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Comforts
for true
mourners.
Fourthly, Confider
for
thy Comfort that Chrift
was a man
of
forrowes,
and in thy forrowing thou
art
but
conformable
tin-
to
him,
and
why
ihould'ft
thou think that to be
a
burden
wherein
thou art
made
like
to
Jefus
Chrift,nayChrifts
forrows
were tò
ftnotite
chine,
therefore did
Christ
forrow
that
thy
forrowes might
be fanetitied
;
Now
if
God order Chrift
who
was
the
Son
of
his
deareft
love
to
be
a
man
of forrows,thycon-
dition
is
not
fo
fad
as
thou takeft
it to be,
Peeing
Chrift
was
fo,
and
thou art conformable unto
him
in
this
;
Now
why
lhould
we think much
to
be like unto Chrift
?
Did
not
Cod
think
it
too
much
to
make
Chrift
to
be
a
man
of
forrowes for
thee,
and
wilt
thou think
it
much
to
be
a
man
of forrowes,thatthou
may
-
eft be conformable unto him.
Fifthly,Let
this be for thy
Comfort to
confider,Thou
haft an
intereft
in him
that
is
the
God of
all
confolation,the darkneife
of thy condition
it
cannot
hinder thine intereft
in
God
:
Thou
haft
comfort in
the
promife
now
as
certaine
and
as
fure
as
if
thou had'ft
it
in real poffellion, and thou
fhalt
have
it
moft
cer-
tainely hereafter,
and
the
time
is
coming
that
thou shalt
have
full confolation,
and
Cod
will reckon with the wicked for all
their
mirth;
he
will
both reckon with them
for
caufing
&em
to
be
fad, and they
muff
give
an
account
for all
their merry
hours,
their mirth
will be
a
bitter
portion
uii,o
them,
when
Cod
(hall come to charge
the
guilt
of
all
upon
their fkirits,
Q
what
a
difference will there then
be
between
thou
and
them at
that day,
when thou for
a
few dayes haft
mourned and fbalt be
comforted
in
the end,
and
they
for á few dayes have
rejoyced,
and
in the end
fhall
have
an
eternity
6f
forrow.
Sixthly, But
it
may
be poore
foules may
here
fay
it's
true,
here
is
great comfort,
here
are precious consolations
indeed,
but
my
affüdions
are
great,
they
are
greater
then
others,.
were
I
fo
and
fo af#'ii&ed
I
could beare
them,
had I the burden that
fuch a
one
bearer
I
could be
contented
and
fubmit under
ic.
Now
for
thy comfort here
know
that
perhaps this
comes
from the diftemper
o:
thy
fpirit
rather
then
from
the;
burden of
.
the
affiiition,the dillemper
of
tby fpirit
may be
great,and that
caufes