96 why it is fach a bleffe d thingto bea moarner. but a mourning that hath much aaiveneffe in k, and furring The heart is travelling,for !ò in the t 6 7oh: about the middle, It is compared to a woman in travell ; 7'ou fhallmourne, frith Chri; }r, but there's p,omife of Comfort : Térily, verily, I fay -ento yon, Ye !hail weete and lament; bat the world- (hall re,:oyce, and ye f-ail- c f rro» fall, but par jorroro (hall be turned into joy. A woman when floe is in traVcll bath farrow, becanfe her honre is come , bnt as foone as fhe is delivered of the childe, then fhe remtenbreth no more the anfui fh , for joy that à man is borne into the world, -- Hereby intimating that the mourning of the Saints should be like the farrow of a woman in travell but fo.ne good ll;ould corne of it. And this is a very ufefr ll Medication for us, when at any time we find our hearts much preffed with forrovy, we ihould Confider, but' what am I tra veiling about ; I can never have Comfort in my mourning, except I bring forth fouled-ling in my forrow :And though the Lord fhould keep them mourning thus all dayes of their lives,. yet they are blefled. For they (hall be Comforted, comfort will rime. Nov the ground of the blefledneíle arifeth, ñrfl,'from the mourning it felfe ; --- Secondly, from the pkmife --- Surely its a bleifed thing robe fuch á mourner :. FirfI , Becaufe that the tower. Our 'hearts are in our 'fub -- jecbion to God in this mourn uil'cond'i ion, the higher ate` our refpecbs to God that brings us into this Condition : The Lord brings his people into rt mournful! condition. Now the lower their hearts are in their fubjeclion to God,the higher are their; reípebs that they doe (hew' unto God. There s. a" great déále of Grace exercifeci in a gracious mourning. Secondly, A mourning condition when it is ordered by. Grace, it is a meanes of much good in the foule, it is that that takes away the ranknefle in the hearts of men, there is a rank nefle in all mens hearts naturally, of }. ecially if they Injoy con - tentment ro the lefh, their hilts will grow very ranke ; As weeds grow very ranke in fummer tine, in the winter the. ërofs nipps-the weeds and keepes them' under , but if it be a long froll it kills them ; And fo doth a mournful! Condition, if
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