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The
comforts
ofmoOntiu
forifiu.
They-fhall have
comfort
and
if
thou
thinkeit that that's but
a
legali
thing, even that
that Chriit preached
in
this
Sermon
of
his,
if
thou
thinkelt
him
a
legali preacher for preaching
that
the
way
of comfort
is by
mourning, thou mayeft en
oy
thy
thoughts,
and
if
thou
durit venter that
comfort
which
thou
haft
otherwayes,goe
on
with thy
bolcineffe
:
but
Ch
rift
he
pro-
poundis
this
way and faith,
Oldie
that
are
mourners,
they.
are
they that take
care
to comfort, Chriit
is
anoynted to
preach
glad tydings
to
the
mourners.
- Fifthly., Know
this for
thy
comfort, that it
is
the
worke
of
the
Spirit that
is
feat into the-world
to
be
the Comforter to
convince
of
fin;
joh.
16.
8. You
find
that
Chriit
promiiing
the
Comforter to
come, what (hail
the
Comforter doe, the
firft
thing that
the
Comforter than doe
(hail be
to
convince of fin,
to
convince foules
of their
finfull
eflate,
what
their
flate
is
out
of
Jefus
Chrift,what their wretched
_elate is,
the
Spirit, even
the
ComfortingSi
irk
than convince
faith
the Text,
now on
would
rather
have
thought according
tp
the. wayes
of
theri,that
it
had
rather been the fuirit of the
Law,
a
legali
Orit
tO
con-
vince
of
fin,
but
it is
the Spirit
that
is
the
comforting Spirit
that
cloth
convince
of
fin, and
therefore
if
fo be thou
haft
not
this
convidion
of
fin
whatever
thou mayefi
fpeak
of the corn-
fOrts
of the-holy
Ghoft,
certainly
there
is
unit:take
in
thee,
for
the
Holy
Ghoft
when he conies
to comforr,ihe
comes that
way-
into the heart, Firft to
convince
of
fin
;
Therefore
)
thOn.
who
haft
thy
fpirit convinced
of
fin,
of
that
unbeleefe.that
is
in
thy
heart,
and
convinced-powerfully;
-fo
as
to
be
atieded;far
that's
the
convincing
of the Holy
Gholl to
fet
home things.
fci:
as
to
affeca
the
heart
with
it,
let
this
be
a
comfort
to thee,
O
Lord
through thy
Mercy;
I am nor only in
the
way
that-thou
Ina-clef}
on
thofe that thou hail
a
putofe
to
fave,
but
I
have
a.W.or-
ke.:
of
the Comforter,
I
hone he
is
come
to
my
foultihe-hath coniiii-
ced
me of
-my
fin, and
I
find my
heart
.affe&ed
for
My fin
in
,forrow
n
another
way
then formerly
I
have
done.
SixthlY,-Anothe7
Way -oF.'comfort
to:
the
.mourners
far
'finis
this, that
the Lord
piizeth
hic
thy
motirnino-,
thou
thinkdt-
thon canit doe
but
little
fo
fJod,
thou
-haft
a
wretched
finiiall
foule,
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