Fourthly, The want of lamentation and mourning is a punishment that God inflicts upon Sinners at their Death. Job 27.13. This is the portion of a wicked man with God, and the heritage of oppressors, which they shall receive of the Almighty. 15. Those that remain of him shall be buried in death, and his widows shall not weep. That Husband was unkind, while he lived, or his Widow unnatural, that cannot weep when he is dead. Psalm 78.64. Their priests fell by the sword, and their widows made no lamentation. When God takes away his loving-kindness and Mercies from men for their great wickedness, while they live, as a token of his wrath, he will not have them lamented when they die, Jer. 16.3. Thus saith the Lord concerning the sons, and concerning the daughters that are born in this place, and concerning their mothers that bare them, and concerning their fathers that begat ⟨p. 25⟩them in this land. 4. They shall die of grievous deaths, they shall not be lamented, neither shall they be buried, but they shall be as dung upon the face of the earth, and they shall be consumed by the sword, and by the famine, and their carcasses shall be meat for the fowls of heaven, and for the beasts of the earth. 5. For thus saith the Lord, Enter not into the house of mourning, neither go to lament, nor bemoan them: for I have taken away my peace from this people, saith the Lord, even loving-kindness and mercies. 6. Both the great and the small shall die in this land, they shall not be buried, neither shall men lament for them, nor cut themselves, nor make themselves bald for them. 7. Neither shall men tear themselves for them in mourning, to comfort them for the dead; neither shall men give the cup of consolation to drink for their father, or their mother. Dying by Sword and Famine, denial of burial, the Flesh of the dead lying as Dung upon the Earth, devoured by the Beasts, consumed by the Fowls, and no Sorrow, no Lamentation for them, are Judgments of God upon wicked Men: And should those that dye in the Lord, be no more lamented, than those that dye in their Sin, and for their Sin deserve no Lamentation? Tho the Name and Carcass of the wicked rot in the Grave together, yet should not the name of the righteous be had in remembrance? And can we remember their Name without Sorrow, that we have not ⟨p. 26⟩their Presence and Company, and opportunity of getting good by their Counsel and Example?
Fourthly, The want of lamentation and mourning is a punishment that God inflicts upon Sinners at their Death. Job 27.13. This is the portion of a wicked man with God, and the heritage of oppressors, which they shall receive of the Almighty. 15. Those that remain of him shall be buried in death, and his widows shall not weep. That Husband was unkind, while he lived, or his Widow unnatural, that cannot weep when he is dead. Psalm 78.64. Their priests fell by the sword, and their widows made no lamentation. When God takes away his loving-kindness and Mercies from men for their great wickedness, while they live, as a token of his wrath, he will not have them lamented when they die, Jer. 16.3. Thus saith the Lord concerning the sons, and concerning the daughters that are born in this place, and concerning their mothers that bare them, and concerning their fathers that begat ⟨p. 25⟩them in this land. 4. They shall die of grievous deaths, they shall not be lamented, neither shall they be buried, but they shall be as dung upon the face of the earth, and they shall be consumed by the sword, and by the famine, and their carcases shall be meat for the fowls of heaven, and for the beasts of the earth. 5. For thus saith the Lord, Enter not into the house of mourning, neither go to lament, nor bemoan them: for I have taken away my peace from this people, saith the Lord, even loving-kindness and mercies. 6. Both the great and the small shall die in this land, they shall not be buried, neither shall men lament for them, nor cut themselves, nor make themselves bald for them. 7. Neither shall men tear themselves for them in mourning, to comfort them for the dead; neither shall men give the cup of consolation to drink for their father, or their mother. Dying by Sword and Famine, denial of burial, the Flesh of the dead lying as Dung upon the Earth, devoured by the Beasts, consumed by the Fowls, and no Sorrow, no Lamentation for them, are Judgments of God upon wicked Men: And should those that dye in the Lord, be no more lamented, than those that dye in their Sin, and for their Sin deserve no Lamentation? Tho the Name and Carcase of the wicked rot in the Grave together, yet should not the name of the righteous be had in remembrance? And can we remember their Name without Sorrow, that we have not ⟨p. 26⟩their Presence and Company, and opportunity of getting good by their Counsel and Example?
