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What true
mourning
for
fin
is.
t
21
certainly
if there
be
not
a
proportion
between
praying
and
cómplaining, hold your
peace,
complain
no
further,
but pray
more
many
other
rules
might
be
given,
but
we
leave
them
and
proceed
unto
that
which
yet
raifes
the
Text
in
a
more
fpiritvall fence.
Bleffed
are
thole
that mourn.
I
have fpoken"now
hitherto,
about thofe
that
have been
in
à
Mourning
condition,
and
behaved themfelves gracioufly
in
that
mourning
condition
:
and have
thowne
how
they were
Waled,
and how
they fía1í be comforted
:.But
now
that that
is yet
more fpirïtuall
in
the Text is,
That
if
thole that are
in any
mourning
condition
behaving
themfelves
gracioufly
are
bletied,
and (hall
be
comforted:
Then
certainly thofe that mourn
for fin,
that
makes
that
to
be
the
objecT
of
their
mourning,
their
own fins, and
the
fins
of
others,
and
the
aoeieiions
of
the Church,
thofe
that
make
there
to
be the obje
&s
oftheir
mourning, they are
bletfed indeed
&..
they
fhall be
comforted
:
-----
In
fpeaking
of thefe
I
doe
not
intend
to
lanch
out into that
argument,
or
common place
of
godly forrow,
to handleit at
large,
but'
I
(hall
only
open
to
you
fomthing about fpirituall
ourners,
that nmurne
for
their
fins
and the
fins
of
others.
-
Therefore
I
thalí firft (hew
you
what
true
mourning for
fin
is,
when
a
man or woman may
be
faid
to
mourn for
fin
in
a
gracious
manner
--
--
Secondly,
Wherein
they
may
be accounted to be blef-
fed
--
Thirdly,What
are
the comforts that belong to
fuch
mour-
ners
for
fin
-----
For
the
Finti
then, the true
mourning for
fin
is
in
this manner.
Firfi,
When
a
foule mourns for fin
becaufe
it
is
aainíl
God,
in
the
51
Pfi1.4.Agaitzfl
thee, thee
only
have
I
finned,fairh
Da-
vid.
David
had finned
againfi
Vriah,'
and.his
kingdome,
and
againti
his
own
foule, but
above
all
he had
finned againfi
God,
and this went:neerefi
to
his
heart, that
it
was
againll
thee,
and
R
he