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But yet secondly, notwithstanding this, God is ¹pleased to give leave unto us his poor creatures, to help and encourage our selves in the expectation of ⟨p. 486⟩that reward that is to come; yea, to make it our aim (though I will not say the highest aim) for so the word signifies in 2 Cor. 4. 18. While we look not at things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen; the word signifies, While we make things that ²are not seen our scope and aim, so that God gives us leave to have such respect unto them, as to make them our aim: and so the people of God have looked at the recompense of reward, as a great encouragement to them in their way, Psal. 119. 112. I have inclined my heart to perform thy statutes alway, even to the end: the same word that signifies end, signifies reward also, because reward is to come at the end of all our works, and therefore the same word is translated reward in Psal. 19. 11. and so the word seems to carry more, then to the end: as if David should say, I have inclined my heart to perform thy Statutes alway, looking unto the reward. In Heb. 12. 3. it is said of Christ himself, That for the joy that was set before him, he endured the Cross, and despised the shame: Now if Christ made use of the joy that was set before him, and that was a help to him to endure the Cross, and despise the shame, much more may we make use of it, and it may be a help to us; so that we have leave to look at it.

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