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Mom
fhould
morne
for
the
of
jlietions
of
Saints.
men
you
cannot
but be
affe
ted,
but now are
you
moft affected
upon fpirituall
grounds,
becaufe
the
Saints
do
fuffer, becaufe
the
liberties
ofthe
Ordinances
are taken
from
them,
becaufe
the
adverfaries
ofGods people
doe
moll.
prevaile,
becaufe
re-
ligionis.trampled
under foore, doe
you Mourne
therefore
?
Ic's
true, thefe are'mourning times,
moft people they
Mourne
becaufe
of
fear
of
outward
danger;
or
for
their
great taxes,
and
they
have
not
things
as
they were
Wont
to
have,
buta
fpirituall
mourning
is
upon spiritual
grounds.
And
then
fecondly, Spiritual! mourning will put much
upon
prayer,
that
we fpeak
to
in
the-general,
when
we (hewed
hów
thoíè
that
are
in
a
mournful!
condition themfelves,rhey
fhould
pray much
;
So.here
:
thofe,that doe
mourn
for
the
Chur-
ches,
it
they mourne
in a
frirituall
way,
they
will
pray
Much
for
the
Church's:
I
appeale
to
your confciences in
this
thing,
you hear many
tigres
fad
-newes
concerning
the
fufferings
of
your
brethren
abroad
:
It-may
be
you
will
fay,
the Lord
have
mercy upon
hens,
or
fo;
but
whin
did
you
get
alone
between
God
and-your
foules,
and
poure forth
your
foules
before
God
in
fecrét,
on
the behalfe
ofthe
Churches
of
God,
or
it
may
be
you
have
done
fo
fomerimes, but
is
ihii
in
your hearts
to
do
fo
in
an
ordinary
way
?
If
your
children
be
of
liéfed,
perhaps. you
will
go
to
prayer then,
and
wring your hands, but
you
have
heard
of the
afflictions
of the
Churches,
and
have your
hearts
been
fo
affe&ed
as
to
go
and break
your
ftirits
before the Lord
in
prayer,now that's
a
fpiritual
mournin,for
to
have
a
fadnedè
upon
your
spirits, upon
the hearing
o:
new.'that
may be
but
in
a
natural
way,
but for
your
hearts
to
break
before
God
in
.prayer for
the
Church, that's
in a
fpiritual.way.Now'the
Chur-
ches
fuffer more
then they
have
done,
and are
your
prayer7s
in-
larged more then formerly
for
them, this
is
f
r
firu:ill,
and
Uli-
fed
are
they
that
Co
n1ourne'
as
that
they
are
put
Upon
prayer,
and
inlarged
in
prayer
by
their
mourning.
And
Thirdly,
If
your hearts
he
fpirituall
in
yòur
mourning,
why
then
1ooke
what
God do.h
fpa;e
you
in, in
th
at
you
do
net
Spend
your
ftrength
rnfeì&ering
as
orhers
doe, it
will
cause you
to
be
fo
much
the
N
bré
earittf
and willing'
to
fpend yoùr
ftrength