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Comforts
for true
mourners.
Confider that
God
faith
to thee after
this manner,
I
am
he
that
comforteth
thee,
art
thou
difquieted
?
Looke upon
God
thus laying
to
thee
;
Why
art
thou call down
O poore
foule?
Is there
not more comfort
in
my
word,
in
my
power,
then
in
any
thing
which
thou-makett.the
object
of thy
difquiet, In the
S7. of
I
fa:
I
create the
fruit
of
the
lips, peace,
&c. Thou
canft
not
fee which
way
thou
il.ouldeft be comforted, and therefore
becaufe thou
canfl
not thou thinkefl
it
is
impoffible,
but
when
thou
canfl
not
fee
comfort thou
flhouldetl confider
that
God'
can create
comfort
for
thee
;
thou,
fl
ouldefl
looke
upon'God
as
a
Creator
of
comfort,
and
not
lye
dowse
in
difcouragemenr.
God
will rather
goe about
his firft
worke
againe
of
Creation
then that
thou who
art
a
true
mourner
ihaltwant
comfort,
he
will
fall a
creating
comfort
for
thee:and
this
ihoulditrengthen
your
faith,
and
flay
up your foules in
the
faddef}
times
of
darkneffe ;why
there
is
nothing too hard for
God,
as
he made
all
things
of
nothing by
the bare word of
his
power at
the
ñrfl;
Doft
thou think
that
he
is
not
able
to
create comfort
for
thee
now
?
If
God
goe
to
worke doe
not
feare thy Com-
fort.
Eightly,
and
laf}ly,
Suppofe
thy condition were
fuch
as
there
was
never
any
in
the
world in
the
like cafe,
yet
thou
mayefl
be comforted
notwithflanding,
I
fuppofe
there
is
not
any
here
in this Congregation
that'are
in
that trouble of fpirit
or
body
but that there
bath fame
of
the
Saints
been
in
the
fame
if
not
worfe.
But
grant
that there
were never
any
that
ever
were
in
the condition that
thou
art
in; yet
there
is comfort
for
thee
from
this
`.
r
ipture
:
In
the
64.
Ifa:,..Since
the
begin-
Nino-
of
the
world men
have
not
heard
nor perceived
by
the
care,
neither
hath
the
eye
feare O
Clod
4-Ides
thee,
what
he,
bath
pre-
pared
for
him
that
waiteth for
him
:
Haft thou
but
a
heart
to
wane
upon
God
in
thymourning condition
?
God
bath
mercy
and comfort for
thee that
none
knowes
of
;
O
this
thould
be
an
incoufagement for
thee to wane
upon
God
what though
we
know
not
the
comfort,
Cod
doth
:
---
And
thus
I
have
err
deavoured
to
open this
box of
of
Confolation,under this head,
which
is
the
ñril
particular-in
this
ufe.
The