154 Why we muff mourn for other mens fiers. our owne fins as for the fins of others, though indeed there's More caufe why we should mourn for our owne fins then fór others, yet there is more fincerity in mourning for others fins .`then for our owne. And then Secondly, By mourning for other mens fins thou doefì free thy felfe frc,n the guile of them, how canfl thou that liveí} in a Nation or Fàfiily be free from the fins of thofe that thou doeft conver(e wt: tall, if thou doff nor mount for them, but now when thou canii mourne for the ling of orhers,thou doff free thy feif from the guilt of them, and especially when thou mournAt for the fins of filch as are in relation to thee, then, thou doff free thy felfe from the guilt of thofe : As it may be there's filch a Godly child whole eyes Cod hath opened to fee his own fins, and he mourns for them ; O but he thinks with, himfelfe will ever God be mercifull to me that came óf such as flock, I have Such a Father or Mother that is fo prophane, a Drunkard, a Swearer, a Scorner, and I am atfraid that the Lord willwtfit the fin of my Father upon nie ; Now thou that art a child,hafl no way to be deliver'd from the guilt of the wicked nelle of thy Father and Mother,or thy forefathers,but by mour ning for them, hath God pad thee out of a wicked flock, now God doth expect that thou iliould'ft mourn and lament for the fins of that flock : and fo thou livefi in a wicked family, and the Judgements of God may come upon the family for it's fin, why thou canal not free thy-felfe but by mourningfor their fins, as well as thy owne : and blefled are thou if thou doeff fo, if" thou doll mourn for their f ns,r_he Lord will not vifit their fins upon thee. And then Thirdly, Bleffed are they that doe mourn for the fins`of others, becaufe by this means they make themfelves fit inflruments of God, tobe ufed by God to helpe againff the fins- of others ; No men are Inch f:: inffruments of God to do God fervice, to flop the courfe of the fins of others, as thofe that. take them to heart : and therefore above all men, men in pub - lick place, that God makes ufe of to flop the courfe of wicked nélie they Should be men that Should be much exercifed with this grace of mourning for the fins of others : You that Cod makes
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