untie the hearts of men from the world, and reduce them to God as their only rest and solid comfort; and this is here the apostle’s mark at which all the preceding discourse aims; it all meets and terminates in this exhortation, Wherefore, gird up the loins of your mind. In the words are these three things, 1st, The great stay and comfort of the soul, which the apostle repeats, and represents to his afflicted brethren. 2dly, His exciting them to the right apprehension and confident expectation of
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