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 the second place, besides such general comforts, which are (as some ¹say of Manna) answering all dainties, and was to every mans palate, that which he most delighted in: There are special and particular comforts for special and particular temptations. So that as every disease needeth a peculiar remedy, so every temptation a proper comfort: And therefore that special comfort will not serve one in his temptation, which doth another in a different one. And hence it is, that it is an art of arts, and much heavenly wisdom is required, to administer the proper comfort for such a grief. This makes Casuistical Divinity, which is applied wholly to rectify and comfort a wounded conscience, more difficult than Polemical is. The afflicted soul hath its [Greek or Hebrew], its deeps; and Satan also in their temptations hath his deeps likewise: Insomuch that it is choice prudence to give the proper cordial, and to find out the true way of comforting such, yet though there be special comforts in special cases, yet all the godly that are in like temptations, may, and ought to take the like comforts. That which hath done any godly man good under such an exercise, may do thee also good, if thou art not froward and unbelieving.

In the second place, besides such general comforts, which are (as some ¹say of Manna) answering all dainties, and was to every mans palate, that which he most delighted in: There are special and particular comforts for special and particular temptations. So that as every disease needeth a peculiar remedy, so every temptation a proper comfort: And therefore that special comfort will not serve one in his temptation, which doth another in a different one. And hence it is, that it is an art of arts, and much heavenly wisdome is required, to administer the proper comfort for such a grief. This makes Casuistical Divinity, which is applied wholly to rectifie and comfort a wounded conscience, more difficult than Polemical is. The afflicted soul hath its 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, its deeps; and Satan also in their temptations hath his deeps likewise: Insomuch that it is choice prudence to give the proper cordial, and to find out the true way of comforting such, yet though there be special comforts in special cases, yet all the godly that are in like temptations, may, and ought to take the like comforts. That which hath done any godly man good under such an exercise, may do thee also good, if thou art not froward and unbelieving.