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…

IN this final cause, we considered the Subject, who are fit for this comfort, and they are said to be such who are in any trouble. Those that abound in mercies need no comfort; we are not to give honey to such full stomachs. But the troubled, the afflicted, these are they, whose condition we are to commiserate. From whence observe,

IN this final cause, we considered the Subject, who are fit for this comfort, and they are said to be such who are in any trouble. Those that abound in mercies need no comfort; we are not to give honey to such full stomacks. But the troubled, the afflicted, these are they, whose condition we are to commiserate. From whence observe,

That it is a special duty, in a right manner, to comfort those that are in ¹trouble.

1. 1It is a special duty, in a right manner, to comfort the afflicted.

We are not only to seek the conversion of such who go astray, but also to regard the consolation of those that lack it. Hence Lam. 1. the Church complaineth, That she had none to comfort her. The Apostle speaketh of this duty often, 1 Thess. 4. 18. Comfort one another with these things. 1 Thess. 5. 11, 14. Comfort the feeble minded. You see by this pressing this duty so often, that we are seriously and diligently to practise it, lest as God will judge for neglect of corporal alms to fit objects of charity, so also he will call to account for the not dispensing of these spiritual alms. Thou hast not visited those, who were spiritually imprisoned by the guilt of their sins; neither fed those with the bread from Heaven who were hungry. Hence it is that the Apostle speaking concerning the incestuous person, who was now deeply humbled for his sin,