AN ADVERTISEMENT TO THE READER.
pp. 115–1207 passages
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AN ADVERTISEMENT TO THE READER.
Reader,
This and the following Sermon contains a large Discourse about the Promises, which because it may be thought by some to be impertinent to the Text, and ⟨p. 116⟩rather a Digression from it, than an explication of it; I crave leave to inform thee of two things.
THis and the following Sermon contains a large Discourse about the Promises, which because it may bee thought by some to bee impertinent to the Text, and ⟨p. 116⟩rather a Digression from it, than an explication of it; I crave leave to informe thee of two things.
1 That the Promises are the Principal grounds of Comfort to a Child of God, in the day of his Adversity. They are his chief City of Refuge, when all Creature-comforts fail; when he suffers Ship-wrack of all humane props, these are his Planks upon which he swims safe to the shore of Heaven. All Comfort that is not founded upon a Promise, is Delusion, not true Consolation. And therefore a Discourse about them, cannot rationally be interpreted Eccentrical to the Text.
1 That the Promises are the Principal grounds of Comfort to a Childe of God, in the day of his Adversity. They are his chiefe City of Refuge, when all Creature-comforts faile; when hee suffers Ship-wrack of all humane props, these are his Planks upon which hee swims safe to the shoar of Heaven. All Comfort that is not founded upon a Promise, is Delusion, not true Consolation. And therefore a Discourse about them, cannot rationally bee interpreted Eccentrical to the Text.