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6¹ Are the godly in these cases full of sorrow and grief? Even in such sorrow and sadness there is the^† seed of sound joy.^a The way to joy is by grief; as the way by Physic is to health. As the worldly mans^b joy endeth in ⟨p. 43⟩grief; so the godly mans^c grief endeth in joy. ^dHe is not far from true joy, that can sincerely sorrow for his sin. For as^e war with the world procureth peace with God; so^f sorrow for sin produceth joy in God. Yea he hath much matter of sound joy in him, as we shall afterward see, that can and doth seriously lament and bewail his own wants, his untowardness, his former wantonness, his wickedness. What say I, there is matter of joy? There is even joy oft herein. There are^g tears of joy, as well as of grief; and there is also^h a mixture oft of the one with the other. Men takeⁱ pleasure and delight sometime even in mourning and bemoaning themselves, as well as in mirth. And I make no doubt, but that many of Gods children do many times take as much^k delight, and find as much comfort, even in their godly grief, and in the bewailing of their wants, as any worldly men do ordinarily in those outward pleasures, that their hearts and affections are most carried away with. Nor let any natural man much marvel hereat. For if such can take so much pleasure, as I have heard some of them confess, and as