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

We read of Cajus the Emperor, (Agrippa having suffered Imprisonment for wishing him to be Emperor) that afterward when he came to be Emperor, the first thing he did was to prefer Agrippa, and gave him a Chain of Gold, as heavy as the Chain of Iron that was upon him in Prison: And so if any do suffer for God, do you think that God will let him lose by him? Suppose you have a Servant about your business, and he suffers much trouble and opposition, will you not recompense him for that which he suffers for your sake? Do you think that God will let his people sink in their sufferings for him? God forbid we should have any such thoughts of him.

We read of Cajus the Emperor, (Agrippa having suffered Imprisonment for wishing him to be Emperor) that afterward when he came to be Emperor, the first thing he did was to prefer Agrippa, and gave him a Chain of Gold, as heavy as the Chain of Iron that was upon him in Prison: And so if any do suffer for God, do you think that God will let him lose by him? Suppose you have a Servant about your business, and he suffers much trouble and opposition, will you not recompence him for that which he suffers for your sake? Do you think that God will let his people sink in their sufferings for him? God forbid we should have any such thoughts of him.

Do not judge of the ways of God by outward appearance, but judge according to the true value and worth of things: Shall we in other things judge according to the value and worth of things, and only in the ways of God, judge by outward appearance, and not according to the worth? Do but come near to the ways of godliness, you will find them other things then you imagine: As Peter Martyr had a speech in his Sermon, that was the means of that Marquess Galeacius his conversion: If so be, says he, one should see a company of Musicians, that are ⟨p. 163⟩playing and dancing according to their art, a great way off, he would think that they were mad men; but if he come nearer and nearer, and hear the melodious sound of the music, and observe their art in all they do, he will be of another mind: And so men of the world look upon Gods people afar off, and think them mad men to take such courses; but if they would come nearer, and observe their ways, and see the equity and reason, and observe the excellency and beauty that is in them, they would be of other minds.