Riches of mercy to men in misery, or, Certain excellent treatises concerning the dignity…

Secondly, I answer to the last objection, and that is more pertinent, and comfortable to the heart, when we question how we shall do in the mean time till deliverance be sent, if we be put upon hard service, and trials.

Secondly, I answer to the last objection, and that is more pertinent, and comfortable to the heart, when we question how we shall do in the mean time till deliverance be sent, if we be put upon hard service, and tryals.

I answer it is a most usual and common thing in the ¹providence of God, and the dispensation of his goodness to his Church, when men are at the lowest ebb in the world, and outwardly, then he makes a more plentiful supply of the inward comforts and consolations of his spirit, Mark, and remember; for now it is not a thing thaty ou must look to find till there be occasion. A man cannot know whether this be true or no till he have experience that the world leave him; when he hath little comfort in the world, then he shall find the truth of this. You heard that place opened at large in the forenoon, 2 Cor. 5. 16. though our outward man perish our inward man ²is renewed day by day. He saith not there, after our outward man is perished, when God hath pulled down the old building, he will build a new house: no, but in the while he takes the ruins a pieces, the timber of the outward ⟨p. 340⟩man, and builds a new house, he makes it up in other comforts, so in 2 Cor. 1. 3. 4. blessed be God the father of ³Christ, &c. Who comforteth us in all our tribulations, he saith not that comforteth us after tribulation, but in the time of tribulation, so in