Background Image
Table of Contents Table of Contents
Previous Page  505 / 1054 Next Page
Information
Show Menu
Previous Page 505 / 1054 Next Page
Page Background

Why

mcurnerr

for

fan

a!re

bleffed.

'MK_ t

X27

then

to

forrow -for

fin

when

there

can

be

no

helpe, if

i

o

be tha

thou

fink

paffe

thy dayes

away

in mirth and

jollity

here,

and

never

come

CO

feele the

weight

of

fin

upon thy

fpirit,

thou

art

referved

to

have eternall forrowes to

be

thy portion,

and

to

have

the

load

of

thy

fin

to

lye upon

thee to

all

eternity.

But

blefjed

are

they

that

mourne

now,,.

that feelewhat

the

burden

of

their

fin

manes,.

for by feeling

the burden

of

it

now,

they

feele

it

in loch

a

time wherein they may have hope

of

being

delivered

from

that

evill of

fin

to

all

eternity,

and

therefore

certainly

they

are

hlefled

:

Surely

blefled

they

are,

for how

many thoufands

of creatures

of

men andwomen

that

have

liv'd

fecurely and

have

gone

on

all

their

lives

in

the

hardneffe

of

.

their hearts,

and

never

have been-made fenfible

oftheir fin,yet

upon

their

ficke and

death

-beds,

then they

have

cryed

out of

their fin,

and

the

Lord

hath withdrawne himfelfe from

them

:

-

xiow

I

would

appeal

tofuch.a one, would

you.have

thought

it

a's,

blared

thing

h

you had

had

the

weight

of

fin

upon your foules

before,

in

the time of

your

health

and

lfrength

:

you

(hall hear

.

them

upon

their

lick and

death-beds cry,Oh

happy

had

it

been

for me

that

I

had

known

the

evil

of

fun

before?ohow happy.had

it

been for

me

that

thofe times

that

I

fpent

in jollity,

in mirth,

in

Taverns, with

fuch

and

fuch

company, had

I

but fpent thofe

times

in mourning formy

fin, had

I

beenbut

alone, and onely

God

and

my foule

together

and

there

lamenting for my

fin

;

how

happy had

it

been for

me,

I

should

now have had

comfort

and

peace

now

I

am laid

upon my fick

-bed, but

I

wa

led

by

fence, and

by

the fleíh,and

fo

fought

to fatisf

e

the

lulls

of

thee;

flefh,

and

I

mull

live

merrily

and

bravelyhere

fora

while and

now

theweight

of

fin

comes upon

me,

now

I

feele

it

a

load,the..

Lord

be

mercifull

to

me,

now comes

into

my

mind

all

the

fins

of

thy

merry meetings,

allmy oaths

and

Sabbath-

breakings, all

-

my drunkennefl'e and whoring, all my lying,

all

my negle&

of

God

and

his

wor

fhip,

it

had

been

better

for

me

that

I

had

been mourner before

:

'Therefore

Blef

jèd

are

they

that

mourn.

Sixthly;

.and

then

laffly,

it's that that

firs

for

the

grace

of

God,

there's

none

that

tall

the fweetneiìe of

the`race

of

God

in.Chrift,

more

then

thofe thavare mourners for

fin,

now

one

drop: