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Fourthly, Our obedience must be bottomed upon a divine §4command, because else we can never be able to bear up our hearts comfortably, courageously, confidently and resolutely, ⟨p. 144⟩under all the afflictions,¹ oppositions, temptations, persecutions and discouragements that we meet with in the ways of the Lord, and in doing the work of the Lord. All the Messages that the Prophets delivered, were still grounded upon a divine command,² Thus saith the Lord; and this steeled their spirits in the work of the Lord, this made them resolute and undaunted in the midst of all the afflictions and oppositions that they met with: And so 'twas a word of command that raised the spirits, and encouraged the hearts of the Apostles in the work of the Lord, in the face of all the oppositions, threatenings and buffetings that they met with from the civil powers. You know Absalom lays his bloody command upon his servants, as their highest encouragement to that bloody work of killing his brother Amnon, 2 Sam. 13.28. Now Absalom had commanded his servants, (his Assassins) saying, Mark ye now when Amnons heart is merry with wine, and when I say unto you, smite Amnon, then kill him, fear not: have not I commanded you? be courageous, and be valiant; or sons of valour, as the Hebrew runs. And so a Christian must lay the command of God before him, as his highest encouragement to do what God requires of him, &c.

Fourthly, Our obedience must be bottomed upon a divine §4command, because else we can never be able to bear up our hearts comfortably, couragiously, confidently and resolutely, ⟨p. 144⟩under all the afflictions,¹ oppositions, temptations, persecutions and discouragements that we meet with in the wayes of the Lord, and in doing the work of the Lord. All the Messages that the Prophets delivered, were still grounded upon a divine command,