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what

trig

mwir'ra.'ng

for

fix

is

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Chriil,

if

be that

you are

troubled

for

fin,

and

mourne,

ani

think thereby to

fatisfie

God

by your mourning,this

mourning

it

is

but

cam

all

and naturals

:

many

men

and women

when

they

are troubled

for

their

fin,

they think

God

will

be.

farisried;

no.,

all

the

mourning that pollibly can

be, if

thou

ihouldeft

mourne

thine

heart out,and

be mourning

thoufands

of

yeares

for

dhy

fin

it

could never

fatisfie

the

Jul

}ice

of

God,

all

thy mourning

will come

to

nothing except

is

drives

thee

to

Je;us

Chili

for

fatisf

action unto

Gods

Juftice,the

mourning for

fin

that drives

the

foule

to

Chrift that's the bleffed mourning

:

but

when

any

:man

or woman

fatisfies_

themfelves

in their

mourning

,

and

thinks

that becaufe

they

mourn

for fin

God

will

accept

of

them

,tvi[.hout

having

their hearts carryed unto

Chrii7c,this

mourning

will vanish and come

to

nothing.

Fifthly,

It

muff

be

fuch

a

mourning

as whereby_

the heart

conies

to be

fet

againft fin,

not mourne for

fin, and

live

in

fin,

not

mourne for

Cm

and

yet continue in the

practice

of it,

but

true

gracious

mourning

for

fin

makes an

everlafling feparation

between that

league that

there

was

in the

foul

and

fin

before

Every

man and woman

naturally haih

a

league

between

fin

and

their

foules,

but

when

God

comes

to

afflict

the

foule

for

fin

that

ir mourns in

a

gracious

way,the

foul is

made

fo fenfible

of

the evill

of

fin,

as

that

it

breaks

the league between

fin

and

the

foule

for ever

:

Ìf

God

faith

made

fin

to be

thus

bitter

to

me,

then

for

ever adieu,

through

the grace

of God,

though

I

may be

overcome

through

weakneife

yet

I

will renounce

it,

it

ets the

foule for

ever

againft

it.

Sixthly,

The true

gracious

mourning for fin,

it

is a

free

work in the foule,

the

foule

is active, that is,

it

it

not forced

upon

the

foule

whether

it

will

orno,

but

fuch

a

foule

as

loth

in

a

gracious

way

mourne for

fin,

it doth

willingly and

freely

apply unto

itfel

thofe

Scriptures

that

may make

fin

to be

bur-

denfome to

ir:It

doth

nor

turne

away

from thofe Scriptures,

and thofe

rr,

:ths,

but

if

fo

be

it

hear; of

any

truths,

or

read

any

Scripture

t:-:at

may

matte

finto

be

heavy

to

it,

it

a

-plyes

thofe

freely

and willingly,

it

is

glad

that it

comes

to

hear

any

truth

ofGod

that

11

all

difcover the

evi

ll

of

it's

ovine

fm

into

it,

fo

R

y

it