What true mourning for fn is. 121 certainly if there`be not a proportion between praying and complaining, hold your peace, complaine no further, but pray more : many other rules might be given, but we leave them and proceed unto that which yet rarfes the Text in a more fpirituall fence. Bteffed are thole that mourn. I have fpoken now hitherto, about thofe that have been in a :mourning condition, and behaved themfelves gracioufly in that mourning condition : and have fhowne how they were bleflèd, and how they {hall be comforted :.But now that that is yet more fpirituall in the Text is That if thofe that are in any mourning condition behaving themfelves gracioufly are bletied, 'and shall be comforted: Then certainly thofe that mourn for fin, that makes that to be the obfec} of their mourning, their own fins, and the fins of o. hers, and the ai lielions of the Church, thofe that make there to be the objeas of their mourning, they are bleifed indeed &.. they (hall be comforted : ---- In fpeaking of thefe I doe not intend to lanch out into that argument,.or common place of godly forrow, to handleit at large, but I (hall onely open to you fomthing about fpiriruall 141ourners, that Mourne for their fins and the fins of others. Therefore I thalf flrft flew you what true mourning for fin is, when a man or woman may be faid to mourn for fin in a gracious manner -- Secondly, Wherein they may be accounted to be blef- fed -- Thirdly,What -are the comforts that belong to fuch mour- ners for fin : ----- For the Firf} thren, the true mourning for lin is in this manner. Fir( }, When a foule mourns for fin becaufe it is again(} God, in the 5 ï Pfal.4.24gainft thee, thee oily have I finned,ftirh Da- vid. David had finned againf}Vriah,' and his kingdome, and again(} his own foule, but above all he had finned again(} God, akid this went neeref} to his heart, that it was a\gainft thee, and R e
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