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11. Consider we the short stint of time, that this laborious course is required of us; it is but till death. And since that our ^hlife here is not long; ⟨p. 24⟩(it is but ²a point, saith the Heathen man, or less than so, that we live here) that employment cannot be long that must end with it. For what can be long in that, that is not long it self? It is but till death only that our Saviour Christ requireth this of us. It is a note of stint, as well as of extent, here. Not that our fidelity & loyalty unto Christ shall not last longer; but ^*because after that there will be no difficulty in our loyalty, no danger of disloyalty, if till then we hold out.^k All scandals, stumbling blocks and impediments being then removed; and all occasions of provocation and temptation to the contrary being then utterly abolished. It is but for a spurt therefore, to speak of, that this is required of us, it is but ^la spurt, in comparison of that that after ensueth. And who would not for a spurt, for a short brunt endure any difficulty, any hardness, to live at hearts ease for ever after? Who would not serve, even an hard and an unkind Master, and much more then so kind and liberal a one as our Lord and Master Christ is, (that ^mcame to serve us and for us, ere he required this service of us) with all fidelity and diligence for a day or two, that he might after be a free man, yea an happy man for ever? ⁿIt is not long, and it is but light, that is required of us, in respect of that that is expected for it, and is promised thereunto. For ^othis light hardship that is