N30070:156
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
Title page typeset from the transcription.
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.
Well then, let me persuade you to retire a while into your Closets, redeem a little Time from your unprofitable Sorrows ease and empty your Hearts before th• Lord, and beg his Blessing upon the relieving, ⟨p. 45⟩quieting, and Heart composing Considerations that follow; some of which are more general and common, some more particular and special, but all of them such, as through the Blessing of God, may be very useful at this Time to your Souls.
Well then, let me perswade you to retire a while into your Closets, redeem a little Time from your unprofitable Sorrows ease and empty your Hearts before th• Lord, and beg his Blessing upon the relieving, ⟨p. 45⟩quieting, and Heart composing Considerations that follow; some of which are more general and common, some more •articular and special, but all of them such, as through the Blessing of God, may be very useful at this Time to your Souls.
1. Confide Consider in this Day of Sorrow, who is the Framer and Author of this Rod by which you now smart; is it not the Lord? And if the Lord hath done it, it becomes you meekly to submit. Psal. 46.10. Be still and know that I am God.
1. Confid• Consider in this Day of Sorrow, who is the Framer and Author of this Rod by which you now smart; is it not the Lord? And if the Lord hath done it, it becomes you meekly to submit. Psal. 46.10. Be still and know that I am God.