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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.
1. God sees it not fit that we should yet receive it. Answ. Our work is not done, we have not yet finished the Faith. A day Labourer doth not receive his Pay till his work be done. Even Christs Reward was deferred till He had Completed his Mediatory Work, and said upon the Cross It is Finished.
1. God sees it not fit that we should yet receive it. Answ. Our work is not done, we have not yet finish'd the Faith. A day Labourer doth not receive his Pay till his work be done. Even Christs Reward was deferred till He had Compleated his Mediatory Work, and said upon the Cross It is Finished.
2. God defers the Reward that we may live by Faith. We are taken with the Reward, but God is more taken with our Faith. No Grace Honours God like Faith. Rom. 4.20. God hath given himself to us by Promise: Faith trusts Gods Bond, and Patience waits for the Payment.
3. God adjourns the Reward a while to sweeten it, and make it more welcome to us when it comesf. After all our Labours, watchings, conflicts, how comfortable will the Reward be? Nay the longer ⟨p. 68⟩the Reward is deferred, it will be the Greater. The longest Voyages have the largest returns.
3. God adjourns the Reward a while to sweeten it, and make it more welcom to us when it comes