Mourners (hall he Consforted. ,makes to chiefe iti Paddles and Towns or Cities, and puts into your hands to flop the course of fin in the place where you live, now if your hearts be tacit toucht with the (ins of the pla- ces where you live, how unfit in( }ruments' will you be for the, ' :honour of God,for thefloppingof fin; No marvaile though men in place cate little what becomes, of things: let things go which way they will if they May get any gaine, why to this day they never knew what it was to be in a clofet alone, between God and their (oulesiamenting for the fins of the places where they live But bleifed are they that doe fo, for they are the inflru- ments that God doth, ufe, and that he delights to employ in much fervice. And then they (hall be . comforted, theft that doe thus tuourne. For Firfi, In públick calamity they (hall be hid ; as we. know Jeremiah, he was a great mourner for the fins of others, and in the i 5 Jere: I I, v. The Lord makes a promife to him: in the time of publick calamity to be hid, read the 9 Jere: be- ginning, and fo on, and you (hall find him bitterly lamenting, O that his head were waters and his eyes a fountaine of reares, .& that he had a cottage in the wilderneffe : indeed it is in part for the Elaine of his people ; but it is for their fins likewife : and in the 15 Jere: I > . v. God proniifes that he flail he hid : and that piace in the y Ez.ek is famous ;The Lord would have one with a Pen and Inkhorn go and mark all them that mourn for the fins of others, take notice, of them faith God, what- foever calamity doth befall the place where they live, Ile be znercifull to them, one way or other Ile provide for them. And then fecondly, Thou (halt be comforted, know thou that art a mourner for the fins where thou lives, that within a little while all the wickedneife ofmen (hall be fubdued, all (hall be brought under fo as God (hall not be difhonou red by the fins amen as now he is, all the refufe (hall be call upon the dunghil, there thall be nothing but rejoycing at the righte- ous Judgements of God upon wicked men indeed now when we fee God diflaonoured by wicked men that live among us, we are to mourn, butthere is a time coming that there thall X 2 , be 155
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