Why mourners for fin are 6leIa. then to forrow for fin when there can be no helpe, if ío be tha thou fhalt paffe thy dayes away in mirth and jollity here, and never come to feele the weight of fm upon thy fpirir, thou art referved to have eternall forrowes to be thy portion, and to have the load of thy fin to lye upon thee to all eternity, But killed are they that mourne nor, . that feele what the burden of their fin meanes,, for by feeling the burden of it now, they leek it in fuch a time wherein they may have hope of being delivered from that evill of fin to all eternity, and therefore certainely they are blefled : Surely blelled they are, for how many thoufànds of creatures of men and women that have liv'd fecurely and have gone on all, their lives in the hardneffe of their hearts, and never have been made fenfible of their írn,yet upon their ficke and death beds, then they have cryed our of their fin, and the Lord bath withdrawne himfelfe from them now I would appeal to fuch _a one, would you.have, thought it. a-, bleffedthing if you had had the weight of fin upon your foules before, in the time of your health and flrength : you (hall hear them upon their fick and death-beds cry,Oh happy had it been for me that I had known the evil of fm before how happy,haci it been for me that thofe times that I,fpent in jollity, in mirth, in Taverns, with fuch and fuch company, had I but fpent thofe times in mourning for my fin, had I been'butalone, and onely God and my foule together and there lamenting for my fm ; .. how happy had it been for me, I (hould now have had comfort and peace now am laid upon my fick -bed, but I watt led by fence, and by the fle(h,and fo fought to fatis6e the lulls of the. flefh, and I mull live merrily and bravelyhere fora while and now theweight of fin comes upon me, now I feele it a load,the :. Lord be mercifull to me, now conies into my mind all the fins of My merry meetings, all my oaths and Sabbath-breakirigs, all my drunkennef'e and whoring, all my lying, all my negle& of God and his worthip, it had been better for me that I had been amourner before :Therefore I3leffed are they rim- mourn: Sixthly; and then laflly, it's that that fits for the grace of God, there's none thattaP the fweeetneffe of therace of God in "Chrift, more then thofe that: -are mourners for fin, now -one drop. I 2.7
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