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[ 1110] To be affected with the falling of others into Sin.

St. Bernard makes mention in one of his Homilies of an old Man, who when he saw any Man to sin,* 1.1 wept and lamented for him; Being asked, why he grie∣ved so for others, answered, Hodie ille, cras ego, He fell to day, I may fall to morrow: Thus if Men could be but affected with the falling of others into sin, it would rather draw blood then joy from their hearts,* 1.2 not knowing how soon God may withdraw his Grace from them, and suffer them to fall as foul as any other; besides there is no greater sign of a Reprobate, then to laugh at sinne and sinners; for he that can make wickednesse his chiefest pastime, and the faults of oth••rs his gr••atest joy, is no better then the Devill that rejoyceth at the failings of Gods children.

Notes

• * 1.1

  Homil. de Re∣surrect. Do••. Regia res est miseris succu••∣bere 〈◊〉〈◊〉.
• * 1.2

  Dr. Laurence Ser. at S. Pauls 1624.