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CHRISTIAN
/AVIS.
liver
us.
Thou
hasc
been
my
helper;
in the shadow
of
thy
wings
will
I
trust.
IV.
By
the
comfortable
words
of
friendsand acquaint-
ance relating their
own
experiences
of
the goodness
of
God,
and encouraging and supporting
us
under trouble.
2
Cor.
i. 3,
4.
Blessed
be
the
God of
all comfort,
which
comforteth
us in
all
our tribulations, that
we
may
be
able
to
comfort
them which are
in
any
trouble
by
the
comfort wherewith
we
ourselves
are comforted of God.
Comfort
the feeble- minded,
support
the
weak,
be
pa-
tient
toward
all men.
11.
Thess.
v. 14.
Comfort
one
ano-
ther
with
these words, chap:
iv.
ult.
Prov.
xxvii.
9.
Ointment
and perfume rejoice the
heart:
so
doth
the
sweetness
of
a
man's friend
by
hearty
counsel.
Telling
them
I
was in
these circumstances,
and
the Lord
bath
delivered
,me, &c.
aìid these were
my
supports,
and
these
my
methods
to obtain peace and relief.
V.
By
teaching
us to live
more upon
invisible things,
and making
all
present troubles
seem very
light,
and
by
raising our hearts
to things
eternal and
heavenly.
By
daily converse
with
God
and heavenly things, and
living
above
the world.
2
Cor.
iv. 17, 18.
For
our
light af-
fliction, which
is
but for a
moment,
worketh
for
us
a far
more exceeding and eternal
weight
of
glory, while we
look
not
at
the things
which
are
seen,
but
at
the things
that
are
not
seen
;
for the
things which
are
seen
are temporal,
but
the things
that
are not
seen
are eternal. Thus
we
have
been dying,
and behold
we
live.
Bless
the Lord,
O
my soul
!
.Amen.
Hallelujah, praise
ye
the Lord
!
7fiirdly,
We
seem
to be dying
in
regard
to
our
spiri-
tual
life,
the
life
of holiness ancr
peace begun
in
us.
When
we
feel
our corruptions
working and rising
at
every
turn,
we
are afraid
we
shall be
overpowered
by
them, and quite
led
captive
to sin
and death
:
Pride,
sinful appetite, intemperance,
furious
anger, resentment,
uneasiness, and repining
at
Providence,
&c.
When
we
feel
the
temptations
of
the world
surround-
ing
us
and pressing
hard upon
us,
either
the
soft
entice-
ments
of
the
world, and the allurements
of
flesh,
luxury,
and
vanity,
or
the oppositions and
frowns,
and
reproaches,
and ,terrors
of the
world,
between one and the
other we
are
ready to
cry
out,
We
shall sink
and die
!
and espe-
cially
if God
delays to
hear our
prayers and hide
him-
self
from
us
;
and
if
the
tempter,
the accuser,
be
suf-