Two treatises. The first is, A plain platform for preaching: whereby the word of truth may be rightly divided; and he that speaketh, speak as the oracles of God. Digested into 20. propositions. The second is, The destruction of in-bred corruption. Or, An antidote against fleshly lust. By A. Symson minister of Gods word.
Simson, Alexander, 1570?-1639., Simson, Alexander, 1570?-1639.

XVII. An Us of Comfort how to be amplified.

An Use of Comfort may be amplified.

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  • 1. By a description of the par∣ties to whom it belongeth, and that clearly that no man may abuse himself.
  • 2. By a declaration of the Comfort it self, how needful, certain, great, constant it is, and here also examples are of great force.
  • 3. By meeting with the loose conclusions of carnal men, and setting them down in brief, by shewing how the comfort doth not appertain to them: and also of the doubts that a tender heart will never move against it, an∣swering them lovingly, where are to be shewed the notes of the vertue that is the foundation of the Comfort.