yyhe-re'n mourner.; (hall 6e Comforted. I29 come upon, and will make it cleare and fure to thy foule ; thy pardon is feal'd in Heaven already , and it (hall be ieal'd in thy ovine confcience è Though there be a man which is a m - lefaCtor and condemn'd to dte,yet if I know that his pardon is f al'd, I can look upon him as a bleffed to : So tho'. gh Chou thy feife doeti not -yet underítand this thy bleffednetfe, yet thófe who doe undert }and the word of God , and undertland the mind of God as it is reveal'd in the word , fuch know that thou art a bleffed man, and thou (halt know it one day. Secondly, Further, not onely thou shalt be alfitred of thy difcharge, but in the fecond ;place , This mourning of thin for thy tin, will caufe God to patty thee in any mourning for thy aff idion, and the Lord will fweeten the affliaions of flach unto them. The reafon why our afOi Lion; are fo bitter unto us, it is becaufe fay is not bitter enough , but thole that rake their fin as a burden;They Leek that the Lord will piety diem ita-all their of iiaiom. . Thirdly , They (hall be Comforted in this , That thy very mourning for fin (bail be bleffed unto thee to helpe thee a- gainft that very fin that thou mournelt for ; That's certaine, either a mans fin will make an end of his mourning, or a mans Mourning will make an end of his fin, one of the two. If fo be a man goes on in fin, he willleave offmourning, but if he Both not leave offmourning, he willleave off finning; for certainly mòurning for fin hath a fpeciall efficacy in it, it helps againí the fin that thou doeft mourne for:This bitter Alloes that now :thou halt, is a ipeciall meanes for the helping againft thole crawling wormes that are in thy Joule. Fourthly, But above all,--thou art bleffed that mourn_( for fin, for thou' (halt be one day wholy delivered from ' by fin, when thou (halt never fin more againít God ; And will not that be a bleffed time, will not that Comfort the ; certainly there is fuch a time : -- Now to open there particulars with Scriptures, and to inluge them'ivould aske a great deale of time, which I am not willing to doe here, but (hall goe on in-- the.opening of this Sermon of Chrift. vfe. NoW then by way of Application for this, S Hence
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