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ìo8
7ó
rejoyce in
-the
forrowes
of
others is
a'curfed
thing,
'Tis
an
excellent thing
to
comfort
mDurners,and in
the 2g.
of
j
ob,he
is
made
there to
be
one
of
a
thoufand that
can (peak
.a
word in
f'eafon
to
the heavy laden
:
this
is part ofthe
Office
of
Jefus
Chrili,
and
of
the Spirit
of Chrifl,
and
it
i
the glory
of
men;
now
certainly
that
mull needs
be
a
great
worke and
full
of
glory
that
is
part of
the
Office
of Jefus
Chria
and
the
Spirit,
for
the
Spirit he
is
a
Comforter
as
well
as
Convincer,
john
16.
z
8. and
it
is
the glory
of
men
:
miny men rejoyce
itr
bringing others into farrow,
Chi;
is
a
curfed thing
to
bring
any
into
iorrow,
and by
fo
much
the more
wicked
it
is,
by how
much
harder
it
is
to
comfort
thofe that
do
mourn.
To rejoyce
_
in the
èxercifes
of the
Saints
gracesin
farrow
is
no
curfed
thing,
we
may
rejoyce
in
the
exercife
of
a
Saints
grace,
in
humiliate-
on;
but to bring them into
forrow and
mourning,
and
then to
vim:
vita.
rejoyce
in it this
is a
curfed thing.
.
Perides
being
upon
his
Derides.
Death
-bed,
his
friends came
about
him, and
began
to
ffsesd.pf
his
vertues,
and ofthe
great
Authority
he
had
born,
and
accounting
the
number
of
his
vil1ories he
had
wonne,
He
hearing
of
them,
faid,
that
all Ws
while they
had
forgotten to
fpeak,o
f
the
heft
and
moll-
noble
thing
that
was in
him,
which
was,
that
no
Athenian
had
ever
worne
á
black gowne
through his
occafion
-
This he ac-
counted
his
glory,
and we
fl,ould
take `heed
of
bringing men
into
a
mourning condition,
that
we
may
be
able fay
there
is
not
any
that were ever
made tad or
heavy by any
thing that
I
.did
to
them.
We
fhould
be humbled
for
it, if
we have
done
it
,
and
it
fhould
be
that
which
We
fliould
confeflfe
toGod,
defiring
him
to
pardon
it
:
God
glories
to
Comfort men
and
not
to grieve
them that
mourn~, and
if
God
will
not grieve them certainely
we fhould not, they
cannot fo much
wrong
us
whereby we
fhould be
incenf
d againft
them to grieve them,
as
we daily
wrong
God,
but
yet God
faith
(Lament:
3.
3
3.)
He
Both
not
delight
to
grieve
the children
of
men :
Now that
I
may
come
more cla:e tofpeake
to
you
that
are.
fpiritual mourners,
take
your Comfort in there particulars..
irf
},
If
thy mourning be gracious,
thy
very
reares
and for
-
rofes
is
a
great
deal~
better
than the
wine
of the
men
of
the
wor'ld