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The
Comforts
of true
nlo9drners,for fs'n,
foul,
and,
thou
Art
weake and unable
to
doe much, but
cánft
thou mourn,
know
that mourning
(being
fuch
mourning
as
bath
been
of:ened
)
it
is
a
iacrahce unto
üod
as
acceptable
as
any
facratce
thou
(anti
tender
up
unto,him,
fo iñ
the
5
r
`Pfal,
I
be
Sacritf
cet
of
God
area
Grog
'
heart,
a
brok
4
and
a contrite
fpirit
thou
wilt
not
defii
fc:Th
y
are inflead
of
alt
ficrifices,
therefore
when
thou
hall no facrafice
to tender
up
to
God,
yet
haft
rhounat
a
broken
fpiric
for
thy
fin,
God
highly ef}eemes
of
char,
yea
let
me
tell thee this, there
is
nothing
that God e-
fleerne..
more
then the
teases
of
a
broken
heart, then
that that
comes
from
a
broken
f;.irit,
and
that
is a
bleflîng, for godly
farrow comes from faith
As
well
as
from fence
of
fin,
I
fay
no-
thing
next
to
the blood
of JefusChrifl
that
is
in
hyer efleeme
by
Codthenthis,
and-
therefore
thou
mayef},have
comfort for
the prefent.
Seventhly know,.That however the difference of
fin is
a
great matter
in
our -eyes, and
it
fhould be
fo,we
fhould
labour
to
look
upon
our
firm
the
greatness of
it,
with
all
its
aggra-
vations,
yet
when
it
comes
into the
hand
of
Jefas Chriil to
fa-
isfie
for, greatand:fmaln
fins make.
no fuch
difference
with
him in
the-.
work
of
his
Mediation.
If
you
(pill
water
in
a
houfe out
of
a
paile
it
makes
a'great
(hew,
but there
is
no
great difference
fenne
if
you
powre it into
the Thames
;
fo
'though in our Confeiences the difference offin
is
much,
yet
when
it
comes
to
(he
Infinite
Sea
of
the mediation
and fatif-
-
fielien
of Jefas
C
hrif};
and
theGrace
that,
is
thère; the
diffe-
rence is not
-fo
much.:
0-
that
onely
fuch
as
area
mourners
for
.fin
might
heare
this,.
except
that
the hearing of it migbr
be
á
meaner to:break
the
hearts of others.
i.:
Eiihthiÿ,
Further
know-
this for
thy
Comfort,
That folong
ìas-
receiving-Comfort from
the,
word
makes
thee.fencibleof
thine
uneorthinef1e, that fence
of thine
unworthiticile fhould
not.
hinder
thee
from taking
Comfort This
is
a
certain
rude,
when
the
taking
Comfort
makes
me
more fencible
of
mine un-
i
wo.
dinette,
then
the
fence
of
mine
-unworthineffe
Thould
not
binder
me from taking
Comfort
Fo this
is
the
gf.eat
m
titer
that
troublestho`;
-e
that
are
mourners,
they
a.
e
of ai(.:Ithauhf.:y
ftiould