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And if there be such a glorious reward for the people of God, then in the first place the offence of the cross is taken away; let us be ashamed ever to be hindered in the way of God, because of the cross, ⟨p. 624⟩because of any thing we shall suffer in the way of God, when as there is such a glorious reward hereafter. No storm of the raging Sea should terrify us, ¹considering that everlasting calm that is a coming, says Jerome: Let no man speak hardly of Gods ways any more. I remember I read of St. Augustine before his conversion, he said he was convinced of the ways of God, but says he, I did not like to go through those straits: He found the ways of God difficult, and that he was like to suffer much, and that hindered him; and so it does many, they see straits, they must deny themselves, and suffer hard things, and upon this they are hindered; but let us never be hindered more by this, seeing there are such great things revealed of the reward of Gods people hereafter: Why should we be so shy of the way, afflictions that lead thither; is not here enough to pay for all? God will not, says Lactantius, have the ²path that leads to this immortal blessedness, be a delicate path. Certainly, if any of you should be hindered from the ways of God by any hardship you are like to meet withal, how will this confound you, when God shall come and say, Did not I show unto you those glorious things I intended for my people? and was not all that sufficient to draw your hearts over these difficulties?

And if there be such a glorious reward for the people of God, then in the first place the offence of the cross is taken away; let us be ashamed ever to be hindred in the way of God, because of the cross, ⟨p. 624⟩because of any thing we shall suffer in the way of God, when as there is such a glorious reward hereafter. No storm of the raging Sea should terrifie us, ¹considering that everlasting calm that is a coming, says Jerome: Let no man speak hardly of Gods ways any more. I remember I read of St. Augustine before his conversion, he said he was convinced of the ways of God, but says he, I did not like to go through those straits: He found the ways of God difficult, and that he was like to suffer much, and that hindred him; and so it does many, they see straits, they must deny themselves, and suffer hard things, and upon this they are hindred; but let us never be hindred more by this, seeing there are such great things revealed of the reward of Gods people hereafter: Why should we be so shy of the way, afflictions that lead thither; is not here enough to pay for all? God will not, says Lactantius, have the