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A Continuation of morning-exercise questions and cases of conscience practically resolvedA Continuation of morning-exercise questions and cases of conscience practicaly resolved
A Continuation of morning-exercise questions and cases of conscience practically resolved by sundry ministers in October, 1682.A Continuation of morning-exercise questions and cases of conscience practicaly resolved by sundry ministers in October, 1682.
London: printed by J.A. for John Dunton, 1683
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Sermon 3: Quest. How God is his Peoples great Reward. SERMON III.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
2. Heaven it self is not a Saints Reward. Psalm 73.25. Whom have I in Heaven but thee? There are Angels and Arch-angels†, (saith Musculus) I, but though these are for a Saints comfort, yet not properly for his Reward. Communion with Seraphims is excellent, yet can no more make a Saints Reward than the light of the Stars can make day.
- †Ibi sunt angeli & archangeli. Musc.
Quest. 2. How is God his peoples Reward?
Answ. In bestowing Himself upon themf. The Great Blessing of the Covenant is, I am thy God. The Lord told Abraham, Kings should come out of his loins, and he would give the Land of Canaan to him and his Seed, Gen. 17. but all this did not amount to Blessedness. That which made up the Portion, was Vers. 8. I will be their God. God will not only see that the Saints shall be rewarded, but his own self will be their Reward; a King may reward his Subjects with Gratuities, but he bestows himself upon his Queen: God saith to every Believer as he did to Aaron, Num. 18.20. I am thy part, and thy Inheritance; and as the King of Israel said to Benhadad, 2 Kings 20.4