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The
comforts
of
mourners
for
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heavie and melancholy
;
it
is
the
worke,
of
the
Spirit
of
God
that laies
that
weight
of
fin
now upon
the
foule,
bv.aufe
the
Lord intends that
this foule !hall be
bletfed to
all
Eternity
And
doe
not thinke
it
a
foolifhthin;
for
people to
be trou-
.bled
for
their
fin.
Ile
give
you
but two
Inlfances
:
----
Firft,
again{i
Melancholy
and
then
again!+
folly
:
-
-
For Me-
lancholy, who doe
we
read
that
had
more
furrow for
fin
thon
David
had,
read
his
Penitential! Pfalmes; the
38
Plat: the
r.
PP':
and
the 6
FM:
what
a
grievous !Arden
h,
found
fn,
and how he
mourned for
it
;
And
yet the text
faith
concern
-
inn
David,
That
he was
of
a
ruddy
Complexion,
and of
an
alive
fpint:
And
then,
for
Folly; there
is the
88
Pfal.
I
doe not
find
any
Pfalme wherein we
may
fee'an
example
of
a
Godly
man more
under
forrow and
affii
&ion, then
the:Pen-
man
of
that
Paine
was
(
namely
,
Heman)
read but -the
i
Kings
4.
3i
v
and you all
find
that the
holy
Ghoft
Both
fet
out
Heenan
as
one
ofthe
wifefl
men
upon earth and
yet
in the
88
Pfalm:
which
this Heman
did
pen,
we
find
him
a
man
under
as
much furrow and
affli&ion
as
any, and
efpecially
for
fin
;
Therefore it's not
folly
but bleffednefíe
;
It
is
a
worke
of the
Spirit
of
Chrifl
:
--
But
the
maine
thing is
that that
I have
to
f
yeak
to
fuch
as
are
mourners.
And
Firíl
to
tell
there what
their
comforts are,
that
are in Scrip-
ture,
which we find in
the word of
God.
And
then Secondly,
to
give
unto them
fome-
direelions
and
rules
how
to
feek for the applying of thofe comforts
to their
own
foules.
And
then-
Thirdly
to
Chew
whether our comforts that
we
have are right comforts or
no,
--
But for
the Firfl.
Not
let-
ting
;itch
Mourners goe
away
without
fome
portion:
Is there
any
here
whole.hearts are
dotivne
and low
before
God
in
a
mourning
condition, certainly
there
is
comfort for
thy
foule,
there's
comfort
many
wayes.
Ftrfl
know for
thy comfort
thou
haft
to dealewith
a
God of
inSnire
grace and
mercy, thou lookell
upon
God
as
a
God
full
of
wrath
and;uffice, but
thou,
haft
to
deale
with
a
God of
in-
finite'merc
,
that deli
hts
in
mercy, with
a
God
-whole
mercy
S
a
is