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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. That Moses was to make an Altar five cubits long, and five broad, and three high, but Solomon made an Altar twenty cubits long, and twenty cubits broad. Moses was in the wilderness, in an unsettled condition, full of troubles: Solomon on his Throne, in a peaceable condition, full of prosperity; as our peace and prosperity is more then others, so our service should be more then theirs, and that in a due proportion.

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 labor 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. That Moses was to make an Altar five cubits long, and five broad, and three high, but Solomon made an Altar twenty cubits long, and twenty cubits broad. Moses was in the wilderness, in an unsetled condition, full of troubles: Solomon on his Throne, in a peaceable condition, full of prosperity; as our peace and prosperity is more then others, so our service should be more then theirs, and that in a due proportion.