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

¹Lastly, An Obedience must have a command, because else we can never bear up our hearts in all the discouragements we meet with in doing Gods work; What hardened the Prophets so that their foreheads were like brass and iron, but only this that they knew God had commended them, and they went upon his message; Shall Absalom use such an argument to the man when he had killed Ammon, Be of good courage I have bid thee; How much rather then when God commands, 1 Cor. 15. Be steadfast, immovable in the work of the Lord, knowing your labour was not in vain: Let all the world oppose us when we know it's Gods command, our hearts need not shrink within us; Thus the Apostles Whether it's better to obey God or man judge ye, Act. 5.29.

¹Lastly, An Obedience must have a command, because else we can never bear up our hearts in all the discouragements we meet with in doing Gods work; What hardened the Prophets so that their foreheads were like brasse and iron, but only this that they knew God had commended them, and they went upon his message; Shall Absalom use such an argument to the man when he had killed Ammon, Be of good courage I have bid thee; How much rather then when God commands, 1 Cor. 15. Be stedfast, immoveable in the work of the Lord, knowing your labour was not in vain: Let all the world oppose us when we know it's Gods command, our hearts need not shrink within us; Thus the Apostles Whether it's better to obey God or man judge ye, Act. 5.29.

1. 1V. Else obedient persons could never bear up their hearts against the discouragements they meet with in Gods work.