Moses his choice with his eye fixed upon Heaven, discovering the happy condition of…

You think if you were able to perform duties, and do such and such things, to keep your hearts up for God, you should have this reward; but the greatest work of God that ever any creature did, is when it apprehends its own unworthiness, to venture upon the righteousness of Christ; if you were able to perform ⟨p. 692⟩full obedience to every particular of the Moral Law, it were not so great a work, not so accepted of God, not so well pleasing in his eyes, nor should not be so gloriously rewarded in Heaven, as this one work of believing in his Son. God takes such infinite delight in his Son, as he looks more at that work of the souls believing in his Son, and venturing it self and its eternal estate upon his Son, then he does upon all works besides: and therefore look upon the point of Justification by faith first, and if that be right, the assurance of the reward will come in: divers objections will rise, that can never be answered, till the heart be settled in the point of Justification. All the Objections that rise from our weakness and sinful infirmity comes from this, because we do not settle our selves well in the claim we make to the recompense of reward in the point of Justification, in the righteousness of Christ by faith.

You think if you were able to perform duties, and do such and such things, to keep your hearts up for God, you should have this reward; but the greatest work of God that ever any creature did, is when it apprehends its own unworthiness, to venture upon the righteousness of Christ; if you were able to perform ⟨p. 692⟩full obedience to every particular of the Moral Law, it were not so great a work, not so accepted of God, not so well pleasing in his eyes, nor should not be so gloriously rewarded in Heaven, as this one work of believing in his Son. God takes such infinite delight in his Son, as he looks more at that work of the souls believing in his Son, and venturing it self and its eternal estate upon his Son, then he does upon all works besides: and therefore look upon the point of Justification by faith first, and if that be right, the assurance of the reward will come in: divers objections will rise, that can never be answered, till the heart be setled in the point of Justification. All the Objections that rise from our weakness and sinful infirmity comes from this, because we do not settle our selves well in the claim we make to the recompence of reward in the point of Justification, in the righteousness of Christ by faith.