Tuesday, February 22, 2005
Quick thought
There is as well a time to weep, as there is a time to laugh; and a time to mourn, as well as a time to dance, Eccles III.4 The mourning garment among the Jews was the black garment, and the black garment was the mourning garment: Ps xlIII. 2. "Why ye go in mourning?" Why ye go in black? Sometimes Christians must put off their gay ornaments, and put on there black, their mourning garments, Exodus xxxiii 3-6.
When Solon wept for his son's death, one said to him, Weeping will not help. He answered, Alas! Therefore do I weep, because weeping will not help. So a Christian many times sighs, because sighing will not help; and he roars, because roaring will not help. Sometimes the sorrows of the saints are so great that all tears are dried up and they can get no ease by weeping; and therefore they fall a sighing and groaning; Sometimes the sighs and groans of a saint do in some sort tell that which his tongue can in no sort utter. Thomas Brooks, Mute Christian under the rod. |
