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why
mourners
for fin are
hleffed.
upon himfelfe
as
honoured
;.
when
as
a
firmer
goes
on in
a
proud
ftubborne
flit-Fe
way in-his fin,
he goes
in
a
way
of'de-
fiance
againfi
the great
God,
and
doch
deny
the
honour
that is
due to the
great
Cod
:
But now
when
the word
of
i,od
comes
and
beates
down this finner, and
aifie-tit
it
for
the
fin
it
hach
committed,
and
it
lyes
downe flat before
the
Lord,
mourning,
and lamenting
that
ever it
hath
finned
agaiiail
the Lord,
here
the
name
of the great
holy and
jufl
God
is
advanced,
and
blef-
fed
are
they that
ihalladvance the
name
of
God
thus
:
thou
fhouldefl
have
advanced
the
name of
Cod
by
thine obedience,
but
thou hafl
not
done, but
hail
dishonoured
it
by
thy difobe-
dience
;
Now
if
thy
heart
be willing
to
advance
it
by
thy
mourning,
There
is a
bleffedneife.
Secondly,
It
is a
bleffed thing
to
mourne for
fin,
becaufeit'
is
an Evangelic.all
grace,
it's that
that
is
promifed
in
the
Go.
fpel,
when Chrifl faith,
Ile
fend the Comforter,
what
Gall the
Comforter
do
?
The
Fall
work that
the Comforter
Gall
do,it
flail
be to
convince
the
world
of fin
:
You will
fay,
here's
a-
Comforter indeed,
what
to
come and comfort
us
by
convince-
Mg
usoffin,
it
is the
way
of the
Comforter,
and
therefore it's'
a
blef
ed
thing
;
there
is
nothing more Evangelical!'
then faith
and
repentance, mourning
for
fin
in this way
that
I
have
fpo-
cen
it
is
no
legall thing,
its
nor
a
worke
of
the
Law,
the
Law
takes no
notice
of
Mourning
for fin,but
it
is
a
work
of the
Spi-
rit
o
(god, of
the c4rtförting Sl,irit,
to
convince
the world
of
fin
;
and
therefore
by
the
way, when
as
you
come
to
hear
fuch
preaching
of the
word
as
gets int6your boromes,and
convinces
you
of
f
n,
be not
vet
and
trot,bled at
it
for now comes
the
holy Ghofl
that
is
the
Comforter,
it
is
the
firfl
vvorke
of
the
holy
Choll
that
it
the
Comforter ofthofe
foules
that
{hall
be
fav'd
to
convince
the vorld.of
their
fin,and
therefore embrace
it,and
bleffe C od for it,now comes
the
holy
Ghoft,and comes
to
make way for
comfort unto
nay
foule:,
In-
the
I
2.
Zech:
I
will
powr out
the
(pint
of Grace 'and
(topplica-
tion,
and
V'at'
h.n
?
and
they
(hall
loohe
upon
him
ahom
they
have
peirced, wish
their
fins,
and
mourne
and
lament as
one.that
laments.
for
his
one!) fön,
It
is
-a
fruit of the
fpirit
of
grace and
fttp-