§ 3.

§ 3.

Now there is great reason that the Saints should take comfort after they have taken grief.

Now there is great reason that the Saints should take comfort after they have taken griefe.

First,¹ because they have as good and sure grounds and causes of comfort as of sorrow. Secondly, because they shall glorify God as much. Thirdly, because they shall profit themselves ⟨p. 13⟩as much by taking comfort as by their mourning.

First,¹ because they have as good and sure grounds and causes of comfort as of sorrow. Secondly, because they shall glorifie God as much. Thirdly, because they shall profit themselves ⟨p. 13⟩as much by taking comfort as by their mourning.

1. 1Reason.

First, I say a good man that hath mourned, hath as great cause to take comfort as ever he had to mourn; for he hath the promises of God to the penitent, as well as his threats against the sinner. He hath his mercy to the humble as well as his justice against the transgressor. He hath Christs prayers, merits, intercession to stand for him, as well as the cry and clamour of his sins to stand against