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How
mourners
f
hould
order
their
mourning,
that
they
may fay,
thefe are:bleifed, though in
a
fad
conditi-
on.
Now
for
this
I
would
inrreat you
to
take notice of
thef
Rules.
Vial
of
all
,
(
which
I
defire
you
would principally mind
).
In
your mourning be fure
that
you
keepe
good thoughts of
God,
whatsoever
your
troubles
be,
let
them not
raise
tumults
and hard thoughts
of
God
;
Let not the
Devi11
prevaile
fo
far
over
you
as
to caufe
your hearts
to
rife againft
God
:
This
bath
law
the
great
care of
the
Saints
to
keepe downe -their
hearts
I
n
this
diilemper:
in
the
43
Pfal:
5
v.
fee
how
David
there
chides
his
own heart
, and
rebukes
ir,
he gives
it
a fe
cretchecke,
and
a
curb, why
art
thou
caft
down;;
my foule
thou wouldefl
be..a
rifing agaìnli
God
now,
but
come
done
;
why
art
thou call downe,
Ile
goe unto
trod
my exceeding
joy
It's
a
good thing when we have any' reafonings
in
our
hearts
about the fadnelle of
our flares
,
to:
lay
this
conclufion;
in
the
bottome
;
Yet
god
issood
to
Ifrael; yet God,is good,
though
i
.
I
an
under
misery
and
sorrow,
yet
Godsgood
to
the
Saints,
thofe that are
in
a fad
Condition Thofe that
are
in
a
fad
con-
-dition,love to
be
mufing and
meditating
on
their
forrows
and
a
liclions
in
their
thoughts
:
But
when
thou
doefl
thus be fure
you lay this foundation, firfl before
ever
you
thinke.of your
forrowes,
Ter
the Lord
is good
;
wharfoever
.
becomes of
me,
the Lord
is
good,
and
his
çounfells
are fure
and
fleadfafl.
-David
was
much call
downe
in
his
fpirit
in
the 73
P
fal? 1.
-yet
fee how he
laies
this for
a
Conclufron,
Ter-
god
is
good to
Ifrael;
fo fay
thou thus
,
yet the
Lord
is
good
to
my
ibule,
whatfoever
fence
faith,.&
whatfoevet
temptations
fay,or
Satan
would make me
beleeve,
yet
god
is good
to
Ifiael,
yet God
is
good
to
my foule.
So
in the
12
of
er:
t
.
R ghteour
art
rhos
Lord,
when
I
plead
with
thee,.
yet
let
me
talge with thee of
thy
Judgements;
Marke how he laies this before
he
would goe
to
realon the
cafe,
he
jullilïes
God,
Thou
art
rig.
hreous.
ó
Lord,
jet
let
me reafon with thee
:
fo
when thoughts arife
it1
our
hearts
.
about our fad conditions,when we
ponder
and
mufe upon
them
in
our
hearts, yet let
us
be
fure
to
fay, Thou
art
righteous O
-Lord
;
and-then we may
confider
of
our a$iietions, and weigh
them