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

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.

1. Against all the miseries and afflictions of this present Life, these are necessary, we would sleep too quietly in the World, if we ⟨p. 111⟩did not sometimes meet with thorns in our beds, we should be so pleased with our entertainment in the way, as we should forget home; but God awakeneth us out of our drowsy fits by sharp afflictions, as if he said, arise, depart hence, this is not your rest,