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what trae

mourning

for fin

is.

be repeats

it

againe,

thee,

thee

only

have

I

fznned,as

if

he

f

houki'

fay,

O Lord,

as

for

any

evil

fruits that

may come

ofmy

fin,

I.

Band

not

fo

much upon

thar,but

this goes

molt

to

my

heart

that

I

have

finned againtt fuch,a bleffed

God

as

thou

art,

I

have

gone crotfe

to

that

bleffed will of

thine

in

that

which

I

have

done

:

this

is

Godly

forrow,

not

fo

much

to

mourn,

becaufe

that

fin

Is

againft

thy felfe,

as

becaufe

it

is

againti

the

Welled,

God

whom thy foule

doth

love.

Seconoly,

The

fi

hçmourning

for

fins

it

is

tomournefor

fin

as

the greateft

evil

;

O

wrenched

man

that

I

am,

who

'hall

deliver mefrom

this

body

of death

?

Rom:7,

24.

You

never

find

Paul

crying out

of

hiinfelfe,

Owretchedman

that

I

am-

that

I

fuller

fo much

atiliClion

in the

world, that

I

am fo

defpifed,.,

that

I

have

Well

lotfes in

the world,

or

have

not

wayes

of out

ward

fubfiftance,

he never

cryes

out

for

his fuffering

but

for

his

fin.

O

wretched

man

that

I

am

who

fhall: deliver

me,?

his

greatelt

forrow

it

was

for

fin,

Thirdly,

Yet

Co

as

approving

of

the

Law

that

forbids

that

-

fin

:

I

find

my heart

of kted

for my

fin; and

in

the mid'fl

of

the

afflic

tion of

my

fpirit

for

fin,

I

approve

the

Law,

of God to

be

holy,

.to_:be

jilt

and

good,

though

I

be

wretched

and vile,,

Rom:

7.

12. where

Paul

had

a

great

confiiCt

hi

his owne

fpi-

rit,

much

troubled

for

the

corruption

that

was

in

him,

and

yet

then

did

he approve

the

Law

to be

holy and

righteous

:

Many

men

are

aftibted

for fin,and

their

fpirits are

agamft

the

holinefs

of

the

Law

that

forbids

the

fin,

they

could

wiih that

there

were

no

fuck.

Law,

indeed they

cannot

but be troubled

for

their

fin,

but

in

the

meane

time they

could

with that

there

were

no

fuck Law

that did

forbid

their

fin,

or

did

reveale

any

threatnings

of God againittheir

fin,

but

a

gracious

mo

=in;ng

heart that

mourns

for

fin is

apprehenfive

and

fenfible

of

all

he

evill

that

comes by fin,and

that

through

the

Law,and faith

the

foule;

I

would

not but that there

were.

filch

a

Law,

I

bieffe

God

that ever

I

knew the Law,

and

I

approve

of

the Law;

not

only

to

be

a

righteous

Law,

but

to

be"a'good Law,and

that's

the

third

thing in

true

mourning

for fin:

Tie

fourth

thing

is

this, That

it

carries

the

heart

to

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Chrif