Rebuke to jollity of f irit in fad times. fciences, faith God when 1 call'd to mourning and weeping, behold there was joy and gf adneile., and mirth, and drinking of wine : This iniquity 'hall not be purged till you dye, faith God, Ile never pardon it, s fpoken, as in the New Teftamenc, it's faie of the fin againft the Holy Ghoft, that it fhiuld never be forgiven. And fo this is made a kinde of an unpardonable fin, though,I think that it is not fo unpardonable.as. tha ,but though God should give you a heart to fee the evill of it never fo, much , yet you may fmart for it in-this world, even a; the Lord, did concerning Mfes , he would not heare him, but bid him fpeak no more of that nutter, but he muft dye in the wilder.- , neile : O the Lord cannot but look with in iigna_ioìi upon filch as tLf' are ; What faith God? fhatti chaf1i,e my owne` dear chip and ihall.this wretch, thac's good for nothing, but to ea: ink'and ger money here, ;hall he not take it at all to hearc, it bear this faith God, it (hall never be purged f ornhis.. :: .e dye : O my brethren if ever .;od c 1i: co weeping an.'. mourning it is now, and th erefo: e no ro 'Awe a heart in rh i. mourning times, it's a fign that thy heart is hard - ned Efoni he feare of cod: If ever this cextof Chrifl were fu table it i a in .hefe mourning times,wherein thofe are held forth to be blefed that do mourn;., and on the other fide, thofe that- doe not mourne, they will certainly prove to be accurfed by brif when they 'hall come to.ftand before him; And then the other Scripture is in _che 6 Amo.c, where the Lord compláines, That they- wine in Bowles and had their mufck. and all kind of jolht, &c. O but faith there was none that did remember the of liit ons of fofephs ; ofeph might be imprisoned, might be fold, might endure any aflii6`tions,. what was it to them ? they would not fo much as Remember, a wo to them.. SERMON,
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