A supplement to the several discourses upon various divine subjects

What a transport of sorrow had Ezra, when he heard of the peoples sins, and the mingling the holy Seed with that of Idolaters! A horror run through his whole Soul; His astonishment is twice repeated, Ezra 9.3, 4. Every faculty was alarumed at the sin of the People.

What a transport of sorrow had Ezra, when he heard of the peoples sins, and the mingling the holy Seed with that of Idolaters! A horror run thorow his whole Soul; His astonishment is twice repeated, Ezra 9.3, 4. Every faculty was alarumed at the sin of the People.

'Tis probable John Baptist used himself to those severities which are mentioned, Matth. 3.4. because of the sinfulness of that generation among whom he lived.

Paul discovers it to be a duty, when he reproves the Corinthians for being puffed up, instead of mourning for that fornication which had been committed by one of their profession, 1 Cor. 5.2. And when he writes of some that made the glorious Gospel subservient to their own bellies, he mixes his tears with his Ink, Phil. 3.18, 19. I tell you weeping, they are enemies to the Cross of Christ. The Primitive Christians did much bewail the lapses of their fellows. Celerinus, among the Epistles of Cyprian, acquaints Lucian of his great grief for the Apostasy of a Woman, through fear of persecution, which afflicted him so, that in the time of Easter, the time of their joy in that Age, he wept night and day, and was resolved that no delight should enter into his heart, till through the mercy of Christ she should be recovered to the Church. And we find the Witnesses clothed in Sackcloth, when they prophesied in a sinful time, to show their grief for the public abominations,