94 zTFirft , There is a foolifh mourning, in which men and wo- men are not blet'ìed ; that is, they mourne they know not for what, this is no bleffedneff but folly. Secondly , A natural] mourning, when' there is a mourning n:eerely because nature is pincht, and íonte evill hash befallen ir, and) ou goe no furher ; This bath not a bleffedneffe in it. Thinly, A worldly mourning ; worldly foram cauf s death ; ro mourne for the lolfe of worldly things , asthe great and the chiefe Joffe of all, this is not bleffed, it cauieth death : and Fourthly, An envious mourning, when men raotirne and are grieved fo. the gooá of others, furely this is not bleßed but turfed. -- And there is further a Devilish mourning, when men and women mourn:. that they cannot have o?_ y ortunit to fatisfie thLi: 1 Ílß And 1;ßíy, There is a,h_ lih defperate mourning, when men and women mourne in dcfpaire ; this is h;llifh and not m bleflèd, rhe:e surners are not ble{fed. But who then : Tho: e. that mourne ; That is , fuch as being by the providence of Cod brought in_o a mournfull Condition, eyther by way of reílimony to any truth of Cod, that they are depriv d of many Comforts in this wo -ld that others have, or by any afP,i]ing hand ofGod are brought into a fad Condition, and their hearts are broi,gh- under to yeild to Cods hand, and to faneife his Name in thofè his dealings with them ; there are bleffed : For fo you mí fl cteere that eYpreffion that we have in the verfe before, Lilefed are the poore; not all poore, but the Poore in f irir: So, Bleffédare they that mourne ; that is, they that mourne in ifirit likewise, whole fpirits are brought in fubic cion to Cod, to honour God in that mournfull Condition in which they are, who`` conditi- on cannot be fo low, but their hearts are lower then their con- dition: rhefe are bleflèd, but efpecially there. who fet the obje& of their mourning right, who Mourne for fit-me as the greareít evill, who mourne not onely for their own fins, but for the lins of others, that God is fo little honoured in the world: what mourning 610d, and what not ileffëd,
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