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…

But let us consider the way or manner of Gods comforting. For as it is a great ¹and profitable Question to examine, How God doth convert and sanctify, so also, how he doth comfort? And

But let us consider the way or manner of Gods comforting. For as it is a great ¹and profitable Question to examine, How God doth convert and sanctifie, so also, how he doth comfort? And

1. 1How God comforteth his people.

First, You must lay this foundation, That God doth comfort two ways, either immediately, when he doth by himself work upon the soul: Or mediately, when he comforteth by such means as he hath appointed thereunto.

First, You must lay this foundation, That God doth comfort two wayes, either immediately, when he doth by himself work upon the soul: Or mediately, when he comforteth by such means as he hath appointed thereunto.

Let us then in the next place consider, What are those immediate workings of God upon the soul, whereby he maketh the heart joyful? For David, Psal. 4. saith, God had put more joy into his heart, then any man can have in the abundance of all temporal mercies. And

Let us then in the next place consider, What are those immediate workings of God upon the soul, whereby he maketh the heart joyfull? For David,