A Continuation of morning-exercise questions and cases of conscience practically resolvedA Continuation of morning-exercise questions and cases of conscience practicaly resolved

Branch. 4 This may content Gods People; though they have but little Oil in the Cruse, and their Estates are almost boiled away to nothing, their Great Reward is yet to come. Though your Pension be but small, your Portion is large. If God be yours by Deed of Gift, this may rock your hearts quiet. God lets the wicked have their Pay before-hand; Luk. 6.24. Ye have received your Consolation. A wicked man may make his Acquittance, and write, Received in full Payment: But the Saints Reward is in reversion, the Robe and the Ring is yet to come. May not this tune their Hearts into contentment? Christian, what though God denies thee a Kid to make merry^f; if he will say, Son, all I have is thine, is not this sufficient? Why dost thou complain of the Worlds emptiness, who hast Gods Fullness? Is not God Reward enough? Hath a Son any cause to complain that his Father denies him a Flower in the Garden, when he makes him Heir to his Estate^g? The Philosopher comforted himself with this, that though he had no Music or Vine-Trees, yet he had the Household Gods with him^*. So Christian, though thou hast not much of the World, yet thou hast God, and he is an inexhaustible Treasure. It was strange that after God had told Abraham, I am thy exceeding great Reward, yet that Abraham should say, vers. 2. Lord what wilt thou give me, seeing I go Childless? Shall Abraham ask, Lord what wilt thou give me, when he had given himself? Was Abraham troubled at the want of a Child, who had a God? was not God better than Ten Sons^h? Who should be content if not he who hath God for his Portion, and Heaven for his Haven?

Branch. 4 This may content Gods People; though they have but little Oyl in the Cruse, and their Estates are almost boyled away to nothing, their Great Reward is yet to come. Thô your Pension be but small, your Portion is large. If God be yours by Deed of Gift, this may rock your hearts quiet. God lets the wicked have their Pay before-hand; Luk. 6.24