A Divine Cordial

1. The sins of others work for good, as they breed holy sorrow. Gods people weep for what they cannot reform: Psal. 119.136. Rivers of tears run down mine eyes, because they keep not thy Law. David was a mourner for ⟨p. 53⟩the sins of the times; his heart was turned into a Spring, and his eyes into Rivers. Wicked men make merry with sin, Jer. 11.15. When thou dost evil, then thou rejoicest. But the Godly are weeping Doves, they grieve for the oaths and blasphemies of the Age, they take the sins of others, and make them spears to pierce their own souls. This grieving for the sins of others is good. 1. It shows a Child-like heart. 'Tis ingenuity to resent with sorrow the injuries done to our Heavenly Father. 2. It shows a Christ-like heart, Mark 3.5. He was grieved for the hardness of their hearts. 3. The Lord takes special notice of these tears; he likes it well that we should weep when his glory suffers. It argues more grace to grieve for the sins of others, than for our own. We may grieve for our own sins, out of fear of Hell, but to grieve for the sins of others, is from a principle of love to God: These tears drop as water from the Roses, they are sweet and fragrant, and God puts them in his Bottle.

1. The sins of others work for good, as they breed holy sorrow. Gods people weep for what they cannot reform: Psal. 119.136. Rivers of tears run down mine eyes, because they keep not thy Law. David was a mourner for ⟨p. 53⟩the sins of the times; his heart was turned into a Spring, and his eyes into Rivers. Wicked men make merry with sin, Ier. 11.15. When thou dost evil, then thou rejoycest. But the Godly are weeping Doves, they grieve for the oaths and blasphemies of the Age, they take the sins of others, and make them spears to pierce their own souls. This grieving for the sins of others is good. 1. It shews a Child-like heart. 'Tis ingenuity to resent with sorrow the injuries done to our Heavenly Father. 2. It shews a Christ-like heart,