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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.

Seneca going about to comfort his friend Polybius persuades him to bear his affliction patiently, because he was Caesars Favourite. The word of grace affords you infinitely richer cordials, exceeding rich and precious promises, wherein ye are admitted to be the friends of God, the members of Christ, the Temples of the Spirit, and the heirs of heaven. The feather of the promise hath dropped in some comfort into a broken heart, when it hath been ready to die with despair, and could take thing down: That ye through patience and comfort of the Scriptures might have hope.

Seneca going about to comfort his friend Polibius perswades him to bear his affliction patiently, because he was Cesars Favourite. The word of grace affords you infinitely richer cordials, exceeding rich and precious promises, wherein ye are admitted to be the friends of God, the members of Christ, the Temples of the Spirit, and the heirs of heaven. The feather of the promise hath dropt in some comfort into a broken heart, when it hath been ready to die with despair, and could take thing down: That ye through patience and comfort of the Scriptures might have hope.