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.
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London :: Printed for Robert Boulter,
1674.
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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 4, 2024.
Though your children be gone, yet God hath many children left in the world whose bowels you may refresh with what he hath bestowed upon you; and your charity to them will doubtless turn to a more comfortable account, than if you had left a large Estate to your own po∣sterity.
Surely we are not sent into this world to heap up great estates for our children; and if you have been too eager in this design, you may now read Gods just re∣buke of your folly. Bless God you have yet an opportunity to serve God emi∣nently by your Charity: and if God de∣ny you other Executors, let your own hands be your Executors, to distribute to the necessity of the Saints; that the bles∣sings of them that are ready to perish may come upon you.
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