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Fourthly, To be your Cordial in all afflictions. The Rams-skin covered the Ark from the injury of wind and weather; which typified the defence the Church hath by the Gospel from those miseries to which she is liable on earth. This is my comfort, saith David, in my afflictions thy word hath quickened me. When the weight of his afflictions was ready to sink him, the Gospel, like blown Bladders preserve him from sinking.

Some I remember expound that place, Thou O God didst send a plentiful shower, whereby thou didst refresh thine heritage when it was weary, Psal. 65.9: The Law was rained down with those heavenly. Oracles on mount Sinai; while the thunder affrighted the people, the Law refreshed them. If ⟨p. 68⟩the Law did revive them in that terrible temp est, what will the Gospel do? If his precepts are sweeter then the honey and the honey comb, how sweet are his Promises? If his Statutes are the Saints songs, surely the word of his Grace is his triumph.

Some I remember expound that place, Thou O God didst send a plentiful showre, whereby thou didst refresh thine heritage when it was weary, Psal. 65.9: The Law was rained down with those heavenly. Oracles on mount Sinai; while the thunder affrighted the people, the Law refreshed them. If ⟨p. 68⟩the Law did revive them in that terrible temp est, what will the Gospel do? If his precepts are sweeter then the honey and the honey comb, how sweet are his Promises? If his Statutes are the Saints songs, surely the word of his Grace is his triumph.