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…

2 COR. 1. 4. Who comforteth us in all our tribulation.

There is no tribulation either for the kind or degree of it, but God can and doth comfort his people therein. It is therefore requisite to know what are those cordial comforts, what is that balm and oil by which he healeth the wounds of his afflicted ones. For seeing Gods comforts do far exceed all Philosophical remedies, as much as the Sun doth a Glowworm: And Paul's admirable temperament, I know how to abound, and how to want, doth infinitely transcend that so much celebrated carriage of Socrates, who was noted to be always Eodem vultu, let whatsoever befall him. It is very useful to know, ¹what are these Apples of comfort, as the Church calleth for, Cant. 2. 5. And the rather this is to be done, because many of Gods children are deficient in a three-fold respect about Gods consolations. For either

THere is no tribulation either for the kind or degree of it, but God can and doth comfort his people therein. It is therefore requisite to know what are those cordial comforts, what is that balm and oyl by which he healeth the wounds of his afflicted ones. For seeing Gods comforts do farre exceed all Philosophical remedies, as much as the Sunne doth a Gloworm: And Paul's admirable temperament, I know how to abound, and how to want, doth infinitely transcend that so much celebrated carriage of Socrates, who was noted to be alwayes Eodem vultu, let whatsoever befall him. It is very usefull to know, ¹what are these Apples of comfort, as the Church calleth for, Cant. 2. 5. And the rather this is to be done, because many of Gods children are deficient in a three-fold respect about Gods consolations. For either