Of Communion with God the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost

And (as I said) Consolation ariseth from the presence or consideration §. 3 of a greater Good, that outbalances the evil, or perplexity where with we are to contend. Now in the Effects or acts of the Holy Ghost before mentioned, lye all the springs of our consolation. There is no comfort but from them. And there is no trouble, that we may not have comfort in, and against, by them. That a man may have consolation in any condition, nothing is required, but the presence of a good, rendering the evil, wherewith he is pressed, inconsiderable to him. Suppose a man under the greatest calamity that can possibly befall a child of God, or a confluence of all those evils numbered by Paul, Rom. 8. 38, &c. Let this man have the Holy Ghost, performing the works mentioned before toward him, and in despite of all his evil, his Consolations will abound. Suppose him to have a sense of the Love of God all the while shed abroad in his heart, a clear witness within that he is a child of God, accepted with him, that he is sealed and marked of God for his own, that he is an heir of all the promises of God, and the like, it is impossible that man should not triumph in all his tribulations.

And (as I said) Consolation ariseth from the presence or consideration §. 3 of a greater Good, that outballances the evill, or perplexity where with we are to contend. Now in the Effects or acts of the Holy Ghost before mentioned, lye all the springs of our consolation. There is no comfort but from them. And there is no trouble, that we may not have comfort in, and against, by them. That a man may have consolation in any condition, nothing is required, but the presence of a good, rendring the evill, wherewith he is pressed, inconsiderable to him. Suppose a man under the greatest calamity that can possibly befall a child of God, or a confluence of all those evills numbred by Paul, Rom. 8. 38, &c. Let this man have the Holy Ghost, performing the works mentioned before toward him, and in despight of all his evill, his Consolations will abound. Suppose him to have a sence of the Love of God all the while shed abroad in his heart, a cleare witnesse within that he is a child of God, accepted with him, that he is sealed and marked of God for his own, that he is an heire of all the promises of God, and the like, it is impossible that man should not triumph in all his tribulations.