485 / 1054
76e filly
:of
melt,
rebuked
zoli®
are
all
for
mirth.
bath no
other foundation but
ignorance,
nay
thefe men
they
muR
take the advantage
of
confcience, when
that
is
afleep
and
benum'd;
it
were
impoifible for
filch as
thefe are to be
fo
mer-
ry and frolick,
did
they not take
the
advantage
oftheir
confci-
.-eüces
when
they
are
deaded
and
benum'd,for were confcience
awake
it
would
fly
in
their
faces, and
would
fay,
Thou
art
a
doing
that
thou
haft no
right
unto:
Now
curled
be
that
com-
fort that
cannot !land with
a
found
confcience;
and
that
oy
of
yours whichcannot Rand
with the thoughts of Death
and
Judg
.
ment,that
Mirth cannot be
good
;
ô
that
you
would confider
of
this when
at
any
time
You
have ferious
thoughts
of God,
of
Death,
and
Eternity
this
damps your
joy,
wheh you are in
the
full
carreere of
your pleafures,
yet if
confcience
then hint
into
you
the
thoughts of
an
eternal condition,
you have
fecret
qualmescome
over
you..
Now
thou hall
caufe
whofoever thou
art to
fufpec}
that
joy
and
mirth to be
finfull
that
cannot Rand
With
the
thoughts of
Cod
and
Eternity
:
Therefore
take
heed
lean
thou
be
in
the
number with
h
im
who
took
his
pleafure and
fatisfied
his
foule
to the
full in
the creature,and
when he came
to dye
had
nothing
to
fatisfie
himfelfe withal!
;
ô
have
a
care
fell that
be thy
portion;
Son
remember that in thy
life time
thou hadR thy
good things,but
now thou
art gone,
fo
God
may
fay
to thee
who
art
fuch
a
one
as
makeí}
thy heaven
robe
here,
thou
hadf+
thy pleafures, thou
half
thy comforts
in
the world,
and
there's
all
that
thou
art
like
to
have, but
now
thou
art tor-'
mented.
The
mine
thing here
in
this Text
that
I
am
to
infif+
upon,
is
the
thirdufe
which
is
for
Comfort
and
Confolation,
that
1
may come
up
fully
to
the mind ofChrift
in
this
thing,
and
to
do
as
he
did,
who
made
it
his worke
here,
to
comfort thofe
that
mourne,
and
that
fhail bemy work
now for
the
ref+
of
the
drre.
Bletfed
are ye of the
Lordthat do
thus
truly
mourne,
and
here
I
(hall
fpeake.
Firf+,
Comfort
to
thofe
that
dot
truly
mourne,
Secondly, Anfwer
an
Obje&}ion
that
may
be made.
Thirdly,'
Give
forne
dire
&ions howmourners
is
-.ould carry
thernielves
in their
mourning eRate
that they
may
be comfor-
ted.
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