ti ;5 ofConwerfton,or?uruiugu»te God. fin and the loffe of God. This when immoderate,is an heavy fin, and it roorlyetlo death, 55 the Apoflle faith, and it repentance that weft be repeated of, s.Cor. 7. 10. Thirdly, There i hypocritica&Weeping. The tears of Crocodiles, when men Hypoc3riticall. fart and publicklymourn, yet all this is becaufe of temporal rt peas, not becaufe that God is difpleafed. We have toomuch of this weeping alto t God com- plaiseth of fach forrow among the I/raelitet, and he compareth ittothehow. lingof beans. All weepingand cryingabout fin, if not forfro, is butdirnmulatioü withGod. 4. Lallly, There is agodly weeping, which is wrought in us by theSpirit of God, Godly weep= and that is becaufe we have finned, and grievously offended God, which fils our hearts with Gall andWormwood : This latter is like the rain of the cloud that comes fromheaven, tweet and refrefhing; the other is like the faitwater of the fee, or the muddy filth of boggy places. Secondly, Godly tears they alto arde from a two-foldeaufe. There are tears of hatred and indignation, or great difpleafure againft our felves, becaufe we have fo foolilhly and wretchedly dilhonoured God, and ventured our eternal undoing foè a moments pleafure. There are alto tears of love,and joy, which the heart pourra out with much melting, partly becaufe theyhave grieved fo good a Father, and partly through joy to fee fo much gracevouchfafed unto them. The former kinds of tears,viz. ofhatred and grief, Mangles aboundedwith, and Peters eyes gufh ed out fuck. The latter did flow fromMary Magdalen ; for our Saviour attriba- teth allthat furrow toher much love,becaufe muchwas forgivenher, Lnke 7,47 and the true Convert is to expreffe tears ofboth theft kinds, ofgrief, and love ; of hatred,and joy; Venue penitent de peccatla dolet,e - de doloregaudet;The true repent- ing Convertgrieveth for his tone,, and jeyethw kea grief. Even naturally there is much safe in weeping, Expiator lachrymis, egeritnrque dolor. And hence Tully: complained, that though all his tears were fpent, yetgrief diditickat his heart. How much more will godly tears afford fpiritual joy ? Let thy heart there- fore be like the Stillatory , which living with the hot love of God daily un- der it, willplentifully vent forth the warm tears of Godly forrow for fin. II. Secondly, Theremay6e a fuperfütious and Papilla advancement of tears, and A Popilh ad- Cbrifüan Scriptureac1¿nowledgemeni of them. This muff be alto remembred, a vancement of Popithcommendationof tears is, when any Merit, Caufality or Worth is attribu- scars. led to them. Thus in Popery theymake them have a fpiritual effe&,they attribute the walkingaway of fin to them, they arejudged fatisfxßory :Buthow arrogant is this Doftrine, to make our teats and Chrifts blondequal? Ifthe bloodof Chaff only dock purge usfrom our iniquity,thencannot our tears, which themfeives need walking, as be laid, Lava Doming Lachrymaa meas, OLordmali mytears, they are fo foul. Could we therefore weep an Oceanof rears, yea blond, yet thiscould not blot out one debt ofoursto God. We do not then requiremourning and weeping; as Friersand Popiftr Writers do: And yeton theother fide we abhor chute An$,oe- miau Doftrínes,that makeall forrow and weeping for finne tobelegal, anduntie- teeming the fpirit of the Gofpel. No, the Scripture earrieth a mean between theft two extreams. 11ì. Laftly,Tbie muff not beforgotten :There is a two-foldforrow, or mourning ; the There is a one is intelle&ual, and fpiritual ; which is an aft of the foul, whereby it detefleth two-fold Sor- and abhorrethfinaboveallevil ,andvehementlydiflikesit, chufing any temporal! row. evil) rather than this evill of fin. And there is a fenfrtiveforrow; which is accuse- and sornall an yed withbodily tears and es reffed in a fenfible manner. Even as there is a and S enlirivc, p y y p And Senfitivr, two-fold prayer, a mentalprayeroF the foul, whereby we immediately make our requefts known unto God ; and a vocals bodily prayer, by the mouth alto. Thus there is a two-fold forrow, one rational, affeéling thefoul of a man, the other fen. tible, difcoveringit (elf in theeyes, and face. Now theformer kindof mourning, which is an set of the underftanding and will, fulj of difplicencie and vehement detefta.
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