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3. There is a life of contentment, consisting in the tranquillity of the mind, and the calm frame of a quiet spirit with comfort, joy and cheerfulness; to this purpose saith Paul, 1. Thess. 3. 8. I live if ye stand fast in the Lord, and it is said of Jacob Gen. 45. 27. when he heard that Joseph lived, his spirit revived, as if it had been dead before, because of his great heaviness, arising from the supposed death of his Son; thus we become guilty of this Sin of killing, when we obstruct or interrupt the spiritual comfort and joy, or the inward contentment of our neighbour by fear, heaviness, disquietness, discouragement, &c. whereby his life is made bitter, and his tranquillity impaired, and so his hurt procured or furthered: As Josephs brethren did not only become guilty of his blood, but of weighting ⟨p. 212⟩their Father, and deadening, as it were, his spirit, which afterwards at the news of Joseph's being alive revived, so people may be guilty against their Ministers, when they make them do their work not with joy but grief, as it is Heb. 13. 17.

3. There is a life of contentment, consisting in the tranquillity of the mind, and the calm frame of a quiet spirit with comfort, joy and chearfulness; to this purpose saith Paul, 1. Thess. 3. 8. I live if ye stand fast in the Lord, and it is said of Jacob Gen. 45. 27. when he heard that Joseph lived, his spirit revived, as if it had been dead before, because of his great heaviness, arising from the supposed death of his Son; thus we become guilty of this Sin of killing, when we obstruct or interrupt the spiritual comfort and joy, or the inward contentment of our neighbour by fear, heaviness, disquietness, discouragement, &c. whereby his life is made bitter, and his tranquillity impaired, and so his hurt procured or furthered: As Josephs brethren did not only become guilty of his blood, but of weighting ⟨p. 212⟩