244 VireRionr for,getting and keeping more for meeknefs, humility and love, and againf# unmerciful! of dividing zeal, then Chrift, 2. And as you fee that a cheap It eligioufhefs doth not fodifcover fincerity : fo fecondly, it is not accompanied with that fpecial blelfingof God. As God bath engaged himfelf in his Word, that they (hall not lofe their Reward that give but a cup of water in his Name : fo he bath more fully engaged hírnfelf to thofe that are moli deeply engaged for him ; even that they that forfake ali for him, fhall have manifold recompence in this life, and in the world tocome eternal life. Let the experience ofall the world of Chriftians be produced, and all will atteft the fame truth, That it is Gods ufual courfe to give men larger Comforts in dearer duties, then in cheap Nay feldom Both he give large Comforts in cheap duties : and feldom doth he deny them in dearer: fobeit they are not made dear by our own fin and foolifh indifcrecion, but by his command, and our faithfulnefs in obeying him. Who knows not that the Confolation of Martyrs is dually a- bove other mens, who bath read of their fufferings and ftrange fuftentations ? Chriftian, do but try this uy thyown experiences, and tell me, when thou haft molt refolutely followed Chrift in a good Caufe when thou haft flood against the faces ofthe greateft for God ; when thou haft cai thy life, thy family andeftate upon Chrift, and run thy felf into the molt apparent hazards for his fake : haft thou not come offwith more inward peace and comfort, then the cheaper part of thy Religion bath afforded thee ? When thou haft flood to the Truth and Gofpel, and haft done good through thegreateff oppofition, and
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