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why

they

are

blef

jed

that

mourn

for

others

afjliElions

that

are the

wirneffes

for the truth,

have çaufe

to

prophefie

e-

ven

in

fxck cloth

now

;

O

if we

did

but understand the

wofull

evil!

and

miseries

of

warre

it

is

an

evill that

bath aboundance

of

evills

(

as

it were

)

in the belly of

it

It's

the

cup

òf

Gods

anger,

and

the

wine

thereof

is

red,

it's

as

red

even

as,

blood

and

it's

a

mixt wine

;

The ingredients

in

the cup are

murder

&

robbery;

and

rape,

and

deflowering,

and

cruelty,

and

torment

and

famine,

and

peftilence

;

there are the ingre-

dients

in the cup,

and

therefore

though

we

fet

here

in our

hou-

fes

quietly

&

find

not

the

woful

evills

of

this civili

warres,

yet

others

can

tell

us,did

you

but

fee

thofe doleful! mifer

i,ts

that

they

fee

:

mcn

tirt

were of good

ran'-(e

and

fail-,ion,

that

liv'd

comfort bly,

anc

were of

pt.blick

ufe

and

emin

L

:.Saints

how

they

are

driven

from

their

boufe and

hone

like,

bruit

beafts

;

O

fiaould we

but

fee what bath

been cone in

Irci

tad,

they

cry

to

us,

Ö

you

that

paffe

by,

is

it nothing

Lo

you all

that

we have fuffered,

was

there ever

forrow like out sorrow.

It

might

be

of

very

great

de

ro lay

open

the

wof°

11

taifery

of

o-

thers

:But

Ile inew

you

howbletfed

are

thole that do

mourn

for

the affEtions

of

others

:

They

are

blot

ted.

Firít,Becr

ufe

they

have much

of

the

Spi ir

of

Chrift

in

them,

theirs

is fuck

a

kind of Spirit

as

jet

us

Chrift had when he

liv'd

upon

the

earth,

and

this

was

a

bleffed Spin

.

Secondly,

They

doe

evidence that they are

members

of

the

fame

body,

thou

that

cánft

heare of the

wofull

evills

that

the

Churches.fuffer,

and

not mourne,

thou doff

evidently declare

to

all

the world, and

God

tells thee

to thy

confcience

that

thou

art

but

á

dead

member,

and

not

a

living member

of

the

Body

,of

Jefus

Chrift,but

when your hearts

can

be

affe&ed

with

the

miferies

of

the Churches,

you

-have

evidence

to

your

fquls

that

}-ou

are living

nierrbers

of

Jeius

Chrift

.

.

,

Atnd

then

blehed

are

you,5Becáufe

in

this

you

doe

walke

rúith

God, that

is,

you

obferve.Gods

way

;

When God

comes

in mercy

to

his

`'hurch

then

you can

rejoyce,

& when

God

is

in a way

of afFi&ing

then

yòumoi

ne,.,

I-fay

this

is

to

%valke

with

f

o1,ro

have

our hearts affeeled accoadirg-to the feverall

adminìflcrat ons

of

Gods

providence, and

Wed

are

they,that

walke with

God.

'

too