The truly blessed man, or, The way to be happy here, and forever being…

2. Animate your selves against all discouragements frequent looking to the Salvation which is in the •• If your way seems deep, and dark, and oppresse• ⟨p. 445⟩and the flesh recoils, look forward to the crown, think of the happy issue, when your toil will be over, and you shall rest for ever in the unconceivable glories of the Kingdom, So did Paul, 2 Cor. 4. 16, 17. A look of faith upon this, is cordial enough to revive your fainting spirits, and give you fresh way.

2. Animate your selves against all discouragments frequent looking to the Salvation which is in the •• If your way seems deep, and dark, and oppresse• ⟨p. 445⟩and the flesh recoils, look forward to the crown, think of the happy issue, when your toil will be over, and you shall rest for ever in the unconceivable glories of the Kingdom, So did Paul, 2 Cor. 4. 16, 17. A look of faith upon this, is cordial enough to revive your fainting spirits, and give you fresh way.

Prop. 2. That the proper design of Divine Teaching, is to guide men into and in this way. By Divine teaching I understand all that which hath God for its author, and Divinity for its subject. God is the author of other Sciences, Isa. 28. 29. But Divinity, which is a Rule pointing man to eternal felicity, is eminently ascribed to him, in that it not only comes from God, but leads to him: and the Religion of fallen man, as to the main Articles of it, on which his Salvation depends, is not to be found by the light of nature, nor read in the volumes of Creation and Providence, but comes by Revelation. Now there is a double Teaching, Outward and inward, and both may be said to be Divine. Outward which is applied by the word and ordinances, in which we are treated with by men; but these means are of Divine authority; these instruments must have a Divine call and influence, and the success depends on Divine efficacy. Inward, is the effectual operation of the Spirit of God on the hearts of men, enlightening the mind, persuading the Soul, and causing the man to learn: and this must needs be Divine, for all such are taught of God, and none else can so teach. Now the Proportion is a truth with respect to both of these, only