An exposition with practical observations continued upon the eighth, ninth, & tenth chapters of…

First,¹ When sinners have brought trouble upon themselves they will complain much, exceedingly troubled; but when they complain they are to consider, that what they feel it is but a little to what's coming after. There are burdens upon you, and you are complaining of these burdens, as if so be that they were the greatest that ever were upon people,² Oh sinner! consider of this when you are complaining of your burdens, know, that these burdens that are upon you may prove to be but very trifles in comparison of what's like to come upon you afterwards, for that's the scope of the holy Ghost here, They shall sorrow a little for this burden, as if he should say, There is other manner of sorrow coming after, and so it did, for afterwards the Assyrians carried them all away captives, and the basest of all the people came even to set their feet upon them, and therefore saith the holy Ghost, This is but a little: I speak to those that make not up their peace with God; and do not upon those burdens that are upon them return to God. As the mercies of God to his Saints, that which now they have is but a little, they may be said to rejoice a little for the mercy that now they have. And so the burdens upon the ungodly they are but a little, but if they return not to ⟨p. 67⟩God upon what they feel, God hath greater burdens than those are that they so vex and fret under.

First,¹ When sinners have brought trouble upon themselves they will complain much, exceedingly troubled; but when they complain they are to consider, that what they feel it is but a little to what's coming after. There are burdens upon you, and you are complaining of these burdens, as if so be that they were the greatest that ever were upon people,² Oh sinner! consider of this when you are complaining of your burdens, know, that these burdens that are upon you may prove to be but very trifles in comparison of what's like to come upon you afterwards, for that's the scope of the holy Ghost here, They shall sorrow a little for this burden, as if he should say, There is other manner of sorrow coming after, and so it did, for afterwards the Assyrians carried them all away captives, and the basest of all the people came even to set their feet upon them, and therefore saith the holy Ghost, This is but a little: I speak to those that make not up their peace with God; and do not upon those burdens that are upon them return to God. As the mercies of God to his Saints, that which now they have is but a little, they may be said to rejoyce a little for the mercy that now they have. And so the burdens upon the ungodly they are but a little, but if they return not to