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

4. They that mourn for others Sins, should mourn more in secret §. 14 than in open complaining. Thus Jeremiah, ch. 17. v. 13. I will mourn in secret places for your Pride. Our Father (saith Christ) seeth in secret, ¹though he recompenseth openly. Public Exercises of Religion may gain most applause, and be most advantageous to observers, but they testify not so much sincerity to the Conscience as those in secret. He mourns most truly, that hath no other Witness thereof but the all-seeing God. Fasting and so Mourning is Feasting and Rejoicing to one that eyes only the eye of man in these services, when men observe them. Mat. 6.16. Our Saviour forbids appearing unto men to fast, by putting on a wreathed, grim, sour Countenance, a louring Look; not that he forbids open expressions of sorrow used by Saints of old, but the counterfeit semblance of Sorrow, to make an Ostentation of Sanctimony to be noted by men. Nor doth Christ here tax Mourners for seeming to fast when they did not; but for desiring to be known abroad to fast, when they fasted in private.² 'Tis a Jehu's zeal which may be seen only, and desires to be so.

4. They that mourn for others Sins, should mourn more in secret §. 14 than in open complaining. Thus Jeremy, ch. 17. v. 13. I will mourn in secret places for your Pride. Our Father (saith Christ) seeth in secret, ¹though he recompenseth openly. Publick Exercises of Religion may gain most applause, and be most advantageous to observers, but they testifie not so much sincerity to the Conscience as those in secret. He mourns most truly, that hath no other Witness thereof but the alseeing God. Fasting and so Mourning is Feasting and Rejoycing to one that eyes only the eye of man in these services, when men observe them. Mat. 6.16. Our Saviour forbids appearing unto men to fast, by putting on a wreathed, grim, sowre Countenance, a lowring Look; not that he forbids open expressions of sorrow used by Saints of old, but the counterfeit semblance of Sorrow, to make an Ostentation of Sanctimony to be noted by men. Nor doth Christ here tax Mourners for seeming to fast when they did not; but for desiring to be known abroad to fast, when they fasted in private.