3. The Uses of the Words
The wants to be bewailed are the burden of our sins and the corruptions of our natures, and the wickedness of our lives, and the sins of our youth, and of our old age (Psalm 40:12). My sins have taken such hold upon me, that I am not able to look up: they are more in number than the hairs of my head: therefore my heart has failed me. Thus with David we are to travail and groan under this burden: but this grief for sin, is a rare thing in the world. Men can mourn bitterly for the things of this life, but their sins never trouble them. Again, this sorrow must be for sin, because it is sin, though there were neither hell to torment, nor devil or conscience to accuse, nor judge to revenge.
