Si:R: I & 1tiu1hpb of F'aTth} i6s' rvant abideth hot in tbe llouje for ever, hut th' Son abideth _ ever, Job. viii~ 35; The 'Son's Reward is all Hope; as iome Courtic:rs attend Princes upon Hopes; 1ervants have Hand-payment; and prefent Wages, every Pr~fe{for try his fpirit and Nature; if the fpitit bend toward the Inheritance- and Heaven-tvard, 'tis right ~ See who looketh to the hft Year of Nonage and Minority, and bath nor an Eye and Heart on Time: There's a latent Hope in aU Troubles in Sons, as in a Kinv-'s Heir in a fat Cou'ntry where he is not known, o not hondured as one of a Princes :Blood, but neglected, i1 njured: Yea, in want and Neceifity, yet when he cafteth his Eye upon hi~ over-fea Hope, it com,eth home to his Heart with .Eafe, One 'lJav I jhaU be a King, in IJonour, aml. WealtiJ. :z.. Try t~e free ancl ingenuous Spirit of a Son toWard the Father ; there's not a Nature, or in lnH:inCl: in the Servant, nor fuch an inwanl Principle toward the Lord of the Houfe, as in a Son; Blood and Nature is fl:rong and prevalent7 :Blood-bonds, Nature-relati~ns are mighty, Mark vii. z 7. Jlut .7efies !aid unto her, Let the Chit.. dren jir(t be jilted : Chrift denied not, but the Woman and the Gentiles have a Rightto the :Bread of Chrift's Houfe, only Grace muff keep an Order ; let the Jeq~S firft have the Loaf broken to them, and then let the Gentiles ha:ve the, :By-board ,or the fecond Table ofChrift; hence ob- _fet.ve Chrift's wife atternp~rating of theTemptation in thefe Particulars.~oThat Temptations are mea.... fured by Grains & Scrupels to the Saints; there's a Seed of Comfort and Hope in Chriff:'s Glooming and Frownings; he would fay, when the Children are filled with '.Bread firff, Then yQu that are L DQgS
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