The mourners cordial against excessive sorrow discovering what grounds of hope Gods people have…

Concerning such as these it must needs be confessed, that their fears are very great and amazing, and their hopes can be but very small: but yet give me leave to offer these rules to be considered.

1. It is the duty of all such silently and submissively to adore the Divine Sovereignty, God is free in the dispensing of his grace, and he hath mercy on whom he will have mercy; and it is too much boldness for the Children of men to call him to give an account of any of these matters. It is recorded concerning Aaron, that when his two elder Sons were slain by a fire from Heaven, in the very act of offering strange fire unto God, that he hold his peace, Lev. 10 3▪ and of Eli, that when the most dismal threatening of the fearful destruction of his two wicked Sons was delivered unto him, he said, It is the Lord, ⟨p. 114⟩let him do what seemeth him good, 1 Sam. 3.18 David indeed was excessive in his mourning for his fondling▪ Absalom, but he met with a sharp rebuke for it: God hath required it of us as a great duty, to fall down before him and worship him in the most severe of his dispensations towards us.

1. It is the duty of all such silently and submissively to adore the Divine Soveraignty, God is free in the dispensing of his grace, and he hath mercy on whom he will have mercy; and it is too much boldness for the Children of men to call him to give an account of any of these matters. It is recorded concerning Aaron, that when his two elder Sons were slain by a fire from Heaven, in the very act of offering strange fire unto God, that he hold his peace, Lev. 10 3▪ and of Eli, that when the most dismal threatning of the fearful destruction of his two wicked Sons was delivered unto him, he said, It is the Lord,