why if he had not a design to turn it to his praise The Lord bid Shimei curse David Who was it that bid Shimei curse David God And who was it that sent Joseph into Egypt God sent him The wrath and anger and envy of his Brethren indeed were instruments but God sent him God had a design upon their anger and upon their envy and wrath in Rev. 16. you find that three unclean Spirits that came out of the mouth of the false Prophet and Dragon and the Beast they stir up the Kings of the Earth to battel and they are the Spirits of Devils working miracles which go forth unto the Kings of the earth and of the whole world to gather them to the battel of that great day of God Almighty They go forth to stir up men to battel but in verse 16. 't is God that gathers them Behold I come as a Thief blessed is he that watcheth and keepeth his garments c. and he gathered them together into a place called in the Hebrew tongue Armageddon God had a hand upon their hand God gathered them in Mich. 4. 11. Now also many Nations are gathered against thee that say Let her be defiled and let our eye look upon Zion Let her be defiled her 's anger enough but saith he verse 12. They know not the thoughts of the Lord neither understand they his counsel For he shall gather them as the sheaves into the floor He shall gather them in the 11th verse 't is said Now also many Nations are gathered against thee that say let her be defiled and let our eye look upon Zion But they know not the thoughts of the Lord They are gathering together against the people of God and God is gathering to thresh them They gather together God hath a design upon their gathering God gathers them So in Ezek. 38. you have there the story of Gog and Magog that came up against the people of the Lord in a great multitude and they came up to spoil Therefore verse 14. Son of man prophesie and say unto Gog Thus saith the Lord God in that day when my people Israel dwelleth safely shalt thou not know it and thou shalt come from thy place out of the North parts Thou and many people with thee all of them riding upon Horses a great company and a mighty Army and thou shalt come against my people Israel as a cloud to cover the Land it shall be in the latter daies And I will bring thee against my Land Why That the Heathen may know me when I shall be sanctified in thee O Gog before their eyes verse 11. Thou shalt say I will go up to the Land of unwalled Villages I will go to them that are at rest that dwell safely c. to take a spoil and to take a prey But see the Lord hath another design Thou shalt come up against my people Israel as a cloud to cover the Land it shall be in the latter daies and I will bring thee against my Land Why That the Heathen may know me when I shall be sanctified in thee O Gog before their eyes And in verse 23. Thus will I magnifie my self and sanctifie my self and I will be known in the eyes of many Nations and they shall know that I am the Lord. Here 's Gods design God doth let out the wrath and anger of wicked men against his people and he hath this design that his Name may be sanctified So that you have this assurance also the great design of God 3. You have the assurance of Gods Zeal The zeal of the Lord of Hosts shall do this The God whom we serve is a zealous God Zeal is angered Love Now there are three things that God doth love especially He loves his Truth he loves his Worship and he loves his People When wicked men do prevail against the People of God They scorn the Truth they defile his Worship they persecute his People I say these three things God loves in the World But now God will not suffer these things that he loves thus to be alwaies trampled on for he is a zealous God and therefore you may build upon it you may be assured of it That either he will restrain the rage of men or he will turn their Wrath and Anger unto his own Praise But then Thirdly Suppose all this What is our Duty that doth flow from hence First of all if that there be such a deal of anger and wrath in the hearts of men against the Saints and people of God wonder not at it be not offended when you see it it was alwaies so from the begining God hath put enmity and the enmity that God hath put between the seeds shall stand Cain began betime and as Luther saith Cain will be killing his Brother Abel to the worlds end It hath alwaies been so and do you think there shall be less anger in the hearts of the men of the world against the people of God now in the latter daies No rather more in Rev. 12. 't is said The Dâ—vil is come down having great wrath because he knoweth that he hath but a short time The shorter the Devils time is the more his wrath will be in his Instruments Why now we are fallen in the latter times and therefore his anger must be greateâ— now Anstin thinks that the anger and wrath and persecution of the wicked will be greatest at the last saith he The persecution of the Primitive times was very sharp But afterwards there followed the persecution of the Arrians and that was sharp But the last persecution is the Persecution of Antichrist and that shall be the sharpest And we find in the 11th of the Revelations speaking of the latter daies That the Nations are angry verse 18. And the Nations were angry and thy wrath is come That 's well Gods wrath goes with their anger But the Nations were angry speaking of the latter daies There are three or four things that will raise the anger and wrath of Antichrist in the latter daies There is the Prophesying of the Witnesses The Witnesses Prophesie and when they have finished their Prophesie the Beast shall kill them and being slain they shall make merry over the Witnesses that Prophesied verse 10. and rejoyce over them and shall send gifts one to another Why because these two Prophets tormented them that dwell on the earth the Protestants and reformed Churches do torment by tâ—eâ—r prophesie So that there is one thing that doth image them Another thing that doth raise the anger of the Antichristian party â—â— the world in the latter daies is the separation For there shall be the greatest separation that ever was Come out of her my people that ye be not partakers of her sins and that ye receive not of her plagues There shall be the greaâ—est separation and that provokes them 3. Another thing that shall provoke the Antichristian party in the latter daies is this That they shall
for the Apostle saith That we are not to suffer as evil doers But I pray tell me When did any of the people of God suffer for the Cause of God but there were such glosses as these saith Haman These are a rebellious people and it is not for the Kings profit to suffer them And so when Christ himself suffered He is not a friend to Caesar but an enemy Well then came the Apostles and when the Apostles came what a guise was put upon their sufferings These are seditious and thâ—se that turn the world upside-down are come hither And do not you finde in Scripture and experience that it is no new thing for men to persecute Religion upon the account of Religion Saith Christ For which of my good works go ye about to kill me No no thou art mistaken we go not about to kill thee for thy good works but because thou breakest the Sabbath c. So that 't is no new thing to persecute Religion even upon the account of Religion But then you will say If it be so how shall I be able to know that I do truely suffer for the Name of Christ How shall I be able in the midst of all these blinds and disguises How shall I see through them all that I may be able to say Nay but in truth I do suffer for the Name of Christ Why you have heard it in the general already onely a little more particularly to open it If you do suffer for the Work of the Spirit of God upon your heart the Work that the Holy Ghost hath wrought upon your heart If you do suffer for the Truth which is properly the Truth of the Gospel whatsoever disguises men put upon your sufferings plainly you suffer for Name of Jesus Christ Again if you suffer for the Cause of Christ for the Ways of Christ for the Ordinances of Christ for the Children of Christ for the Liberty which Christ hath purchased for you then you do suffer for the Name of Jesus Christ But thirdly if you do suffer for the worship of Christ as it is distinguisht from Jewish worship from Antichristian worship from Worldly worship then you suffer for the Name of Christ for the Worship of Christ is the Name of Christ And all Nations go forth in the Name of their God Now if you do suffer for the worship of Christ as it is distinguished from the Jewish worship from Antichristian worship from Worldly worship then you do plainly suffer for the Name of Christ The worship of the Jews and the way of the Jews was National but the worship of Christ and the Gospel is Congregational The worship of Christ is distinguisht from Antichristian worship For that 's humane and by humane inventions but the worship of Jesus Christ is Divine and from Heaven The worship of Christ is distinguisht from the worship of the world for that 's Pompous that 's Ceremonious a carnal worship like unto the world it self but the worship Jesus Christ is plain and simple Such worshippers doth the Father seek as worship him in spirit and in truth Now if you do suffer for the worship of Christ as it is distinguisht from the worship of the Jews Antichrist and of the World then you do certainly suffer for the Name of Christ Fourthly if you do suffer for the not-doing of that which Jesus Christ hath justified his own Disciples for the not doing of then do you suffer for the Gospel and so for the Name of Jesus Christ Now look into the 15 of Matth. and you shall see what Christ did justifie his Disciples in And the Scribes and the Pharisees came to Christ and they say unto him Why do thy Disciples transgress the tradition of the Elders What 's that for they wash not their hands when they eat bread VVhy that 's an indifferent thing surely the Disciples would not stand off for an indifferent thing Yes that they did I and Christ justified them in it But this was hatcht with the tradition of the Elders of the Church and surely they would not stand off now Yes that they did and Christ justifies them in it for Christ said Why do you also transgress the commandments of God by your traditions So that if you do suffer for not doing that which Jesus Christ hath justified his Disciples for the not doing of then you suffer for the Gospel and for the Name of Christ Fifthly If two things be laid before you and there is sin on the one hand and on the other hand there is suffering for Christ Sin on the one hand and suffering on the other If now you chuse rather to take up the suffering theâ— to commit the sin you do plainly suffer for the Name of Jesus Christ And therefore look whatsoever the reward is that great reward is which they shall have that suffer for the Name of Christ all that reward is yours Be of good comfort all that reward is yours O and if ever you be call'd to suffer for the Name of Christ go away rejoycing that you are accounted worthy to suffer shame or any thing for the Name of Jesus Christ O what great encouragement is here from this great Rewarder Who would not be willing now to suffer for the Name of Jesus Christ But you will say to me What shall we do that we may be willing to suffer for the Name of Christ for I confess I am very backward and unwilling to suffer for the Name of Christ Do you say so But it may be you are not convinced that it is for the Name of Christ But are you sensible of your unwillingness Why I use to say this He is not far from a grace that is sensible of a contrary evil And 't is a true speech He is not far from humility that is sensible of pride he is not far from faith that is sensible of unbelief So he is not far from being willing to suffer for the Name of Christ that is sensible of his own unwillingness But now suppose that for the present you be very unwilling to suffer for the Name of Christ You may know this That willingness to suffer for the Name of Christ is part of our suffering Grace and suffering Grace is given upon suffering ground Vnto you it is given not only to believe but to suffer The opportunity to suffer is the gift of God The will and heart to suffer is the gift of God And the strength to suffer is the gift of God These are three gifts in one gift But when is this suffering grace given It 's given upon suffering ground In that hour there shall be wisdom given you well to be willing to suffer for the Name of Christ is part of our suffering grace and therefore when you come upon the suffering ground then you shall have the suffering grace I but you will say Indeed I find my heart extreamly backward to suffer for the Name of Christ What shall I do
mightily unto the Lord. Then 't is our duty to put our mouths in the dust if so be there may be hope Then it is our duty for to bear our Testimony Then it is our duty for to wait on God though the Witnesses wear Sackcloth for a time yet there are white Robes provided for them and they come out with Palms in their hands And the nearer the time of Deliverance grows the less time for waiting the more we are ingaged to wait Why now according to the calculation there is not much of the time to come there is but a little of the Sackcloth time to come shall we not watch with him one hour and wear Sackcloth with him one hour wait a while he that shall come will come and will not tarry And so I have done with the third thing namely what this Sackcloth is and their lying in Sackcloth for 1260. years 4. But then in the fourth place It is said here that these Witnesses did Prophesie I will give power unto my two Witnesses and they shall Prâ—phesie Prophesie What 's that and how did it come to pass that they shall Prophesie in the time of their Sackcloth Prophesie What 's that Why Prophesying is sometimes taken in Scripture for the Revelation of the mind of God whereby a man doth foretel things to come and so Daniel and Ezekiel and others were called Prophets Sometimes Prophesying is taken more largely in Scripture for Preaching the Word of God in a way of Office Preaching the Word by Office And so the Ministers and Preachers of the Word of God in Office they are called Prophets in Scripture But Thirdly yet more largely Prophesie is took for a declaring and making known of the Mind and Will of God and so all those that do declare and make known the Mind and Will of Jesus Christ they are said to be Prophets and so I take it here For I pray do but mark This their Prophesying and Witness-bearing seems to be all one I will give power unto my two Witnesses and they shall Prophesie And when they shall have finished their Testimony their witness bearing He should have said when they have finished their Prophesie True But he would shew that their Witness-bearing and Prophesie is all one And so compare chap. 19. and chap. 22. of the Revelations together and you will find the same I fell at his feet and worshipped him and he said unto me see thou do it not I am thy fellow servant and of thy Brethren that have the testimony of Jesus and chap. 22. I fell at his feet and he said unto me see thou do it not for I am thy fellow servant and of thy Brethren the Prophets Of thy Brethren the Prophets here in chap. 22. is all one with thy Brethren that have the Testimony of Jesus In the 19th and saith he there Worship God for the Testimony of Jesus is the Spirit of Prophesie It 's the same word that 's used when they had finished their Testimony or Witness-bearing The witness of Jesus is the Spirit of Prophesie This bearing witness to the truths of Jesus this is Prophesie And thus now the Witnesses they are said to Prophesie Well but how come they to Prophesie in the times of their Sackcloth Behold I will give power unto my two Witnesses and they shall Prophesie 1260. daies clothed in Sackcloth How comes it to pass that they shall Prophesie in Sackcloth It 's clearly answered I will give power saith Christ I will give power unto my two Witnesses and they shall Prophesie in Sackcloth I will give power to them they shall have their Orders to Preach from my self They shall have power from Me to Preach and to Prophesie and to bear their Testimony Some have their Orders and their Power to Prophesie from Men from Prelates from the Beast but saith he I will give power unto my two Witnesses to Prophesie It 's said of the Beast That Power was given him It 's said of the Witnesses I will give Power unto my two Witnesses They shall have their Orders they shall have their Power of Prophesie and Witness-bearing from my self I will give Power unto my two Witnesses Plainly then thus much Obs There 's none can bear witness to the Truths of Jesus Christ but those that are impowred by Christ and if that Jesus Christ will give power unto his two Witnesses for to Prophesie and to bear their Testimony then why should we not depend on God why should we not go unto Christ and depend on Christ for our very Power to bear Witness to the Truths of Christ It may be you are afraid and you will say thus I am a poor weak Creature man or woman and I shall never be able for to bear a Testimony in these witness-bearing times I but you know what the Martyr said I 'le set my foot against the Alce Driver foot of the proudest Prelate of them all in the cause of Christ But who gave power unto her Jesus Christ that saith I will give power unto my two Witnesses and he hath said so concerning all his Witnesses I will give power unto my two Witnesses that they shall Prophesie and bear witness and he is faithful and therefore why should you not go to Christ and lay your selves flat upon this Promise and say to him O Lord I am a poor weak Creature I fear I shall never be able for to bear my Testimony but thou hast said I will give power unto my two Witnesses I am one of thy Witnesses Now then O Lord give power to me for I am poor O remember this Promise here 's a gracious and a blessed Promise Christ saith himself I will give power unto my two Witnesses and he is faithful and will make it good And so I have done with the fourth thing namely what Prophesying is and how the Witnesses come to Prophesie in the times of their Sackcloth Christ gives them power 5. But then Fifthly what is the defence and guard that these Witnesses have whereby they are guarded and defended in their Prophesie The Text saith If any man will hurt them fire Proceedeth out of their mouth and devoureth their enemies What 's that Fire proceedeth out of their mouth It may relate unto Moses but especially it relates unto Elijah a Prophet a Minister that when the Captain and his fifty came to do him hurt he called for fire from Heaven and destroyed the Captain and his fifty fire came out of his mouth by his prayers and when another Captain came and his fifty Elijah prayed and fire came down and destroyed him and his fifty Fire came out of his mouth plainly it relates to this of Elijah What then is this fire that proceeds out of the month of the Witnesses but the scorching and devouring Judgements of God whereby the Enemies of Gods people are blasted and destroyed by the prayers and threatnings of the people of God that come out of their mouth But if
offer a great Sacrifice unto God But this is the thing I bring it for The more Religious end any evil action hath the more holding and continuing is that evil action Now wicked men for their malice they shall have a Religious end they shall think they do God good service their malice therefore and their wrath against the people of God is never dying and an everlasting wrath Thus you see what kind of wrath it is It is a violent anger It is a fraudulent anger It is a Mortal anger It is a blasphemous anger It is an unreasonable anger It is an insulting anger It is an universal anger against all the people of God upon one mans occasion And it is an everlasting and a never dying anger But then secondly How comes it to pass that there should be such a deal of anger and wrath in the hearts of men against the people of God for the people of God are a quiet and a peaceable people 'T is true so they are But who more quiet and peaceable and meek than our Lord and Saviour Christ he lift not up his voice in the streets and yet who ever bare more anger and wrath from men than He. Yea the Saints are not only quiet meek and peaceable but beneficial to the men where they live The innocent delivers the Land Yet notwithstanding saith Solomon in Eccles 9. I have seen a sore evil under the Sun there was a little City and few men within it And there came a great King against it and besieged it and built great Bulwarks against it Now there was found in it a poor wise man and he by his wisdome delivered the City yet no man remembred that same poor man Then said I Wisdom is better than strength nevertheless the poor mans Wisdom is despised and his words are not heard So though the Saints and people of God do deliver a Nation and are exceeding beneficial to the people where they live and where they are yet they shall be despised yet there shall be wrath and malice in the hearts of men against the Saints of God But you will say how doth this come to pass that there should be such a deal of wrath and malice in the hearts of men against the people of God First of all the Saints and people of God and the men of the world they are directly contrary one unto another they are contrary in their Birth and in their Original For the men of the world they are of their Father the Devil who was a Murderer But the Saints and people of God God is their Father They are not only contrary in their original but they are contrary in their principles For the one are the Seed of the Woman and the other the Seed of the Serpent whose Principles are contrary The Seed of the Bond-woman at the best and the Seed of the Free-Woman Yea they are not only contrary in their Principles but they are contrary in their Worship For the Worship of the World is a pompous and a carnal Worship but the Worship of the Saints is Spiritual Such worshippers doth the Father seek that Worship him in Spirit and truth And as their Worship is contrary one unto another so their deeds and their practices are contrary For why saith the Apostle did Cain kill his Brother Abel but because his deeds were evil and his Brothers good Now one contrary seeks to destroy another Why these are contrary They are contrary one to another contrary in their Original Contrary in their Principles Contrary in their Worship Contrary in their lives and Practices And therefore no wonder that there is such a deal of wrath and anger in the hearts of the men of the World against the Saints and people of God But secondly The Saints and people of God they do not regard the men of the World and the men of the World they think so Now for high and lofty men to be slighted and not regarded this makes them angry In Dan. 3. when the three children would not bow down unto the Image There are certain Jews say they to the King that thou hast set over the Affairs of Babylon Shadrach Meshach and Abednego These men O King have not regarded thee Why they think now that if the people of God don't bow down to their Commandments and to their Idols that they don't regard the Magistrate These men have not regarded thee And the truth is Godly men that are the Saints and people of God they cannot regard them For blessed is the man saith the Holy Ghost that regardeth not the proud nor such as turn aside to lyes God hath given a blessing to those that regard not the proud Now wicked men cannot bear this that they should not be regarded high and great men of the world that they should not be regarded and therefore no wonder that there is such a deal of wrath and anger in their hearts against the people of God 3. The Saints and people of God they do withdraw from the men of the world and do separate from them Come out from among them and be ye separate touch no unclean thing Now when we withdraw from men and from their Worship We do condemn their Worship and the men of the world don't love to be condemned Noah condemned the world And by the separation of the Saints from them they do condemn them and they don't love I say to be condemned To separate from them and from their Worship this they cannot bear The Saints do separate from them and therefore there is such a deal of anger and wrath in their hearts against them 4. As the Saints and people of God do separate and withdraw from them upon which they are much provoked So the Saints and people of God do hinder them in their proceedings A man doth not love to be hindered in his proceedings the Saints and people of God they do hold wicked mens hands that they cannot proceed hold their hands by their Prayers I remember a story of Mr. Tyndal that blessed first Translater of the Bible into English that dyed a Martyr in Flanders being then at Antwerp and much respected by the Merchants there There was a great report of a certain juggler that could bring a dish of meat from any Princes Table and so set the Table that they were at with several Dishes from several Princes Tables Pray saith Tyndal to the Merchants will you let me be at your Supper Yes and so they carried him And when he was there the Juggler tryed his skill and sweat and took a great deal of pains but saith he I cannot do it there is some man here that doth hold my hands And Tyndal only set himself to this to believe that he should not do it I speak it only to this that the people of God they hold their hands And in this 76. Psalm The men of might they find â—â—t their hands There brake he the Arrows of the Bow
his Truth his Worship his People Things God delights in his Name When the Solemn Assembly is under Reproach his Truth is derided his Worship defiled his Children persecuted and his Name dishonoured Who can behold all these things and not bleed and not be affected there withall That 's a third 4. Look when the Solemn Assembly doth lie under Reproach then all the People of God the whole Generation of the Righteous are afflicted distressed and as a Lamp despised before him that is at ease Who would not grieve to see the necks of all the people of God lye upon the block together ready to be cut off Pray do but mind that place in Esther 'T is said there that when the Decree came out upon the Jews that their necks lay all upon the block in the third of Esther The Decree was given in Shushan the Palace and the King and Haman sate down to drink but the City Shushan was perplexed The City Shushan Why the City Shushan 'T is not said the Jews What was the City Shushan Jews No there were a hundred to one in the City that were no Jews I but the Neighbours of the people of God were perplexed O then is the City Sushan perplext in such a day and shall not the Jews themselves be perplext shall they not be affected much with it Then all the Saints their necks lie upon the block Look but into the Psalms and you shall see that when the Temple of God is defiled The reproach of the house of God and the persecution of the Saints go together Psal 79. 1 2. O God the Heathen are come into thine Inheritance thy Holy Temple have they defiled they have laid Jerusalem on heaps the dead bodies of thy Servants have they given to be meat unto the fowls of the Heaven the flâ—sh of thy Saints unto the beasts of the earth their bloud have they shed like water round about Jerusalem and there was none to bury them we are become a reproach to our Neighbours I these two go together the defilement of the house of God the reproach of the Solemn Assembly and the persecution of the Saints likewise Now who can see these things and not be affected 5. The School-men say That power which cannot be resisted is a cause of grief If evil be coming and I be able to resist it I am not much affected but if evil comes like an armed man and I cannot resist it this causeth grief Now when the Solemn Assemblie lies under Reproach evil comes upon the People of God like an armed man They cannot resist it hear's grief then 6. The School-men say All grief doth arise from the want of the thing loved and the loss of good Now when the Solemn Assembly doth lie under Reproach there good things are lost the Saints good things There 's the presence of God in the Solemn Assembly There 's the Chariot whereby Christ rides into the souls of sinners There 's the food of Faith There 's all good things gone and therefore no wonder they are so affected But 7. Look when the Solemn Assembly doth lie un-under Reproach then the world is scandalized and the world 's offended Wo to the world because of â—ffences 't is an evil thing that the world should be offended When is the world offended when the Solemn Assembly lies under Reproach aha so would we have it Then they laugh saith Paul who is offended and I burn not We say when the sick man laughs the Physician crys he is distracted saith he Why now the Saints and People of God they are the worlds Physicians to cure them and heal them by their lives and prayers and instructions What do they laugh what do they say Aha so would we have it But when the Solemn Assembly lies under Reproach then is the world offended Then therefore is the time for the Saints and people of God to be much affected 8. Look when the Solemn Assembly doth lie under Reproach then the Devil gets up again The Devil falls by the powerful preaching of the Gospel saith our Saviour Christ Rejoyce not that the Devils fall down like lightning before you What fall what doth our Saviour Christ speak of the Devils first fall no surely but of his fall by the preaching of the Gospel When the Gospel is powerfully preached then the Devil falls But when the Solemn Assembly lies under Reproach he gets up again And what good man would not grieve when he sees how the Devil gets up again especially if he have seen the falling of the Devil before 9. Look when the Solemn Assembly doth lie under Reproach then you have a certain presage of a Famine of the hearing of the word If one could assure you that for certain there would be a Famine of Bread you would be much affected Why the reproach of the Solemn Assembly is a certain presage of a Famine of the word and the hearing of the word a certain presage of it 10. The more that any good man hath any hand in any great evil that is come the more he is affected there withall 'T is fabled of the Eagle that when the Eagle was shot looking upon her wound she was troubled But when she lookt upon the Arrow and saw the feathers of the Arrow nay then saith she I am kill'd and am destroyed by some of my own kind in regard of the feathers and this wounded her again and troubled her more that she was destroyed by some of her own kind And truly when a good man looks upon the reproach of the Solemn Assembly may he not see his own feathers Yes This reproach of the Solemn Assembly have I had a hand in No wonder therefore that it doth grieve him and that he is much affected 11. When the Solemn Assembly doth lie under reproach God is departed Take away God and I am no body saith one A good heart will alwayes say so Take away God and I am no body Now when the reproach lies upon the Solemn Assembly then God is gone God is so much departed and so much gone as the Solemn Assembly lies under reproach so much we do bear the badges of Gods departure Do you then ask me what there is in this reproach of the Solemn Assembly that the Saints should be so much affected there withall There are these two things and judge you whether there be not cause that all the Saints and people of God should be much affected and carry it as a burthen upon their souls when the Solemn Assembly lies under reproach And thus I have done with the second thing that those that are of them Those that are the true Members of the Solemn Assembly they will be very sensible of it And you see the reasons of it But Thirdly Suppose the Solemn Assembly do lie under reproach and we have been and are very sensible thereof and carry it as a burthen What then Then will the Lord turn your former sorrow into