Cenftant mourners are Ble f fed. 93 Wee come now to the fecond Beatitude. Ele fed are they that mourne, for they fhall be Comforted. We find that Lyle cites it in another way, and divers Co- pies have it different ;you fhall find two or three Bleffedneffes fet in a different order there : But for the thing it felfe, it is one of the t { ranger Paradoxes in the world ; Blefed are thofe that mourne Of all atfeaions the affè &ion of forrow nature is leali beholding to ; it doth the lead good to nature, nature gets fomething by the atfe &ion of love, and the atfe&i- on of joy, and the ante &ion of defire, and of hope, and ionic- what by feare ; but forrow is that that weakens nature ; and Yet Chrir doth fall upon this, faith he, Bleffed are they that mourn ; 'Tis more then bleifed are they that are fog rowfull, fo Chryfoflome upon this place, he Both not fay, Blefled are thofe that grieve, but bleffed are thofe that mourne : For the word that is here tranflated mourne, figni; es an exceeding great irorirning The mourning that there is at the death of Friends, when any buries an ultimate Friend, a Beare childe, ór a defre kinfman, what mourning is there in the view of the world ; but faith Chrifi , Bletfed are you Then ; If you be godly and my Difciples , you are bleifed in that mourning, though your mourning be the greater mourning in the world. And it is in the prefent tenfe, You that mourne,noting the con- tinuance of it : Though you mourne conrantly, though you be brought into a Mournfull condition , and lo doe live in it all the dáyes of your lives, yet bleifed are you that mourne. The world is altogether for jollity and bravery, ó bletfed ,are they that are merry , that can drinke wine in bowies, and crowne themfelves with Rofe-budds, and chant to the Viall, and invent Inrruments of Muficke like, David ; they are ac- counted the bleffed men in the world : But we fee the Judge- ment of Chrill is quite contrary, Bleffed are they that mourne ; They that mourne, furely not all they that mourne are blef- fed. F,irr,
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