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Gods words of comfort are the only words of comfort: ¹God is the God of consolation, 2 Cor. 1.3. The Father of mercies, and the God of all comfort: ²all comfort doth emanate from God as water out of the fountain; nothing can be in the stream, but what was first in the fountain; he is the Father of mercies; there are no mercies pure and legitimate but what are of his begetting, which can call God Father; no waters are pure, and vital, but those that are fetched out of the fountain: And therefore those Pronouns are very sweet, and carry the greatest emphasis with them, Thy comforts delight my soul, Psal. 94.10. My peace I leave with you, John 14.27. A soul throughly awakened will never take its rest again, or be comforted, until God speak a word of comfort from his own mouth: Make me to hear joy and gladness, ³that the bones which thou hast broken may rejoice. It was not all the honours and pleasures of David's Dominions, it was not all the victories and spoils of his enemies, yea, it was not all his prayers and tears (though every night he made his couch swim with them, Psal. 6.) that could whisper a syllable of comfort to his sin-scorched conscience, until God himself spake them with his own hand, (that's the specially of comfort, which the Apostle begs for his Thessalonians) Now the God of peace himself, 2 Thess. 3.16. ⁴give you peace: Now our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and God even our Father, i. e. himself comfort you. That is right peace which God himself giveth, and that is true comfort which Christ himself speaks: Therefore prayeth the holy man, Make me to hear joy and gladness, q. d. Lord ⟨p. 154⟩