i aia How mourners fhould order their mourning, with much prayer, for let thy flate be what it will ; thou wilt fay thou art brought into fuch a flare as thou canft not but mourn : Ile grant it, but know this is an everlafling rule to be obferved in fuch as will mourn in a chriflian way, there mutt be a proportion of prayer tò their forrovv, if there be but little prayer,1et their" be but little forrow, if much forrow much prayer,' find in Scripture that mourning and praying are joyn'4 much together : If any man he olil1 ed let him pray, faith the Apofil- james,.and in that of the i a of Hof. about the 3 or 4. The Text faith concerning Jacob, That he wept and made fup- plicarion : weeping and f: pphcation are joyned together ; and aiifted and praying are joyned together ; and fo you read in 2 judges that the people of God did fo mourne and weepe, that the very place had its-denomination, from their weeping, It was called Boachim, and they facrajiced there unto th e Lord, üt ihát's aáded Co ït,ärid they facr anted there unto the Lord: for one to be in fuch a mourningr eflate as makes them unit for facrafice,makes them unfit for prayer,certainly that mourn - ingàt is no a gádl forrow, thou-haft gone beyond the mourn- ing of true gracious forrow if fo be that it doth hinder thee from prayer. That thou cant} not power forth thy foule with that freedome before God as at other: times, take heed of any ftieh mourning,there is a notable Scripture in Ezra, the 9. % ere,)c, t.fballrmd that holy man Ezra in much aifiidlion, :with much forrow -and trouble, fo that' he fat afionied, ver.. 4. but in verf..5. At the :euenirg facrafce I arofe up from my hea- vincffe ; Ac the-evening facr:fiçe, when the Lime came for him to -offer facratrce, then he did arife from, his heavinef e, his mourning did not hinder him in duty : When thy heart is fo f reightned in thy 'mourning, ,pretend what thou wilt for thy mourning, thy lawrthin fle or infullneffe or any ihingelte, yet if rit tens thy heart in prayer it is no godly: forrow -: a :0 prayer to much mourning,when any comes unto you, you are alwayes complaining of your a$1i tions,and you mourn more then your rreigh qurs, but doe - yow,praymore-then your neighbours doe, do ;you pray as: much -as you doe 'complain. is there a proportion between your praying and complaining, certainly
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