An expository comment, doctrinal, controversial, and practical upon the whole first chapter to the…An expository comment, doctrinal, controversal, and practical upon the whole first chapter to the…

First, Efficiently; He being the same with God, is therefore a God of all consolation. Yea Christ as a Mediator he is sensible of our temptations, knoweth our need and wants, and therefore the more ready to comfort. Christ that ⟨p. 210⟩wanted comfort himself; and therefore had an Angel sent to comfort him, is thereby the more compassionate and willing to comfort us Thus you may read Christ and God put together in this very act, 2 Thess. 2. 16, 17. Our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and God even our Father, who hath given us everlasting consolation, comfort your hearts. Paul here prayeth, that both Jesus Christ, and God the Father would comfort them. Christ therefore not only absolutely as God, but relatively as Mediator, is qualified with all fitness and fullness to communicate consolation; he is the fountain and head, as of grace, so of comfort.

First, Efficiently; He being the same with God, is therefore a God of all consolation. Yea Christ as a Mediator he is sensible of our temptations, knoweth our need and wants, and therefore the more ready to comfort. Christ that ⟨p. 210⟩wanted comfort himself; and therefore had an Angel sent to comfort him, is thereby the more compassionate and willing to comfort us Thus you may read Christ and God put together in this very act, 2 Thess. 2. 16, 17. Our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and God even our Father, who hath given us everlasting consolation, comfort your hearts. Paul here prayeth, that both Jesus Christ, and God the Father would comfort them. Christ therefore not only absolutely as God, but relatively as Mediator, is qualified with all fitnesse and fulnesse to communicate consolation; he is the fountain and head, as of grace, so of comfort.

Secondly, We are comforted by Christ Meritoriously; he hath merited at the