I43 DireIlions to thole that are mourners. mourning that is required and ufed to be preached by the Saints after the aflurance of the pardon of fin, then before it ; T fay More, and Ile give you that notable example of David. You find that when David had fin'd, and the Prophet came to . convince him of his fin; David !aid hehid fînned,The Prophet in the none of God faith to him"; Tile Lord bath dyne away_thy fn, but now a long time after, when David ma ie S I PP!: you. (hall finde he fella mourning a fresh, and yet his fin was forgi- ven before, and he knew it was forgiven, and yet do but ob fèrve the 5 i Pfal: what the title is that David gives to the Pfalm,7 o the chef Mafitian,a Pfalm of David when Nathan the,. Prophet came u ;: to him after he had gone into Bathfheba : So that Nathan had conic to him before he makes this Pfalme : and Nathan when he carne to him h; told him his fin was forgiven,. and yet he makes this l' falme, and laments his fin in bitternefs, and cryes ro God to ref}ore the joy of his falvation, that the . bones that he had broken might rejoyce, his very bones were broken no :withflanding he had that mefiage from God that his fin was forgiven: if the Lord (hould fend a meffenger from heaven to tell any one of you, man,woman, all the fins that ever thon haft committed in all :thy life'' are freely forgiven, what wouldeft.thou donow ? Truly thou haft much caufe upon this, this evening to get into thy clofet and to lament thy fin, and this night if it were po'lible to water thy Couch with thy tears, as David faith, he made it fwim, rherefóre the Affurance of the pardon of our fn,is no hindrance to mourning for fin ; onely it n akes our mourningmore fweet and evangelical then it was t e,fore : and therefore for thy helpe. that thou mayeft get thy 2 .tch. 12. to. heart thus to mourne, took up for the ff-irit ofmourning,Zeclo: i z. latter end, lie poure the fjrritof grace and aspplacation, and they fhallloo, upon ríae whom they have pierced, and they. (had mourne for him a4, one mourreth for his onely f n, and fhall be in óitterne fJé for him, as one is in batterne f fe for his firs borne. Mark, God bath not onely promif d comfort to the mourners, but he hath promifed mourning to the (inners to, why thou art not excluded, the promife is infinite ; Ile pure out the Spir'tof grace and fupplication and -They'hall mourne,. Why Lord God, I have
RkJQdWJsaXNoZXIy OTcyMjk=