sa ßa1.? E6.6. b;. PFilpot. A Centmenturyupon theGe(pel Chap.S, he had poured forth his forrowfull complaint there , he rofe up .. triumphing, as Pfäl.6. 81c. So [hall it be with fuch. They goe forth and weep, bearing precious feed , but fhall furely return with rejoycing, and bring their ihesves with them ; Gripes of gladneffe (laid that Martyr) when Abraham the good houlhold- er (hall fill his bofotne with them, in the Kingdome of heaven. Then as one hour changed lofephs fetters into a chain of gold, his rags into robes, his flocks into a charrior, his prifon into a palace, his brown bread and water intomancher andwine : So (hall God turnall his pcopies fadnefe into gladnefle, all their fighing into tinging, all their muting into mufïck, all theirtears into triumphs, Cyr wHitt. La thud in latitiarn convertetur, lachryma in rirum, faeeuc infe- ekT111t' rir.:sm, cinere: in corollas & unguentum, jejunium in epulunt,, manuum retortio in applau/ûmt_. He that will rejoyce with this joy unfpeakable, mull flirre up fighes that are unut- terable. Verfe c. Blued are the meek] Meekneile is the fruit of mourning for finne : and is therefote fitly fet next after ir. He that can kindrly melt in Gods prefence, will be made thereby as. TIeq,f gasp meek as a lamb : and ifGod will forgive him his ten thoufand ta- lents, he will not think much to forgive his brother a few far- ret moo:bue, (cit. Jaciles ac things. Hence the wildome from above is, firfl, pure, and then piacrdoc Ted- peaceable, gentle, eafse to be entreated, &c. Jam. 3. 17. And dar. Becman. love is (aid to proceed out of a pure heart, a good conscience and Ttrn' r 5. faith unfeigned. And when our Saviour told his Difciples they Loco 7 40. Mutt forgive till feventy times (even times, Lord, encrea f a our cxruundec fiktb, fail they, Giveus fuch a mea(ure of godly mourning, as that WeMay be bold to believe that thou haft freely forgiven us, and we fhall foon forgive our enemies. D avid was never fo ri- gid, as whenhe had finned by adultery and murther; and not yet mourned in good earnefl for his finne. He put the Ammonite:, under laws and harrows of iron, and caufed them to paffe thorow the brick-kilne, &c. which was a ilrange execution, and fell our whiles he lay yet inhis finne. Afterward we finde him in a better frame, and more meekned and mollified in his dealings with Shi- mei and others, when hehad fòundly foaked himfelf in godly for row. True it is,thathewas then under the rod ; and that's a main means to make men meek. The Hebrew words that fignifie 4 's ffi tl:d andmeek,grow bothupon the fame root,and are of fogreat 11V affinity, that they are fometimes by the Septuagint rendered the one
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