ox o precious Ointment : Or, ciericy themfelves, and in all other Creatures, to deliver them out of their fallen elate.) But I am poor in fpirit, therefore the Kingdom of heaven belongs to me. to.. Tenthly, a godly man may argue thus. Such as are true mourners are bleffed, 8z fhaltbe comforted,Mat.5.3. (Thad is, filch as mourn for fin with an exceeding great mourning,' that mourn for fin with a funeral forrow (as . the word nev-1 mambo)! of egvrEs fignifies ) that mourn for fin, as a man mournethi for the lofs of his only Son, Zech.12.10. or as' acob mourn- ed for Tofepb,or as David mourned for Abfalom,or,a3th 2 peo- ple mourned for the lofs of good 71o(inh, 2 Chroii. 35.24,21.1 That mourn for fecret fins as well as open, for fins again/II grace as well as for fins againft the Law ; that mourn for fin as the greateti evil in the world, that mourns for his own tins, Ez,ek. 7.i 6. as David did, Pill. 5i, or as Ephraim did, ler. 31. 18, 19. or as Peter did, MIL 26. 75. or as (Mary Magdalen did, Luke 7. 38. And that mourns for the fins of others as well as for his own,as David did,Pfa.119. t 6,15g, and as 7eremiab did, ler. 13.17. or as Lot did, 2 Pet. 7, 8. or as they did in that, EZ>ek. 9. 4 That mourns under the fenfe of his fpiritual wants, that mourns under the fenfe of his fpiritual loffes, as lots of communion with God, /ofs of the favour of God, lois of the pretence of God, lots of the exercife of grace, lots of the joyes of the Spirit, lots of in- ward peace, &c. or that mourn, not only for their own af- fliclions.and miferies, but alto /or the afiliaions and mife- ries of fofeph, as Nehemiah did, Neb. 1. 2) 3, 4, or as lere- minh did, hr. 9. 1.2. or as Chrift did when"he wept over lerufnlem, Luke 19. 41,42. or that Mourns b2caufe, he can- not 'mourn for thefe things, or that mourns becaufe he can mourn no more, or that mourns becaufe God has fo little honour in his heart, in his houfe, in his life, in the world, in the Churches.) But I am a true mourner, therefore I am bleed, and fhall be comforted. Eleventhly, a godly man may argue thus. They which truly hunger and thirft after righteoufnefs are bleffed, and fharli zrEvr9Z-v -res. reaii luT entes. Bleffed are they that mourn. The way to Paradife is through the valley of tears. Some report of Ma/ Magdalen, that the ipent thirty years in Gallia, weeping for her fins.
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