be much cast down at trials, however painful to flesh and blood, when we consider that their duration is but as the twinkling of an eye, and that they will so soon terminate in inconceivable and everlasting felicity.]
3. There is in Christ a full sufficiency for every wound —
[We need not go to the eternal world for consolation ; for we may find it here. What says the Prophet Jeremiah ? " Is there no balm in Gilead ? Is there no Physician there ? Why then is not the health of the daughter of my people recovered"?" Did we but cry to Jesus, as Paul did, we should find " his grace abundantly sufficient for us." " If we cast our burthen upon him, he would sustain us." See the experiment tried by David, and the account which he gives of the result : how soon was he *' taken out of the horrible pit, out of the miry clay, and a new song was put into his mouth, even praise unto our God''!" The very office which our blessed Lord undertook, was that, not of a Redeemer only, but of a Comforter ; "to comfort them that mourn in Zion, to give them beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, and the garment of praise for tJie spirit of heaviness^ " Let all then look unto him, whatever their afflic- tion now be : even though, like David, they were under the depths of dereliction, they shall soon, with him, have occasion to say, " Thou hast turned my mourning into dancing ; thou hast put ofl'my sackcloth, and girded me with gladness^"
The Lord Jesus " will not break a bruised reed, or quench the smoking flax, but will bring forth judgment unto victory:" and, if we confide in him, " our heaviness may indeed continue for a night, but joy shall come in the morning."]
" Jer. viii. 22. ^ Pg. xl. 2, ^. > Isai. Ixi. 2, 3. ^ Ps. xxx. 11.