.fl n Exhortation to mourners for fin. you mourne: -- you know what the great mifchiefe is- that fits doth in the world,fin makes the whole creation togroane undet Ro: s..z r, 2z. the burden cf iti,and ¡hall not ycu-be fenfible of fo much evil of fin as remaines in your hearts, you know that fin is a-greater evill then all atflietions whatfpever, and therefore doe you mourne ; go under the burden of fin with a heavie heart as long. as you live, 'Lis not long that God hash to glorifie himfelte in your forrow,it Will nor be long but you flail be delivered from our fin : but fo long as you have this body of fin about you,, God expects mourning from you God 'expects from, you not only to mourne for your owne'fm but to mourn for the: fins ofothers, and bleff ed are they that doe fo, they 'hall be com- forted. Firft, We are to mourn for the fins of others we have very remarkable Scripture for this Ezra 9, 3. O' the lameiatable condition that Ezra was in for the fins of his people, he loth. rend his garments, and Pets downe alionii'led for their fins ; And David in the 519. Eme 53. verf. Marron?' takes bold' ' upon me, (faith David, what was there any great judgement neere him ? No, horrour bath taken bold upon me) becaufe of' the wicked that forfal¿e thy law: when he beheld the wickedneffe of men, his heart was Bruck with horrour becae;fe they forfook Gods Law, and ver. 136. Rivers of water run down mine eyes becaufe they keep not thy Law : and 'ver. 1 58 I beheld the tran( -- grefJ ours -and was grieved becaufe they kept not thy word: David- Spirit was in a very blefled'frame when he peed this Pfalme, and fee how he is affeaed with the fins of others, and in that famous place, the 9. of Ezeh, el,there you find how God marks tbofe that moürn for the fins of the places where they Iive.And" if we looke into the New Tefiament,there's norhinv, more ful", the example of Paul, 2 Cor: 12. when -I come God'lhall huñoble me, and I'ball bewaile tho fe that have rnned ; and that place is famous, 2 Peter 2. 7. It's laid of rii;hteouc Lot, that his foule was vexed, and then in the ti. ver, it is laid, He veved'his rich teous foule from day to day with their unlaw full deeds: The word in the Greek is different from what it is in your books : in the 7. v: is a word that fignifieseppreffèd -as much as opprelb the foul, xscrimOrikai it 151
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