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How
mourners fhould order
their
mourning.
with much
prayer,
for
let
thy flare
be what
it
will
;
thou wilt
fay
thou art
brought into
Inch a
flare
as
thou canft
not but
niourne
:
Ile
grant
it,
but
know
this
is
an
everlafling rule
to
be
obferved
in
fuch as will
mourn
in
a
chriffian way,
there
mull
be
a
proportion of prayer
to their
forrow,
if
there be
but
little
prayer,
let
their
be
but
little
forrow,
if
much forrow much
prayer,.I find in
Scripture that mourning
and
praying are
joyned
much
together
:
If
any
man
be
afftill
ed
let
him pray,
faith the
Apoíìl
jtimer,
and in
that
of
the
a
2
of
Hof
about
the
3
or
4,
The Text
faith concerning Jacob,
That
he
wept
and
made fup-
plication
:
weeping
and f.
=application
are
joyned
together
;
and
afiìîted
and praying
are joyned
tope
-.her
;
and
fo
you
read in
2
judges that the people of
God
did
fo
mourne and
weepe,
that
the-very place
hid
its
denomination from
their weeping,
It
was called Roachim, and
they
facraficed there
unto
the
Lord,
but
that's added to it,and they facraüced there unto the Lord:
for
one
to
be
in
fuch
a
mourning eflate
as
makes them
unit
for
facrafice,makcs
them
un
it
for prayer,certainly
that
mourn
-
ing
it
is
not
a
godly
forrow, thou
haft
gone.
beyond the mourn-
ing
oftrue
gracious forrow
if
fo
be
that
it
doth
hinder thee
from prayer. That
thou
canfl
not power forth thy
foule
with
that freedome before God
as
at
other
times, take
heed of
any
fireh
mourning,there
is
a
notable Scripture
in
Ezra
the
y.
where
aali
raid that
holy man
Ezra
in
much
afii6tion,
with
much
-forrow
-and
eroublc,
fo
that
he
fat
aflonied,
ver..
4,
INN'
in
verf. ,5..
At
the
evening
facrafice
I
orate up
from
my
hea-
vi_ne
fe ;
Arthe
:evening facr
.lice,
when
the-Lime
came for him
to, offer
facral:ce,then
he
did
arife from
his
heavineffe,
his
tuoúrning
did
not
hinder
him
in duty
When
thy
heart
is
fo
freighttted
in
thy;mourning,
pretend
what
thou
wilt
for
thy
mourning,;
thy
unworthineffe
orfinfullneife
or
any
thing,
elfe,
yet
if,it
llreightetas thy
heart
in
prayer it
is
no godly
forrow
add m
cb prayer
to
much mourning,when
any
comes unto
you,
you
are
alwayes
complaining
of
your
of
liecions,and
you
mourn
more then
your
neighbours,
but
doe yoitpray
morethen
your
neighbours
doe,
doetiou'pray as;muchas
youdoe complain.
is
there
a
proportion
-
between
your
praying
and complaining,
certainly