CHAP. VI. Resolves this Question; When is our Sor∣row for our dead spiritually defective, tho it be naturally abundant? Or, when is it too little as we are Christians, be it never so much as we are Men?
ƲSE III. A Caution to the Mourners for their Dead is necessary, be∣cause sorrow as sorrow, or sorrow as great sor∣row is not all in this case to be minded, but how it ought to be regulated, not only as we are Men, but also as we are Christians. If we sorrow not at all we are unworthy of the name of men, because without the workings of those natural Affections in the Principle com∣mon to all men. If we sorrow with turbulent Passion, vexatious, fretting Grief, we sorrow as sinful men; we may sin in our sorrow as well as in the want of it: Which is worst let the offending judge. If we sorrow as the meer fruit of Natural Affection, with a kindly sor∣row,