The Morning exercise [at] Cri[ppleg]ate, or, Several cases of conscience practically resolved

V. We are to believe improve and obey Christs Command, viz. in John 14.13, 14, 16, 23. the former truths give us great hope, but this strong Consolation, for though such a great Person had never so much interest in some other great Person, with whom we had to do, yet without a Commission from him we might not go in his Name, but Christ hath not only given us leave but a Command, and now it is not an arbitrary thing, we may do or not do, but we must do. This is the Incomprehensible goodness of God, that what is for our good he commands ⟨p. 345⟩us, that not only we may be put on the more to obtain what is good for us, but that it may be an act of obedience, and so we may be rewarded for procuring our own happiness.

V. We are to believe improve and obey Christs Command, viz. in John 14.13, 14, 16, 23. the former truths give us great hope, but this strong Consolation, for though such a great Person had never so much interest in some other great Person, with whom we had to do, yet without a Commission from him we might not go in his Name, but Christ hath not only given us leave but a Command, and now it is not an arbitrary thing, we may do or not do, but we must do. This is the Incomprehensible goodnesse of God, that what is for our good he commands ⟨p. 345⟩us, that not only we may be put on the more to obtain what is good for us, but that it may be an act of obedience, and so we may be rewarded for procuring our own happinesse.

So much for the things we are to believe, now for the manner of believing.