537 / 1054
Mourne
for
the
a
flitlion of
the Church.
reproach,
no, but
in
way
of
lamentation,
becaufe
thefe
evills
have
been
fo Much
againfl
Gpd
and
again{}
the
publick
good,
ô
if
we
could
lay
afides
our wrangling
a
while,
and fall
a
mourning in one
mothers
bofomes, reformation would go on.
in another manner then
now
it
doth.
And
here's
yet
a
further evill,
we
have
fame
caufe
to
mourn.
for mens mourning,
that is, men mourne becaufe they cannot
have
their
wills,
and
they
mourne
meerely out of
a
kind of fpi-
rk
of revenge,
and make many
times their
very falls
to
be
fails
for
firife;
we should
mourne
(I
fly)
for our
mourning
And
thus much for this
that
lies
fo
full
in
my
Text,
Wed
ed
are
they
that
mourn, fuch
as
can thus
mourne are bleffed
;
O
that
this fpirit
of
mourning
were
upon
us.
And
then
the next, that is, the laft
point,
in
my
text,
Ir
is
thole that
mourne for
the
affiielions of¡the
Church,
as
well
as
otherwife:
Bleffed
are
'thofe
that
mourns
for them:
and
we find
it
in Scripture
to
be
the
way
ofthe
Saints
likewife
to mourn;
much for
the
afktions
of
Gods
people.
;
As in
the
i
of
Nehe:'
Though
Nehemiah
were
at
the
Court
hitnfelfe,
and
had
a
great
place,
and was
at eafe,
and had aboundance
of riches, yet he
looks
fad,
and would
not
have
the
King
to
wonder at ir, when
as
it
was fo
ill
with
the
Church,
and
a
notable Scripture
we-
have in
the
i
y of
Luke,:
even
in
our Saviour
Chrifl
:
It's
a
ver y
remarkable Scripture, when
Chrif#
came
neer to
"crap/Lem, he
wept,
both
becaufe
of
their
fin, and
the
mil
ry
that
was
coming
upon
them,
and
faid,
O
if
thou
had'ft
know!
at
teaft in
this
th
day the
things
that
concerne
thy
peace,
but
now
they
are hid
from
thins
eyes
:
Mark
this,
at
what
time Chrift
did
this, it
was
not'
in
a
time that
Chrill
was
in
any
great
affiielion himfelf`e,
for
you
(hall findthat
when
he
did
thus
lament,
ver.
36, 37.
It
was
when
they cut
down boughes and
firewed them
in
the
way
.
and cryed'Hofanna to,him,
it
was
at
that time
when
they ho-
noured Jefus Chrift moll
;
and
yet
that
did not
take
up
his
heart
fo
as
not
to
be
affee
&ed
with
the
miferies
of
others
;
and
faith the
text,
As
he
meat
they
fpread the<rgarments
in
the
way,.
others
cut
down
branches
from
the trees,
and
/'crewed
them in
the
way,
and
theñststitude
that
went before,
and
that
followed,
éryed"
fayrng,,