rTh 330 Vireclionsforgettingand keeping or danger,or difgrace in the world, or deny his cra- ving fleíh its plea lures. This is a hardhearted fin- ner. The more you would part with to be ridof fin, or the greater colt you would be at for that end, the more Repentance haveyou, and true tendernefs of heart. Alas, ifmen fhould go to Heaven according to their weeping, what abundance of children and women would be there for one man I I'le fpeak truly my own Cafe. This doubt lay heavymany a year on my own foul : when yet I would have given all that I had to be rid of fin ; but I could not weep a tear for it. Nor could I weep for the death of my deareff friends,when yet I would have bought their lives,had it been Gods will, at a dearer rate then many that could weep for them ten times as much. And now liincemy nature is decayed, andmy body languifneth in confumingweaknefs, and my head more moilined, andmy veins filled with flegmatick watryblood now I can weep : and yet I find never the more tender. heartednefs in my fell thenbefore. And yet to this day fo much remains of my old difpofition , that I could wring all the money out ofmy purfe eafier then one tear out of my eyes, to fave a friend, or ref- cue them from evil : when I feedivers that can weep for a dead friend, that would have been at no great coft to fave their lives. 5. Betides, as Dr. Sibs laith, There is oft forrow for fin in us,when it doth not ap- pear : It wanteth but force quickening word to let it afoot. It is the nature of Grief to break out into tears moft,when forrowbath forcevent, either when we ufe force expoftulating aggravating terms with ourfelves, or when we are opening our hearts and cafe to a friend : then forrowwill ofen Phew it felt that .,
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