rhe f7lly ,'of men, rebaaked who are all foY mìrth. 107 hath no other foundation but ignorance, nay thefe men they Clio!+ take the advantage of confcience, when that is afleep and benum'd; it were impolfible for fuch as thefe are to be fo mer- ry and frolick, did they not take the advantage of their confci- ences when they are deaded and benum'd,for were confcience awake it would fly in their faces, and would fay, Thou art a doing that thou haft no right unto : Now curled be that com- fort that cannot !land with a found confcience, and that oy of yours whichcannot !land with the thoughts ofDeath and Judi menr,that mirth cannot be good ; ô that you would confider of this when at any time you have ferious thoughts of God, of Death, and Eternity this damps your joy, when you are in the full carreere of your pleafures, yet if confcience then hint into you the thoughts of an eternal condition, you have fecret qualmes come over you. Now thou haft caul whofoever thou art to fufpeel that joy and mirth to be finfull that cannot Rand With the thoughts of God and Eternity : Therefore, take heed leaft thou be in the number with him who took his pleafure and fatisfied his foule to the full in the creature,and when he came to dye had nothing to fatisfie himfelfe withal! ; ô have a care left that be thy portion; Son remember that in thy life time thou hadit thy good things,but now thou art gone, Co God may fay to thee who art fuch a one as makelt thy heaven ro be here, thou hadit thy pleafures, thou hadit thy comforts in the world, and there's all that thou art like to have, but now thou art tor-' mented. The maine thing here in this Text that I am to infifc upon, is the thirdufe which is for Comfort and Confolation, that I may come up fully to the mind of Chrift in this thing, and to do as he did, who made it his worke here, to comfort thofe that mourne, and that thall be my work now for the reft of the time. Bleffed are ye of the Lord that do thus truly mourn, and here I fhall fpeake. Firß, Comfort to thofe that doe truly mourne, Secondly, Anfwer an Objection that may be made. Thirdly, Give fome dire &ions how mourners ti-.ould carry themfelves in their mourning effate that they may be comfor- ted. P 2 'Tis
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