1. Answ.
That you prayed for your children be∣fore you had them was your duty, and if you prayed not for them submissively, referring it to the pleasure of God to give or deny them, to continue or remove
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.
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- Title
- 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.
- Author
- Flavel, John, 1630?-1691.
- Publication
- London :: Printed for Robert Boulter,
- 1674.
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- Subject terms
- Consolation.
- Bereavement.
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"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." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A39690.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 23, 2024.
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them, as should seem good to him; that was your sin; you ought not to limit the holy one of Israel, nor prescribe to him, or capitulate with him, for what term you shall enjoy your outward comforts. If you did so, it was your evil, and God hath justly rebuked it by this stroke: if you did pray conditionally, and submis∣sively, referring both the mercy asked, and continuance of it to the will of God as you ought to do; then there is nothing in the death of your child, that crosses the true scope and intent of your prayer.