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 and mourn in secret for all them that mourn under the terrible burden of their sin.'

Use 2. And here let me make a lamentation, in the nature of reproof, against the secure souls in this generation wherein we live; the Lord be merciful unto a world of men, that live within the bosom of the church. O that we had a fountain of tears to bewail this age, in this respect; as Diogenes went about Athens, with a lanthorn and candles, at noon day, seeking honest men; so should a minister go from country to country, and from shire to shire. O how few would he find mourning for sin. Sin is so far from being a burden to them, that it is their sport and pastime, just like Esau. What did he when he had ate and drank? He rose up to play, Gen. xxv. How few are there like Ephraim, who smite upon their thigh, and cry out, What have I done. Men upon their ale-benches, can swear, drink, rail against God, and defy the Holy One of Israel. O! how few rail against their sins, and wish the death and destruction of them. How few cry out, Men and brethren, what shall we do to be saved: but or the contrary. O that it were soundly lamented for and reproved.