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had your heart humbled, it will never repent you that you have wept, when our blessed Saviour Jesus Christ comes to wipe away all tears from your eyes. Hear what our blessed Saviour saith, Mat. v. 4. Blessed are all they that mourn for they shall be comforted. Is it not better to endure a little torment here for small time than to be tormented in hell fire for ever? O therefore if you desire ever to see the face of God with comfort, and to have Christ speak to you, break your hearts with sorrow for it. For the Lord's sake do not cozen yourselves It is not only the tears of the eye, but this blood of the heart your sins must cost, and till you come to this never think your sorrow is good. This sorrow consists, not in a bare rending of garments, or change of apparel, or denying themselves those outward ornaments, as some people of late days foolishly conceive, who had been filled with desperate hypocrisy, having left of here, gone no further., but you must break of your hearts, wound yourselves here, and be driven into amazement for sin, or else 'twill live with you here and in hell too. O therefore when God begins to work, follow the blow, and say with the prophet David, PT xxiii. 2. Our eyes wait upon the Lord our God, until that he have mercy upon us. Get your consciences wounded, and resolve
