Chap.3 .Sect.4 Locking unt~ J4us. Book. IV. zeale condemn our coldneife, their diligence our negligence, th~ir watching and prayer, our fiuggifhneife and indevotion ? and how are they as'fpurs to quicken us forwards in our fpiritual voyage towards heaven? , . 4 • Chriil:sordinances be our helpers; asthe W-ord, anaSacraments, and prayer, and meditation, and conference, &c. what are they but fountaiaes of grace, conduits and conveyances of the bloodofChrift? towhatend were they inftituted, butforthe watering 0f our fouls to the encreafe ofgrace, and to fupplanting of fin and vice , and all manner of evil? · 5· The encouragement!of reward be our helps. Now in the praCtiCe ofChriftian Religion there is a double reward, I. The reward ofduty, In the kseping of thy commandments there u great reward; he faith not,for k§eping them, but in· k§eping them there PfJl. r 9· 1 r, is great reward; there is a grace, l). beauty, an excellency in every gracious aCting. 2. The reward according to the duty; to this exercife ofReligion Chrift hath annexed many fwcet and gracious promifes both for this life, and that to come; and thefc promifesmaybcufedashclps; hehad.t refpcEt untotbe recompenceofHeb. rx . 1G: reward. To this purpofe are the glorious things of hea, ven (et open before us, that we may have an eye to them, and be encouraged by them. So runne that )C may ob- 1 Cor, 9· t4 , · taine. 6. The openings and difcoverics of the paines of· hell are as helps to rdhaine us from fin, and to keep us in the way to Chrift. This, fome call legal, but Chrift in the Gofpel tells us of this ; in ~he Gofpel wefinde a defcription ofhell-paines, fet out by weep- ~ng, and wailing, and gnafhin:z. ofteeth; by a worme never dying, antfManh. 8.tt.' ; a fir enewr going out; Oh when I think of thofe unquenchable Mark. 9· 4 4· flames' thofe remedileife torments, without hope of recovery' remiffion, or mitigation ; when I think of that privation and lo!fe of the·fight of Gods face, prepared only for thofe that ferve btm in holineife, how {hould I but look about me, and prepare for my reckoning? nay how caGe fuould I think any paines in comparifon? Come per(ons in affrightment have been feen to carry burthem, and to leap ditches, and climbe walls, which their natural power could never havl! done; and ifwe underfrood the fadneffe ofa curfed eternity, from which we are commanded to fly, and yet knew h~w neare we are to it, and how likely to Lll2 · fall
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