etiauo laid); his fweet Merits; and though as they are in our hands they have drofs and foil in them, yet as they are in his they are glorified Duties, and as fweet Odours to God. And upon fuch terms as thefe who would not obey ? Every ad of Obedience (hall be accepted ; and the light of Gods Countenance will irradiate our Duties. And to give a further advance to this Grace, Faith looks within the Veil to the great recompence in Heaven ; there are Crowns of Life, rivers of Pleafures, and plenitudes of Joy for ever ; there holy Souls fee all Truths in their Original, drink all Good out of.the Fountain and have God for their All in All; and all this is the reward of our poor imper- fe 1 Obedience. And as fuch is outwardly fe- cured in the Promifes, and inwardly realized by Faith, and therefore muff needs move the Believer firongly to Obedience; no wonder if he burn in Devotions, or melt in Charity, or labour in other as of Obedience, all thefe being but a f wing to the Spirit, will come up in a crop of Eternal Life; his Prayers will be turned into HaI'elujahs, his Alms repaid in Everlafting Love, and all his good Works, which follow him into another World, fhall be woven into a Crown of Immortality. And upon fuch an account who would not obey and live in perpetual refignation;as he did,who (as the gory goes) always concluded his Pray- ers thus, Domine, quid me vir facere ; Lord, what wilt thou have me to do ? And lived in f uch holy joy, as if be had been in Heaven already ? Ano. 317
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