'Ike comforts of Chrifts Mourners. Shall be firft a pure comfort, we have force thing that is ftveet, but there is a great deale of mixture with our fweete, There's little fweet that we have but there is Tome poyfon or other, but this will be a pure comfort, free from danger, _free from the mixture of trouble or danger. And then they are fpiriruall comforts, fpirituall, by that I mean,' not only that it (hall be a foule comfort and not a car- nall, fenfuall comfort as the comforts of molt men in the world are, but that's not that I meane, efpecially when I fay fpirituall comforts, but by that I meane this, that their comforts shall come more firlily in their foules,and fo they (hall have comfort to their bodyes by way of the eradiation ( as I may fo fay) of of the comfort that they shall have to their foules ; The com- forts that we now have comes. firft to,the outward man, and fo our hearts are comforted by the fimpathy with the body, but now the comforts of the Saints, (hall be firltly in their fouls, & come from the foule to the body Secondly, Divine comforts they are that they dull* have, that is, all comfort is from God one way or other, but "from God more imediately,here we have our comforts at fecond or' third or fourth: hand, but now there (hall be comfort that (hall be from God more imediately, And fuch comforts as are from the very nature ofGod himfelfe, that is, fuch comfort as . God is comforted in, fuch soy as God joyes in, and God joyes with them in it ; it may be thou halt money amd cant+ goe into a Tavern, and drink, and play, and thou rejoyceft in it, but Both God rejoyce in this, is it any goy to God, to have wine, good cheere, laughing and playing But now the confolations that Chtift promifes here are the coniolatious of the A.11naighty none of the Saints that have true comfort even now in this world in force degree, but if their comfort be holy and gra- cious, the Lord rejoyces in their reoycing,there is goy in hea- ven, even in the heart of God that joynes with the joy that is in thy heart : And there is no comfort lhould faris,4e a heart that hath Communionwith God, but fpçh comfort wherein I mayhave force evidence that when my heart rejoyces I know the heart ofGod rejoyces in -this my joy r aske this queftion of your
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