By John Flavel.
A Token for Mourners.
By John Flavel.
About the Author:
John Flavel was an English Presbyterian minister and author who was born in Bromsgrove, Worcestershire in or around 1627. He was the eldest son of the Rev. Richard Flavel, who was a minister at Bromsgrove, Hasler, and Willersey.
John Flavel received his early education at local schools before attending University College, Oxford.
He began his ministry in 1650 as the assistant to the infirm minister at Diptford, a parish on the Avon, five miles from Totnes. He later moved to Dartmouth where he was ejected from his position due to the Act of Uniformity in 1662.
However, he continued to preach in private until he was forced to move five miles away from Dartmouth by the Five Mile Act. He returned to Dartmouth in 1671 and continued to officiate there, even after the liberty to do so was withdrawn.
He eventually moved to London and narrowly escaped shipwreck in a storm during his journey. He returned to Dartmouth and met with his people in his own house until a meeting-house was built for him in 1687. He died suddenly of paralysis at Exeter on 26 June 1691 and was buried in Dartmouth churchyard.
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 various rules for the support of God’s afflicted ones prescribed.
The book is a collection of sermons and meditations on the subject of mourning and the Christian’s response to death and loss. Flavel encourages readers to turn to God for comfort and strength in times of grief and to find hope in the resurrection of Jesus. The book offers scriptural guidance and personal anecdotes to help readers find meaning and purpose in their suffering. It is considered one of Flavel’s most popular and enduring works and is still widely read and studied today.
“A Token for Mourners” is, published after his death in 1691.
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