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

3. The care and due observance of the Means, showeth the value and Respect to the true Happiness. If we do not labour for it, and suffer for it, we do not value it according to its worth. There is a simple, naked Estimation, and a practical Esteem; Naked Approbation, Rom. 2. 18. And knowest his will, and approvest the things that are excellent, being instructed out of the Law. The Practical Esteem, is a Self-denying Obedience, Rom. 2. 7. To them who by patient continuance in well-doing seek for glory, &c. Then they respect means, and end together, and submit to the one, to obtain the other. If the wicked are said to despise Eternal Happiness, it is not simply as Happiness, nor as Eternal; for they that love themselves would be happy, and everlastingly happy, but it is in conjunction with ⟨p. 116⟩the Means, as the Israelites despised the pleasant Land, and murmured in their Tents, Psal. 106. 24. Yea they despised the pleasant land, and they believed not his word, but murmured in their tents, and hearkened not to the voice of the Lord. The Land was a good fertile Land, but afar of; and because of Giants, and walled Towns, and so no thought worthy the pains and difficultiest to be undergone. Heaven is a good place, but out of Indulgence to the Ease of the Flesh, we dislike difficulties, and strictness of holy walking.

3. The care and due observance of the Means, sheweth the value and Respect to the true Happiness. If we do not labour for it, and suffer for it, we do not value it according to its worth. There is a simple, naked Estimation, and a practical Esteem; Naked Approbation, Rom. 2. 18. And knowest his will, and approvest the things that are excellent, being instructed out of the Law. The Practical Esteem, is a Self-denying Obedience, Rom. 2. 7. To them who by patient continuance in well-doing seek for glory, &c. Then they respect means, and end together, and submit to the one, to obtain the other. If the wicked are said to despise Eternal Happiness, it is not simply as Happiness, nor as Eternal; for they that love themselves would be happy, and everlastingly happy, but it is in conjunction with