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Why
it
i3
filch
a
b1efJ'e
d
thing
to
be
a
mourner.
a
mourning
that
hath much
aaiveneflé
in
it,
and flirring
The
heart
is
travelling
for
fo
in
the i 6
Soh:
about
the middle,
It
is
compared
to
a
woman
in
travel!
;
Toil
(hall
mourne, faith
Chri;r, but there's
promif..
of Comfort
:
T
'rily,
verily,
I
fay
auto
you
ye
[bail
73,eefe
and
lament;
but
the
world fhall
re,oycç
and ye
it
-'
forrowtull, but year
farrow
fhail
he
turned
into
vol.
A
yeoman
when
f
e
is
in
traecll
hoth
farrow,
becaufe
her
honre
is come ,
but as
fore
as
fife is
delivered
of the
childe,
then
(G.
e
reasembieth
no
more
the
anguifh
,
for joy
that
a
man
is
borne
in';
the world,
--
Hereby intimating
that
the mourning
of
che Saints
íhouid be
like
the
forroty
of ''a
woman
in
travel!,
but fouie
good
ihoiid
come of
it.
And this
is
a
very ufefull
Meditation
for us, when
at
any
time
we find
our
hearts much
pre{fed
with
fòrrow,w; lhould
Confider,
but
what am
I
tra
velling about
;
I
can
never
have
Comfort
in my
mourning,
except
1
bring forth fomething
in
my forrow
:
And though
the
Lord
fhould
keep
them
mourning thus all dayes of their
lives,.
vet
they
are
blefled.
For they
(hall be
Comforted;
comfort
will
come.
NoW
the
ground
of
the bleffednefle arifeth, firft,'from the mourning
it
felfe
;
--
Secondly, from the
püomife
-
Surely
its
a
bided'
thing to
be
fuch
á
mourner;
Firfl
,
S'ecaufe
that the
lower.
Our
'hearts are
in
our
füb-
*lion
to God in
this
mourzifultcondition, the higher
aie
our
refpecls
to God
that
brings
us
into
this
Condition
:
The
Lord
brings
his
people into
a
mournful!
condition.
Now
the
lower
their
hearts
are in
their
fubjeClion
to God,the
higher
are
their;
refPe
&s
that they
doe (hew unto
Cod.
There's
a
great
deale
of Grace
exercifed
in
a
gracious mourning.
Secondly,
A mourning condition when
it
is
ordered
by
Grace, it
is a
meanes
of
much
good in the
foule,
it
is
that
that
takes
away
the' rankneflè in
the hearts of men,
there
a
rank
-
nef e
in
all
mens hearts naturally,
ef'
ecially if they Injoy
con-
tentment to the fiefh, their
lufis
will grow very
ranke
;
As
weeds
grow
very
ranke in fummer
time,
now
in
the winter
the
.
f
toffs
nipp&
the weeds
and
keepes
them
under
,
but
if
it
be
a
long
fr-oft
it
kills
them
;
And
fo
doth
a
mournful! Condition,
if