CONDITIONS AND REWARDS. 899 of Ridley, of Latimer, and Cranmer. They will still be the consolation of the Christian sufferer for righteousness' sake to the end of time. Let us not then for- feit our inheritance by slighting the promise. " This is a reward wholly of grace in respect of our deserving ; but of jus- tice, on account of the purchase of it by the sacred treasure of Christ's blood, and the unchangeable tenor of the Gos- pel, wherein God promises heaven to all obedient and true believers." The things may be called by other names, but they amount to the same meaning. There is a proud disinterested- ness which would seem to intimate, that, because we deserve nothing, we expect nothing. Our expectation, it is true, arises entirely from God's goodness, and not at all from our merit. It arises especially from his fidelity, which leads him to make good his own engagement. He has Himself said, " Faithful is he that has promised."
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