A fourth volume containing one hundred and fifty sermons on several texts of Scripture…

2. Long for it. Hope cannot be without Groans. Every day wind up your Affections, for here is nothing but Conflicts and Sorrows. Love to Christ cannot be without him, it will never be content. Nature desires Perfection; Col. 3.1, 2. If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth at the right Hand of God. Set your Affections on Things above, not on Things on the Earth. There is our God, our Christ, our Rest: Where your Treasure is, there will your Heart be also, Mat. 6.22. not only the Mind, but the Heart: what we are much thinking of, the Desires will be working that way. The new Nature cannot be without these Desires; every thing tendeth thither whence it came: Eph. 1.3. Who hath blessed us with all spiritual Blessings, [Greek or Hebrew], in heavenly Places. God sits in Heaven that dispenseth Grace, Christ that conveyeth it; thence come our Mercies, Comforts and Joys: therefore it is against the tendency of the new Nature not to be tending thither, where Christ is, who is our greatest Happiness. There is your Father, your elder Brother, the best of the Family, and your spiritual Relations, whom you most valued; the best Company is in the other World. Here you have Maintenance, as in a foreign Land, but there is your Interest and Estate. How unworthy soever we are, there is infinite Mercy to give it, there it acts like it self; infinite Merit to purchase it, there we receive the full Fruits of our Redemption; and the present Fruits of the Spirit are the Earnest of it, as an Earnest is something in part of a greater Sum.

2. Long for it. Hope cannot be without Groans. Every day wind up your Affections, for here is nothing but Conflicts and Sorrows. Love to Christ cannot be without him, it will never be content. Nature desires Perfection; Col. 3.1, 2. If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth at the right Hand of God. Set your Affections on Things above, not on Things on the Earth. There is our God, our Christ, our Rest: Where your Treasure is, there will your Heart be also,