I. Scripture-light the most sure light ... delivered in three sermons on 2 Pet.…

Answ. 1 The Spirit of Adoption, is a Pledge and Earnest of the whole Inheritance: and though you cannot do so much Service for your Heavenly Father, as your Elder, and stronger Brother doth; yet if you do not only obey God, because you see a reason in his Commandments, but because there is a Child-like disposition in you; then have you the Spirit of Adoption, and so your little, is a certain pledge of more.

Answ. 1 The Spirit of Adoption, is a Pledg and Earnest of the whol Inheritance: and though you cannot do so much Service for your Heavenly Father, as your Elder, and stronger Brother doth; yet if you do not only obey God, because you see a reason in his Commandements, but because there is a Child-like disposition in you; then have you the Spirit of Adoption, and so your little, is a certain pledg of more.

Answ. 2 And if you mourn over your little, and wait on God for more, then is your little an earnest of much: Rom. 8.23. And not only they, but our selves also (saith the Apostle) which have the first fruits of the Spirit; even we our selves, groan within our selves, waiting for the Adoption, to wit, the Redemption of our B•dy. He proves, That the Romans had the first-fruits, the Pledge and Earnest of more in the Spirit, by their groaning and waiting: Do I therefore groan under the present burden of my own weakness, waiting upon God for more, then have I the fist-fruits of the spirit; and so that little which I have, is a Pledge and earnest of more: and upon ⟨p. 84⟩this account, though your Grace be weak, and small in it self, yet considered as an Earnest, it is much: and is it not a comfortable thing to have the Pledge and Earnest of Glory? Such is the Comfort of all those that are weak in Grace, and therefore why should they be discouraged in regard of their weakness?