A saint or a brute the certain necessity and excellency of holiness, &c. ...…

Dir. 10. If you would taste the comforts of a holy life, be sure that you give up your selves to Christ without reserve, and follow him fully, and place all your hopes and confidence in his ⟨p. 382⟩promised rewards: Serve him with your best, yea with your all; and not with some cheap and heartless service. Comforts are the Rewards of faithfulness: They that do God the most sincere and costly service, and save nothing from him which he calleth them to lose, are likest to be encouraged by his sweetest comforts. It is sluggish neglects, and unfruitfulness, doing no good in the world, but thinking to be saved by a dull profession▪ that makes so many uncomfortable professors as there be: Though I know that on the other extreme, too many live in pining sadness, by not understanding the Covenant of Grace, which accepteth of sincerity, and secureth the weak and infants in the family of Christ. But yet the barren unprofitable. Christians (I mean that comparatively are such, though they be sincere) shall find that God will not encourage any in slothfulness by his smiles and consolations.

Dir. 10. If you would taste the comforts of a holy life, be sure that you give up your selves to Christ without reserve, and follow him fully, and place all your hopes and confidence in his ⟨p. 382⟩promised rewards: Serve him with your best, yea with your all; and not with some cheap and heartless service. Comforts are the Rewards of faithfulness: They that do God the most sincere and costly service, and save nothing from him which he calleth them to lose, are likest to be encouraged by his sweetest comforts. It is sluggish neglects, and unfruitfulness, doing no good in the world, but thinking to be saved by a dull profession▪ that makes so many uncomfortable professors as there be: Though I know that on the other extream, too many live in pining sadness, by not understanding the Covenant of Grace, which accepteth of sincerity, and secureth the weak and infants in the family of Christ. But yet the barren unprofitable. Christians (I mean that comparatively are such, though they be sincere) shall find that God will not encourage any in sloathfulness by his smiles and consolations.