ßo8 7ó rejoyce us the forrowes of others is a'curfed thing. 'Tips an excellent thing to comfort niDurners,and in the 29. of j ob,he is made there to be one of a thoufand that can fpeak ,a word in f'eaCon to the heavy laden : this is part of the Office o;' Jefus Chriii, and of the Spi:ic of Chrifl, and it is the glory of men; now cercainely that mull needs be a great worke and full of glory that is part of the Office of Jefus Chrili and the Spirit, for the Spirit he is a Comforter as well as a Convincer; -John 16. z 8. and it is the glory of men : many men rejoyce in bringing others into farrow, this is a curfed thing to bring any into forrow, and by fo much the more wicked it is, by how much harder it is to coiifort thole that do mourn. To rejoyce _ in the exetcifes of the Saints graces in forroìv is no curfed thing, we may rejoyce in the exercife of a Saints grace, in humiliate- on; but to bring them into furrow and mourning, and then to Plut vita. rejoyce in it this is a curfed thing. Per; des being upon his Ferfides. Death -bed, his friends came about him, and began to f peakof his vertues, and ofthe great Authority he had born, and accounting the number of his viefories he had wonne, He hearing of them, faid, that all th's while they had forgotten to fpe4o f the Oft and mot noble thing that was in him, which was, that no Athenian had ever worne d blackgo;yne through his occafon .- This he ac- counted his glory, and we fhould take heed of bringing men into a mourning condition, that we may be able fay there is not any that were ever made lad or heavy by any thing that I did to them. We fhould be humbled for ir, if we have done it , and it fhould be that which We fhould confelfe toCod, defiring him to pardon it : God glories to Comfort men and not to grieve them that mourne, and if God will not grieve them certainly we fhould not, they cannot fo much wrong us whereby we fhould be incenf d againfl them to grieve them, as we daily wrong God, but yetGod faith (Lament: 3. 33.) He doth not delight to grieve the children of men : Now that I may come more clo etofpeake to you that are fpirirual mourners, take your Comfort in thele particulars. Firfi, If thy mourning be gracious, thy very reares and for- row es is a great deale better they the wine of the men of the wofld,
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