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Mourners

[hall

be

Comforted.

makes

to

be chiefe

iii

Paddles

and Towns or

Cities,

and

puts

into

your hands

to

(top

the

courfe

of

fin

in

the

place where

you

live,

now

if

yout hearts

be not toucht

with the

(ins

óf

the

pla-

ces where

you

live,

how unfit

inflruments.

will

you

be

for

-

the

honour

of God;for

the

floppingof

fin;

No

ua.irvaile

though

men

in

place care

little

what

becomes,

of

things:

let

things go which

way

they will

if

they

May

get

any

gaine,

why

to this

day

they

never

knew what

it

was

to

be

in

a

clofet alone,

between

God

and

their

íouleslamenting

for

the

fins

of the

places

where

they

live

;But'bleifed

are

they that doe

fo,

for

they

are the

i

nf}rus-

ments that

God

doth ufe,

and

that

he

delights to

employ in

much

.-vice.

rind

then

they

/hall

be

comforted, theft

that

doe

thus

wourne.

For Firfi, In

publick calamity

they (hall be

hid;

as

we.

know

Jere'miah, he

was

a

great

mourner for

the

fins

ofothers,

and

in

the

I

5

Jere:

r 1.

v.

The Lord

makes

a

prornife

to

h

in

in

the

time of

publick

calamity be

hid,

read the

9

Jere:

be-

ginning,

and

fo

on, and you (hall find him

bitterly

lamenting,

O

that

his

head

were

waters

and

his

eyes

a

fountaine

of reares,

-&

that he'

had

a

cottage

in

the wilderneffe

:

indeed

it

is

in

parc

for

the

flame

of

his

people

;

but

it

is

for

their

fins

likewife

:

and

in

the

t

5

Jere:

11,.

v. God

promifes

that

he (hall he hid

:

and

that

place in

the 9

Eze;is

famous

;The Lord

would have

one with

a

Pen

and Inkhorn

go

and mark all

them

that

mourn

for the

fins

of others, take notice

of them

faith

-God,

what-

foever calamity doth befall

the

place where

they live,

Ile be

mercifull to them,

one way or

other Ile provide

for

them.

And then

fecondly, Thou

(halt be' comforted,

know .thou

that

art

a

mourner

for

the

fins

where thou livefi,

that within

a

little

while

all

the wickedneife ofmen

{hall

be fubdued,

all

(hall be brought under

fo

as

Godihail

not

be

difhonoured. by

the

fins

amen

as

now he

is,

all

the refufe

(hall be call

upon

the dunghil, there

(hall be nothing

but

rejoycing at

the righte-

ous

Judgements

of

God

upon

wicked men

:

indeed

now when

we

fee

God

dishonoured

by

wicked

men

that

live

among

us,

we are

to

moutne,

butthere

is

a

time

coming

that there (hall

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