:396 CONDITIONS AND REWARDS. specific duty ; amongst others, mercy to the merciful ; the kingdom of heaven to those who are persecuted for righteous- ness' sake ; the vision of God to the pure in heart. The Holy Spirit consecrates the doc- trine of rewards, by teaching the Apostle to connect it even with the very being of Omnipotence. " God is," and it im- mediately follows, that, " he is a rewarder of them that seek him." Surely this is a condition, as much as the threat that he will punish those " who know not God." Every where, and particularly in the Psalms, prayer is made the condition of obtaining. In asking, seeking, and knock- ing, the condition and the reward most appropriately meet. To those who come to the Redeemer, he has declared that " they shall in no wise be cast out." Their 'coming is the condition of their being accepted. " Rest," again, is the consoling promise which he makes to "the heavy laden" who come to him. " Him that honoureth
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