be comforted for her Children, because they were not. She will admit no Comfort, her Disease is curable by no other Means but the Restoration of her Children; give her them again and she will be quiet, else you speak into the Air, she regards not what ever you say.
Thus Israel in the cruel Bondage in Egypt, Moses brings them the glad Tidings of Deliverance; But they hearkened not to him, because of the Anguish of Spirit, and their cruel Bondage, Exod. 6.9.
Thus Israel in the cruel Bondage in Egypt, Moses brings them the glad Tydings of Deliverance; But they hearkened not to him, because of the Anguish of Spirit, and their cruel Bondage, Exod. 6.9.
Thus obstinately fixed are many in their Trouble, that no Words of Advice or Comfort find any place with them: yea, I have known some exceeding quick & ingenious, even above the rate of their common Parts and Abilities in inventing Shifts, & framing Objections to turn off Comfort from them selves, […] if they had hired to plead again•• their own Interest: And if they be drive• from those Pleas, yet they are settled is their Troubles too fast to be moved, sa• what you will they mind it not; or at mo