A26344:107
God's anger
God's anger ; and, Man's comfort two sermons / preached and published by Tho. Adams.
London: printed by Tho. Maxey for Samuel Man, 1652
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Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
2. Quota, there is a plurality of them; many Comforts. What should encounter with sorrow, but comfort? Comfort therefore it is for the nature. What should oppose a multitude, but a ⟨p. 64⟩multitude? Many comforts therefore they are for their number. Are we troubled with the wants and miseries of this life? we have a comfort for that: The Lord is my portion: He is my shepherd, I shall lack nothing. Do we sink under the burden of our transgressions? we have a comfort for that: Mary Magdalen heard it, to quiet all her storms; Thy sins are forgiven thee. Are we haunted with temptations, hurried with persecutions? we have a comfort for this; I will be with thee in trouble, saith the Lord. Let your Christian experience supply here my defects of remonstrance: I will sum up these comforts in a word: The Lord is gracious, and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness, and repenteth him of the evil. 1We read of certain Fair havens near Candy: here be five fountains of comfort, like 2those fair havens; as welcome for harbour and rode of a sea-beaten conscience, as ever the bosom of mother was to the tender Infant. Drink at the first fountain, The Lord is gracious, free in his favours: if your thirst be not satisfied, go to the second; He is merciful, he hath bowels of commiseration: if not yet, press to the next; He is slow to anger, hard to conceive it, not willing to retain it: wish we more? He is of great kindness, in the number and measure of his blessings: There is yet another well of comfort behind; Repenting him of the evil: full often doth he turn aside his blows, and is easily entreated to have the rod pulled out of his ⟨p. 65⟩hands. David, to encounter with the Giant, took five smooth stones out of the brook: here is the 3brook, and these the five smooth stones: let them not lie in the channel unused, but put them in your vessels, bear them in your hearts: whensoever you are defied and assaulted by that monstrous Philistine, Satan; one of these comforts, like Davids stone, shall sink into his forehead, and confound him.