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…

Lastly, God comforts thee by delivering thee from all such Doctrines, though taught by many of great and eminent learning, which yet in their own nature tend to make the heart uncomfortable. How wonderfully did God work for the comfort of Luther, who professed the unspeakable tremblings and fears of soul he was in, and being in captivity by the Doctrine of works, as then taught in Popery, he could have no comfort, but often wished he had never been a man, till God comforted him by delivering him from those false Doctrines? Thus the Doctrine of the Apostasy of true Saints doth utterly dash all comfort from the believer; he must necessarily be in miserable tormenting fears all the day long. And so have we done with that immediate way of Gods comforting.

Lastly, God comforts thee by delivering thee from all such Doctrines, though taught by many of great and eminent learning, which yet in their own nature tend to make the heart uncomfortable. How wonderfully did God work for the comfort of Luther, who professed the unspeakable tremblings and fears of soul he was in, and being in captivity by the Doctrine of works, as then tought in Popery, he could have no comfort, but often wished he had never been a man, till God comforted him by delivering him from those false Doctrines? Thus the Doctrine of the Apostasie of true Saints doth utterly dash all comfort from the believer; he must necessarily be in miserable tormenting fears all the day long. And so have we done with that immediate way of Gods comforting.

The Mediate way, is by those means which he hath appointed to be as Conduits running wine for us. And they are

1. The Scriptures. David professeth much quickening and comfort he had by them. So Rom. 15. 4