A Token for Mourners

A pastoral treatise on Christian grief and submission to God's will, drawn from Christ's words to a bereaved mother in Luke 7:13. Flavel diagnoses the signs of immoderate sorrow, marshals twenty biblical and theological considerations to restrain excessive mourning, answers twelve common pleas offered in justification of grief, and prescribes practical rules for its cure. Written out of his own experience of personal loss, this work unites doctrinal precision with tender pastoral warmth, guiding afflicted souls to find comfort in God's sovereignty, the Resurrection, and the covenant of grace.