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A75536	Comfort for beleevers about their sinnes & troubles. In a treatise shevving. That true beleevers, how weake soever in faith, should not be opprest, or perplext in heart; by any thing whatever befalls them; either in sinne, or afflictions. Together with divers other comfortable observations; gathered out of that counsell, given by Christ to his Apostles: and in them, to all beleevers. In John chap. 14. verses 1,2,3,4. / By John Archer, Master of Art, sometime preacher of All-hallowes Lumbard-street. London.	Archer, John, Master of Art.	1645 (1645)	Wing A3612; Thomason E289_7; ESTC R200122	80,025	82

Them and so of All Beleevers for He speakes to these Eleaven in the Names of All as ye heard before there are in it many Mansions It were noe Comfort to heare of its Excellency if it could not receive us though God dwel there yet the Creature also may For He is now Emmanuel God with Vs And many not a few though Comparatively they be a Little Flocke Luke 12. 32. and many for some not for all and that a sett number for it is Prepared for Beleevers Heb. 11. 16. Therefore for so many as shall beleeve and for no more Now these their dwelling places are called Mansions to expresse their abode in them they be Sonnes with Christ and shall abide in that House for Ever Now the Truth of all this Description of Heaven is ratified by an Argument taken from Himselfe If it were not so I would have told you He was their Freind came from Heaven to Reveale its Secrets He is the faithfull true Witnes therefore could not but deale truely with thē Further Heaven is Discribed in referrence to Beleevers By the Meanes of their accesse enterance into it which is Christ Who First Prepares a Place for them their The Father prepares it Math. 25. 34. Both by a Free choosing them to it and their perticular Portion or Place in it before the World began As also by Creating it for them from the Foundation of the World But Christ prepares it By Meriting Bringing about their Fruition of it Both by Removing Impediments And Purchasing the Fathers Favour Now Christ prepares a Place By Going I goe to prepare a Place He came from Heaven to prepare a Place in Heaven by His humiliation And then He went from Earth To prepare a Place Both by His dying To satisfie Justice for Sinne and to ratifie the Promises Heb. 9. 15. to the end And by His rising from Death in that if He had bin held under Death He had not bin quitt from our imputed guilt nor could we have bin nor had he lived to bring us to Heauen 1. Cor. 15. 14. 17. Rom. 4. 25. 5. 10. Heb. 7. 25. Also by his Ascention in that he thereby opened heaven doore which was before shut Heb. 9. 8. 12. dispenced gifts to gather the Elect. Eph. 4. 8. 11. 12. Also by his Session at Gods right Hand where he pleads his Merits which is called his makeing Intercession for us Rom. 8. 34. and thence sends downe the holy Ghost to doe all in us that is requisite to our meetenes for that place And administers the World for our good And possesseth the Heaven in our Name and as our Head Roote So that Christ as a Meritorious cause an Exemplary cause and an Efficient cause prepares a Place in Heaven for Beleevers by his going And this is further Secondly Amplified by his Consumation of this his Preparation As he prepares a Place for them So he will bring them into that Place Which that he may doe being now gone he must come againe Christ will come from Heaven to fetch Beleevers unto Heaven he will not send for them but come for them which makes their accesse to Heaven the more glorious in that they shall be fetcht thither by Christ Which is done both in regard of Himselfe that he may have the Glory of judging the World both Beleevers and Unbeleevers And in regard of them because they are his body spouse and he will come to them therefore to marry them and joyne them to Himselfe this is another discription of Heaven by the manner of their Enterance into it Even by Christ his glorious Comming from Heaven to fetch them thither LASTLY He further Amplifies it by a Discription of the heavenly Place by Its Communion with Him They shall be taken to him to be one with him as the Body with the Head the Spouse with the Husband and they shall be where he is That is in the same Place State Condition Heavenly happines is a being one with Christ and in his place state John 12. 26. Thus these Words are a Discription of Heaven and the heavenly Condition of true Beleevers And shew us That Christ is the Way Truth Life as John 14. 6. The Way For by Him they come The Truth For if every thinge were not so He would tell it The Life Not onely as a Meritorious Cause But as the Roote Heavens Life is in Him Col. 3. 3. 4. A being taken to Him and with Him SEVENTH OBSERVATION That Beleevers Glory in Heaven is a Fellowshipe in the Fathers Glory It is a dwelling in his House and so a sharing in that Glory which the Father there hath arising to Himselfe There is great Question about desires of Salvation and not Gods Glory But the Truth is Salvation is the Fruition of Gods Glory a being in and so pertaking of the Glory of Gods house as they are pertakers of the Divine Nature So of His Glory That is Their Salvation And it being the End of all things it is the Fathers glory who is the Beginning of all things EIGHT OBSERVATION That Gods Glory in Heaven which Beleevers pertake off Is a Created Glory Or a Glory which ariseth from Creatures to God and had a beginning For it is the Glory which He hath since he made him an House and dwelt in a Place And so it is neerer to the capacity of Creatures Whereas the Glory that is in and of Himselfe and Eternall Is Incomprehensible Incommunicable NINTH OBSERVATION That Beleevers Glory in Heaven Is in a Communiō Vniō together Many together dwell in one House It is a being One as God Christ are One John 17. 22. as the Glory of this World and so of Mans body is in the union compact of many parts together It is also a being with Christ as is exprest in the Text and hath bin shewed before And it is a being with God also As John 17 21. One with Vs FINIS THE TABLE THE Words are parte of Christs last Words spoken to the Eleven Apostles Page 1. The Occasion or Ground And so the Coherence of the Words 2. The Partes which are Two ibid. FIRST The Duty charged by Christ on His beleeving Desciples That their hearts should not be troubled And what Trouble is ment what not 2. 3. DOCTRINE   That true Beleevers how weake soever in Faith should not be opprest or perplext in heart by any thing whatever befalls them Either in Sinne or Afflictions 4. REASONS   First Because such Trouble ariseth from an Evill Roote and Cause Viz. Ignorance or Vnbeleife 5. Secondly Because such Trouble hath Evill Effects Shewed in Sixe Perticulers   1. It is Troublesome to Gods Heart ibid. 2. It Frustrats Christs Worke In a great part 6. 3. It Unfitts them for their Christian Service Which is to eate the Holy Things and keepe a Continuall Feast ibid. 4. It brings a Consumption upon their Spirituall Strength ibid. 5. It Casts an Evill Report on God ibid. 6. It Gives great Occasion to Corruption and the Divell 7. USES   First For Information To them that jugde the way of Beleeving a sad way Shewing it is the onely Way of Joy and Quiettnes ibid. Secondly For Exhortation To Beleevers Not to be perplext with Sinne or Sorrow 8. THE SECOND Part of the Text.   Is the MEANES To fence Beleevers hearts against Trouble Which are partly Implied and partly Expressed 9. FIRST MEANES Implied Is that Beleevers put themselves under the Command ibid. SECOND MEANES Implied Is that Beleevers gather up and present to their judgments Grounds of Comforts stronger then them of Trouble 10. THIRD MEANES Expressed Is to beleeve in Christ as in God both which explained 11. 12 Faith in Christ gives the strongest Grounds of Comfort For divers Reasons 13. First Because it gives more Boldnes towards God Upon Sixe Grounds ibid. 1. It presents them nearer to God Being made one with Christ Gods naturall Sonne ibid. 2. It presents God nearer to them For it shewes them God in their owne Nature ibid. 3. By it there is hold layed on Gods Iustice As well as on his Mercy 14. 4. By it there is an accesse with boldnes to Gods Holines explained 15. 5. By it there is raised unlimited expectation from God 16. 〈…〉 REASON   It is from His Nature 54. USES   First For Instruction 1. That God is most tender to Beleevers in Troubles 55. 2. That Beleevers should be Compassionate especially Church Officers ibid. Secondly For Exhortation To gett assured of Christs tendernes towards them in All their Troubles 56. SECOND OBSERVATION   That as we must beleeve in Christ So we must cōtinue our Faith in the Father 57. REASON   Because Though God put the Promises into Christ and gave him them yet he reserved them also in his owne hands 58. Question What the difference is twixt Beleeving in the Father the Sonne 59. Answered In Foure Things ibid. USE   For Information To shunn an Error of pitching our Faith onely on Christ not with him on the Father 60. THIRD OBSERVATION   That Beleevers are prone to sinne in those Affections which be lawfull in some sen●e necessary 61. USE   For Information Not onely to care to sett our Affections on lawfull things But to care not to exceed ibid. FOURTH OBSERVATION   That Beleevers hearts are prone to be to much sinnfully troubled with the approach of Afflictions 62. REASONS   First Because Troubles doe crosse the workings of our sinnfull selfe-Love ibid. Secondly Bec. Troubles doe estrange vs from this World ibid. Thirdly Bec. Troubles are contrary to a good principle within us ibid. Fourthly Bec. Selfe flattery promise the Contrary 63. USE   For Exhortation 1. To take paines about fitting our selves for Troubles ibid. 2. In Troubles to looke out for helpe to beare ibid. FIFT OBSERVATION   That Beleevers should renew increase Faith when Troubles doth asayle 64. USE   For Exhortation To Renew Increase and Exercise Faith 65. 66. SIXT OBSERVATION   Now Christ is come to use spirituall Consideratiōs to strengthē against troubles 67. REASONS   1. Bec. Now is the Season 2. Bec. the Life of Christianity is in these 68. USE   To Blame for not using And Exhort to use more these Cordialls 69. 70. 71. 72. The Description of Heaven c. with Three Observations 73. 74. 75. 76. FINIS

Decreed all the Afflictions Sinnes how much long God would leave them to weakenes and let loose corruptions as the wayes meanes by which he would bring them to that Glory appointed them For every thing which befalls Beleevers in this World is a Meanes to that great End of Eternall Glory to which God hath ordained them and therefore was fore-ordered for them in by that Great Eternall Love and so cannot but be in Love and for their Good FOURTHLY All Changes upon Beleevers by Sinnes or Sorrowes 4. Rice They all come from God on thē through A Covenant of Grace come on them by through A Covenant of Grace made with them This followes from the former For the Covenant of Grace is nothing else but the gathering togeather revealing with an obligation to them to performe what ever were his Eternal Purposes in Himselfe concerning Beleevers Wherefore all that is Decreed concerning them is exhibited to them through A Covenant of Grace which cannot but season it make it wholsome to them however pernicious it be to others Thus all Afflictions come through A Covenant of Grace and are Afflictions exprest in it Psal 89. 32. 33. 34. For they be fatherly chastisements for good and tokens of Love to which the Covenant binds God Heb. 12. 7. 10. Whence it is that God is called the terrible God keeping Covenant Mercy Nehe. 1. 5. Because his Covenant for Mercy is to Afflict And so all the Sinnes which Beleevers are left to they are through So all their Sinnes because of the Covenant of Grace left to them and the Covenant implies a dispensation of sinning to them as well as other things For though the Covenant expresse not their being left to Sinne Yet it imples their sinning for its scope is that God as a Father will Educate Nurture them up so as shall fit them for his Inheritance of Glory Now by Sinnes are they as much nurtured fitted for Heaven as by any thing else Wherefore by vertue of and through his Covenant By which he nurtures fitts them of Grace doth he leave them to more or fewer lesse or greater Sinnes as may best nurture them up even as he fitts them for service in this World by leading them into Sinnes as he did Peter to confirme For Service the weake by leaving him to that Sinne Luke 22. 32. with 34. 57. And David to beare out to the World his sure mercyes in Christ Isa 55. 3. by leaving him his house to many great Sinnes as 2. Sam. 11. because else the surenes of the Mercy had not appeared had they not sinned extraordinarily So he fitts also for the Glory in Heaven by their various sinning For Heavē heere Not onely as Sinnes make way for Afflictions but also as they make way for Gods free Grace Christs Mercy and the exercise of diverse Graces As that Sinne of the Church of Corrinth did 2. Cor. 7. 10. 11. And who ever observes Gods manner in nurturing up his Children for Heaven he will find that the most usuall wayes of his Art therein lye in leaving them to Sinnes or Afflictions or both For First Sinnes Afflictions are a tryall of Faith Afflictions try our 1. They try their Faith Faith in Gods Love that he should Afflict and Love as Jobs Faith was tryed Though he Kill me yet I will trust in him And they try our Faith in Afflictions doth in Gods Love Mercy Justice his Mercy when he so takes vengance on our iniquities to beleeve him mercifull and that he hath forgiven Psal 99. 8. And they try our Faith in his Justice whilst he so afflicts the good and letts the wicked prosper as it is in the Psalmes So Sinnes much more In Christs Blood In Gods Unchangeablenes And as Afflictions are a tryall of our Faith So are our Sinnes and that much more then Afflictions They try our Faith in Christs Blood for an Atonement Psal 51. 2. 7. They try our Faith in Gods Vnchangablenes that he will not cast us of though we sinne according as the Covenant runes Psal 89. 31. 32. 33. They try our Faith in the Promises In the Promises of Perseverance Victory over Sinne when yet we find it captive us as Paules faith shewed it selfe Rom. 7. 23. 24 25. Now this Tryall of Faith by manifold tentations as 1. Pet. 1. 6. 7. that is both by Tentations through Sinnes Sorrowes is for a season needfull Even whilst we are in nurture in as much as it tryes Faith As the fire doth the gold that is to be used in speciall things Which tryall of Faith over above besids the Faith it selfe will be profitable at the last day and therefore is at the present of more price vertue to us then gold which perisheth in this World Secondly Sinnes Afflictions are as seeds of an harvest of Joy at the 2. They tend to a harvest of Joy to come last day Afflictions are the ground worke of Joy Psal 126. 5. 6. as the Babilonion Captivity their spoke of was of that great ioy and so Heb. 12 11. even though they be inflicted for Sinnes as the forementioned were For God forgives removes the Affliction Psal 103. 3. Isa 38. 17. Yea and they Comfort at the last day as the hardnes of the Sea voyage doth in the haven and the danger of the fight doth in the triumph Reve. 7. 13. 14. And Sinnes however for the most part they first occasion trouble yet they tend to and in the end bring forth the more Joy both heere whilst God forgives them and sheds abroad his Joy with his Forgivnes giving not onely ease by setting againe the bones he broke but also making them to rejoyce Psal 5 ● 7. 8. David never joyed more then after his reconsilement to God upon those horrid Sinnes of Adultry Murder and that of numbring the People For after the former he had Salomon given him whome the Lord sent called beloved of the Lord 2. Sā 12. 25. was he whome God had named to build the Temple as ye heard before and after the other sinne he had the place of the temple shewed him liberty to prepare for its building which greatly joyed his soule there being nothing to which his heart wēt forth in so much desire as to Gods house And indeed Gods people need more Joyes after Sinnes then after Gods people needs more Joy after sinning then after afflictions Afflictions because they are more cast downe by them and therefore God useth Sinnes as meanes by which he leades in his Joyes unto them in this World And also in the World to come their Sinnes yeild them great Joyes Indeed in some respects they shall joy most at the last day who have least sinned But in other respects they have Which they have heere and more heereaftor most joy who have most sinned For

word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as well signifies the Instrument by which as the Efficient The Efficient 1. Cor. 1. 9. And the Instrument Acts 2. 22. so 1. Cor. 8. 6. Eph. 2. 18. For when God that is the Father is opposed to him He then is taken as the Instrument of God For as God chose us in Christ and adopts us by Christ Eph. 1. 4. 5. So he brings us to beleeve in Him through Christ The distance is so great twixt God us that we cannot immediately trust in God but now our Faith in Christ is immediately in Him And therefore our clossing is closser more immediate with Christs Person by Faith then it is with the Fathers Person We by Faith close with the Fathers Person as with a Father by marriage But with the Sonnes Person as with an husbād with whome we joyne immediately and therefore we beleeve in the Sonne as in a Gift given to us able to helpe us John 4. 10. and in the Father as the giver of it In the Sonne as in the Mediator twixt God us 1. Tim. 2. 5. And in the Father as he that is made one with us through the Sonne Therefore the Sonne is called Emmanuell Math. 1. 23. not in respect of the Vnion of his Natures But because God the Father in him is at one with us on our side who else is not one with us Neither as we once were Righteous by the Couenant of Workes in that He is to much above us in Holynes nor much lesse now we are sinnfull as a Ground of this Thirdly We beleeve in the Father onely as a Divine Person But in the Sonne as the Sonne of God Man Therefore Faith in Christ is given to 3. It s in the Father as a Divine Person him as Gods Sonne John 3. 18. And as Man to his Blood Rom. 3. 25. And thus is Faith on him to be pitcht as God-Man for thus onely he doth the Workes we trust in Him for to Merrit Mediate c. Hence Fourthly He being beleeved in as lesser then God being God-Man 4. It rests not in Chr●●t But riseth up to the Father Faith rests not in him but riseth up to the Father as its utmost propp John 12. 44. Not in Me that is Not onely in Me but riseth up to My Father also That so as the Father is the Original of all Good promised So He should be the bottom of our Faith in which it is terminated And to Whose Glory it shall lastly Worke Eph. 1. 12. 1. Pet. 1. 21. USE Vse Exhortation To shun an Error For Exhortation to shun an Error in the Object of your faith one Error we have before discovered Namely the not taking in the Person of Christ but pitching onely on God his Promises Now I shew you another to shun Namely when ye pitch your faith onely on Christ and not also with him on God the Father Many are so ignorant in this that they thinke God the Father is not the Object of our Faith now But ye see it is otherwise Wherefore give the Father also with the The difference twixt the Jew●s Us in beleeving Sonne his due of Beleeving in him The difference twixt Jewes and Vs lyes not in this that they had the Father and we have the Sonne Incarnate to trust in But in this that they had onely the Father and the Sonne but in a Promise whereas we have the Sonne actually come and the Father also to beleeve in So that we have a double propp for our We have a duble prop to our faith Therefore should have a do●ble strength Faith and therefore should have a double strength in beleeving It is true that implicitly we beleeve in the Father whilst we doe it in the Sonne as he that sees the Sonne sees the Father though he know it not because They are one John 14. 9. Yet till it is done explicitly distinctly and knowingly it is not so honourable to the Father nor so comfortable to the Beleever It s not so honourable to the Father because professedly knowingly ye give him not this his due of beleeving in him which he challengeth An unwilled respect is not counted an honouring a Man Nor is it so comfortable to us for the knowing using Two must needs yeild more Comfort of Faith then the knowing using One only God hath therefore as by giving Two His Word Oath Heb. 6. 17. 18. So by giving Two His Sonne Himselfe aboundantly provided for our securitye comfort And indeed as in some respects we are much helpt in our faith by Christ being its Object as ye have heard So in some respects are we much helpt by the Fathers being the Object of our faith For in Him we have the Roote of all our faith goes to the bottome and in this the deeper the sweeter the stronger For we trust on Electing Love Free Grace Everlasting Mercy that which disposeth of Christ and his Riches to whome it will in what measures it will Math. 20. 23. And so that Objection is prevented which may arise from their being one before Christ who in his Soveraignty orders Christ and his Merrits as he will But ye have his Promises Him fast to trust in as well as the Sonne Yea and ye should be stronger in the Faith in the Father then the Jewes were who onely beleeved in him because by Christ ye have not the Father more obscured but much more revealed then he ever was before THIRD OBSERVATION Obser Beleevers are prone to sinne in those affections which be lawfull That Beleevers are prone to sinne in those Affections which be lawfull and in some sence necessary As heere Trouble for Christs Death Judas Sinne and Their owne Apostacy was so necessary that they had sinned if they had not bine moved with it and yet they sinned in being moved with it as appeares because Christ forbid them the trouble He forbid it to them And the Sinne was as ye have heard in the explication of the Words both in the Object fearing to much even more then was to be feared And in the Passion to much being moved with what was truly apprehēded USE Vse Information Not onelyto care to sett affect●ons on lawfull things But to care not to exceede For Information to true Beleevers Not onely to care that their affections be set on right lawfull things but to care that they exceed not in thē Which we are the proner to more hardly sensible of because the substance of the thing is lawfull Ionah was right in his desire to be foūd true in his sayings to Niniveh because he was a Prophet of God to Israell 2. Kings 14. 25. But this little rightnes in him in the maine advantaged the flesh in him to much sinne against God in running away thinking Gods Mercy would prevaile against that peremptorye Message of Ruine to Niniveh and against Man-kind

COMFORT FOR BELEEVERS ABOUT THEIR SINNES TROVBLES IN A TREATISE SHEVVING That true Beleevers how weake soever in Faith should not be opprest or perplext in heart By any thing whatever befalls them Either in Sinne or Afflictions Together with divers other comfortable Observavations Gathered out of that Counsell given by Christ to his Apostles And in them to all Beleevers In JOHN Chap. 14. Verses 1 2 3 4. By JOHN ARCHER Master of Art sometime Preacher of All-hallowes Lumbard-street London ISA. 57. 19. I create the Fruit of the Lips Peace LONDON Printed for Banjamin Allen and are to be sold at his Shop at the Crown in Popes-head-Alley 1645. ❧ TO THE READER COURTEOUS READER THis Authour having some yeares before his death writte and given to some of his friends for their helpe and comfort some MEDITATIONS grounded upon Iohn 14. 1 2 3 4. Many desiring they were printed conceiving them profitable for the Saints and people of God There comming to hand one of the Copies and that of some things more inlarged then the first Copie was yet by the same Authour to other friends they are here presented to publique view for a more generall good of the Saints and people of God This Discourse is seasonable in this age which is full of troubles somewhat specially though alwayes usefull to Saints the scope and drift of it being to shew how that beleevers should not be opprest or perplexed in heart by any thing what ever befall them either in sinne or affliction which subject is profitably and comfortably opened directing to the use of Faith for ones advantage in these cases greatly and severall there pointed some opened some but named which are worthy thy Meditations Doe the worke this right as to conceive had it been intended for the Presse it might have been much otherwayes writ but it was onely for speciall friends and it is not purposely altered though mistakes may be and some are which be pleased to mend haply some may hereafter And if in this Discourse some thing at first view seeme strange to thee it being exprest perhaps in too plaine termes to passe with many yet neglect it not nor judge rashly but seriously consider the truth and take the distinctions and directions given that so thy saith in all points may be directed to fetch in by acting of it such comfort as is intended to thee surely for all those who are beleevers or shall be by another Discourse of this Authours upon Ioh. 6. 35. helped and incouraged to beleeve it is and will be as their dutie so their wisdome to take in this counsell given to them by Christ and here sweetly explained to them with desire of which I leave thee and it to the blessing of God COMFORT FOR BELEEVERS ABOUT THEIR SINNE TROVBLES John 14. 1 2. 3. 4. 1. Let not your heart be troubled yee beleeue in God beleeue also in me 2. In my Fathers house are many mansions If it were not so I would have told you I goe to prepare a place for you 3. And if I goe prepare a place for you I will come againe receive you vnto my selfe that where I am there yee may be also 4. And whither I goe yee know and the way yee know THESE words are part of our Saviours last words farewell to his beleeving disciples as he acknowledgeth The words are part of Christs last words saying Yee beleeve in God even to the eleven for Iudas was sent away by Christ and hurried away by Satan Chapt 13. 26. 30. So that there were left onely the eleven Now to them Christ speakes these words Chapt 13. 31. Chapt 14 15. 16. as a word of exhortation and then prayes Chapt 17. and this was a very little while before his passion as appeares by that Chapt 13. 33. Yet a little while and I am with you that is I am presently to be taken from you So that its evident that these words are part of his last farewell words to his beloved and beleeving disciples after that Iudas was cut of and seperated from them For opening whereof we will consider First the occasion or ground and so the coherence of these words with the former which is this Our Saviour had discovered a 1. The occasion or ground soe the coherence of the words close hyppocrite one who eate bread with him and was of his nearest society not onely one of his followers but one of the twelve whome he had called to be Apostles one who was never before discovered or any hint by Christ given of him to any of them in so much that none of them suspected him but rather every one suspected himselfe as Luke 22 22. 23. Iohn 13. 21. to 31. Againe our Saviour had told them that he was presently to be taken from them Joh 13. 33. and now they began to mind it though heeretofore when he had told them of it they considered it not Also our Saviour added that they could not come to him whither he went John 13. 33. made their state in that point as the common Jewes upon Peters reply his answer which had comfort verse 36 that he should come afterward to him he yet foretells his fall which might hinder his comming to Christ afterwards John 13. 36. 37. 38. Yea and that they all should be offended because of him as Mark 14. 27 Now these things began to trouble their hearts with feare greife wherefore Our Saviour speakes to them these words of my text Let not your hearts be troubled Indeed all of them knew not as yet the hipocrisy and treason of Iudas John 13. 28. 29. but some of them did know it namely Iohn the beloved disciple verse 23. to 27 its likely by him Peter came to know it however they all should quickly know it by the breaking out and acting of his treason against Christ Wherefore Christ armes their hearts against the trouble of it This is the occasion ground coherence of these words 2. The patts 2 Secondly consider the parts of them which are two First the duty charged by Christ on his beleeving disciples Let not 1. The duty charged your hearts be troubled Secondly the meanes by which he fenceth their hearts against this 2. The meanes implied or expressed trouble partly implied in these words partly exprest in the next words and so along unto the 5. verse First The duty charged by Christ on his beleeving disciples Let 1. The duty charged is That their hearts should not be troubled not your hearts be troubled Trouble in the flesh he not only allowes but appoints them Iohn 15. 20 Chapt 16. 33. Through many afflictions we must enter heaven Acts 14. 22. but he would not have them be troubled in heart The heart indeed may be toucht feele when objects of feare or greife present themselves Christ him selfe was sensible of such things and without it