..4*. as 222 A Box of precious Ointment : Or, mourning, like the mourning of Hadadrimwon in the valley of Megiddo, and a bitternefs, as one is in for his firft-born, Zech. 1 z. io, ii. And fo the Church, My bowels are troubled within me, mine heart is turned within me ; fir 1 have grievouh re! elled, Lameri:1; 2o. And David watered hi couch with his tears, .PR/. 6. 6. And Mary Magdalen wept much , as well as fhe loved much, bike 7. And. Peter went out and wept bitterly, Mat. 26. ult. Clement obferves, that all the time that Peter lived after this great fall, he would every night, when he heard the cock crow, fall upon his knees and weep bitterly. Look, as (hallo ,r brooks make the great& noife, fo hypocrites and formalifts may howl, and roar, and cry, and make more noife than the true penitent ; but yet the forrow of a true penitent is more inward, fecret, folid, ftil I and deep. As you know the deepeft Rivers run moftfilently, and make leaf( noife,fo the deepeft forrow makes leaft noife. The mourning of repenting fouls, under the apprenenfions of their fins, is like the mourning of Doves ; but the mourn- ing of wicked men under the apprehenfion of their fins, is like the bellowing of Bulls, and roaring of Bears. 4. Fourthly, A fincere mourning is an extenfive mourning, 'tis an univerfal mourning. Godly forrow and grief extends it felt, not only to fome fins, but to all fins, great and fmall. Look, as a holy heart hates all fin, fo a holy. heart mourns o- ver all fin that it fees and knows to be fin. God hates one fin as well as another, and he has forbid one fin as well as ano- ther, and he has revealed his wrath from heaven againft one fin as well as another, and he is provoked by one tin as wdi as another, and Chrift is crucified by one fin as well as another, and the Spirit is grieved as well by one fin as by another, and the Gapel is reproached by one fin as well as another; and the confcience is wounded by one fin as, well as another, and Satan is gratified by One fin as well as another, and wicked mens mouths are opened by one fin as well as another,. and young corners on in Religion are ffuinbled, t, c,ieved and offended by one fin as well as another, and the foul is endangered by one fin as well as'another. Ali unfound heart Ev3;.7. 16. 11a. 51.20. Ira. 59. I I.
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