Prototypes, or, The primary precedent presidents out of the book of Genesis showing, the…Prototypes, or, The primarie precedent presidents out of the booke of Genesis shewing, the…

And now set you to it, set you to it, it is said, that Lot did put his soul upon the rack, he was an actor in this sorrow, he put himself upon it. I say he was even willing to exercise himself in grieving for their naughtiness, and he strove to make his sorrow piercing. O you must labour to do this as well as any other good work, to chafe and grudge and be furious against such a sinner and such a sinner, to jest, scoff, and gird, or rail, and bitterly inveigh against such and such sins, be such strains and flashes of wit and anger, as may be found in men of no true holiness, but to get alone and even sell over himself to sighing, mourning, and lamentation for the common sins that are every where run into, this can hardly be ascribed to any thing but true piety, if the sins be such as do not in any particular respect touch a mans self in way of wrong and injury. Indeed to grieve for such sins of others, may seem in some respect as a more difficult thing, so a more sure sign of truth then to grieve for ones own sins, you shall see men driven to tears for their own offences in respect of shame or loss, and sometimes terror of heart, ⟨p. 174⟩but grieving for the common sins can hardly proceed from any thing but charity to them as they be men, and hatred against sin as it is sin. If a mere friend of our own have offended, we are so tender of his reproach, because it is somewhat linked with our own, that many men can blubber for it exceedingly. O let us love the Common-wealth so well and the state of mankind, as to yield some of our sorrow to quicken us in prayer against their sins.

And now set you to it, set you to it, it is said, that Lot did put his soule upon the racke, he was an actor in this sorrow, he put himselfe upon it. I say he was even willing to exercise himselfe in grieving for their naughtinesse, and he strove to make his sorrow piercing. O you must labour to doe this as well as any other good worke, to chafe and grudge and be furious against such a sinner and such a sinner, to jest, scoffe, and gird, or raile, and bitterly inveigh against such and such sinnes, be such straines and flashes of wit and anger, as may be found in men of no true holinesse, but to get alone and even sell over himselfe to sighing, mourning, and lamentation for the common sinnes that are every where runne into, this can hardly be ascribed to any thing but true piety, if the sinnes be such as doe not in any particular respect touch a mans selfe in way of wrong and injury. Indeed to grieve for such sinnes of others, may seeme in some respect as a more difficult thing, so a more sure signe of truth then to grieve for ones owne sinnes, you shall see men driven to teares for their owne offences in respect of shame or losse, and sometimes terrour of heart,