156 Duty to mourn for other mens fins. be no more mourning for their fin, but rejoycing at the righte- ous Judgements of God executed upon their fn: Blefed are you that mourn for you (hall be comforted. And for this, By way of life, briefly, Thus Oh let us learn then to lay to heart the fans of rho.re where we live, not only in our Parishes, Familyes, thofe that belong 'to us, but the fins of the Nation. Ile instance but in Come few particulars, and you that are the molt barren in meditation you may early reckon uiy aboun= dance more. As Firft, Let's mourn for the great injuflice than is among us at this day ; there's caufe of mourning for that, the oi.,ref- f on and injuflice : In 59. Ifa: T t. T4, T S. We roare a:l t',,e Bearer, and mourn fore like, Doves ; _why ? we okfor jud event but there is none, for falvation but it is farre of from us, and !b he goes on in the T 4. ter: And Judgement it turned away back- ward, and -f aft' ce frandeth a farre off, for truth is fallen in the frreet, and equity cannot enter : yea, truth fatleth, and he that departeth from evil maketh himf lfe a prey, and the Lordfaw it and it dl leafed jle him that there was no judgement : What an. aggravation is this to this fin of injuflice, that it fhould be at fuch a time as now ir is, that when the Lord by fuch an Out - flretchéd arme, delivered us from Our oppreflors,that now we ihouldop7refle one another, I beleeve there was never a grea- ter cry for the fin of injuflice to. heaven then there is at this day, however, it may be fome may complaine that have no fuch caufe, but wo to us, there is a great deale of caufe for there is wofull injuflice amongus. And then Secondly, O mourne that Chrifl is noamore em- brac'd among us, that when we have as faire ôpportunities to bring in Jefus Chrifl among us as ever people had fine the world began, Jefus Chdfl is offering himfelfe to us in as faire away as ever he did olfe himfelfe to any peo .le,and yet what a fpi -it of malignity is rifen among us, as we are ready to fay, We will not have this man to reigne over n4:O mourn fo- the ig- norance,
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