Elias_Amare
Puritan Board Freshman
William Bridge, A Lifting Up For The Downcast, in Works 2:47
"God would not have his people be discouraged, and if God their Father and Jesus Christ their Saviour would not have them discouraged, then there is no true reason for their discouragements: now God and Christ would not have his people to be cast down or disquieted whatever their condition be. " Let not your heart be troubled," saith our Saviour to his disciples, John xiv. 1. As if he should say, I am now to die, to leave you all, to go to my Father; and when I am gone, you will meet with many troubles, but I would not have you discouraged, let not your heart be troubled. But now if thou diest, we shall then lose thy presence, and what greater trouble or affliction can there be than the loss of thy presence? Well, saith Christ, yet I would not have you troubled at heart; let not your heart be troubled. But if we lose thee, O Lord, we shall lose all the ordinances, and those many sweet opportunities of receiving good for our souls which we have enjoyed by thy presence. Be it so, saith our Saviour, yet I would not have you troubled at the heart ; let not your heart be troubled. But, Lord, if we lose thee we shall be as sheep scattered, some will deny thee, all will for sake thee ; and when the Shepherd is smitten, we, as sheep, shall be all dispersed, and fall into sad temptations, afflictions and desertions. Well, saith he, however it be, yet I would not have you troubled at the heart, let not your heart be troubled however, this is Christ’s mind, will and pleasure concerning his disciples."
"God would not have his people be discouraged, and if God their Father and Jesus Christ their Saviour would not have them discouraged, then there is no true reason for their discouragements: now God and Christ would not have his people to be cast down or disquieted whatever their condition be. " Let not your heart be troubled," saith our Saviour to his disciples, John xiv. 1. As if he should say, I am now to die, to leave you all, to go to my Father; and when I am gone, you will meet with many troubles, but I would not have you discouraged, let not your heart be troubled. But now if thou diest, we shall then lose thy presence, and what greater trouble or affliction can there be than the loss of thy presence? Well, saith Christ, yet I would not have you troubled at heart; let not your heart be troubled. But if we lose thee, O Lord, we shall lose all the ordinances, and those many sweet opportunities of receiving good for our souls which we have enjoyed by thy presence. Be it so, saith our Saviour, yet I would not have you troubled at the heart ; let not your heart be troubled. But, Lord, if we lose thee we shall be as sheep scattered, some will deny thee, all will for sake thee ; and when the Shepherd is smitten, we, as sheep, shall be all dispersed, and fall into sad temptations, afflictions and desertions. Well, saith he, however it be, yet I would not have you troubled at the heart, let not your heart be troubled however, this is Christ’s mind, will and pleasure concerning his disciples."
