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Comforts for
true
mourners.
caufes
the burden to be
heavie
:
The
afftio
}
ion
is
nor
fo
great,
but
thy
heart
is
not
willing
to
yeeld to the'átlliaion;
were
thy
heart
willing
to
fubmit
to the
hand
of God
the
at
lielion would
be eafie.
.
And then
thou hail
many
mercies mingled
with thy
amiai-
ons,
there
is
none
of
you can
fay
that
your
afilicaions
are
pure,
but they
are
mingled,
God
might
have
brought
upon
thee
ppure
atlli&lions,
pure miferies
upon
you,
and you
might
have
been
depriv'd
of
all
the very glimfes
ofinercies:
but
in
your
faddefl
houres
you have
force
cordials, more mercy
then
affil
Lion
I
am
confident
that there
is
none
here
in this Affembly whore
aflliclioias
are
the greatefl,but
his mercies
are
greater.
And then
Confider, That
God
fuffers
more by
thy fins
then
thou cavil futfer from
Gods
hand
in
thy
afiaions
:
The dark-
ning
of
his
glory in
the
tuft
degree
is
a
greater
evil
then
any
affliction
that
thou canft
indure,and
thisthould
fupport
thy fpi-
rit
to confider
that
God
fullers
more,
and
therefore
thou
ilrouldeft not be
unwilling
to
fuller fomething feeing
God
fuf-
fers
more then
thou canfl.
Seventhly,
If
thou wouldfl
be comforted, Confider
this
;
The
way
that God
takes
to
comfort
his
Saints,though thou
hail
it
not
in fence, thou
mayeíl
have
it
in faith,and
therefore exer-
cife
faith,
and
fetch
it
ha
that
way,
fet
faith on work
in
the pro-
mile,
and
let
that bring out
the
comfort of the
promi-
e,
fence
is not
the
way
by which
Cod
comforts
his
people,- and
if
We
look for comfort
in
a fen:uall
way
we
miftake our
(elves,-
there-
fore
let
us labour
to
fetch in comfort
f;
xn
the
exercife
of
faith,
and
indeed
we
thould
more pride thofe
comforts that
come
from
the exercife
of
our
graces
than
from
any
f
rifible
apprehenfxon3,
when thou canfl
not
f
e-
co.nfort
in
the
creature
know
'tis God
that
thou
hall
to
deale wirhall,
and
that
is.
thy
comfort, God
hash
not
placed
the
creature
robe
the
ob}e
o`
-thy
comfort, but
himCelfe,
and
therefore
when thou
feeketl
that
in
the creature
When
he
hath
appointed
himielf to
be
thy
comfort,
thou
doll undervalue
God
and
goefl the wrong
way
to ende
comfort
;
In
the
5
i
,
oflfa:
I,
even
,
I
am
he
that
com-
forteth
thee,
who
art
thou
that
thoufhouldcß
be
afraid
of
a
man?
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