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

Let this warn every one to beware how they apply to themselves the consolations of the Word of God. There are some whom they do belong unto, but they are not all who may make this claim: there are terrors there also, which are the portion of many: and it is not a little perilous in this case, for men to arrogate to themselves that which is not their own: when God is about to speak comfort to his people, he then saith unto ungodly men, hands off; he would have them to stand by and hear, but not to presume: if their hearing of them pronounced upon his people, may awaken them to see their own misery in being without them, and excite them to diligence in seeking after an interest in them according to the Gospel directions; this is proper, and will be profitable; but if they take them as spoken to ⟨p. 11⟩them, run away with them, and never regard what it is that can only give a title to them, this will prove a woeful delusion; and there are none that perish more fearfully than these do: Our business, when we hear of these things, is to enquire seriously, what manner of persons are they to whom they belong? and then to reflect and ask, am I one of these? if indeed we are, we may then safely live upon them, they are our portion; but if it be otherwise, they will not prove Cordials, but poisons to us. It is as dangerous to take comforts un-given as to refuse them when they are offered.

Let this warn every one to beware how they apply to themselves the consolations of the Word of God. There are some whom they do belong unto, but they are not all who may make this claim: there are terrors there also, which are the portion of many: and it is not a little perilous in this case, for men to arrogate to themselves that which is not their own: when God is about to speak comfort to his people, he then saith unto ungodly men, hands off; he would have them to stand by and hear, but not to presume: if their hearing of them pronounced upon his people, may awaken them to see their own misery in being without them, and excite them to diligence in seeking after an interest in them according to the Gospel directions; this is proper, and will be profitable; but if they take them as spoken to