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…

First, The troubled (as you heard formerly) are of two sorts; Those who are afflicted in soul, as the incestuous person, whom sorrow had almost swallowed up as a whirlpool. These that call for a drop of water (as it were) to cool their scorching souls, and cannot have it. To such as these we are to apply ⟨p. 188⟩our selves with all tenderness to comfort them, as the Apostle exhorted the Corinthians. For seeing that a wounded spirit is more hardly born, than any outward misery whatsoever; no wonder that in this case if ever, we come with all comforting medicines to heal them and revive them. We read the Lord Christ, when he was in those agonies, conflicting with the sense of Gods wrath, that even he himself had an Angel to comfort him. Must Christ the Son of God have an Angel sent to comfort him? How much more then a poor wretched sinner, ready to fall into hell with the burden of his sins? This is fully represented by Elihu; Job 33. 28. where speaking of a man chastened by the Lord, and consuming away, so that he doth even abhor to eat his bread, If there come an Interpreter, a Messenger, one amongst a thousand, that can show to such his uprightness, that make it evident to him that he is no hypocrite, but the truth of grace abideth in him, then his flesh shall be fresh as a child's, he shall pray to God, and he will be favourable, and he shall see his face with joy. See what a wonderful change such a messenger may make, he doth even raise him from the dead, he that was pining away is returned to his youth, and this is for spiritual troubles.

First, The troubled (as you heard formerly) are of two sorts; Those who are afflicted in soul, as the incestuous person, whom sorrow had almost swallowed up as a whirlpool. These that call for a drop of water (as it were) to cool their scorching souls, and cannot have it. To such as these we are to apply ⟨p. 188⟩our selves with all tendernesse to comfort them, as the Apostle exhorted the Corinthians. For seeing that a wounded spirit is more hardly born, than any outward misery whatsoever; no wonder that in this case if ever, we come with all comforting medicines to heal them and revive them. We read the Lord Christ, when he was in those agonies, conflicting with the sense of Gods wrath, that even he himself had an Angel to comfort him. Must Christ the Sonne of God have an Angel sent to comfort him? How much more then a poor wretched sinner, ready to fall into hell with the burden of his sins? This is fully represented by Elihu;