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…

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.

2. We have the effect or end of such consolations, which are vouchsafed to others, especially the Officers of the Church, who are like the mountains whose springs empty themselves into the valleys, and that is two-sold, Consolation and Salvation. Of the former enough hath been said already.