§. 56.
Secondly, Punishments of Sinne cause the Elect to Weepe more
An epithrene: or Voice of vveeping bewailing the want of vveeping. A meditation.
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- An epithrene: or Voice of vveeping bewailing the want of vveeping. A meditation.
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- 1631.
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excessiuely both in Number and Measure then others; Although they feare them not, but dayly expect them, because they dayly deserue them. Knowing that they dayly offend, they know also that Divine Iustice will not suffer sinne to bee vnpunished: And often, * 1.1 Secura eorum scit Cons∣cientia, quod non propter peccata patiantur, Their secure Consci∣ences know well, that they suffer not for their Sinnes. Yet, it is an infallible marke of Hypocrites, to discerne the face of the Skye, and not to discerne the Signes and times, in time of their visitation, and not to know the things which belong vnto their Peace, but then to haue them hid from their eyes. It argueth desperate hardnesse of heart, par∣ticularly in Ahaz, * 1.2 that he was not humbled by Afflictions, but
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in the time of his distresse hee trespassed yet more against the Lord; And generally in every Reprobate, that, though they bee smitten, * 1.3 yet they will not sor∣row, though they be consumed, yet they refuse to receiue Cor∣rection. When the Regenerate Weepe; * 1.4 Non quia percussi plorant, arguunt ferientem, sed provocant Pictatem, Severitatem flectere sata∣guni. Beeing smitten they Weepe, not because they accuse the Smiter, but they implore his Mercy, because they would ap∣pease his Iustice. It is then the Symptome of a Sanctified and Mollified heart to Weepe as David, * 1.5 when he saw multitudes swept away with the Pestilence; * 1.6 and as Ieremiah wished his head were waters, and his eyes a foun∣taine of Teares, that hee might Weepe Day and Night for the
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slaine of his people. Though we haue no cause of dejection for our owne particular Grievances, wee haue more then cause to Weepe, for the Miseries of o∣thers, for whom the Lord reser∣veth heavy hammers of wrath, to breake their Obstinacie, to bridle their boldnesse, and to beate downe their Rebellion a∣gainst him, that so, if it be possi∣ble, hee may draw them to an higher, or driue them to a deeper Consideration of themselues.
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* 1.1
Hier. ad Eustoc.
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* 1.2
2 Chio. 28.22.
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* 1.3
Iere. 5.3.
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* 1.4
Bern. super ••ant. Serm. 26.
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* 1.5
2 Sam 24.••7.
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* 1.6
Iere. 9.1.