The conforts of
Chrifss
Mourners.
95
-
your foules
in
the
midft of
your joy
;
1
have
a
great deale
of
joy, but doth
the heart ofGod
re;oyce
in
this
try
joy,
fuck
are
the
comforts
ofthe
Saints.
Thirdly; it's
a
full
comfort,
Askand
you
fhall have
that
your
joy may
be
full,
what
a
low kind
of
expreflion
would this
be,
blefled
is
a
man
that
is fick,
for he !hall
have
health, this were
a
poor kind of expreíl
on,
becaufe health
is
but
by
taking
away
the
evil'
of the
fickne(fe
but
now
Chrift
when he
faith
Blejfed
are
they
that
mourne,
for
they
fhall
be
comforted,he
means
they
(hall
have
that
fullneffe of
comfort,
that
would
be
aboundantly
more
good unto
them then
all
their
forrow could
be
cvill unto
them, they !hall
enter
into
their
Mailers
;oy,the joy not
enter
into them.
Fourthly,
And
then
it
ihail be
a
!irong
comfort, Heb.
6.I
8.
Such
comfort
as
(hall bare
down
any
afAiclions
or oppe
(ions.
Fifthly,
An
eternal'
confolation,
fo
you
have
.it
in
the
z
7hefj;
z.
i 6,
in
the
a Tim.
2.'11.
It
is
a.
faith
full
faying,
for
if
we be
dead
with him,
we
(hall
alfo
live
with
him
:
marke
with what
an
ems
hafis
the
holy
Ghoit
fpeakes
when he fpeaks
of
the certainty
Of
the comfort
of
the
Saints
;
It
is
a
faithful/
faying, for
if
we be
dead
with him, we (hall
all()
live
with
him,
if
we fuller, we (hall
all()
reìgne with
him
:
Mourning
it
is
as
the feed that
(hall
certainly
have
an
harvest,
in the 97 Pfalme
there
it's
calfd
a
feed,
Thofe
that
fow
in
tears
fhall reap in
joy,
and
fo
in
116
l'falme
:you
have
the
fame expreflìon
;
The
mourning
of the
Saints
it
is
their
feeds
time,
&
therefore
there
will
come
a
harveft.
And then further,
The Lord
doth delight
to
communicate
himfelfe unto
his
Saints,and
therefore they mutt be comforted:
God
reioyces
in
that
title,
The
God
of
all
comfort; and
that
God
that
comforts
us
in
all
our
tribulations.
They
mufi
needs be comforted,becaufe
God
bath
fo
engag'd
himfelfe in
his
pro.ui'ïes
-.
-
And becaufe
God the
Father bath
anoy-nted
jefus Chrili
ro
be
a
Comforter
to
you,
as
in
the
61 of
1
fa.
As
I
told
you
of
thole that
Were
poor
in
fpirit, jefus
Chrift
wasdefign
by