A fourth volume containing one hundred and fifty sermons on several texts of Scripture…

(2.) Nay, when you have lost it by your Default, it is not Boldness to ask Grace and Comfort again; when you have wasted Conscience, and weakened your Hopes; as David, Psal. 5.12. Restore unto me the Joy of thy Salvation. When your Candle is put out, you may get it lighted again.

(2.) Nay, when you have lost it by your Default, it is not Boldness to ask Grace and Comfort again; when you have wasted Conscience, and weakned your Hopes; as David, Psal. 5.12. Restore unto me the Ioy of thy Salvation. When your Candle is put out, you may get it lighted again.

(3.) You may wait for Comfort, and still continue your Attendance upon God; Psal. 85.8. I will hear what God the Lord will speak; for he will speak Peace to his People and to his Saints.

(4.) You may entertain it when it comes. Comfort is a Fruit of the Spirit as well as Grace; he which is the God of Grace, is also the God of Consolation; and the same Spirit which works Grace, witnesseth for our Comfort; and it is as great a Crime to smother his Witness, as to resist his Work. Whatever we think, God would have us not only to be holy, but to be cheerful. Would you make the Heart of Christ glad? See John 15.11. These things have I spoken unto you, that my Joy may remain in you, and that your Joy may be full. Christ rejoiceth most in his Heritage, when they live up to the Provision and Preparation he hath made for them in the Gospel. The Devil envieth our Comfort, he knows how useful it is in the Christian Life, to make us thankful for Mercies, cheerful in his Service, to wean us from carnal Delights, and make us willing to do and suffer for God; he seeks to weaken our Confidence, as knowing the Joy of the Lord is our Strength; he would either keep us from Grace, or from a Sense of it; and make us either wicked or sad, and keep us from a comfortable Feeling and Apprehension of Grace.