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

§. 13 3. They that mourn for others Sins must more mourn because those Sins are offensive and dishonourable to God, and hurtful to Sinners, than because they are injurious to themselves, that mourn over them: To mourn for Sins of the times because hurtful to us, is not Zeal for God, or Charity to Sinners, but self-love. Godly Sorrow is when we sorrow for Sin as against God: All Sorrow for our selves, and our worldly Interest, is but worldly Sorrow, and dedolendus est iste dolor. 'Tis to be repented of, when it puts the other-out of place. We frequently mourn for the miscarriages of the times, but more as they are afflictive than Sinful, because we suffer rather than because Gods Honour or Souls suffer: If we were not our selves concerned in the suffering of our worldly Interest, few would hear of our mourning. The complaint of, What wilt ••ou do to thy great Name, is much rarer than What shall become of my Family, my Estate? The precious Water of our Tears is not to be cast upon such Dunghills, into such ⟨p. 115⟩Sinks. Sin brought in Tears, and they should be principally shed for Sin. 'Tis observed by some, that God who in times of public mourning for Sin commands baldness, forbids it for worldly troubles, Isa. 22.12. Lev. 21.5.

§. 13 3. They that mourn for others Sins must more mourn because those Sins are offensive and dishonourable to God, and hurtful to Sinners, than because they are injurious to themselves, that mourn over them: To mourn for Sins of the times because hurtful to us, is not Zeal for God, or Charity to Sinners, but self-love. Godly Sorrow is when we sorrow for Sin as against God: All Sorrow for our selves, and our worldly Interest, is but worldly Sorrow, and dedolendus est iste dolor. 'Tis to be repented of, when it puts the other-out of place. We frequently mourn for the miscarriages of the times, but more as they are afflictive than Sinful, because we suffer rather than because Gods Honour or Souls suffer: If we were not our selves concerned in the suffering of our worldly Interest, few would hear of our mourning. The complaint of, What wilt ••ou do to thy great Name, is much rarer than What shall become of my Family, my Estate? The precious Water of our Tears is not to be cast upon such Dunghils, into such