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he
comfr.-rts
of
moasrrers
for
fn,
is his
chief
glory,
and
the
greateít
defigne
that ever God
had
was
to magntt,e
his
freegráce,and
therefore
thou mayell be
urheld
in thy
mourning
for thy
finiIf
a
child have
a
loving
and
nmerciul
father
and
mother,
and
the child ihould get
alone in
a
roome and
fall
a
w
inging of its hands, mourning
and
lament-
ing,
C
-chat
I
can
doe,
do more to
pleale
my Either and
mother,
cr
that
I
could
doe more to give them comen:,
á
chat
I
should
doe
2n
y
thins that ihould
be
a
griefe
to
my father
And
Mother,
thi>
is
that that goes
to
my
heart,
fuppofè
thou-
fhouldelt
look
through a'key hole,and
fee thy
child
thus mourning
and lamen-,
tins
and wringing
of
its hands for
this,
that there
ihould
be
any
griefe
co
your
hearts
;
and
you
ihould
know
that they did
it
in
truth)
that-
it.were
no:
a
meere
hypocritical)
thing,
but
in
die
very truth of the
heart
of
the Child there
was
this
for
-
row
and
mourning, would
you
that have but
any
compatlons. in
you,
would
you
not
have your hearts yearn towards
this child
now from whence
is
it that
you have any
yearning in your
hearts
towards
it,
is
it not from
a
drop
of
that compafon
that the
Lord
who
is
an
infinite ocean ofmercy bath
let
out
unto
you
take
all
the
compallions
of
all
the Parents that ever were
in
the world,
and
they
are unto
God
but
as
a
drop to the
infinite
ocean)
and
therefore the Lord
lookes upon
the
bewailing
of
thy
fin,
'and
that
thou canít
doe
no
moreto
pleafe
him,but
doll
that
which
is
a
griefe
to
him, he
looks upon
thee
in
thy
mourn
-
ing,
and
he holds
his
bottle,
and.
every
teare
in
thy mourning
thus
for
fin
drops
into
the bottle of
God.
Secondly,
know thou hall
to
deale
with
God
in a Covenant
of
grace,
had
+thou
to deale
with
God,
as
he
-is
Creator
now,
and
thou
a
creature,
in
the
way of
the Covenant
of
works,thou
-overt
undone, and
all
thy
mourningwould be
to little
purpofe,
if
thou thouldít-howle
out
all
thy
for thy
fin
Gód
would
never regard
it
;
Thou mightell mourne
to
eternity,
and
yet
be tormented
to eternity,
but
thou hall
to
deale
with
God
in
the
way
of
the Covenant
of grace that he
bath
made
with poor
finners to
Jefus
Chrifi,
and
there
mourning
for fin
is
accepted
if
thou goeíl
into the
pretence
of God
with
the guilt
of
thy
fin
upon the
confidering how
holy
and righteous
the
Lord is,
little