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.An

Exhortation

to

mourners

forfin,

151

you mourne:

--

you know what

the great

rnifchiefe

is-

that

fun

::

doth

in

the

world,fin

makes

the

whole

creation

togroanundet

R,,;

84,,,

22;,

the

burden

of

it,and

(hall

n

-t

yen-be

fenlble of

fo

much

evil

óf.

fun

as

remains

in

your

hearts,

you

know

that

fin is

a-greater.

ev

l

then

all affliziions

whatfoever,

and

therefore doe

you

mourne

;

go

under the

burden of

fin

with

a

heavie

heart

as

long,

as

you.

live, 'tis not

loiw

that God

bath

to glorifie himfelte

in,

your forrow,it

Will

not

be

long

but

you

flail

be

delivered

from

your

fin

:

but

fo

long

as

you have this

body

of

fin

about

yóu,.

God expel

s

mourning from

you

:

God

'expects from

younot

only

to

mourne for

your ovine

.m

but

to

mourn for

the:

fins

of others,

and

bleff

-ed

are they

that

doe

fo, they

(ball

be

cam-

Pried.

Fill,

We

are

to

mourn-

for

the

fins

of

others

:

we have

very

remarkable Scripture for this t

Ezra

9.

3.

O`

the

lamentable:

c,ondition

that

Ezra

was

in.for.the

fins

of

his

people,

he

Both.

rend

his

garments,

and fets

down

alloniíhed

for

,their

fin,

;

And

David

in

the 119.

I'

falme

5

3.

verf.

I

-lorrour

tales

hold'

upon

me,

(faith David,

what was

there

any

great judgement

neere

him

?

No,

horrour

bath

taken

hold

upon

me)

becaufe

of

the

wicked

that:

forfake

thy law: when he

beheri

the

wickedneffe.

of

men,

his

heart

was

ftruck with

horrour

becaufe they forfook

Gods

Law, and

ver.

a

36.

Rivers

of

Water

run

down

mire

eyes

becaufe they keepnot

thy Law

:

and

ver.

15

$

I

beheld

the

tranr-

greflours and was

grieved

becaufe

they

kept

not thy word:

Davidt

Spirit

was

in

a

very

bleffed'frame

when he

pen'd

this

Pfalmé,

and fee

how he is

affeaed

with the

fins

of

others,

and

in

that

famous

place, the 9. of

Ezeb.

el,there

you

find how

God

marks

thofe

that

mourn

for

the

fns

of

the

pliceswhere

they

live.And'

if

we looke

into the

New Teflament,there's

wain?,

more ful,

the

example of

Paul,

2

Cor:

1

2.

when-1-

come

Godfloall

humble

me,

and

I

fbail

bewaile

thofe

that

have

fined

;

and

that

place

is

famous,'

Peter

2'

7. It's

laid

of

righteous. Lot,

that

his

foule

was

vexed,

and

then

in

the

2.

ver:

it

is

laid, He

vexed'

rich

teous

foule

from

day

to

day

with

their

unlaw

full

deeds:

The word'

in

the

Greek is

different from

what

it

isin your books

:

in

the

a

word

that

fignifies

oppreff

'd

-as

muchas

ppre/b

the

foul,

3t

ú

t°Wavz.

it