being of their dear relatives, must and ought to be greatly different from that of others, who have no hope at all: it is observed by the Jews (b) on those words in Gen 23:2 and Abraham came to mourn for Sarah, &c. that it is not said to weep for Sarah, but to mourn for her; for such a woman as this, it is not fit to weep, after her soul is joined in the bundle of life, but to mourn for her,