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 next place, let us consider, Why those arguments which some godly ¹men have found powerful to comfort them, should also be very conducible to others. And

In the next place, let us consider, Why those arguments which some godly ¹men have found powerfull to comfort them, should also be very conducible to others. And

1. 1The grounds of the point.

First, Because all the Godly they are (as I may so say) Ejusdem speciei. ¹They have all the same substantial fundamental work of grace in their hearts. That as you see all men have the same specific humane Nature, though there be many individual properties, and differences. Thus all the godly do partake of the same Divine Nature; They are all borne of God; they are all become new creatures. Although indeed for the manner of conversion, and the degrees of grace; as also experiences of Gods favour and love in these things, there may be ⟨p. 194⟩much variation, yet in the main, as they all have the image of God, and so are like him: So they are also like one another. It's the common faith; it's the common love; it's the common Image of God, which they all do partake of. So that godly men, though they may differ in their gifts, in degrees of graces, in their judgements and opinions, yet because the Image of God is stamped on them all, there is a likeness and similitude between one another: What one feeleth, the other feeleth: How one is affected, the other is affected; they understand one another; they do (as it were) see themselves in one another. We have an expression,