7. A man will hazard or part with any thing to secure, or attain his principal End. Nothing can be too good, or too dear to purchase it: nothing can stand in competition with it. If God and glory be your End, away goes all that is inconsistent with it. You'll part with a right hand or eye, as thinking it better to have ⟨p. 86⟩Heaven with one, then Hell with both. You can part with house, and land, and country, because you seek for a City that hath foundations, whose builder and maker is God, Heb. 11. 9▪ 10. You can live as Strangers and Pilgrims on earth, and mind not to return to the world which you have renounced, because you desire a better, even a Heavenly Country, Heb. 11. 13, 14, 15. 16. You will rather choose to s•ffer afflictions with the people of God, then to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season, esteeming the very reproach of Christ greater riches then the treasures of the world, because you have respect to the recompense of the reward, Heb. 11. 24, 25, 26. The fear of man, even of the Princes of the earth will not prevail against your hopes, because you see him that is invisible, Heb. 11. 27. You can endure to be made a gazing stock, by reproaches and afflictions, and become the Companions of them that are so used: You cannot only part with your substance when God calls for it, but even take joyfully the spoiling of your goods, as knowing that you have a better and more enduring substance in Heaven, Heb. 10. 33, 44. You will reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us, Rom. 8. 18. In a word, you can deny your selves, for sake all, and follow Christ in expectation of a treasure in Heaven, Luk. 18. 22. Never tell me that Heaven is your end, if there be any thing which you cannot part with to obtain it. For that which is dearest to you is your End. Why else is it that labour and sufferings, yea, and the apparent hazard of their salvation, seems not to a worldling too dear a price for the purchasing of their present prosperity, but because they have laid up a treasure upon earth, and earthly things are their chiefest end.
7. A man will hazard or part with any thing to secure, or attain his principal End. Nothing can be too good, or too dear to purchase it: nothing can stand in competition with it. If God and glory be your End, away goes all that is inconsistent with it. You'l part with a right hand or eye, as thinking it better to have ⟨p. 86⟩Heaven with one, then Hell with both. You can part with house, and land, and country, because you seek for a City that hath foundations, whose builder and maker is God, Heb. 11. 9▪ 10. You can live as Strangers and Pilgrims on earth, and minde not to return to the world which you have renounced, because you desire a better, even a Heavenly Countrey, Heb. 11. 13, 14, 15. 16. You will rather choose to s•ffer afflictions with the people of God, then to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season, esteeming the very reproach of Christ greater riches then the treasures of the world, because you have respect to the recompence of the reward, Heb. 11. 24, 25, 26. The fear of man, even of the Princes of the earth will not prevail against your hopes, because you see him that is invisible, Heb. 11. 27. You can endure to be made a gazing stock, by reproaches and afflictions, and become the Companions of them that are so used: You cannot only part with your substance when God calls for it, but even take joyfully the spoiling of your goods, as knowing that you have a better and more enduring substance in Heaven, Heb. 10. 33, 44. You will reck•n that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us, Rom. 8. 18. In a word, you can deny your selves, for sake all, and follow Christ in expectation of a treasure in Heaven, Luk. 18. 22. Never tell me that Heaven is your end, if there be any thing which you cannot part with to obtain it. For that which is dearest to you is your End. Why else is it that labour and sufferings, yea, and the apparent hazard of their salvation, seems not to a worldling too dear a price for the purchasing of their present prosperity, but because they have laid up a treasure upon earth, and earthly things are their chiefest end.
