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Why

we

muff mourn

for

other

mens

fins:

our

owrie

fires

as

for

the

fins

of

others,

though

indeed

there's

more

caufe why

we

should niourn for our

ovine

fins then fór

others,

yet there

is

more

fincerity in mourning for

others fins,

.`then

for

our

ovine.

And then

Secondly,

By

mourning for

other

mens

fins

thou

-doefi

free thy

felfe

from the

guile

of

them,

how calla thou

that

livell

in

a

Nation

or Family be

free

from

the

fins

of

chofe

that

thou doeft

converc

withal!,

if

thou

doff

not

mount

for them,

but

now when thou

calif}

mourne for

the

fir

of

orhers,thou

doff..

free

thy

felf

from

the guilt ofthem,

and efpecially when thou

mouïnftfor

the

fins

of

fuch

as

are

.

in relation

to

thee,

then

thou doll free

thy felfe from

the guilt of

thofe

:

As

it

may

be

there's

fuch

a

Godly

child whole eyes

God

hath opened

to

fee,

his

own fins, and

he

mourns-

for them

;

O

but

he

thinks

with

hirnfelfe will

ever

God

be merciful!

to

me that came of

such a'

flock,

I

have fuch

a

Father

or

Mother that

is fo

prophane,

a

Drunkard,

a

Swearer,

a'

Scorner,

and

I

am

atfraid that the

Lord

will

vifit the

fin

of

my

Father

upon

me

;

Now

thou

that art

a

child,hafl

no

way

to

be

deliver'd

from

the

guilt

of the

wicked

neifc of thy

Father

and

Mother,or

thy forefathers,but

by

mour-

ning

for

them,

bath

God

pul'd thee

out

of

a

wicked flock,

now,

God

doth

expect

that

thou

ihould'ft

mourn and lament for

the

fins,

of

that

flock

:

and

fo

thou liveff in

a

wicked family, and

the

Judgements of God

may

come

upon

the

family

for

it's

fin,

.

why

thou

canif

not free thyfelfe

but

by mourning-for

their

fins,

as well

as

thy

ovine

:

and

blefled art

thou

if

thou doeff fo,

if

thou

doll

mourne for

their

fins,the

Lord

will

not

vifit

their

fins

upon

thee.

And

then Thirdly,

Pleffed are they

that doe

mourn for

the

fìns`of

others,

becaufe by this meanes they make themfelves

fit

inflruments

of

God,

to

vied

by

God

to

helpe

againff

the

fins-

of

others

;

No

men

are lush

f-

inflruments of

God

to

do

God

fervice,

to

flop

the

courfe

of

the

fins

of

others,

as

thofe

that

take them

to

heart

:

and

therefore

above all

men, men

in

pub

-

lick

place, that

God

makes ufe

of

to

flop the courfe

of

wicked

nefle

they fhould

be men

that

fhould

be much exercifed with

this

grace of

mourning for

the

fins

of others

:

You

that God

makes