The truly blessed man

6. They ••e to God far better Service than they either do or can perform. Could they Serve him as ⟨p. 563⟩perfectly as man was able to do in his state of integrity, it was no more than his duc, Luk. 17.10. Surely then, the best that imperfect believers perform, who have that in them which hinders their doing the good they would, must come incomparably short of what is their duty: if then for all this it be reward•d by God, he therein shows his rich mercy to us.

6. They ••e to God far better Service than they either do or can perform. Could they Serve him as ⟨p. 563⟩perfectly as man was able to do in his state of integrity, it was no more than his duc, Luk. 17.10. Surely then, the best that imperfect believers perform, who have that in th•m which hinders their doing the good they would, must come incomparably short of what is their duty: if then for all this it be reward•d by God, he therein shews his rich mercy to us.

7 There is no proportion between the reward and the Obedience. The Service done is so little, and the reward given so great, that in it self it bespeaks the rich Grace of God, and that he bestows it freely: a Crown, a Kingdom, an Eternal weight of Glory; the Apostle speaking of Afflictions, in which we Serve God by patience, so compares them, 2 Cor. • 17. A cup of cold water is recompensed with Everlasting Life, what a disproportion! a few moments serving God crowned with endless joys; how superlative! surely it is wondrous bounty that confers this.