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…

The first part or member of that distribution, which the Apostle here useth hath been dispatched. For as to the last particular observed in the illustration, which the Apostle useth, viz. The object matter of their patient enduring, which is said to be the same sufferings which we also suffer. If any new matter shall present it self, it will be more fitly considered in the next verse.

THe first part or member of that distribution, which the Apostle here useth hath been dispatched. For as to the last particular observed in the illustration, which the Apostle useth, viz. The object matter of their patient enduring, which is said to be the same sufferings which we also suffer. If any new matter shall present it self, it will be more fitly considered in the next verse.

I proceed therefore to the second part of the distribution used here by the Apostle; In that we may observe, The Condition supposed, If we be comforted. ⟨p. 241⟩Here is light as well as darkness, Summer as well as winter. The godly are not always afflicted, but they have also their seasons of comfort. It is not an impossible thing here supposed, but what God doth ordinarily bring about for those that fear him. So that in the time of adversity, thou art to remember the time of thy consolations also; whereas the people of God in their distress are apt with David to cry out, Hath the Lord cast off for ever? Will he be gracious no more? Thy tribulations are not eternal: After thy wilderness condition thou wilt be brought into a Canaan.

I proceed therefore to the second part of the distribution used here by the Apostle; In that we may observe, The Condition supposed, If we be comforted. ⟨p. 241⟩Here is light as well as darkness, Summer as well as winter. The godly are not alwayes afflicted, but they have also their seasons of comfort. It is not an impossible thing here supposed, but what God doth ordinarily bring about for those that fear him. So that in the time of adversity, thou art to remember the time of thy consolations also; whereas the people of God in their distress are apt with David to cry out, Hath the Lord cast off for ever? Will he be gracious no more? Thy tribulations are not eternal: After thy wildernesse condition thou wilt be brought into a Canaan.