1 62 YYhy they are blef]èdthat mourn for others affliitions. that are the wirnefies for the truth, have caufe to prophefie e- ven in fack-cloth now ; O if we did but underfkandthe wofull will and miferies of warre :- it is an evill that bath aboundance of evills ( as is were ) in the belly of it : It's the cup Of Gods ager, and the wine thereof is red, it's as red even as blood : and it's a mixt wine ; The ingredients in the cup are murder & robbery; and rape, and deflowering, and cruelty, and torment and famine, and peftilence ; thefe are the ingre- dients in the cup, and therefore though we fet here in our hou- fes quietly & find not the wofúl evills of this civil; wa, res, yet others can tell us,did ou but fee thofe dolefull miferies chat they fee : mm?a that wee of good ranke and fail-,ion, that 14v'á comfortably, and were of pr:blick ufe and emirs-. nt .Saints how they are driven from iD their houfe and home like, bruit beafls ; O fhould we but fee what bath been done in Irelar;d, they cry to us, Ó you that patfe by, is ir. nothing to you all that we have fuffered, was there ever lorrow like our -sorrow. It might be of very great life ro lay open the wof 11 trciiery of ó- thers :But Ile (new you how bleffed are thofe that do mourn for the afi&ionsofothers : They are bleiled. Firft,Becaufe they have much of the Spirit of Chrift in them, theirs is fuch a kind of Spirit as Jeus Chi-id had when' he liv'd upon the earth, and this was a.bleffed Spirit. Secondly, They doe evidence that they are members of the fame body, thou that canf} heare of thewofull evills that the Churches fuffer, and not mourne, thou doll evidently declare to all the world, and God tells thee to thy confcience that thou art but a dead member, and not a living member of the Body ofJefus Chrift,but when your hearts can be affeeted with the miferies ofthe'Churches, you have evidence to your that you áre living members of jelus Chrill:. And-then blefled are .you,'Becáufe in this you doe walke with God, that is, you obferveGodS way ; When God comes in mercy to his ' hurch then you can rejoyce, & when God is in 'a way of affn'aing then yóurnoúrne, I-fay - this is to walke with G;od,ro have our hearts affe&ed according-to the feverall adminiftrations of Gods providence, and bided aresthey that walke with God, roar
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