Spiritual Peaceand Comfort. 65 prornifed it as the Crownand Reward (in an hun dred textsofScripture ; ) And may we not Comfort our felves in_that which God promifeth Heaven to ? 2. AsaNatural means to our obedienceand further perfeäion (as Watchfulnefs, Meditation, ire, tend todeftroy fin : ) as Paul faith to Timothy, Takeheed to thy Alf, and to thy - `Dof-trine , and in fo doing th?u thalt bothfave thyfelf, and them that hear thee, i Tim.. q.. 16. And may we not take Comfort in that which tends to fave our own and our brethrens fouls ? I I. We (hail be Judged accordingto our Works.: thereforewe muff judge our felves according to our Works; and fo mutt judge our ftate good or bad ac- cording to our works: for can man judge by a righter way then God will ? A t leaft is it not lawful for man to judge as God doth ? 1 2. We mutt judgeof others in probability, at-' cording to their external works, even the tree by the fruits ; therefore we mnft judge ofour felves in cer- tainty, according toour internal and external works together (whichwe may certainly know.) 13. Ifwe may not Rejoyce in any of our Gra- ces, then we may not be Thankful for them : for Thanks is accompanied with Joy : but we mutt be Thankful. .14. Ifwe may not Rejoyce in our Dutics,we may riot Repent or farrowfor theneg4eâofthem ; and ifwe may not Rejoyce in our Graces, we may not lament the want of them (for thefe are as the two ends ofthe ballance, that one goes downwhen the other goes up ; or as day and night, light and dark- nefs) But the confequent is intollerable. á 5, . This would overthrow all Religion. For f what
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