Cordial when our Heart is overwhelmed within us! In the mean Time, let me beseech you whose _tabernacles are in Peace_[u], and whose _Children are yet about you_[w], that you would not be severe in censuring our Tears, till you have experimentally known our Sorrows, and yourselves tasted _the Wormwood and the Gall_, which we, with all our Comforts, must have in a long and a bitter _Remembrance_[x]. 4. LET those of us who are under the Rod, be very solicitous to improve it aright, that in the End it may indeed be _well_. HEAR, my Brethren, my Friends and Fellow-Sufferers, hear and _suffer the word of Exhortation_[y]. Let us be much concerned, that we may not bear all the Smart of such an Affliction, and, through our own Folly, lose all that Benefit which might, otherwise, be a rich Equivalent. In Proportion to the Grievousness of the Stroke, should be our Care to attend to the Design of it. Let us, now GOD is calling us to Mourning and Lamentation, be _searching and trying our Ways, that we may turn again unto the Lord_[z]. Let us review the Conduct of our Lives, and the State and Tenour of our Affections, that we may observe what hath been deficient, and what irregular; that proper Remedies may be applied, and those important Lessons more thoroughly learnt, which I was mentioning under the former Branch of my Discourse. Let us pray, that through our Tears we may read our Duty, and that by the Heat of the Furnace we may be so melted, that our Dross may be purged away, and the Divine Image instamped on our Souls in brighter and fairer Characters. To sum up all in one Word, let us endeavour to set our Hearts more on that GOD, who is infinitely _better to us than ten Children_[a], who hath _given us a Name better than that of Sons or of Daughters_[b], and can abundantly supply the Place of all earthly Enjoyments with the rich Communications of his Grace: Nay, perhaps, we may add, who hath removed some Darling of our Hearts, lest to our infinite Detriment it should fill his Place there, and, by alienating us from his Love and Service, have a fatal Influence on our present Peace, and our future Happiness.