N30070:169
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.
But this is our Mistake; there is no such necessary Connection or Dependence, we may be happy without these Things. It is no• Father, Mother, Wife, or Child, in which our chief Good and Felicity lies, we have higher, better, and more enduring Things than these, all these may perish, and yet our Soul secure and safe, yea and our Comfort in the way, as well as end, may be safe enough tho' these be gone. God hath better Things to comfort his People with than these, and worse Rods to afflict you with than the Removal of these: Had God let your Children live and flourish, and given you Ease and Rest in your Tabernacle, but in the mean Time inflicted spiritual Judgments upon your Souls, How much more sad had your Case been?
But this is our Mistake; there is no such necessary Connexion or Dependance, we may be happy without these Things. It is no• Father, Mother, Wife, or Child, in which our chief Good and Felicity lies, we have higher, better, and more enduring Things than these, all these may perish, and yet our Soul secure and safe, yea and our Comfort in the way, as well as end, may be safe enough tho' these be gone. God hath better Things to comfort his People with than these, and worse Rods to afflict you with than the Removal of these: Had God let your Children live and flourish, and given you Ease and Rest in your Tabernacle, but in the mean Time inflicted spiritual Judgments upon your Souls, How much more sad had your Case been?
But as long as our best Mercies are all safe, the Things that have Salvation in them remain, and only the Things that have Va••• […] them removed: you are not prejudged or much hindered as to the Attainment of your last End by the Loss of these Thin••.
But as long as our best Mercies are all safe, the Things that have Salvation in them remain, and only the Things that have Va••• 〈…〉 them removed: you are not prejudged or much hindered as to the Attainment of your last End by the Loss of these Thin.