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How mourners
fhould order
their
>íso
wning.
enemies
.hands in point
o
f
furrow
or
a
;dim
; For
were
I
in mine
owne
handy,
I
fhaaid
come
out
o
f
trouble
too Toone,
were
I
in mine
enemies
hands,
they
would
Reepe
me
too
long,
but
I
am
in
the
hand
of
Cod
,
who
;owes
when
it's
belt
for
to
deliver
me; So
then
Waite
on
God
'patiently
,
though Comfort may flay,
yet
'when
it
loth
come, thou
(halt fee that it
was
worth
the
wait-
ing
for,
what though it be till death
,
what
though thou
haft
not
comfort till the
left
houre, yet
eternity
will make amends
for thy flaying.
Fifthly
and lafily,
Confider, that
this
is
the
time
of
mourn=
ing,
and we
know
things
are reafomble
and
belt
i.n
theiz
time
;
this
is
a
Chriftians feed
time
;
In the
would
we mull have
trouble,
and through
many
tribulations we
muff
eater
into
Heaven
:
We
know
the
husbandman
he.
is
contented
to
en-
dure
flormes
and
hardships in
feed time,
with
this Confidera-
tion, the
harvefi is a,coming
;
So
though thou
now
foweff
teares,
there
is
a
time
of
reaping
in
Joy.
But
here
is
that
which
troubles
me
faith many
.a
foule,
I
would
be contented to waite
till God come,
were
I
affur'd
that
this promife
did
belong
to me,
this were
that
would flay
upmiy
heart indeed
;
I would
be contented to
doe
God
fer-
vice
ro
the
nttermoft
of
my
power,
and
to endure
any
af-
fliètion,
and account
my felfe happy,
"if
he
would
imploy
me
in
any
thing, were I
but
affur'd
of
this, that the promife were
mine, then
it
would fupf.ort
me. But
I
feare
that
this pro
-
mife
belongs
to
others, and
that
I
have
nothing
to doe
with
it.
For
anfwer
to
this
;
we
fhould
labour
tb
get
our mourning
into
a
gracious
frame,
and
then
we may
be fure we
f
ball have
Comfort
;
which brings
me
into
the third thing
which
I
pro
-
pounded to
you
concerning
the Rules.
The
third
thing propounded in this
ufe is
this
;
How we
may
fo
order
our mourning
that it
may
comfort.
us
:
how may
I
fo
order
my forrow
that
I
may
comfort my felfe
with
this,
that the promiie
belongs
to
me,
and
that our
confciences may
tell
us
we
are bleifed
froth
this word of promife
:
Though o-
thers
fee us fad and
heavie,yet
how may we
fo
carry
our
felves
that