Comforts for true mourners. caufes the burden to be heavie : The affli Lion is nor fo great, but thy heart is not willing to yeeld to the\athik4.1ion; were thy heart willing to fubmtt to the hand of God the affliaion would be eafe. And then thou had many mercies mingled with thy amicli- ons, there is none of you can fay that your af}lictions are pure, but they are mingled, God might have brought upon thee.pùre atiliolions, pure miferies upon you, and you might have been depriv'd of all the very glimfes of mercies:. but in your faddeft houres you have force cordials, more mercy then all= ,iciion I am confident that there is none here in this Affembly whole, afli &ioaas are the greateft,but his mercies are greater. And then Confider, That God fuffers more by thy fins then thou cant# fuller from Gods hand in thy aiilidion; : The dark ning of his glory in the leaft degree is a greater evil then any aflli6iion that thou cana indure,and thisThould fupport thy fpi_. rit to confider that God fuffers more, and therefore -thou fhouldell_ not be unwilling to fuller fomething feeing God fuf- fers more then thou cana. Seventhly, If thou wouldfl be comforted, Confider this ; The way that God takes to comfort his Saints,though thou haft it not in fence, thou mayeft have it in faíth,and therefore exer- cife faith, and fetch it in that way, fet faith on work in the pro- mite, and let that brim= out the comfort of the promi:e, fence is not the way by which God comforts his people,. and if We look for comfort in a feraruall way we millake our felves,there- fore let us labour to fetch in comfort f na the exercife of faith, and indeed we flaoul more prize thofe comforts that come from the exercife of our graces then from any fir able apprehenfion>, when thou canal not f e.co fort in thy: creature know 'tis God that thou haft to deale withall, and that is. thy comfort, God bath not placed the creature robe the obje thy comfort, but himrelfe, and therefore when thou feekeft that inthe creature When he hath appointed himíelf to be thy . comfort, thou dolt undervalue God and goeft the wrong way to finde comfort ; In the 5 I. ofIfa: I, even I ann be that cone- forteth thee, who art thou that thou,hoaildeft be afraid of a man? donfid2r
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