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

Answ. 1. Sufferings in themselves have no good, but as God uses them, and turns them unto good; now God can use and turn prosperity into good as well if he please, and prosperity hath good in it self, and in the use of it too.

2. The Apostle Saint James, Cap. 1. 6. calls for joy in both conditions; Let the brother of high degree rejoice, when he is abased, and the brother of low degree, in that he is exalted; it seems we are not fit for sufferings, and therefore our present condition is a mercy.

2. The Apostle Saint Iames, Cap. 1. 6. calls for joy in both conditions; Let the brother of high degree rejoyce, when he is abased, and the brother of low degree, in that he is exalted; it seems we are not fit for sufferings, and therefore our present condition is a mercy.

Thirdly, seeing God spares us so much from sufferings, and calls us not to such passive obedience as formerly he hath called his servants, let us therefore labour to be more abundant in active obedience, in giving God the glory of that peace and many liberties, ⟨p. 27⟩and those comforts that we do enjoy, which we might have been deprived of by the malice of men; let our strength now be employed for God, in doing service, which might have been spent in suffering the rage of man, yea, might have been spent in bearing the wrath of God himself: O how much better is it, that we have it to spend it in doing service for God in an active way, for his praise and our own comfort! The more peace and outward comforts, the more service is due to God. It is observable that Solomons Altar was four times as big as Moses's. We read Exod. 27. 1