what true mourning for frac is. I 2 3 Chrifi, if fo be that you are troubled for fin, and mourn;:, an i think thereby to fatisfie God by your mourning,this mourning it is but carnall and naturals : many men and women when-they are troubled for their fin, they think God will be fat_is,ied; no, all the mourning that polibly can be, if thou ihouldeft mourn:. thine heart out,and be mourning thoufands of y Bares for thy it could never fatisfie the Jufiice of God, all thy mourning will come to noshing except it drives thee to Je °us Chia for fatisfac &ion unto Gods Juftice,the mourning for fin that drives the foule to Chrift that's the bleffed mournng : but when any -man or woman fatisfies themfelves in their mourning , and thinks that becaufe they mourn for fin God will accept of them wiAhout having their hearts carryed unto Chrift,this mourning will vanish and come to-nothing. Fifthly, It muff be fuch a mourning as whereby the heart comes to he fet againft fin, not mourne for 1m, and live in fin, not mourne for fin and yet continue in the praótice of it, but true gracious mourning for fin makes an everlalfingfeparation between that league that there was in the foul and fin before : Every man and woman naturally hath a league between fin and their foules, but when God comes to affiici the foule for fin that it mourns in a gracious way,the foul is made fo fenfible of the evill of fin, as that it breaks the league between fin and the foule for ever : If God hath nude fin CO be thus bitter to me, then for ever adieu, through the grace of God, though I may be overcome through weakneife yet I will renounce it, it fits the foule for ever againf it. Sixthly, The true gracious mourning for fin, it is a free work in the foule, the foule is oe ive, that is, it is not forced ucon the foule. whether it will or no, but fuch a foule as doth in a gracious way mourne for fin, it doth willingly and freely apply unto irfelf thofe Scriptures that may make fin to be bur denfome to it:It Both not turne away from thofe Scriptures, and thole truths, but if fo be it heare of any truths, or read any Scripture that may make fin to be heavy to it, it a'plyes thofe freely and willingl , it is glad that it cones to hear any truth ref God that fhall difcover the evill of it's ovine fin unto it, fo R2 it
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