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3. Ministers are to provide for them an eternal Inheritance, 2 Cor. 12.14. Parents lay up for their Children, they labour to get an Estate to leave to their Posterity; so Ministers are to lay up an eternal weight of glory for their people, not only to get them into Heaven, but to load them with an eternal weight of glory, fill them with patience and Humility, &c. and all the graces of Gods Spirit, for the Spirit of glory rests upon such, he should help them to grow in grace, that they might be filled with glory.

3. Ministers are to provide for them an eternall Inheritance, 2 Cor. 12.14. Parents lay up for their Children, they labour to get an Estate to leave to their Posterity; so Ministers are to lay up an eternall weight of glory for their people, not onely to get them into Heaven, but to load them with an eternall weight of glory, fill them with patience and Humility, &c. and all the graces of Gods Spirit, for the Spirit of glory rests upon such, he should help them to grow in grace, that they might be filled with glory.

1. And first, labour to help them to grow in Humility, a man must lay down all ambitious thoughts, or else he will never come to Heaven, Matth. 18.2, 3. David could not get a Kingdom till he had learned to be like a weaned child, Psal. 131. Jer. 45. ult. however we shall get but a poor piece of glory; the means to be exalted in Heaven, is to be humble here on Earth, an humble spirit shall be a glorious Soul; before Honour goes Humility.

1. And first, labour to help them to grow in Humility, a man must lay down all ambitious thoughts, or else he will never come to Heaven,