A choice Bed of Spices@ upon him Iv hex, they have pierced, and mourn. All gracious . mourning flows from looking , from believing ;_ nothing breaks the heart of a firmer like a look of faith ; all tears of godly forrow drop froth the eye of faith ; godly forrow rifes and falls, as faith rifei and falls ; faith and godly for- row are like the fountain and the (loud , which rife and fall together. The more a man is able by faith to look upon a pierced Chriff, the more his heart will mourn over all the difhonours that he has done to Chriff; the more deep and wide the wounds are that faith (hews me in the heart and fides of Chrift, the more my heart will be wounded-for fin ing againft Chriff. Again, godly forrow is not an enemy, but a friend to holy joy. I have read of a holy man,- who lying upon his fick bed, and being askt which were his joyfullefl dayes that ever he had, cryed out, 0 give me my movningdayes, give me my mourn- ing dayes again, for they ;Pere the joyfullefi, dayes that ever I had. Thehigher the fprings of godly farrow rife, the higher the tydes of holy joy rife ; his graces will flourifti molt, who Evangelically,mourns moff. Grace alwayes thrives bell in that garden (that heart) that is watered moll with the tears of godly forrow. He that grieves moff for fin, will rejoyce molt in God ; and he that rejoyces molt in God, will grieve moll for fin. Again, the more a man apprehends of the love of God, and of the love of Chriff ; .and the more a man taffes and allured of the love of the Father , and of the love of the Son, the more that perfon will grieve and mourn, that he, has offended, provoked and grieveo fach a Father, and fuch a Son. Remember this, as a man's afiurance of peace and re-. conciliation , with God rifes, fo his grief for fin riles i the \ more clear and certain evidences a Than has of the love and favour of God to his foul, the more that man will grieve -and mourn for finning aa°ainft fuch a God.' There is nothing, 'that tha2vs and melts theheart,that foftens aid breaks. the heart, like the warm beams of idivinelove4 asp you' itlay' 'fee rti the G 0 2
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