Christs temptation and transfiguration practically explained and improved in several sermons /

3. The excellency of this estate requireth it, if it be not worth your desires and best Affections it is little worth. Christ procured ⟨p. 110⟩it for us by a life of Labours and Sorrows, and the pangs of a bitter cursed death, and when all this is done shall not we desire it and look after it, that is foul ingratitude. Oh then let your Hearts be upon it, desire must go before delight.

2. To move us to labour for it, and seek it in the first place, and to get it assured that we have a part in this blessed and joyful condition, Mat. 6. 33. Seek ye first the Kingdom of God, and the Righteousness thereof, Luke 13. 24. Strive to enter in at the strait gate. So 2 Pet. 1. 10. Give diligence to make your calling and election sure. What profit is it to know that there is such a blessed and joyful estate if we have no? interest in it. Heaven is worth our pains, and will bear all the cost we can lay out upon it, so the children of God thought, Acts 26. 7. Unto which promise our twelve Tribes instantly serving God day and night, hope to come, if we do not desire it, we do not believe it; if we do not labour for it we do not desire it.

3. Let us comfort our selves with the hopes of this blessed and joyful condition.