349 A SERMON . PREACHE:O BEFORE THE KINS MAlE~ S-T I E 'AT VV H I T E~HALL, 0 N ) . . the VI. ·of c.April, d. 'D. M o c 111 J,. being Go oo-F R t I> A Y. 1 LAMENT. Chap. I. Ver. XII. 'Ha~eye~ no r~gard, oall )e thatpajfeby the -way? C onJi~er,and behold If e11er therewere.forrow, lt{rmy Sorrow, whtch '»>aJ ' done ;hto me, where'Witb the Lorddida!Jlift mein the drry of thefien:ertijf~ ofHuwrath. · 1 the very reading or hearing of whicll · Vc:rfe , there is none but will prefent!y conceive, it is the voice of a.party in great ...... ~. ' extremity.In great extremity two wayes : 4 cDiilpl•it#i 1 Firfl:, in fi1ch dillreffe,as never was any; lf e1Jer tl1ere 'lllere frirrozv like my forrozv : 1 And then in that difl:reffe,having none to regard Him : Hawyce no !J\.egardall yte ?,. To bee affliCted; and fo affliCted, as none ever was, is very much: InthatafHiCI:ion, to find none tb refpeCI: him or care for him, what can be more ? In all our fufferings, it is a comfort to usthat we haveaficut: that nothing hath befallen us, but fuch as others 1 Cor.Io:Ij have felt the like: But here, Si fuerit ficut; If ever the like were, (that is) never the like was. I Againe, in our greatell paines,it is a kind of eafe, even to finde fome regard. Naturally we defire it, if we cannot be delivered, if we cannot hereheved, yet to be pitied ·: Idheweth, there be yet fome, that arc tou- lob 19 :2Il ched Wlththefenfe ofourmifery. thatwi!h us well and would .,O'ive us eafe ifthey co11ld : But this afflicled, here, findeth n~t fomuch, neither - · · ·- - I i 2 the
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