ST. How mourners fhould order their usourning. 175 trieittits.hands in point o f ferrous or affliction ;For were I in mine Done/ands, I fhonid come out of trouble too Toone, were I inmine enemies hands, they would keepe me too long, but I am in the hand of God , who ki,lowes when it's bell for to deliver me; So then Waite on God 'patiently , though Comfort may flay, yet 'when it doth come, thou shalt fee that it was worth the wait- ing for, what though it be till death , what though thou haft not comfort till the lift houre, yet eternity will make amends for thy flaying. Fifthly and lafl'ly, Confider, that this is the time of mourn= ing, and we know things are reafonable and bell in their time ; this is a Chriflians feed time ; In the world we mull have trouble, and through many tribulations we mutt enter into Heaven : We know the husbandman he is contented to en- dure formes and hardships in feed time, with this Conlidera- tion, the harveft is a.coming ; So though thou now fowefl teares, there is a time of reaping in Joy. But here is that which troubles me faith .matíy "a foule, I would be contented to waste till God come, were I affur'd that this promife did belong to me, thiswere that would flay up.my heart indeed ; I would be contented to doe God fer- vice to the i ttermoft of my power, and to endure any af- fliccion, and account my felfe happy, "if he would imploy me in any thing, were I but affur'd of this, that the promife were mine, then it would fupt.ort me. But I feare that this pro- mife belongs to others, and that I have nothing to doe with it. For an. ver to this; we fhould labour tá get our mourning into a gracious frame, and then we may be lure we (hall have Comfort ; which brings me into the third thing which I pro - pounded to you concerning the Rules. The third thing propounded in this ufe is this ; How we may fo order our mourning that it may comfort us : how may I fo order my forrow that I may comfort my felfe with this, that the promife belongs to me, and that our confciences may tell us we are bleifed froth this word of promife : Though o- thers fee us fad and heavie,yet how maywe fo carry our felves Q z that
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