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Why
it
is
a
Relied
thintobeamourner,
97
if
it
be
fan6ified, it
kills the vermin,
it
kills our
Tufts,
and
is
a
fpeciall meanes
ofmortification
in
the
foule
;
And
therefore
bleffed are they
that doe mowne,
and carry
themfelves
bra-
cioufly
in
a
mourning condition.
Thirdly ,
It
is
that that delivers
from
mmy temptations
you
thinke
that jollity
and
bravery
is
the
onely
happy
life,
but
know
there
are
a
great
many
more temptations
in
that
life then
in
a
mournful!
condition
:
It's
true,
there
are
temptations
izn
a
mournful!
condition
;
there's
temptations to defpaire,
but
that's
grievous to
nature,
or
to
fhift
for
themfelves
in
fome
unlawfull
way.
But
now
the temptations
in
a
jolly
condition,
it's
very futable
to
a
mans
nature,
and
therefore more dange-
rous,
and
therefore
bleffed are
they that
are kept
in
a
mourn-
ful!
Condition, if
God
gives
them hearts to
fanaifie
his
Name
in
it.
Fourthly,
They
are
bleffed
that
are in
a
mournful!
Condi-
tion,
becaufe
God
hath chofen for
them that
mourning
condi-
tion
in the
molt
feafonable
time:
you know when
a
mamis
ficjte,
then
bitter
things are more
feafonable
then
fweete-:
Nòw
we
are
all fickly
poore creatures, and
it's
a
great
mercy
of God
in
this
time of
our lives
to
choofe for
us
a
mournful!
condition,bitter
things
rather then fweete
and lufcious
things.
And
if
God
Both
fubdue thy
heart,
fo
that
thou
canf}
be wil-
ling to take this, bleffed
art
thou
;for
thou doeft
now
mourne
when
it
is
moll
feafonable
to
mourne
;
A mournful!
fate
its
a
feafonable
flue
for men, confidering what
Conditions
we
are
here
in,
in
this world Thou
wouldef}
be choofing
of
Jollity,
juf}
like
a
poore
feke
man
that would
be
choofing
of
fweete
meats
;
but
bleffed
art
thou
that
art
willing
to
be
under
the
choyce
of God:
Fifthly, And then efpecially
here
in this
text,
becaufe
they
fhall
be
comforted
;
it
is
but
to make
the
Comforts
Tweeter
unto
thee
when
they
doe
come
The Lord
is
but working of
thy
foule
to
his own
will,
and working
thee
to
greater Com-
fort
;
you
know
that
when
a
man
would build
a
f}ruelure,
a
f}ately
building,
the
{
}ones
that
he
intends principally
tó build
withal!, are hackt and
hewn,
that
fo
they may be comely
and
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