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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