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Secondly, here is an encouragement to Gods ¹people to be strict, if we look for such a glorious reward, we had need be accurate; many cry out, What need men be so strict? Indeed if they had no higher ends then your base ends, you might say so; a base hypocrite what need he be so strict? but for a gracious heart, that hath such high, and noble, and glorious ends as these are in his work, as a crown, and glory, and the like, he had need be strict and precise. In ordinary pieces of work, by which workmen do not expect much, they are not so strict and exact; but if a man be about some curious work, that he expects some great matter for, then he will be very strict: and so because Gods people do expect such great matters for Religion, no wonder that they are so strict and precise.

Secondly, here is an incouragement to Gods ¹people to be strict, if we look for such a glorious reward, we had need be accurate; many cry out, What need men be so strict? Indeed if they had no higher ends then your base ends, you might say so; a base hypocrite what need he be so strict? but for a gracious heart, that hath such high, and noble, and glorious ends as these are in his work, as a crown, and glory, and the like, he had need be strict and precise. In ordinary pieces of work, by which workmen do not expect much, they are not so strict and exact; but if a man be about some curious work, that he expects some great matter for, then he will be very strict: and so because Gods people do expect such great matters for Religion, no wonder that they are so strict and precise.

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Thirdly, if there be such a glorious reward, here is an encouragement to be very fervent and zealous ¹in the ways of God, because they serve such a God, and shall have such reward, says the Apostle, in