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…

unless the grain of Corn fall in the earth and die, it cannot be fruitful; this Christ applied to himself, and is also true of every Christian. As the time is thus prefixed, so the kind of it, with the measure and degree of it. Revel. 2. 10. The Devil shall cast some of you into prison. The Apostle also Heb. 11. speaketh of the several sorts ⟨p. 172⟩of tribulations the Saints were exercised with; and if Gods providence reacheth to the Sparrows fall on the ground, yea to the hair falling from the head, how much more to the head it self, to man himself? Is not this then a true solid ground of comfort, to think that thy heavenly Father knowing thy temptations, and what will do thee most good, hath appointed thee to drink of this cup of an affliction, rather than another? Know, that that very trial upon thee, how contrary soever to thy flesh and blood, yet is the best and most profitable affliction of any in the world to thee: other afflictions would be like contrary physic to a disease, do more hurt than good.

unless the grain of Corn fall in the earth and die, it cannot be fruitfull; this Christ applied to himself, and is also true of every Christian. As the time is thus prefixed, so the kind of it, with the measure and degree of it. Revel. 2. 10. The Devil shall cast some of you into prison. The Apostle also Heb. 11. speaketh of the several sorts ⟨p. 172⟩of tribulations the Saints were exercised with; and if Gods providence reacheth to the Sparrows fall on the ground, yea to the hair falling from the head, how much more to the head it self, to man himself? Is not this then a true solid ground of comfort, to think that thy heavenly Father knowing thy temptations, and what will do thee most good, hath appointed thee to drink of this cup of an affliction, rather than another? Know, that that very tryal upon thee, how contrary soever to thy flesh and bloud, yet is the best and most profitable affliction of any in the world to thee: other afflictions would be like contrary physick to a disease, do more hurt than good.