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How mourners
fhould
order
their
mourning,
II7
them
in
the
ballance when
this principle
is
laid
at the
bottom;
So
that goad
man in
the $9
Pfa
:
from
the
58
v,
to
the
end,
there
we have
a
fad
flory,yet
he
begins with
the
mercy
of
and exalts
the
mercy
of
in
the
fìrft place
;
And
having.
raifed
Faith to the very
heavens
in
the exaltation
of
God,
then he expatiates himfelfe
in his
forrowes
,
and
in the
for
-
rowes
of the Church
:
when the
heart
is
flablithed
in
Gods
love,
in
the Covenant,and
in
the mercy
of God,
then
ive
fray
expatiate
our forrowes
;
but before ever
thou
Iettelf
out thy
heart into
forrow, be
faire
thou vieweft the love of
God
in
th
firfi
place and in
the
clofe
of
.he Pfalme,
after that
fad
Ro-
ry the reckoned up,
he
.concludes,
BleJJéd
be
God for
ever
=:
more, and-he puts two Aifeverations
to
it,
Amen
;
and
Anoën í;
As
if
fo
bz
he
would
have
it
taken
notice
of,
ÇÇod
is good
in
tñ,.
.
beginning
;
and though
there
be
a
bitter
piece
to
the
middle,
yet
he concludes,
Blef
fed
be
the
Lordand
would
have
it
t
ken.
notice
of by
this
Aifeveranon,
Amen,, and
Amen. So.let
is
reafon thus
;
My
condition
is
very fad,
and I ktiownot
almoil
what
to
thinke of
my
felfe,
but
Gad
forbid
that
thinke
hard thoughts of
God
;
No,.,11e fay,
yet
the
Lord
is
righteous:
perhaps
you have
feene
the
Saints füffer;lrard
things
for
God
and his caufe, and your
fpitits
begin
to rife.
perhaps
and you begin
to Q
eftion
the
Faithfulneffe
of God
,
and
the
Love
of
God
towards
his
people
;
ô God
fa.
bid
that
this
fhould be
in
any
of
you
Remember
there Scriptures, and
let
it
be the
conclufion
of your hearts in
the
fiddelt
flare you
can be
in,
Blef
ed
be
the Lord
_for
ever,
Amen, andAmen;
Secondly,
Be
lure
to
take
notice
of
all
the
mercy thou
haft from
God
in
the
of
i6tions
thou
a
t
in
Let
not
any
cif
flidion
drowne
the mercy
thou
haft
;
It
is
very
fad
many
times to
fee how one or
two
af`ar.iStions
hinders the
fight
of
many
mercies
that
the
Saints
doe enjoy
:
A
little
thing will
hinder
the
fight
of the ei e
;
a
penny,
hid
u;
on
the
eve
will
keepe
it
trom beholding
the
Sun, or
the Element,?nove
fo
a'
little
affliction
it
darkens and
hinders
the
foule from seeing a
multitude of mercies
;
every
little
trouble
dakens Gods
mercies:
we fhould
take
heed ofthis,
be flue
to bring
in
but.
mercies