The mourners cordial against excessive sorrow discovering what grounds of hope Gods people have…

Hence then, how little cause have the world to scorn Gods people, or they to envy ungodly men? these do both herein appear to act preposterously, and altogether unwarrantably. Let scornful men flout as long as they will at the children of God, because they comfort themselves in the Word and Promise, and settle themselves on an Hope which they derive from thence: it will be found one day that they had no cause so to do. Let them boast and brag of their greater and better comforts, they will shortly know themselves to have been grossly mistaken. Let them look never so well of it to an eye of carnal reason, and seem to be the only darlings of Providence; yet Gods Children have no just cause to malign them upon this account, or to fret and be disquieted ⟨p. 10⟩by reason of it; for God hath provided better things for them which the others have nothing to do withal, nor shall ever be made the partakers of: when at any time you are assaulted with this Temptation, and it is like to be too hard for you, then read and ponder well upon these two precious portions of the Word of God in, Psal. 37▪ and 73.

Hence then, how little cause have the world to scorn Gods people, or they to envy ungodly men? these do both herein appear to act preposterously, and altogether unwarrantably. Let scornful men flout as long as they will at the children of God, because they comfort themselves in the Word and Promise, and settle themselves on an Hope which they derive from thence: it will be found one day that they had no cause so to do. Let them boast and brag of their greater and better comforts, they will shortly know themselves to have been grosly mistaken. Let them look never so well of it to an eye of carnal reason, and seem to be the only darlings of Providence; yet Gods Children have no just cause to malign them upon this account, or to fret and be disquieted