I. Scripture-light the most sure light ... delivered in three sermons on 2 Pet.…

Indeed God doth sometimes by his Providence, upon the opening of the Bible, cause our eye to fall upon some Promise, which is a Providential Comfort, he doth sometimes send a particular word to stay and bear up ones soul in a particular distress or affliction, but not that I should measure his everlasting Love, or cast my condition by the coming in of every word; this therefore is to hasten after another, and how many sorrows are multiplied upon the hearts of Gods People hereby? How many poor souls are there that walk in this way? God our Father sees it, that the Plaster is not right laid, and so he is fain to take it off, but all from a design of Love, to lay it right; and for these reasons God suffers his own People to be much discouraged.

Indeed God doth somtimes by his Providence, upon the opening of the Bible, cause our eye to fall upon some Promise, which is a Providential Comfort, he doth somtimes send a particular word to stay and bear up ones soul in a particular distress or affliction, but not that I should measure his everlasting Love, or cast my condition by the coming in of every word; this therefore is to hasten after another, and how many sorrows are multiplied upon the hearts of Gods People hereby? How many poor souls are there that walk in this way? God our Father sees it, that the Plaister is not right laid, and so he is fain to take it off, but all from a design of Love, to lay it right; and for these reasons God suffers his own People to be much discouraged.

Quest. 3 But how can all this stand with Grace? Can a man be thus comforted, and discouraged? discouraged, and then comforted again? thus to and fro in his comfort, yet in Christ, yet gracious, yet holy?

Answ. Yes: For though there be much evil in this traversing up and