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Rules in
Peekng
after
Comfort.
137
frould
prefume in taking
Comfort
;
but
take
this
rule,
If
the
taking
Comfort
makes
thee more iencible
of
thine
unwo
thi-
neffe,thatf;nce
of
thine unworthinefle fhould
noc
hinder thee
from taking
hold
of Comfort
:
And that might be the
lira
rule
of
Dire
Lion as
well
as a
rule
of
encouragement
to
thofe
that
mourne.
for
fin.
But yet further
,
There
are divers
rules to
helve thofe
that
are
mourners, bow to
order
their
fpirics
in feeking
Comfort.
And
the
lira
rule
is
,
Labour for
a
quiet
pacienc
heart
,
for
forrow
is
tedious
to
flesh and
blood ,
but
now
the
forrow that
is for
fin
bath
a
mixture of the
Grace of God
with
it,
And
therefore
if
mourning for
fin
comes
to
make
the
heart to
be
impatient,
to
fret
and
Vex
,
it
is
nor
right
;
But mourning for
fin
it
bath
a
iweetneffe
in
it,
and
therefore
it
lhould
make
thee
patient
under.
Gods
hand, waiting
for
the time
when
God
will
ipeake Comfort
to
thy foule
;
Lord here
I
lie,and
am
fencible
of
1ó
great
an
evill
that
is
upon
me,
that
I
know all
the crea-
tures
in
heaven and
earth cannot Comfort me
in
this
conditi
on wherein
I
am,and
therefore
I
am
waiting for the good
d#,-
for the
time of
love
,
when thou
(halt fpeake peace
to
my
foule.
And here
I
refolve
to be
waiting upon
thee
in
the
ufe
of
all
meanes
as
I
am able
-,
till
my
laft
breath
what
ever be-
comes
of
me
:
Let
that
be
a
rule
for
Direction
how
to
order
thy
heart
when thou
art
in
a
mourning
Condition.
And
then-a-fecond
rule is
this;
Doe not
onely lie
poreing
upon.the
dungeonthat
thou
art
in,
as
it
were,,
but
whip
thou
art mourningfor
fn,
though
yet
thou hall nor
affurancethat
thy
fins
be
forgiven
thee,
yet
looke
up
to
the promife,
it
may
be thou th
nkeft.
it
do~la
not
belong
to
thee
,.
but let thine
eye
lze
upon
it,
Ioóke
up
to the brazen
Serpent
,.
if
fin
h
th. flung,
th_e
;
1-ßs
-thof.
,
that were
flung
in
the wildernçfs
loo'kt
ut?
to
the
brazen Serpent
,
,prefent
the Covenant of Grace to
the
foule
:
As
the prefenting of the
Law
hath
a
power to
terri`ie
the
heart
, fo
the prefenttn of the
3ofp.el,
it
hath
.a
power
tc
draw
the
heart
to
it..
There
in,t'.ie
grace
Pi
the
ofte1 when 'tic
beheld
It
is
nor as
á
m ere
ob-
jeel
for the
eye `or und_rflanditng.,.
batr'the.e
is,
a
vertu,
in
lt;