2. External Acts which flow from an Internal Principle, increase the Habit; the more you do good the more you are enabled to do good; as bodily Strength is increased by Exercise. Why is the right Hand more agile, stronger, and bigger than the left? it is oftener exercised, and so fuller of Blood and Spirits. So in Grace, the more you act Faith, the more is Faith increased. Love groweth more fervent being kept in a constant Exercise, and Hope more lively and affective. Always Actions increase the Principles which did produce them; partly of their own Nature. 1 John 2. 5. Whoso keepeth his Word, in him verily is the Love of God perfected. The more acts of Love he puts forth towards God, the more doth his Love increase in him: partly by Divine Reward, Heb. 6. 10. He is not unrighteous to forget your labour of Love, which ye have showed towards his Name, in that ye have ministered to the Saints, and do minister. God rewards them temporally. 2 Cor. 9. 12. God is able to make all Grace abound towards you, that you always having all sufficiency in all things, may abound to every good ⟨p. 410⟩Work: That is, to give you to be liberal at all times. And when he saith God is able, it not only implieth that God is the Fountain of all Plenty, and Sovereign Disposer of it, and so hath power to make you the richer, rather than the poorer by your Liberality, to make every Alms you give, like the Oil in the Cruse, to multiply as you pour it out, that there shall be enough for every Object and every Occasion, but also he is sure to make it good: for he quotes it again in the next Verse, as it is written, He hath dispersed abroad, he hath given to the Poor, his Righteousness remaineth for ever. It is taken out of Psalm. 112. where there are signal Promises of Wealth and Riches in the House of the liberal Alms-giver; God rewards them eternally. 2 Cor. 9. 6. He which soweth sparingly, shall reap sparingly, and he which soweth bountifully, shall reap bountifully. Now is the Seed-time, hereafter is our Harvest and Crop, we shall have a liberal reward from God, in the general Resurrection. God also rewards his obedient Servants Spiritually, Internally, and that not only with more Comfort and Peace, but by increasing the Grace it self: for God that punishes Sin with Sin, doth reward Grace with Grace. Wells are sweeter for draining: on the other side;
2. External Acts which flow from an Internal Principle, increase the Habit; the more you do good the more you are inabled to do good; as bodily Strength is increased by Exercise. Why is the right Hand more agil, stronger, and bigger than the left? it is oftner exercised, and so fuller of Blood and Spirits. So in Grace, the more you act Faith, the more is Faith increased. Love groweth more fervent being kept in a constant Exercise, and Hope more lively and affective. Always Actions increase the Principles which did produce them; partly of their own Nature. 1 Iohn 2. 5. Whoso keepeth his Word, in him verily is the Love of God perfected. The more acts of Love he puts forth towards God, the more doth his Love increase in him: partly by Divine Reward, Heb. 6. 10. He is not unrighteous to forget your labour of Love, which ye have shewed towards his Name, in that ye have ministred to the Saints, and do minister. God rewards them temporally. 2 Cor. 9. 12. God is able to make all Grace abound towards you, that you always having all sufficiency in all things, may aboud to every good ⟨p. 410⟩Work: That is, to give you to be liberal at all times. And when he saith God is able, it not only implieth that God is the Fountain of all Plenty, and Sovereign Disposer of it, and so hath power to make you the richer, rather than the poorer by your Liberality, to make every Alms you give, like the Oil in the Cruse, to multiply as you pour it out, that there shall be enough for every Object and every Occasion, but also he is sure to make it good: for he quotes it again in the next Verse, as it is written, He hath dispersed abroad, he hath given to the Poor, his Righteousness remaineth for ever. It is taken out of Psalm. 112. where there are signal Promises of Wealth and Riches in the House of the liberal Alms-giver; God rewards them eternally. 2 Cor. 9. 6. He which soweth sparingly, shall reap sparingly, and he which soweth bountifully, shall reap bountifully. Now is the Seed-time, hereafter is our Harvest and Crop, we shall have a liberal reward from God, in the general Resurrection. God also rewards his obedient Servants Spiritually, Internally, and that not only with more Comfort and Peace, but by increasing the Grace it self: for God that punishes Sin with Sin, doth reward Grace with Grace. Wells are sweeter for draining: on the other side;
