L4ft.. ..,°.. The saints e ve1K as fuppofe we fhould go to friends for com- fort, it may be theywant comfort for them- felves, and fo are unfit to comfort us , or it -may be they will not comfort us,or it may be theyare a great way off, & fo cannot do it ; I or perhaps though able & fometimes willing, yet they are mutable in their comforts, fo as though at one time they are willing, and.do comfort us,yet another time they fail us : but Chrift towhom the foul is led by the promife, not onely bath comfort,and is able tocomfort us,but he is willingalfo to give comfort tolls, whoknoweth our wants,and is near to all that' tú45.18 call upon him in truth,and alto he is immutable in his comforts. And were the creature a fuf-h- cient ground of comfort to Gods people, then to want the creature were a fufficient ground ofmifery to them:but a man may want health, wealth,liberty,and the like,&yetthrough & in Chrif},his foul may have fatisfying comfort ; but if he want Chriff,though he bath a fulnefs of the creature,he is molt miferable and with- out all fatisfying comfort : the promife only is able to afford comfort to the foul in health, in ficknefs,in life,and in death. The third reafon, why God path made ma- Re,/ .3 - ny promifes unto his people ;is,That they may become mutual comforters one ofanother,by having fornewhat by experience from a pro- mile, wherewith they may be enabled to com- fort others fo that you may fee the promife is not given, to comfort our (elves with only, but alto one another. Now for Ufe ; Is it fo that God hath made! f O rriii many!
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