An expository comment, doctrinal, controversial, and practical upon the whole first chapter to the…An expository comment, doctrinal, controversal, and practical upon the whole first chapter to the…

2. There are consequent joys, which follow after the work is done, as Paul found at the 12th verse, This is our rejoicing, the testimony of a good conscience. So that a man of an ill conscience, who hath stings from that, though all the world applaud him, yet he cannot have any true solid joy. Quid proderit tibi non habere conscium, habenti conscientiam. The Martyrs they found concomitant joys in their most dreadful sufferings, Act. 5. 41. The Apostles went away rejoicing, that they were counted worthy to suffer for Christs Name. They minded not their stripes, nor their reproach and disgrace, but they went away rejoicing, not from hearing the Word, from prayer, from such holy Ordinances, but even from scourges and stripes. But in many other duties and services for God, though for the present we may feel no joy, yet there are subsequent joys that may arise long after. For as sin may not sting for a while, as we see in Joseph's brethren, the guilt of their conscience awakened them many years after: So the comfort of holy duties, though for the present thou mayest not apprehend them, yet sometimes or other God will revive them.

2. There are consequent joyes, which follow after the work is done, as Paul found at the 12th verse, This is our rejoycing, the testimony of a good conscience. So that a man of an ill conscience, who hath stings from that, though all the world applaud him, yet he cannot have any true solid joy. Quid proderit tibi non habere conscium, habenti conscientiam. The Martyrs they found concomitant joyes in their most dreadfull sufferings, Act. 5. 41. The Apostles went away rejoycing, that they were counted worthy to suffer for Christs Name. They minded not their stripes, nor their reproach and disgrace, but they went away rejoycing, not from hearing the Word, from prayer, from such holy Ordinances, but even from scourges and stripes. But in many other duties and services for God, though for the present we may feel no joy, yet there are subsequent joyes that may arise long after. For as sinne may not sting for a while, as we see in Joseph's brethren, the guilt of their conscience awakened them many years after: So the comfort of holy duties, though for the present thou mayest not apprehend them, yet sometimes or other God will revive them.