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…

Secondly, The most eminent in their troubles need comfort from others, Because the sense and feeling of their grief doth wholly possess them, so that they mind nothing else. Whatsoever it be that is a burden upon them, with this they rise, ⟨p. 189⟩and go to bed, and groan under it; now another Christian is very fit to put them in mind of such promises, to remember them of such passages in Scripture, which their immoderate sorrow had wholly driven out of their mind. The soul of a man cannot be intent to many things at once; therefore the sense and feeling of its particular exercise taketh up the whole heart, as if there were no Scripture, no promise, no balm in Gilead; for any then to be a Remembrancer, a Monitor; you forget such a place, you remember not what the Scripture delivereth concerning your condition, or you do not think of what you have formerly. Say with David, I will remember the works of the Lord of old. Thus (I say) even the most eminent are so apt to be sensible of what is upon them, that they remember not such things as may do them good.

Secondly, The most eminent in their troubles need comfort from others, Because the sense and feeling of their grief doth wholly possesse them, so that they mind nothing else. Whatsoever it be that is a burden upon them, with this they rise, ⟨p. 189⟩and go to bed, and groan under it; now another Christian is very fit to put them in mind of such promises, to remember them of such passages in Scripture, which their immoderate sorrow had wholly driven out of their mind. The soul of a man cannot be intent to many things at once; therefore the sense and feeling of its particular exercise taketh up the whole heart, as if there were no Scripture, no promise, no balm in Gilead; for any then to be a Remembrancer, a Monitor; you forget such a place, you remember not what the Scripture delivereth concerning your condition, or you do not think of what you have formerly. Say with David, I will remember the works of the Lord of old. Thus (I say) even the most eminent are so apt to be sensible of what is upon them, that they remember not such things as may do them good.