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…

Again, When the people of God have any great props and supports of comfort and joy taken away from them, then commonly God comes in with more than ordinary comfort. This makes him to be styled, The Father of the fatherless, and Judge of widows; such who need help and comfort most. When David was in danger of losing his life and Kingdom, and that by his unnatural rebellious son Absalom, when Shimei reviled him, when he fled up and down with his Army, with ashes on his head, weeping and wailing, as he went up the hill, yet even at that time, Psal. 4. 6. he saith, God had put more gladness into his heart, then they could have in their harvest joy. So the Disciples, when they were to be parted from Christ, he was not to be corporally ⟨p. 164⟩present with them; upon this, how greatly did sorrow fill their hearts? What should the sheep do without their Shepherd, the Chickens without their Hen? Yet saith our Saviour, I will not leave you comfortless, John 16. Christ would send his Spirit a Comforter in his room. Thus you see Gods way, when he taketh away the comfort of an Husband, a Father, a Friend, he will be in stead of all these to us. Those conditions which we thought would have broken our hearts, he made even joyful to us.

Again, When the people of God have any great props and supports of comfort and joy taken away from them, then commonly God comes in with more than ordinary comfort. This makes him to be styled, The Father of the fatherlesse, and Judge of widows; such who need help and comfort most. When David was in danger of losing his life and Kingdom, and that by his unnatural rebellious sonne Absolom, when Shimei reviled him, when he fled up and down with his Army, with ashes on his head, weeping and wailing, as he went up the hill, yet even at that time, Psal. 4. 6. he saith, God had put more gladnesse into his heart, then they could have in their harvest joy. So the Disciples, when they were to be parted from Christ, he was not to be corporally ⟨p. 164⟩present with them; upon this, how greatly did sorrow fill their hearts? What should the sheep do without their Shepherd, the Chickens without their Hen? Yet saith our Saviour, I will not leave you comfortlesse,