A26344:152
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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Whosoever hath such a heart, let him make much of it: It is a dish for the king of kings. Sin, Repentance and Pardon, are like to the three vernal months of the year, March, April, and May. Sin comes in like March blustering, stormy, and full of bold violence. Repentance succeeds like April, showering, weeping, and full of tears. Pardon follows like May, springing, singing, full of joys, and flowers. If our hands have been full of ⟨p. 88⟩March, with the tempests of unrighteousness: our eyes must be full of April, with the sorrow of repentance: & then our hearts shall be full of May, in the true joy of forgiveness.
Whosoever hath such a heart, let him make much of it: It is a dish for the king of kings. Sin, Repentance and Pardon, are like to the three vernall months of the yeer, March, April, and May. Sin comes in like March blustering, stormy, and full of bold violence. Repentance succeeds like April, showring, weeping, and full of tears. Pardon follows like May, springing, singing, ful of joys, and flowers. If our hands have been ful of ⟨p. 88⟩March, with the tempests of unrighteousnesse: our eyes must be ful of April, with the sorrow of repentance: & then our hearts shal be ful of May, in the true joy of forgivenesse.
His soul; as there be no comforts like those of God; so there is nothing to which comforts are so welcome, as to the soul. The pleasure which the body takes, is but the body, yea scarce the very shadow of pleasure: the soul of pleasure is the pleasure of the soul. There be many things pleasing to the body, wherein the sanctified soul takes no delight, especially in the day of trouble. In calamity, good nourishments are comfortable, good words are comfortable, good friends are comfortable, the Physician is comfortable, the Divine comfortable, a good spouse specially comfortable: but in respect of these comforts, which pass all understanding, we may say of the rest, as Job did to his visitant friends, Miserable comforters are ye all. But blessed are the souls upon whom this Sun of comfort shineth: and happy are those showers of fears and sorrows, that shall be dried up with such beams of comforts: and blessed be God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies, and the God of all comfort. To whom, with the Son, and Holy Ghost,