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…

The meaning appears thus,¹ Are the consolations of God which we have offered small unto thee, because thou hast some secret hidden thing in thy breast: This secret thing is opened three ways.

The meaning appeares thus,¹ Are the consolations of God which we have offered small unto thee, because thou hast some secret hidden thing in thy breast: This secret thing is opened three wayes.

1. 1Et verbum latens tecum. Heb.

First, in reference to comfort, as if he had said, Hast thou some secret comfort besides what we have offered, hast thou consolations of thy own, which cause thee to neglect the consolations of God? As in the Gospel, when the Disciples prayed Christ to eat, he ⟨p. 40⟩told them, I have meat to eat that ye know not of (John 4.31, 32.) Christ had secret bread,¹ his work was his food, My meat is to do the will of him that sent me: So here, What? hast thou meat which we know not of? Some hidden Manna beyond what we have told thee of, that thou carest not for our provisions?

First, in reference to comfort, as if he had said, Hast thou some secret comfort besides what we have offered, hast thou consolations of thy owne, which cause thee to neglect the consolations of God? As in the Gospell, when the Disciples prayed Christ to eate, he ⟨p. 40⟩