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Q. 2. Is not that sorrow that must be sorrowed for, excessive sorrow? See the strait you bring your self into: You sorrow too much, and because you do so, you must sorrow more; and so add sorrow to sorrow' when it is, and because it is too much already; you have more than you ought, and yet you have not so much as you should: you must have sorrow for your sorrow, and yet you want sorrow for your sorrow: Your eyes run down with tears for your dead, more than they should; and when you should weep for your excessive sorrow, you ha•e not a tear to shed. Why do you waste your tears? for what, and more than you should? and then want tears for what you ought to shed them for: Excessive ⟨p. 123⟩sorrow is a sin, because it is excessive; and sinful sorrow must be sorrowed for, and repented of, or how will you else get the pardon of that known Sin? What do you mean then by sorrow, to draw on sorrow? and so to weep that you must weep over your weeping? and to shed tears over again for the tears that you have shed? if you cannot bear this sorrow that you are filled with already, why by this sorrow do you make way for more? and so depth of sorrow calling for depth of sorrow, you at last must swim in tears, where you cannot wade through.

Q. 2. Is not that sorrow that must be sorrowed for, exc•ssive sorrow? See the strait you bring your self into: You sorrow too much, and because you do so, you must sorrow more; and so add sorrow to sorrow' when it is, and because it is too much already; you have more than you ought, and yet you have not so much as you should: you must have sorrow for your sorrow, and yet you want sorrow for your sorrow: Your eyes run down with tears for your dead, more than they should; and when you should weep for your excessive sorrow, you ha•e not a tear to shed. Why do you waste your tears? for what, and more than you should? and then want tears for what you ought to shed them for: Excessive ⟨p. 123⟩sorrow is a sin, because it is excessive; and sinful sorrow must be sorrowed for, and repented of, or how will you else get the pardon of that known Sin? What do you mean then by sorrow, to draw on sorrow? and so to weep that you must weep over your weeping? and to shed tears over again for the tears that you have shed? if you cannot bear this sorrow that you are filled with already, why by this sorrow do you make way for more? and fo depth of sorrow calling for depth of sorrow, you at last must swim in tears, where you cannot wade through.