2. Consider how others have broken down the greatest difficulties, and are now in glory, as Rev. 12. 11. They loved not their lives to the death. They have not only spent their time, lost their name, their comforts, but their blood, that have passed through waters, fires, bonds, imprisonments, and with Paul have not accounted their lives dear, that they might finish their work. David was full of God one would think sometimes he had enough, yet when he awakes, he is with God at midnight, his thoughts and reins instruct him; the Law was his meditation day and night. You shall see him in the Temple blessing God, on the Throne advancing the Lord, on the dunghill, in banishment longing after him, when he sate among Princes meditating; and was there here too much cost, might any of this ointment have been spared? Consider Christ himself, Heb. 12. 1, 2, 3. cast off sloth, Looking to Jesus, who for the joy, despised the shame, endured the Cross, and that not for himself, it may be for thee, that thou mightst not, now he is at the right hand of God: So are the Saints in Heaven, and now rejoicing that ever they sought him, that they spent so much time on him.
2. Consider how others have broken down the greatest difficulties, and are now in glory, as Rev. 12. 11. They loved not their lives to the death. They have not only spent their time, lost their name, their comforts, but their blood, that have passed through waters, fires, bonds, imprisonments, and with Paul have not accounted their lives dear, that they might finish their work. David was full of God one would think sometimes he had enough, yet when he awakes, he is with God at midnight, his thoughts and reins instruct him; the Law was his meditation day and night. You shall see him in the Temple blessing God, on the Throne advancing the Lord, on the dunghill, in banishment longing after him, when he sate among Princes meditating; and was there here too much cost, might any of this ointment have been spared? Consider Christ himself, Heb. 12. 1, 2, 3. cast off sloth, Looking to Iesus, who for the joy, despised the shame, endured the Cross, and that not for himself, it may be for thee, that thou mightst not, now he is at the right hand of God: So are the Saints in Heaven, and now rejoycing that ever they sought him, that they spent so much time on him.
