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Rebuhg to
jollity
of
jpirit
in
fád
tiimr.
God
wouldgather them.
The
Saints
of
God
are reproachr,rhey
areperfecuced,
o:hers
can
re
;oyce
now,
but there
were
rhofe
that
accoumed
it
a
burden to
them,
and
to.
them the Lord
makes
agracious
promi.e.
Again, You that mourn fór the
afllicdion
of
the
Saints
are
bleßèd,
For
when
Go
,l
thail
bring
you in :o
atlüffuion,
God
will
own your foules !
iii
the day
of
affliction,
if
at
my time
your
children Íhould be
afflicted, your Beare
Wives c-c,
you
miy
with comfort
go
co
God
and
pray,
O Lord conforc
me
in
mine
affkition,
and
comfort me
in
the atfiLion.
of
my
Wife,
nay,
Children,
my
Father,
my
Mother,you
may
have
comfort
If-ay,
why, becauíe
you
did
mourn
for
the
afflictions
of
his
children.
Nay
faith
trod
here's
one
indeed that
is
afflicted, what
is
the
mans
child
or wife
under
any
affliction, why
I
remembee
when
my
children
were
affli:`ted, they
mourned
for my
children,
why now
their children
are afflicted,
ile
take
hrt
to heart
and
have
compaon
upon
there
in
their
4ihiction,
and
therefore
bleiihd
are they
that
rnourne.
Now
for
the
Application
of it.
Fid1,
It
iFould.have
been to
rebuke the jollity
of
mens fpi-
rits
in
there
fad
times O
'cis
a
wicked thing
in
rhefe
fad
times
to
have
a
carnal! lolly
fpirit,
God
indeed
gives
you
libetty
to
have
çomforr,and
ro
re Joyce in
him
elf
:
For
fib
you
will
fay
we
are bidden
to rejoyce
alwayes,I but
know
fpirituall joy
& this
mourning
may
thud.
both
tógerher
:
know
that God
expects
that
you
flaould
abate
of
you: carnali
joy
:
Ile
give
you
but
two
Scriptures for this,
which
are
very
terrible
again[+
tho'.
that
are
fo
lolly and
merry
in
fad
times
:
The
hrf+
i
in the
22Ifa,
.
verf.
And
in
that
day
dd
the
Lord. God
of
-Tofhr
call
to
zveepcn
o,
and
to
mourning,
and
to
bald>
cfè..
and togirdrno
with
jack-cloath, and
beholdíoß'
and
gl
dnejè/layingO.ten,and
Oliva
Sheep, eating
fle
;'h
and
drinkt'n'
wine,
let
Hi
eat
and
drnke
for
to morrow
we
Gall
dye,,
and it
was
revealed
in mine
care;
by
the
Lord
of
Hof
s,
(üsre
y
rhi
iniquity
fhall
not be
purged
from
you
till
you
dye,
faith
the Lord
of
Hoffis
;
O it's
a
donating
Scripture to
thole that
in
there
time
take liberty to the
'-ieth
:
:[
befeech
you if you
do beleeve that
this
Scripture
is
the
word
of
God,when
you
come home lay
it
upon
your hearts
and con
-
fciencesq.