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Notes
of
trysJl
ahora
frog'
Comfort from
falfe,
-fort,
that did
beget
thy
Comfort
and
what
begets
it
that
will
nouriíh
-it,and-nothing elfe
Now then,
if
thy Comfort-be'-
truly
fpirituall
,
be from the
Spirit .of
rJefus
Chritt
in
thy
heart,
then there
is nothing
that
will
nourish thv comfort more
then
Chrifi
in
thy
heart
;
And
it
make
thee therefore
long-
ing after more
Comniuni®n
with
Jefis-Chrift.Hyporrites
have
comfort, but
what
cloth
nouri[h
and
maintain,:
th
it
comforr,
outward
things
that
they injoy
,
the:"efteeme
o
_the
world,
their
gifts
-and
parts,
and inlargem
niis
Mainraine
their Coin
fort
;
But
now
the Comforts
of
the
Saints
are
filch
as
are:'
maintained by higher principles
:
As you
know
the
Scripture
compares Joy
to Light;
'now.we know
in
nature,
there
.is_
at
light that
is
maintain'd
and
fed
by
meane
things
;
as
the'light
of a-Candle
;
But then
there
is,the light
of
éhe
Sun;
No
that
light-is
of
another nature, that's
not fed
by
fuch low.
and bale
things
as
the light
of
Candles are Now in-Scripture the
Joy
of
the wicked
is
compared
to-the
light
of
a
Candle
;
But
mile
joy
of the
Saints
is
compared to
the light
of
the
Sun.;.The
r
;
;hteoua
v
as
the
Stan
that
Jhinoth
more
and
more
unto
the
per
-
feat day
Now
ifxihon
hndei}'this
that
the light that thou
haft
in
thy iot
le,
is
maintain'd from principles that are above,
from
the
Sun
of
righteoufueffe fhining
into
rhy
heart,
Purely
it
is a
right
Comfort:._
And then
thirdly,
If
rhy
Comfort be
Mitch
as
doth
rule
all
other Comforts
in
thy
heart
;.
I
meane the
Comfort in
hope
of
the pardon of thy
fin
;
The
Comforts
of
an
hypocrite
are
filch
that
though
they
are much af}eeted with
joy,
yet it
is
nor able
to
over
-rule
the
natural! comfort they
have,neither
can
it
ear::
out the corrupt
Joy that
was in
their
foul
es
;
But
now
the
Joy
of the
Saints,
I
fay,
it
is
finch
as
over
-rules
urall
Joy,
and
Bates
out
-
corrupt-and
finfull
Joy
:
As
the liá
ßóf
the
=stn,
you
know,
it
will
put out the
light
of
theKitchii
-fire,
and
darken
the-light of the
Candle,
So
the-light and
heare
of true
Com
fort
in the
foule
will
eate
out
that
carnali
Joy that
was
before
;
faith
Auftin,
How fweete
is
it
to
wort
:
flick foeetneffes. There"
was
a
time that
I thought I could
nìit
tell
how
in_the
wal4to_.
be-without the
fweetnefleoffuch
and
fu
h
lulls;
_B'ur.:now,t)
how