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How
mourners fhould order
their
mourning.
mercies
.v
ith our
aflfietions
:
when
ever
we
reckon
up our
forrowes, number our mercies
with
them.
In the
103
Pfal.2.
.David
was
there
flying
for
his
life
,
and
yet
we fee what
a
wonderful) fiveere frame
his
fpirit
was
in,
how
full
of
praifes
was
he
Praife the
Lord
U
my foule,
andforget
not
all his
bene-
fits
:
praifng
of
God
in
a
fad
condition
is
fweete
melody
in
the ears'of the moll
High.
Thirdly
,
Take heed of
a
Mien
dogged
difpofition,
either
towards God
or man
in
thy forrowes
:
It
is very
ufùall for
men
in
a
troubled
condition
,
when
they
are
in
for
row
to
add
frowardnff
to
mourning,
but
we should labour to take
heed
of
this.as
a
great
evilI, labour for
a
quiet
and
meeke
4pirit.
Men
when
they are pleafed
,
then
they
are
merry
and
chear
full,
and
of
a
very good difpofition
,
but
when they
are
in af-
flìbtion, when they are
in
pain
or forrow
, then they
are
rug
ged
and
dogged,
fo
that no
man knowes how
to
fpeake
to
them
almoft, they are
fo-
froward and
tutchey
,
this
is a
ve-
ry ill
dif
:ofition, and
God
doth not
allow
of it
in
trouble
of
fn.
Fourthly, Take heed
of
determining
againft
a
Comfortable
condition
in
forrow,that
it
will
never
come
;
fay
not that com-
fort
will
never come,
becaufe thou haft
it
not
for
the prefent
;
And therefore
when
Comfort doth
come,
many are
fo
unto-
ward
that
they
will
not receive
it ,
becaufe
they
will
make
their
determination good. God
fàith
to
fuch
a
foule,
Peace
be
to
thee
;
but
faith
the
foule
,
This
is
too good newes
to be
true,
I
will
not receive
it
becaufe
I
will make
my
determina-
tion
good
;
As
Rachel, who
refuted to be Comforted
;
fo
many in
their trouble of fpirit refute comfort from the word,
this
is
unkind dealing
with
God. In
the
1
ç
of job
11.Seeme:h
the
Confolations
of the
Almighty afmall thing
to
thee
;
know
that
the Lord
expeols
that thou
fhould'f}
thankfully
fall
downe
.
and
accept of
a
cruet of
mercy
that
he
tenders to thee
;
looke
upon thy unworrhineffe
,
that
thou
art
unworthy
that
Cod
Ihould fpeake
a
word of Comfort
to
thee
,
but
if
the Lord
shall
come
in
wih
his
Confolations of
Free Grace
ivellcome
them,
blefre
G
od thou
mayeft
have mercy
upon
any
termes
;
As