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…

Secondly, We are comforted by Christ Meritoriously; he hath merited at the ¹hands of God, our comfort; for without Christs death and atonement, we were no more subjects prepared for comfort, then the damned Angels. Had all mankind with Dives begged but for a drop of comfort, such was the gulf between God and us, that it could not be obtained: So that by Christ a way is made for our consolation: Christ did not only obtain the communication of the holy Ghost in the gifts and graces thereof. So that as by Christ the Spirit of God is given to the Church, as a guide to teach and lead into all truth, as the sanctifying Spirit, and use of all holiness: So he is also as the Comforter, who giveth every drop of consolation, that any believer doth enjoy. Though therefore joy and comfort be in Scripture attributed to the holy Ghost, as the appropriated and applying cause thereof; yet this is wholly because of the merits of Christ: And therefore we may pray for comfort upon the same grounds, as we do for holiness; They are both the fruits of Christs death.

Secondly, We are comforted by Christ Meritoriously; he hath merited at the ¹hands of God, our comfort; for without Christs death and atonement, we were no more subjects prepared for comfort, then the damned Angels. Had all mankind with Dives begged but for a drop of comfort, such was the gulph between God and us, that it could not be obtained: So that by Christ a way is made for our consolation: Christ did not only obtain the communication of the holy Ghost in the gifts and graces thereof. So that as by Christ the Spirit of God is given to the Church, as a guide to teach and lead into all truth, as the sanctifying Spirit, and use of all holinesse: So he is also as the Comforter, who giveth every drop of consolation, that any believer doth enjoy. Though therefore joy and comfort be in Scripture attributed to the holy Ghost, as the appropriated and applying cause thereof; yet this is wholly because of the merits of Christ: And therefore we may pray for comfort upon the same grounds, as we doe for holinesse; They are both the fruits of Christs death.

1. 12. Meritoriously.