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

Object. 3 O! but I do not only want one mercy, but I do want another, and another; Afflictions come thick, and I see no end, I feel no bottom.

Answ. And was it not so with David, the Type of Christ? Psal. 40.1, 2. I waited patiently for the Lord, and he inclined his Ear unto me, and heard my cry; he brought me out also of an horrible pit; or as some read it, out of an unbottomed pit, out of the miry Clay, and set my feet upon a Rock, and established my goings. Three things here, that are most observable. 1. David was in such an Affliction, wherein he did feel no bottom at the first, saw no end. 2. Though he felt no bottom at the first, yet, at the last he did, and a Rock which God set his feet upon, and established his goings. 3. Till he did find this Rock, he prayed, and waited patiently, and he was not discouraged. What therefore though our Afflictions be as thick as any mire, that therein you do stick so fast, as you cannot get out, that you feel no bottom, see no end; yet if in this case you pray, and cry, and wait patiently on the Lord, as David did; you shall be set upon a Rock in due time, and your goings shall be also established. And whereas you say, That your Afflictions are thick, and long, and hard; How long man! What! is your Bush consumed? Do they not make you long more for ⟨p. 275⟩Heaven? When the Apprenticeship is hard and tedious, the young man longs for the day of his Freedom. O! saith he, that I were in my Fathers House! O! that the time of my Freedom were come! So here; Long and hard Afflictions, make us long more for Heaven. Now will ye count that too long, which makes you long more for Heaven? And as for your Relational Comforts; Did God ever take away the Comfort of an outward Relation, and not make it up in the sweetness of Spiritual Relations?

Answ. And was it not so with David, the Type of Christ?