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friends! be troubled at others troubles,
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 where we live! the lord be merciful unto a world of men, that live within the bosom of the church. Oh that we had a fountain of tears to bewail for thee, in this respect, as Diogenes went about Athens with a lanthorn and candles at noon-day to seek for honest men: So should a minister go from country to country, and from shire to shire. O how few would he find mourning for their sins! Sin is far from being a burthen or poison to them, that it is their sport and pastime, just Esau like. What did he when he did eat and drink? he rose up to play, Gen. xxv. How few are they 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 own sins, and wish the death and destruction of them! How few cry out, men and brethren, what shall we do to be saved? But on the contrary, O
