A Continuation of morning-exercise questions and cases of conscience practically resolvedA Continuation of morning-exercise questions and cases of conscience practicaly resolved

2. Sorrow is overmuch when it hurteth and overwhelmeth Nature it self, and destroyeth bodily Health or Understanding. Grace is the due qualification of Nature, and Duty is the right employment of it; but neither of them must destroy it. As Civil, and Ecclesiastic, and Domestic Government are for edification, and not for destruction, so also is personal self-government. God will have Mercy, and not Sacrifice, and he that would not have us kill or hurt our Neighbour on pretence of Religion, would not have us destroy or hurt our selves; being bound to love our Neighbour but as our selves. As Fasting is a Duty no further than it tendeth to some good, as to express or exercise true humiliation, or to mortify some fleshly Lust, &c. so is it with sorrow for sin; it is too much when it doth more hurt than good: But of this next.

2. Sorrow is overmuch when it hurteth and overwhelmeth Nature it self, and destroyeth bodily Health or Understanding. Grace is the due qualification of Nature, and Duty is the right employment of it; but neither of them must destroy it. As Civil, and Ecclesiastick, and Domestick Government are for edification, and not for destruction, so also is personal self-government. God will have Mercy, and not Sacrifice, and he that would not have us kill or hurt our Neighbour on pretence of Religion, would not have us destroy or hurt our selves; being bound to love our Neighbour but as our selves. As Fasting is a Duty no further than it tendeth to some good, as to express or exercise true humiliation, or to mortifie some fleshly Lust, &c. so is it with sorrow for sin; it is too much when it doth more hurt than good: But of this next.

II. When Sorrow swalloweth up the Sinner, it is overmuch, and to be restrained: As,