§ 6.
Onely brethren you must remember how we limited the point, viz. that after we have hum∣bled our selves we must
The oyle of gladnesse. Or, Comfort for dejected sinners. First preached in the parish church of Banbury in certaine sermons, and now published in this present treatise. By William Whately minister there.
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- The oyle of gladnesse. Or, Comfort for dejected sinners. First preached in the parish church of Banbury in certaine sermons, and now published in this present treatise. By William Whately minister there.
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- Whately, William, 1583-1639.
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- London :: Printed by G. M[iller] for George Edwards, and are to be sold at his house in Greene-Arbour, at the signe of the Angell,
- 1637.
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then take comfort, and not before.
There is a time saith Salomon to mourne and a time to laugh, we must take time to rend our hearts and to turne to the Lord with mourning and contrition; and then we must take time also to stirre up, and to revive our hearts, and to em∣brace the Lords mercies with all joyfullnesse: we must beware of making too much hast to com∣fort our selves, as also of being too slow to the worke. If the sore bee not throughly drawne
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before it be healed, then the festered matter will breake out againe, and the cure will not be well effected, and if it be not healed after drawing, no soundnesse will come to the member affected. As the body, so the soule must be healed soundly, and to the bottome, and not skinned over with untimely and preposte∣rous and ungrounded consoations.
I pray you to observe this caution and this li∣mitation, that none of you may abuse, and mis∣apply the point to your
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owne hurt, for nothing is more dangerous then false comfort. Of the twaine, it is much more safe, though it seeme far more troublesome, to be too much and too long in mourning, then to fetch in comfort before we have at all mourned, or before we have mour∣ned in due measure: for to comfort ones selfe untimely, is to trust in a lie, and is the surest way to cut off all sound and good comfort, and to keepe a mans selfe un∣capable of true comfort. Thus daubing with un∣tempered
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morter will never make any good worke, downe will that daubing come, in the day when the storme and winde shall blow upon it.