lc The folly of trten rebuked who are all for mirth., would take delight in the aboundance of the creature, compa- ny, and the like, whether you would take content in that or in the, houfe of mourning ? now the holy Ghost he defides the cafe, he faith, the house of mourn-n is better there the houle, o laughter, for the heart is made Better by fadnetre; there i much good comes unto the faille out of the houfe of mourning which do:h not come from the houle of laughter : the heart for the molt part is made worfe by laughter, but often better by forrow : What if this dread full me Ihould prove to be thy portion pronounced, by Chrilthimfelfe ? Luke 6.25. Woe' unto you that laugh now,for ye shall mourne and weepe: The time of your forrow is t.ocome: when you fee men. live bravely and merrily in the world, and do no fervice for Jefus Chrift, are not ufefull in their places, you may thus fay of them, alas here are men that now rejoyce but they (hall mourne and weepe, their time of mourning is a haftening,how much better were it to mourne now then to have an eternity to mourne in ?If thou givéft thy felfe to pleafure, and to let thy heart run out after vanity now in thy youth,then all thy furrow it (hall come toge- ther and finke thee to defpaire : Thou in thy youth, and in the ftrength of thy dayes lett'ft out thy ftrength to vanity, and know that thy forrow is but a heating up,to come upon thee all at once and to finke theeinto everlaffing defpaire, how canit thou think but that God fltould looke upon thee with indigna- tion who art fo Ell of fin and wickedneffe as thou art, can it be well with thee in the end,when there is fo many precious Saints in the world that would not for a world fn againft God know- ingly, who make it their great cave and their fludy how to ho- nour God in their generation,And if at any time they are over - come through weakne ffe, tl. ey go mourning all the da y long ; And are fuch as thefe kept downe, have they their time now to mourn and weepe, and doeft thóu rejoyce ,? doeft thou rake pleafure, and give up thy heart to take it's full fatisfa &ion in the creature ? know thou mnuftmourne fadly. The mirth that thefe men have it is from ignorance, the mirth thou haft it is becaufe thou art ignorant of thy condition, becaufe thou art -in darkneffe : Thou art in darkneffe and woe to that mirth that bath
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