Looking unto Jesus a view of the everlasting gospel, or, the souls eying of…

3. Understand what is in Christian Religion, and in the practise of it to cause delight. As.—

1. In every duty and gracious acting of it, there is more of the Glory of God, than in the whole frame of Heaven and Earth besides; Herein is my Father glorified, that you bear much Fruit, John. 15.8. Oh, if we but thus looked at ⟨p. 199⟩the profession and practice of Christian Religion, we could not but take pleasure in it.

2. In every duty and gracious acting of it, there is the seed of glory, and eternal life; sometimes there breaks out in the very exercise of duty a joy in the Holy Ghost, a foretaste of Glory; but howsoever there is the seed of Glory; and though the seed of Glory be not seen, but lye as it were under ground dead, and unseen, yet in time it will spring up unto eternal life: why, thus look at the practice of Religion, and it will be sweeter to us than Honey and the Honey-Comb, it will be more precious than Gold, yea than much fine Gold.

2. In every duty and gracious acting of it, there is the seed of glory, and eternal life; sometimes there breaks out in the very exercise of duty a joy in the Holy Ghost, a foretast of Glory; but howsoever there is the seed of Glory; and though the seed of Glory be not seen, but lye as it were under ground dead, and unseen, yet in time it will spring up unto eternal life: why, thus look at the practice of Religion, and it will be sweeter to us than Honey and the Honey-Comb, it will be more precious than Gold, yea than much fine Gold.