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An
ob;eîtion
a.nfwered.
i
t
3
The
Second
is
to
anfwer
a
Qaeftion
that
may
here be pro-
pounded
:
But
you
will
fay,
the promife
here
laid], They
'hall
he
comforted;
But
I
fare
this
don't
belong to
me,
1
leave
mourned
a
long time and
yet
cannot be
comforted,'
have
been
in
fadneffe
of
Ipi.it,
and
I cannot
find
the promife made good
tome
;
How
ihould
1
fupport
my felfe in this cafe
?
Firft
of all, Haft thou
mourned
?
perhaps thou
haft
finned
more then
forrowed
:
Examine
therefore
thy
heart well,
bath
not
thy
fins
beenmore
then thy
forrowes
?
-.therefore be
not
difcouraged
and what is
this forrow to
eternill
forrow;
wh ,t
is
this
inch
of
forrow and mourning
to
an
eternity
of
misery
but
thou
art delivered
from
the
hazard
of
mifcarrying
to
all
eterni-
ty,
and
therefore
this confideration should
fweeten
all
thy
for
-
rowes
:
though thy
condition be
fad,
yet
thou
art delivered
from eternall
perifhing.
Secondly,'_
onfider,that
faith makes comforts
future
as
pre
-
fent
ro
thee,
and
it
is
the glory
of faith,
and that wherein
the
excellency
of
it
loth
confiít
,
to
make
a
mercy
in
a
promife
that
feems
a
great
way
off
to be prefent;
As
Abraham
by
faith
law the
day
of
Chrift
a
farre
off,
fo
faith will
reprefent
a
mer-
cy
to the
foule in
the promifè that
feemes
to be
at
a
great dif-
tance
as
prefent;As defpaire
makes
hell
and
the wrath to come
prefent
unto
the
wicked
who have
inlightned.confciences
who
have the fence
oftheirdinset
home
upon
their,confciences;
it
makes
the wrath
to
come
as
prefent that
they
cry out
many
times
they are
in
hell while they are
upon
the earth,
fo
faith
it
makes
a
mercy
to be certaine
though
not in
poffeffion
:
Haft
thou
no
comfort,
no
glimpfe
of
love in thy
holy
converfe
with
Cod,
look
into
thy fpirit
and fee
whether thou
haft no
bunches
ofCva,a4sGrapesin thy
fowle,
;this is afigne thou
shalthave
more
if
fhou haft
any,
if
thou
haft
bút
a
fparke
of
Divine love
gather
f
om
thence thou shalt
have
more, but
if
thou
canft
not
difcerne
any
glimrfe ofGod yet
we have
the word
and
ordi-
nances now,
Why
have
we thefe but
that
we may
fupport
our
fpirits with
the
;n
?
This
was
that,wñich.Daivid
did
fupport his
heart
ithall,
In the
159.
`l'falme
49, 50.1
had
f
a;
4ted
in
mine
afflifhon,
had
not
thy
word comforted
me.
The
word
of
God
is
fufpicient