Seasonable truths in evil-times in several sermons / lately preached in and about London

Yes, you know 'tis said, the Lord comforteth in all our tribulations; 'tis not said after our tribulations, but in them: There is comfort in our tribulations; Blessed are the poor in Spirit, for theirs is the Kingdom of God: Blessed are those that mourn, they shall be comforted: and blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God: But blessed are the poor in Spirit, for theirs is the Kingdom of God: So that here's comfort for the present.

But you will say, All this comfort hangs upon a condition, This Promise doth run conditionally. Here's a great Promise of comfort indeed, but it is upon condition, being sensible of the Reproach of the Solemn Assembly, and I have not been sensible, and I am not sensible.

No, pray stay a little: Not sensible! It may be you are not sensible of your sense: As a man may be sensible of his unsensibleness, so a man may be unsensible of his sense: As a man may not believe that he doth believe; So a man may not be sensible of the sense that he hath of the cause and misery of the people of God. When a poor man comes first into the ⟨p. 208⟩Prison, he is sensible of the smell of the Prison, afterwards he is not sensible of his sense, but he hath a sense still: So now it may be, you have been so used to be sensible of the Reproach of the Solemn Assembly; that it may be you are not sensible of your sense.

No, pray stay a little: Not sensible! It may be you are not sensible of your sense: As a man may be sensible of his unsensibleness, so a man may be unsensible of his sense: As a man may not believe that he doth believe; So a man may not be s•nsible of the sense that he hath of the cause and misery of the people of God. When a poor man comes first into the