lnflruClions for a right comfortint Sect.2. thindfe, putting off all comfort by this mif:conceit, that no Seas of brrow, no meafure of mourningwfll ferve the turne to come comfortably unto lefm Chrifo: I fay, preife uponJuch a One this true Principle in the high an~ heavenly Att of rightly comforting afflict:.. ed confctences. · So foone M a t./1.1'an is truely and he.artily humbled . for all his jinnes, ·and weary of their wa;ght, tbo thet Ad reuipiendamgra- degree ef his forrow bee not anfwerah!e to his owne rJc.., tia'?l remifFonii, ncuf jire,yet Hee foal/ moft certdinely bee wdcome unto Jefm faYJa~~exno[iraparte Chrift. , ·1 , J ~ , ctontt~'t10 fidel tdPillmd- It is ·not fo much the t muchndfe and mea{ure " , .. ~ ICn ,'(8 vertt: 1e quo r- r: ·1 h d 1 · ffi · h" h l 1-addtt,(Bcllarminru {c.) or 1orrow, ~s t 1e tr_ut an 1eartme e, w 1~ ) (~. 1 Nemincm (cirean fua fits us for the prom1fes and comforts of mercte. ~ 'rt "1 1 fides & po.mimttia fit Tho I mufl: fay this alfo : Bee that think!J, He b.ttb talu-, & tanta1 l[~11'1l forrowed u enough for Bu ftnnes, never Jorrowed fata a Dto requmtul", . · l · , /a!fi!]imum eft. No;z vmgry. . . ~g:Y() z. For the fecond whtch IS more properly and {pc~ '-• Ofthem who apply- cially pertinent to our purpofe; Take notice,That the ing Chrift t~JiJ~ke tlm bloud of Chrift being feafonably and favinglyapplyrbey t~ay btd adew to ed to thine bumbled Soule, for the pardon and purmournmg. · f h r.. n. b d .J ~~ gatwn o t y tmne, _muu y no m_eanes amme anl1 enimex gradtt ,aut -;;-e. dry up thy well-fpnng of ~eep10g, but only a~ fi!ra fidei, v!lpllnitcn fwage and heale thy wound of horrour. That prettt~te,depenoet juflifmt- ous Balme bath this heavenly property and power, tzo? (ed er -vmtate. that it rather melts, foftneth, and makes the heart a Da,::nant. Expof. Ep d l · · If h "- b 1 h :~d Col or: pa~ . H. · great, ea emore we~ptng-npe. . t e1e e true y t e u s~ ~hi~i,' f11fficit, p~ng..s of the New· buth, wherewith thou ar~ now_afPcl'ljjh. Au~ufi. . fhcb:d ; thou fhalt find, that thy now cleaving w1th Forfenfeofmercy will af.Turance of acceptation unto the Lord le[m, will _not fof[en our he~rts tbe,fo much lefTen hinder or ceafe thy farrow· as retbfie, more ' ' ' · feafon, and fweeten it. If thy right unto that Soule-faving PafTion be reall ; and thou cafl: thine eye with a . beleeving~ hopefull heart upon Him, who1n thou bafl: therein pierced with thy fins (and thofe fins alone are ,faid properly to have pierced Chrifl:, which at length are pardoned by his bloud.) Thou canfr not po~bly contame,
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