First, That the Holy Ghost is affected towards us as
one that is loving, careful, tender, concerned in our good and
well-doing; and therefore upon our miscarriages is said to be grieved:
as a good friend of a kind and loving nature is apt to be on the
miscarriage of him whom he doth affect. And this is that we are
principally to regard in this caution, as the ground and foundation of it,
— the love, kindness, and tenderness of the Holy Ghost unto us. “Grieve
him not.”