Comforts for true mourners. Fourthly, Confider for thy Comfort that Chrift was a man of forrowes, and in thy forrowing thou art but conformable un- to him, and why lhould'ít thou think that to be a burden wherein thou art .made like to Jefus Chrift,nay Chrifts forrows were tò fa nòti :e thine, therefore did Chrift farrow that thy forrowesmight be ianctitied ; Now if God order Chrift who was the Son of his deareft love to be a man of forrows,thy con- dition is nor fo fad as thou takeft it to be, feeing Chrift was fo, and thou art conformable unto him in this ; Now why should we think much to be like unto Chrift ? Did not Cod think it too much to make Chrift to be a man of forrowes for thee, and wilt thou think it much to be a man of forrowes,that thou may - eft be conformableunto him. Fifthly,Let this be for thy Comfort to confider,Thou haft an . intereft in him that is the Cod of all confolation,the darknetfe of thy condition it cannot hinder thine intereft in God : Thou haft comfort in the promife now as certaine and as fure as if thou had'it it in real pofteilion, and thou íhalt have it molt cer- tainely hereafter, and the time is coming that thou fhalc have full confolation, and God will reckon with the wicked for all theirmirth; he will both reckon with them for caufing them to be fad, and they muff give an account for all-their merry hours, their mirth will be a bitter For; iou miro them, when Cod thall come to charge the guilt of all upon their fpirits, & what a difference will there then be between thou and them at that day, when thou for a few dayes haft mourned and (halt be comforted in the end, and they for äfew dayes have rejoyced, and in the end fhall have sn eternity áf forrow. Sixthly, But it may be poore foules may here fay it's true, here is great comfort, here are precious consolations indeed, but my affliaions are great, they are greater then others,. were I fo and fo afl3i&ed I could beare them, had I the burden that fuch a one beares I could be contented and fubmit under it. Now for thy comfort here know that per 'haps this comes from the diftemper o: thy fpirit rather then from the; burden of . the a#Aiaion,the diltemper of tby fpirit may be greit,and that caufes
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