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YYhere'n

mourners /hall

be

Comforted.

come upon, and will make

it

cleave and

lure to

thy foule

;

thy

pardon

is

fea1'd

in

Heaven

already

,

and

it

dial(

be ieal'd

in

thy

own;,

confcience

:

Though

there

be

a

man which

is

a

nu-

lefaêìor

and

condemn'd,to

die,yet

if

I

know

that

his

pardon

is

feal'd,

I

can looke upon him

as

a

Welled

:

So thou

gh

.hou

thy

felfe

doeft no: yet underftand

this

thy bleffedneiie, yet

thole

who

doe underhand the word of

God

,

and

underfland

the

mind

of

God

as

it

is

reveal'd

in

the

word

, fuch

know

that

thou art

a

bleffed

man, and

thou

flair

know

it

one

day.

Secondly,

Further, not

onely thou

(halt

be affüred

of thy

difcharge, but

in

the

fecond-

place

,

This mourning of

thing

for

thy fin, will caufe

God

to

pitry

thee

in any

mourning for

thy

afiidion,

and

the Lord

will fweeten the 'afflidions

of

fuch

unto them. The

reafon why our

aff,i

Lions are

fo

bitter

unto

us,

it

is

becaufe

fan

is

not

bitter

enough

,

but

rho''

e

that

rake

their

fin

as

a

burden;They feele that

the

Lord

will

piity

them

in-all

their

affiidions.

Thirdly

,

They

avail

be Comforted

in this

,

That

thy very

mourning

for

fin

than

be bleffed unto

thee to

helpe

thee

a-

giiníl

that

very

fin

that thou mournell

for

;

That's certaine,

either

a

mans fin

will make

an

end

of

his

mourning,

or

a

man;

mourning will make an

end

of

his

fin, one

of

the two.

If

fo

be

a

man goes on

in fin,

he

will'

leave

offmourning, but

if

he

doth

not

leave offmourning, he

willleave

off finning

;

for

certainly

mdürning for

fin

hath

a

fpeciall

efficacy in

it,

at

helps againfl

the

fin

that

thou

doell

niourne

for:This

bitter

Alloes that

now

thou hall,

is a

fpeciall meanes

for

the

helping

againfl

thofe

crawling wormer

that

are

in

thy

foule.

Fourthly,

But

above

all,--thou

art bleffed that mournefl

for

fin,

for

thou'

(bait be

one day wholy

delivered

from

rhy

fin,

when

thou

(halt never

fin

more

againfl

God

;

And

will

not

that be

a

bleffed

time,

will not

that Comfort

the

;

certainly

there

is fuch

a

time

:

Now

to

open

there particulars

with

Scriptures,

and

to

inlarge

them

-would

aske a

great deale

of

time,

wihiéh I

am

not

willing

to

doe

here, but

flail

goe on

in the.opening of this

Sermon of

Chrii`l.

Vfe.

Nowt/

then

by

way

of

Application

for

this.

S

Hence