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[SEAM. XXXII:
everlasting inheritance,
that
shall
be
your reward
in the
future
world,
through
the
-grace
of
'our
bird
Jesus
Christ
"
He
that
overcometh shall
sit
down
With
me on
mÿ
throne,
Ric."
Rev.
iii.
Q)1.
"
He
that
overcometh
shall
inherit
all things," Rev. axi, 7.
Put
all
these together
in the balances,
with
a
few
crosses
and disappointments,
a
little trouble and uneasiness
;
nay,
though you should
add
torture
and death
in
the
same scale,
you may
easily
judge
which
will
outweigh.
Gaze
at
your
crown
of
life,
and
your immortal
hopes, till you
feel
your
souls
divinely
animated
to
the
combat:
Learn
from
the apostle,
and
assume
that
glorious language
;
"
Our
light
afflictions,
which
are
but
for a
momont,
are
scarce
to be
mentioned
or named
with
the far more exceeding and
eternal
weight
of
glory
that
shall be
revealed,"
Q
Cor.
iv. 17,
" There-
fore
we
both
labour
and suffer
reproach therefore
we
bear
all
present
sorrows
with holy
courage,
Ronz. viii.
18.
because
we
look
not
at
the things
that
are
seen,
little
things
that
are temporal
;
"
but
look
at
the
great
unseen
things
that
are
eternal,"
Q
Cor.
iv. 18.
The
fourth
and
last general
head
of
discourse shall now
furnish
us with some
sacred remedies against
this slavish
fear.
The
passion
of
fear
in
general,
is
wisely
wrought 'by
the great God into human
nature:
It
is
a
disturbance
both of our
animal composition, and
of
the mind upon
the
apprehension
of
some
approaching
evil,
or
upon
the
apparent
danger of
it.
This
is
an excellent provision,
which the
God of nature
has made, to
guard
us
from
ma=
ny mischiefs.
It
is
innocent and
useful when
it
is
fixed
on a
proper
object, and
exercised in a
proper
degree.
It
becomes a
part of
our
religion
when God
is
the
object of
our
fear, whereby'
we
maintain
such a holy
awe
of
his
Majesty,
as
awakens
a
constant
desire
to
please
him,.
joined
with
a
temper of
holy love.
But
when
we
suffer
creatures
to
raise and
influence
our
fears
upon every
occasion,
so.
as to ruffle
and
dis-
quiet our
spirits,
to throw
the soul from
off its
rest,
and
to
turn
us
aside
from
the steady course
of
duty, then
it
be-
comes
a sinful
and
forbidden
passion,
and
we
should
make it
our
business
to
watch against
it,
and suppress
it.
There
are
some
persons
so `feeble
in
their
native con-
stitutions, or
their
spirits are
so
weakened
by
the
diste-