An exposition with practical observations continued upon the fifteenth, sixteenth, and seventeenth chapters of…An exposition with practicall observations continued upon the fifteenth, sixteenth, and seventeenth chapters of…

Fourthly, Consider his Omnipotence, he is able to comfort; he can command, yea create comforts, he can bring his comforts through an army of sorrows to a poor soul, yea he can lead comfort through an Army of Devils and temptations, to a poor soul; he is Almighty, there is nothing too hard for him to do, nor is he hard to be entreated to do that which gives ease unto his people.

Fourthly, Consider his Omnipotence, he is able to comfort; he can command, yea create comforts, he can bring his comforts through an army of sorrowes to a poore soule, yea he can leade comfort through an Army of Devils and temptatio•s, to a poore soule; he is Almighty, there is nothing too hard for him to doe, nor is he hard to be entreated to doe that which gives ease unto his people.

Secondly, Observe:

Consolations rightly administered by men, are the consolations of God: While man speaks, God commands; Comfort ye, comfort ye my people, speak comfortably to Jerusalem, tell her that her warfare is accomplished, and her sin pardoned (Isa. 40.1.) As all the counsels, reproofs, and Doctrines which the Ministers of Christ dispense according to the form of wholesome words delivered either in the Law or Gospel, are the counsels, instructions, reproofs and Doctrines of God; so also are their consolations. And that's the reason why God takes it so ill at the hands of men, when his Messengers, who bring either instruction, or consolation, are refused; because himself is refused when they are, and his consolations are disesteemed when theirs are.

Consolations rightly administred by men, are the consolations of God: While man speakes, God commands; Comfort ye, comfort ye my people, speake comfortably to Jerusalem, tell her that her warfare is accomplished, and her sin pardoned (