When the Lord saw the moaning and weeping of this distressed mother, he was moved in tender compassion and had more pity in his heart for her than could be in her heart for her dear and only son. In these words, we will consider both the condition of the woman and the counsel of Christ concerning her condition. The Condition of the Woman She appears to be very heartbroken and distressed.

Mankind is Mortal, Subject to Death Secondly, that the body of everyone of mankind is mortal, subject to die daily, and that many ways. Some are no sooner born than they die, and they who have lived the longest lives have died. As sure as we live in the body, so sure we must die in the body, and God knows how soon and how suddenly! After his conversion he became a deacon on December 19, 1619 and then a minister of the Gospel in February 1623. In 1623 he took over the rectory of Marske in North Riding of Yorkshire, and consequently also of Barwick-in-Elmet, which was in West Riding of Yorkshire. He married the daughter of Ralph Bowes of St. Mary-le-Bow, Durham, on October 13, 1629, and from 1642-1644 was preacher at Gray's Inn A Puritan's Mind

Having hitherto proved the doctrine of man's future eternity, I shall in the next place explain it; and first of all I shall mournfully look downward toward the miserable eternity of such as shall be damned, and show you, so far as I know it by Scripture revelation, wherein the misery of their everlasting punishment, which is the punishment of punishments, chiefly consists, namely in these three particulars: (1) in their punishment of loss, (2) in their pain of sense, (3) in the everlastingness of both these kinds of punishment.

Oh, the tenacity of grip which there is in the poor seeking sinner when he once gets some hold of the precious promises of Christ! "Nay, he had a note of necessity in his bosom to my Master, to receive him, and grant him the comfort of His house, and also to allow him a stout and valiant conductor, because he was himself so chicken-hearted a man; and yet for all that, he was afraid to call at the door."