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…

In this verse the Apostle doth further amplify the cause of this duty of Thanksgiving, viz. from the effect, and fruit of this property of his, He is not only a God of consolation, habitually and potentially, as it were. He is not a fountain sealed up; but this Sun doth always irradiate its beams; As he is a God of consolation, so he doth comfort.

In this verse the Apostle doth further amplifie the cause of this duty of Thanksgiving, viz. from the effect, and fruit of this property of his, He is not only a God of consolation, habitually and potentially, as it were. He is not a fountain sealed up; but this Sunne doth alwayes irradiate its beams; As he is a God of consolation, so he doth comfort.

So that in the words we have the Effect or Causality attributed to God, [Greek or Hebrew], who is comforting, that doth never cease to do it, that never withdraweth his consolations; It's his nature to be always comforting. As the Devil is called [Greek or Hebrew], because he is always tempting. The word in humane Authors is used frequently of him, who calleth another to him; but in the New Testament either of him that entreateth and prayeth, or of him that exhorteth, or as in the Text, of him that comforteth.

So that in the words we have the Effect or Causality attributed to God, 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, who is comforting, that doth never cease to do it, that never withdraweth his consolations; It's his nature to be alwayes comforting. As the Devil is called 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, because he is alwayes tempting. The word in humane Authors is used frequently of him, who calleth another to him; but in the New Testament either of him that intreateth and prayeth, or of him that exhorteth, or as in the Text, of him that comforteth.