Ver.4. Means ofthe Aggravation of Apaion,r. 3 Z3 call my fins to remembrance and to flay my Son ? r King. i 7, 18. It (scams Come great fin the had formerlycontraffed the guilt of, and now upon her fore AtHit }ion in the death of her only child, the Remembrance of it was recalled and revived capon her foul. Thus deep calleth unto deep at the noife of Gods wa- ter fpouts, and then all his waves and billows goover a perCon, Fful. 42. 7. The deep of A151ic7ions calleth up the deep ofthe guilt offiv,and both in conjuncr}ion become as billows andwaves paß ling over the foul. Wc fee only the outfide of mens afl-lic ions, they ufual,y complain only of what doth appear. And an catie thing it is CuppoCed to be,o apply relief and comfort unto thofe that ar0° dittrefTd. The Rule in this matter is fo clears fo often repeated and inculcated, the promiks annexed unto this con- dition fo many and precious, that every one hath in readinefs what to apply unto them who are fo cxerciCed. But often- times we know nothingof the Gall and Wormwood that is in mans Affliction; they keep that to themfelves, and their fouls feed upon them in fecret, Lam. 3. 12. God hath flirrcd up the Remembrance of fort great fin, or fins, and they look upon their 4ffli5ions as that wherein he is come, or beginning to enter into Judgement with them. And is it any wonder if they be in darknefs and filled with difconfolation. 2.There is in many Afflielions fomething that feems New,and peculiar, wherewith the foul is furprifed, and cannot readily reduce its condition unto what is taught about Afflictions in General. This perplexeth and intangleth it. It is not Aflíi- dion it is troubled withall, but Come one thing or other in it that appears with an Efpccial dread unto the foul, fo that he queflioneth whether ever it were fo with any other or no, and is thereby deprived of the Cupportment which from former Examples it might receive. And indeed when God intendeth that which (hail be a deep Ali&tion, he will put an Edge upon it in matter, or manner, or circumftances, that (hall make the foul feel its fharpnefs. He will not take upwith our bounds and meafures, and with which we think we could be content- ed. But he will put the irnprefs of h own greatneil and terrour upon it, that he may be acknowledged and uhmitted unto. Such was the State withNaomi; When from a full and plenti- T t fu1
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