_Direi`Éions to thofe that are mourners. Peter When he had committed that great fin; and Chri(I did Tooke upon him;you know the text faith,He went out 'bout wept bitterly , But I rind in one of the Gofpels, it's faid more theiì he wenrout,(though that would.ferve our turne that he would not flay among the cornpany,but when he would fal a mourning he gets alone;) but I find in Marks Goi'pel, Chap: t4. v. 72. it's Paid, and when he thought thereon he wept. Now the word that is traulared, He thought therean,thof that underf +and the ema/Arov. Original know it is aword that lignifies any kind of violence that a man ufes upon himfelfe, and fo by fome tranllated, The ,eafting out himfelfe, a ufeing a violence upon himfelfe in calling himfelfe out from the company, he had enoughof them: O do thou fo, when thou feelell the Spirit of God begin to llir and work in thy heart, even call out thyfelfe as it were from com- pany; and labour to work upon thy thoughts thofe things that may effe& thy heart further. Secondl r, Prefent God to thy' foule to the uttermoPt that thou art able : Confider that thou hall to deale with an it-finite God in all thy wayes, prefent God and Chrifl to thy foule : -- You will fay, I dare not : I but be nor affraid of this, you mull one day fee the Lord in his glory, and therefore prefent the Lord to thy four now in his glory. Thirdly, And then do not fatisfie your hearts in any duty till you find your hearts beginning to break, do thou call thy felfe to account, I am 'now praying to God, and I can pray, Forgive us our trefpafes as we forgive thew: But now do I land my heart mourning for them, I fpeak of my fins, do I acknow- ledge.them in(thebitterneife and trouble of my foule ?' 0-this 'were an excellent frame not to leave o^f ill thou findeft thy heart fomewhat to flir : I but, you will fay,. O but I cannot get my heart to God knower I would give a great dealt if every time I went into rheprelence of God I could get my heart to lament and mourn for my fin, 0! but I cannot: It's well that thou fayefl that thou would'f+ do it,whereas you have fome that think if once they be beleevers, why then 0 ould they mourne ; Now for the convincing of this vaine o )inion, know but thus much ; That the truth is, There is rather more moernin 147
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