CXLV expository sermons upon the whole 17th chapter of the Gospel according to St.…

4. There is therefore a necessity for many considerations,¹ while we are in our journey to heaven, that we should be working, all which are good to be laid to heart, that so we may avoid all unprofitableness, and at last to be able to say, and now my work is done, O Father, glorify me.

4. There is therefore a necessity for many considerations,¹ while we are in our journey to heaven, that we should be working, all which are good to be laid to heart, that so we may avoid all unprofitablenesse, and at last to be able to say, and now my work is done, O Father, glorifie me.

1. 1The necessity of continual working·

¹The first is from the command and will of God, Every Page in the Bible presseth doing Gods will, yea, we are to be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, 1 Cor. 15. So that if there were no other motive to excite us, the command of God might be greatly provoking; He who hath a command and a Sovereignty over all; That commands the very inanimate creatures, and they obey, how much rather should we yield obedience to his will, and the rather because whatsoever work he commands as it is good in it self, so it's good to us; It's good in it self, When the devil and sin tempt to that which is evil, thou presently givest up thy self, and shall God require that which is good, and thou refusest it? Besides, It's good for thee as well as good in it self; It's a work thou wilt never repent of, it will never be matter of grief to thee, Whereas for all other works of the flesh and the devil, they will prove thorns in thy side, There will be a horror upon thy Spirit for them, making thee to cry out, Oh that I had never done this or that; sin is called dead works,