Inference 3.

Inference 3.

If Christ be the Consolation of Believers, what a comfortable ¹life should all Believers live in this world? Certainly if the fault be not your own, you might live the happiest and comfortablest lives of all men in the world. If you would not be a discomfort to Christ, he would be a comfort to you every day, and in every condition to the end of your lives: your condition abounds with all the helps and advantages of consolation: you have the command of Christ to warrant your comforts, Phil. 4. 4. You have the Spirit of Christ for a spring of comfort, you have the Scriptures of Christ for the rules of comfort: you have the duties of Religion for the means of comfort: why is it then that you go comfortless? If your afflictions be many in the world, yet your encouragements be more in Christ: your troubles in the world may be turned into joy, but your comforts in Christ can never be turned into trouble. Why should troubles obstruct your comfort, when the blessing of Christ upon your troubles makes them subservient to promote your happiness? Rom. 8. 28. Shake off despondency then, and live up to the principles of Religion: your dejected life is uncomfortable to your selves, and of very ill use to others.

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