I 52 ißdoeíyt Exhortation to mourners for f :n, k was a burden to his foule as an oppreffion is a burden to a man : he accounted himfelfe wronged.by the fins of others,and he went under it as a great o?pretlmg.burden: That's the mea- ning of the word:I End the fame word in the 7 Ads 24.where it's fpoken of Wes that helped the man that was of pref }. The word that is there him that was oppreffed is us« ou e, it's the fame that is here, for Lots foule was vexed, 'and I finde fotrietimes the word fignihes to be weakned by ficknefe, in othef Authors :So it's laid of Lot, righteous Lnt,the wicked- neffe that he law' others, did fo trouble his righteous foule, as it was as grievous to him as a ficknelle is to you:that's the mea- ning of the firft word in the 7 v: Then the fecund word that is in the 8 v: there'ris vext agáin,but the word is in the origi- sp. nal, he did cruciate, It is a word that is ufed to lignifie the tor- menting of a man upon a rack: as if the Holy Ghoft Ihould fay, the wickedneffe of thole he lived among, did put that gracious foule of his upon the rack ; he was as a man upon the racke With the fins of thofe among whom he lived,. and you that are wicked and ungodly, you muff not think that you (hail onely fuller for your ovine fins, you (hall fu 'er for the griefthat you put'the Godly to: you muff not think that your fins concerne -not them at all, O yes : You doe wrong them by the fins you commit, why if yoù should fee a man ftrike your father in the Streete, and you fhould come to him and aske him why he did it, and he lhouldanfwer, what's that to you, I did not ftrike yoa, but you ftrike my father, fo when you !fin you ftrike their father,you dishonour their god, and this is a Cruciating unto them. The reafons therefore why we muff mourn for the fins of others as well as our own,that's the firfl, becaule the bÍeflèd God is fo much dishonoured, O how muff it needs goe to the heart of a godly man to fee that Cod whom his foule loves,that God who is fo inünitely,bleifed and glorious, fo in finitely wor= - thy of all honour from all creatures to be fo dishonoured by bare wretched wormes.There is a report ofCm fus fon that was dumb tall his dayes untill he faw a Souldier ftriking at his father to kill him, and then the atl:eetion that he bore to his father did
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