Mourne . for the affliCti on of the Church. 59 reproach, no; but in way of lamentation, becaufe thefe evills have been fo much againif God and a gainll the publick good, ô if we could lay afide* our wrangling a while, and fall a mourning in one anthers bofomes, reformation would go on in another manner then now it doth. And here's yet a further evil!, we have force caufe to mourt for mens mourning, that is, men mourne becaufe they cannot have their wills, and they mourne meerely out of a kind of fpi- rit of revenge, and make many times their very falls to be falls- for ftrife; we íhould mourne (I fay) for our mourning And thus much for this that lies fo full in my Text, Wed are they that mourn, fuch as can thus mourne are bided ; O that this fpirit of mourningwere upon us. And then the next, that is; the kit point. in, my text, It is thole that mourne for the affi:euions of the Church,' as well as ótherwife : Bit¡fed arethofe that mourne for them and we find it in Scripture to be the way of the Saints likewife to mourne much for the affli&ions of Gods people; ; As in the i of Nehe: Though Nehemiah were at the Court himfelfe, and had a great place, and was at eafe, and had aboundance of riches,: yet he looks fad, and would not have the King to wonder at ir, when as it was fo ill with the Church, and a notable Scripture we have in the 19 of Luke,. even in our Saviour Ch rill : It's a ver y remarkable Scripture, when Chriff came neer to j erufalem, he wept, both becaufe of their fin, and the mifery that was coming upon them, and faid, O if thou had'ft know!. at Ceaft in this thy day the thins that concerne thypeace, but now they are hid from thiWeyes : Mark this, at what time Chrifi did this, it was not in a time that Chrifz was in any great affliction himfelfe, for you Thail find that when he did thus lament, ver. 36, 37. It was when they cut down boughes and ftrewed them in the way and cryed Hofanna shim, it was at that time when they ho- noured Jefus Chrift molt ; and yet that did not take up his heart fo as not to be afyecled with the miferies of others ; and faith the text, As he went they fpread thergarments in the way, . others cut down branches from the trees, andfirewed them in the way, and theñaui`titude that went before, and that followed, cryed' faying,,
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