The Apostle plainly intimates; this will be the rule of Gods final judgment. Certainly it cannot be unsafe for us, to judge our selves by the same Rule. He tells us, when God shall judge every one according to his works (the great business of the judgment day) eternal life, 1shall be the portion of them, who, by patient continuance in well doing, sought glory, and honour, and immortality, (which are but other expressions of the same thing) what can be more plain. They shall have eternal life, and glory that seek it; whose hearts are towards it. Again, speaking of true Christians, [Greek or Hebrew] (i. e. in a way of contradiction from Pseudo-Christians, such, as, he saith, were enemies of the Cross) he gives us (among other) this brand of these latter; that they did mind earthly things, and tells us their end would be destruction, but gives us this opposite ⟨p. 263⟩character of the other;2 our conversation is in heaven; our trade and business, our daily negotiations (as well as the privileges of our Citizen-ship) lie there (as his expression imports) and thence intimates the opposite end of such; whence we look for a [Saviour] not destruction, but salvation. And in the same Context of Scripture where,3 they that are risen with Christ, and who shall appear with him in glory, are required to set their [mind] on things above, not on things on the earth. That we may understand this, not to be their duty only; but their character; we are immediately told; they who do not so mortify, not their earthly members (those lusts that dispose men towards the earth, and to grovel in the dust, as the graces of the Spirit dispose them heaven-ward, and to converse with glory) are the children of disobedience, upon whom the wrath of God cometh. 4The Faith, the just live by, is the substance of things hoped for, &c. Such believers, are confessed, avowed strangers on earth, & seekers of the better, the heavenly Country, whence 'tis said, God will not be ashamed to be called their God: plainly implying, that as for low, terrene spirits; that love to creep on the earth, and embrace Dunghills, God will be ashamed of them; he will for ever disdain a relation to them, while, and as such. And if we will be determined by the express word of our great Redeemer, to whom we owe all the hopes of this blessedness. When he had been advising not to lay up treasure on earth, 5but in heaven;
The Apostle plainly intimates; this will be the rule of Gods final judgment. Certainly it cannot be unsafe for us, to judge our selves by the same Rule. He tells us, when God shall judge every one according to his works (the great business of the judgment day) eternal life, 1shall be the portion of them, who, by patient continuance in well doing, sought glory, and honour, and immortality, (which are but other expressions of the same thing) what can be more plain. They shall have eternal life, and glory that seek it; whose hearts are towards it. Again, speaking of true Christians, 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 (i. e. in a way of contradiction from Pseudo-Christians, such, as, he saith, were enemies of the Crosse) he gives us (among other) this brand of these latter; that they did mind earthly things, and tells us their end would be destruction, but gives us this opposite ⟨p. 263⟩character of the other;2 our conversation is in heaven; our trade and business, our daily negotiations (as well as the priviledges of our Citizen-ship) lie there (as his expression imports) and thence intimates the opposite end of such; whence we look for a [Saviour] not destruction, but salvation. And in the same Context of Scripture where,3 they that are risen with Christ, and who shall appear with him in glory, are requir'd to fet their [mind] on things above, not on things on the earth. That we may understand this, not to be their duty onely; but their character; we are immediately told; they who do not so mortifie, not their earthly members (those lusts that dispose men towards the earth, and to grovel in the dust, as the graces of the Spirit dispose them heaven-ward, and to converse with glory) are the children of disobedience, upon whom the wrath of God cometh. 4The Faith, the just live by, is the substance of things hoped for, &c. Such believers, are confessed, avowed strangers on earth, & seekers of the better, the heavenly Country, whence 'tis said, God will not be ashamed to be called their God: plainly implying, that as for low, terrene spirits; that love to creep on the earth, and imbrace Dunghills, God will be ashamed of them; he will for ever disdain a relation to them, while, and as such. And if we will be determined by the express word of our great Redeemer, to whom we owe all the hopes of this blessedness. When he had been advising not to lay up treasure on earth,
- 1Rev. 2. 6, 7.
- 2Phil. 3. 18, 19, 20.
- 3Col. 3. 1. 2, 3, 4.
- 4Heb. 11. 1▪ 13. 16.
- 5Matth. 5▪ 19, 20, 21.
