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CCnflant mourners
are
Bleffed.
93
Wee
come now
to
the
fecond
Beatitude.
Ele ed
are
they
that
mourne,
for
they
(hall
be
Comforted.
We
find
that
Lxke
cites it
in another way, and
divers
Co-
pies
have
it
different
;you shall
find
two or
three
Bleffednerfes
fet
in
a
different order there
:
But
for
the
thing
it
felfe,
it
is
one of
the tirangefi Paradoxes in
the
world
;
Bleffed
are
thofe
that
mourne :
Of
all
arfeaions the affeaion of
forrow
nature
is
leaf+
beholding
to
;
it
doth the
leaf+
good
to nature,
nature
gets
fomething
by
the
atfeiion
oflove,
and
the
arfe6i-
on
of
joy, and
the
arfeelion of
delire,
and of
hope,
and force
what by feare
;
but
forrow
is that
that
weakens
nature
;
and
yet
Chrif+
doth
fall upon this
,
faith
he,
Beefed
ore
they
that
Mourne
;
'Tis
more then bleifed
are
they
that
are
fo
rowfuli',
fo
Chryfoflome
upon this
place,
he Both
not
fay,
Welled
are
thofe
that grieve, but
bleffed are
thole that mourne
:
For
the
word that
is
here tranflated
mourne,
fignifies an
exceeding
great
nrorirning
;The
mourning
that there
is
at the death
of
Friends,
when
any
buries
an
ultimate Friend,
a
deare
chille;
or
.a
dearekinfmann,
what mourning
is
there
in
the
view
of
the
world ; but
faith
Chrill
,
Bleifed
are you Then
If
you
be
godly and my
Difciples
,
you
are
bleffed in
that
mourning,
though your
mourning be
the
greater+ mourning in
the world;
And
it
is
in
the prefent tenfe,
You
that
mourne,noting
the
con
-
tinuance
ofit
:
Though
you
mourne
conf+antly,
though
you
be
brought into
a
niournfull
condition,
and
io
doe live
in
it
all
the
dayes
of
your
lives,
yet bleíled
are you
that
mourne.
The
world
is
altogether
for
jollity
and
bravery,
ô
bleffed Are
they
that
are merry
,
that
can
drinke wine
in
'bowies, and
crowne
themfelves with Rofe budds,
and chant
to
the
Viall,
and
invent Infiruments of
Muficke
like
David
;
they
are ac-
counted the bleffedmen
in
the world
:
But we
fee the
Judge-
ment of Chrill
is
quite
contrary,
Bleffed
are
they
that
mourne
;
They that mourne,
furely not
all
they
that
mourn:, are
blef-
fed.
Firr+,