We are usually either senseless under, or swallowed up with great losses; either our bowels, are made of iron, or they melt like wax, and we faint away: Vehement sorrow is like raging fire, that turns every thing into its own nature. It's thy work therefore to study recruits, as well as to pore upon thy losses, to ballast thy soul with divine comforts: If I go not away the Comforter cannot come: 1Many times the best of our earthly enjoyments stand between us and our heavenly consolations: But if I go away I will send him unto you. It is good to resolve with our selves, be my loss in this world never so great, it is capable of a reparation. For certainly, if the loss of Christ in his bodily presence were to be repaired, there is nothing under the whole heaven, the loss whereof we can sustain, but may much easilier be made up with advantage, to be sure the presence of the Comforter is able to do it with an infinite overplus. It is thy wisdom therefore to balance thy soul with divine comforts; as afflictions abound, run ⟨p. 146⟩to thy Cordial, these words, that thy consolations may abound also: if the affliction scale be heavier than the consolation scale, thou wilt certainly sink in thy spirit, and then thy burden will break thy back: 2The spirit of a man is able to sustain his infirmity. Thou mayst mourn, but that is not all thou hast to do, 3it concerns thee to get a cordial to keep thy heart from fainting: For this cause we faint not. Mark, the Apostle had (always) his Cordial about him, so do thou, be equally just to thy self, as to thy deceased friends. Thou owest them a debt of tears, hast thou paid it? Now be just to thy self, thou owest a care to thy soul, that thou sin not, to thy spirit, that it sink not; must thou needs dye, because thy Husband, thy Child, thy Friend is dead? Look after divine consolation, let it not be a small thing to thee, neither say thou (by interpretation) nay, if God will have this comfort from me, let him take all. Take heed of weeping thy self blind, as to the consolations of God, as Hagar did, there was a well spring of water close by her, but she had cried out her eyes, and could not see it, Gen. 21.16. until God opened her eyes, verse 19.
We are usually either sensless under, or swallowed up with great losses; either our bowels, are made of iron, or they melt like wax, and we faint away: Vehement sorrow is like raging fire, that turns every thing into its own nature. It's thy work therefore to study recruits, as well as to pore upon thy losses, to ballast thy soul with divine comforts: If I go not away the Comforter cannot come: 1Many times the best of our earthly enjoyments stand between us and our heavenly consolations: But if I go away I will send him unto you. It is good to resolve with our selves, be my loss in this world never so great, it is capable of a reparation. For certainly, if the loss of Christ in his bodily presence were to be repaired, there is nothing under the whole heaven, the loss whereof we can sustain, but may much easilier be made up with advantage, to be sure the presence of the Comforter is able to do it with an infinite overplus. It is thy wisdom therefore to ballance thy soul with divine comforts; as afflictions abound, run ⟨p. 146⟩to thy Cordial, these words, that thy consolations may abound also: if the affliction scale be heavier than the consolation scale, thou wilt certainly sink in thy spirit, and then thy burden will break thy back: 2The spirit of a man is able to sustein his infirmity. Thou mayst mourn, but that is not all thou hast to do, 3it concerns thee to get a cordial to keep thy heart from fainting: For this cause we faint not. Mark, the Apostle had (alwayes) his Cordial about him, so do thou, be equally just to thy self, as to thy deceased friends. Thou owest them a debt of tears, hast thou paid it? Now be just to thy self, thou owest a care to thy soul, that thou sin not, to thy spirit, that it sink not; must thou needs dye, because thy Husband, thy Child, thy Friend is dead? Look after divine consolation, let it not be a small thing to thee, neither say thou (by interpretation) nay, if God will have this comfort from me, let him take all. Take heed of weeping thy self blind, as to the consolations of God, as Hagar did, there was a well spring of water close by her, but she had cried out her eyes, and could not see it, Gen. 21.16. until God opened her eyes, verse 19.
- 1John 16.7.
- 2Prov. 18.14.
- 32 Cor. 4, 14.
