The truly blessed man

3. Respecting the Subject of these sorrows; and that is not the body only, but the soul too, it is the whole man; this emphasis Christ puts upon it, Matth. 10.20. There are outward bodily troubles that are very great, and almost intolerable, enough to make men tremble at the thoughts of them, and roar under the impression; and we may suppose that question proposed with regard to them, Ezek. 22.14. Can thine heart endure? &c. But alas, these are small, compared with those spiritual Sorrows which seize the Souls of men, when he fills them with horror and deadly despair; ask Cain, ask Judas else; nay David doth not complement or Hyperbolize, Context, Verse 3, 4.

3. Respecting the Subject of these sorrows; and that is not the body only, but the soul too, it is the whole man; this emphasis Christ puts upon it, Matth. 10.20. There are outward bodily troubles that are very great, and almost intolerable, enough to make men tremble at the thoughts of them, and roar under the impression; and we may suppose that question proposed with regard to them, Ezek. 22.14. Can thine heart endure? &c. But alas, these are small, compared with those spiritual Sorrows which sieze the Souls of men, when he fills them with horrour and deadly despair; ask Cain, ask Judas else; nay David doth not complement or Hyporbolize, Context, Verse 3, 4.

4. From the multitude of these Sorrows. Suppose ⟨p. 525⟩them light and easy in their single consideration, yet all together will make an insupportable weight: it must needs sink the sinner to lie under the countless plagues which the threatenings contain in them. One grain of Sand is not heavy; but it will crush a man to death, to have all that are on the Sea-shore laid upon him; so he complains,