CH A p.4. Epiftle to the T heffato lions. V!R.13 319 meafures, deftres to btrry u her out of his fight : crEgyptarns u Gott. :3 Mourne for I e con fuerty ¿jes; - lofeph , bis natural! iònne,xcnelyfever:dales. Nor that he was le& kind, but more Chriflian like prudent. x Gex.fo,;.so. The Lord interchas his Ifraeltheft Heatheni(h Rites of Y Balding and Cutting themfelues for the dead : And our y Deut,r4.r. Sauiour intimares d.(like of IewripMirftre fe,for increafe of Sorrow; Affefion, bee thought, in that cafe, needed not the fpurre, but the bridle rather. z Mat.9,23. Indeed weteadeoffame Saints cxcdliuc in this kind; Dauid weeping for his 4tfolon, as Rachel for her children, and would not be comforted. But firft, both it is noted as his infirmitie; and fecondly, in .4Hftinesiudgemenr, he bewailed not fo much his !brines death, or his owne Or- Autu 'sale d.P. chrt's,ttb.3.c.0 Fax bity, as the puni(hments whereinto his foule, fo inceftu- oufly adulterous, fo vnnaturally n;urtherous, thould in likelihood be plunged. .Non orbitatem doluit in eitu in- 's, Menicfa, lib, ss, cap.66. #eritu,fed quia nauerat in quas peinas tam impié adultera & parricidalis anima raperetur. And Bernard: Planxit me- ritó Daui-fuper parricidâ fi/io, cui perpetuo fciret o6ßrrs- Bernard, Humexitum de ventre mortis mole crimine. Thirdly, And what if Dauid thus mourned for eflbfolons damnation ? Better hopes haue Chi iftians, of Chriftians thatfleepein the Lord. Such as make excelfe of forrowing, for them moft vnfeernly. For firft, how argues it ignorance in that joint, 'wherein a Chriftians ignorance is moll thamc- full; the bleffed mare of Gods children after death .? And how giues it occafon to Gentiles to traduce vs, when we bewaile, as vtterly loft and extintl., thofe whom wee pro- feife to line with God ? Spei noftre ac fidei præuaricatores cypriai de ktor fumtu, faith Cyprien : Simulate, f El A, pinata videntur a fe talitatt, Ina dicimue. Secondly, And what oddes in this behalfe, betwixt hopeful! Chi íftians, and hopelefTe Heathens; while wee equally giue reines to farrow, and macerate our felues with like conifortlefte gricfe ? Our wifedome it (hall be, to let forme reafonable limits to Vfe.
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