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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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 June 5, 2024.
Pages
2. Answer.
Your prayers may be answered, though the thing prayed for be withheld, yea, or though it should be given for a little while and snatcht away from you again. There are four ways of Gods answering prayers: by giving the thing prayed for presently, Dan. 9. 23. or by suspending the answer for a time, and giving it after∣wards, Luk. 18. 7. or by withholding that mercy which you ask, from you, and giving you a much better mercy in the room of it, Deut. 3. 24. compared with Deut. 34. 4, 5. or lastly, by giving you patience to bear the loss or want of it, 2 Cor. 12. 9.
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Now if the Lord have taken away your child or friend, and in lieu thereof given you a meek quiet submissive heart to his will, you need not say he hath shut out your cry.
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