The comforts of mourners fores. t 3b heavie and melancholy ; it is the worke of the Spirit of God that laies that weight of fin now upon the foule, be(auie the Lord intends that this foule (hail be bleifed to all Eternity And doe not thinke it a fooliill thing for people to be.trou- bled for their fin. Ile give you but two Initances : -- Firit, againít Melancholy :, and then againít folly : --n For Me- lancholy, who doe we read that had more furrow for fin then .David had, read his Penitential' Pfalmes; the 3? Pfal: the 5i. fa1: and the 6 FM: what a grievous bùrden he found fn, and how he mourned for it ; And yet the text faith concern- ing David, That he was of a ruddy Complexion, and ofan aaive fftr,t: And then, for Folly; there is the 88 Pfal. I doe not find any Pfalme wherein we may f e :an example of a Godly man more under forrow and affli&ion, then the Pen- man of that Pfàine was ( namely , Heman) read but the i Kings 4. 3 s v and you fhali find that the holy Ghoft doth fet out Heman as one of the wifeft men upon earth and yet in the 38 mfalm: which this Heman did pen, we find him a man under as much forrow and affliction as any, and efpecially for fin ; Therefore it's not folly but blef ednefle ; It is a worke of the Spirit of Chrift : But the maine thing is that that I have to fi: e:tk to fetch as are mourners. And Firfi to tell them what their comforts are, that are inScrip- ture, which we f nd in the word of God. And then Secondly, to give unto them fome-dire& &-ions and rules how to feek for the applying of thole comforts to their own foules. And then Thirdly to (hew whether our comforts that we have are right comforts or no, -- But for the Fir ft. Not let- ting filch Mourners goe away without force portion. Is there any here whore hearts are downe and low before God in a mourning condition, certainly there is comfort for thy foule, there's comfort many wayes. Firít know for thy comfort thou hall to deale with a God of it1 nice grace and mercy, thou lookeft upon God as a God full ofwrath and;uftice, but thou haft to deale with a God of in- £tni to mercy, that delights in mercy, with a God whoiè mercy S 2 is
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