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, in the second place, There are outward troubles; and it's our duty to ¹comfort such also, and endeavour to turn their water into wine; and of such troubles happily the Apostle speaketh chiefly in this Text. For although God be ready to fill their hearts with joy, yet he will have this done many times by the help of others, because we being members in the same body, are to be accordingly serviceable to one another.

1. 12. Outward.

Hence in the second place, Every one in trouble doth greatly need the assistance and help of others to comfort them. Take the most godly Minister, or the most ¹able Christian, who have been most eminent and successful to comfort others, yet when they have been tempted and cast down themselves, they have not bin able to make use of those directions they have given to others. As Physicians, though never so able to help others, yet in their own diseases, they need the advice of others: Insomuch that there is no Christian in any trouble can say, I need not the comfort of any, the help of any, I can support and comfort my self well enough. Thus Paul, Rom. 1. 12. though so eminent an Apostle caught up into the third Heaven, yet he did long to see the Romans, That he might be comforted with them, though that might be in respect of their graces, to see this flourish, as in other places, Ye are my Crown and my Joy, if you stand fast in the Lord. But howsoever we see job, though so eminent, yet not able to pour oil into his own wounds, he is without comfort, and cannot help himself.

Hence in the second place, Every one in trouble doth greatly need the assistance and help of others to comfort them. Take the most godly Minister, or the most ¹