Spiritual Peace and Comfort: 179 DIRECTION XXII. My next Diction is this, Spend more of your time and care about your Duty then aboutyour Comforts : andfor the exerce and increafe ofyour Graces, then for the di/covery of them : And mhenyouhave done all thatyou can for *raiice and Comfort, you (hallfind that it will very much depend on y' our 4Etual Obedience, HisDiret`fion is ofas great importance as any p that I haveyet given you : but I thall fay but little ofit, becauie I have fpoke of it fo fully already in my Book of Reg, Part 2. Ch. 8, 9, It), it. My Reafons for what I here afters are thefe : I. Duty goeth in order ofnature and time before comfort as the Precept is before the Promife : Comfort is part of the Reward, and therefore neceffarily fup- pofeth Duty. z. Grace makes men both fo Inge- nuous and Divine, as to confider Gods due as well as their own ; and what they fhould Do, as well as what they shall Have : ¡till remembring that our works cannot Merit at Cods hands. 3. As we muff P z have
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