An exposition with practical observations continued upon the eighth, ninth and tenth chapters of…An exposition with practicall observations continued upon the eighth, ninth and tenth chapters of…

There are legal woes, and there are evangelical woes. The Law cries woe, and so doth the Gospel: Gospel woes are the worser of the two; For if the Law say woe to us, the Gospel may say mercy to us; but if the Gospel say, woe to us (as it doth to hypocrites, who abuse, and to unbelievers, who refuse ⟨p. 543⟩mercy) where shall we have mercy? All woes may be understood in this place, Law woes and Gospel woes, temporal woes and eternal woes, If I be wicked, then woe unto me. Hence observe,

There are legall woes, and there are evangelicall woes. The Law cries woe, and so doth the Gospel: Gospel woes are the worser of the two; For if the Law say woe to us, the Gospel may say mercy to us; but if the Gospel say, woe to us (as it doth to hypocrites, who abuse, and to unbelievers, who refuse ⟨p. 543⟩mercy) where shall we have mercy? All woes may be understood in this place, Law woes and Gospel woes, temporall woes and eternall woes, If I be wicked, then woe unto me. Hence observe,

Woe is the portion of wicked men.

Though they laugh, yet woe is their portion, yea they are therefore threatened with woe, because they laugh (Luk. 6.25.) Woe unto you that laugh now, for ye shall mourn and weep. Some wicked men are as merry, as if mercy were their peculiar. But we may say to their mirth, What doth it? Or if we should ask them, What they do to make themselves so merry: David will resolve us what their course is (