3 Faith will show us the Recompense of that Obedience wherein we do renounce our dearest Enjoyments, for God. We read Mark 10. 29 There is no man, who hath left Children, or other things for my sake, but he shall receive on hundred fold. God never took away any good thing from any good man, but Faith will tell him that God has a better thing for him. There is nothing that more glorifies God, than our cheerful Resignation of our dearest Enjoyments when. He demands them from us: And this Resignation uses to be followed with a glorious Compensation. If we have hearts to pa•• with any thing for God, that is the way to have it Continued or to have it Renewed The most likely way to have our Isaac preserved and restored, is this; Let it be Offered When David buried a Son, with a•• agreeable Disposition under such a Dispensation, God gave him another Son, and he proved a Solomon. Or if we miss of that then the Holy Spirit of God, will Reward our Piety, with Internal Consolations, an ⟨p. 23⟩Seal us to the Day of Redemption, with such a Rapturous Earnest, and Foretaste, and Irradiation of the Heavenly World, as will abundantly compensate all the Troubles upon Earth. A Servant of God, Resigning his Offspring to the Stroke of Death, may perhaps have Opportunity to enter this passage among his Experiences; God now gives to my Resigning Faith, such Rapturous Assurances of His Love to me, and mine as would richly have made amends for the Death of more Children, if He had called for them. However, there is in Heaven, what will make amends for all. Christian, Thy Faith will tell thee such things as these.
3 Faith will shew us the Recompence of that Obedience wherein we do renounce our dearest Enjoyments, for God. We read Mark 10. 29 There is no man, who hath left Children, or other things for my sake, but he shall receive on hundred fold. God never took away any good thing from any good man, but Faith will tell him that God has a better thing for him. There is nothing that more glorifies God, than our cheerful Resignation of our dearest Enjoyments when. He demands them from us: And this Resignation uses to be followed with a glorious Compensation. If we have hearts to pa•• with any thing for God, that is the way to have it Continued or to have it Renewed The most likely way to have our Isaac pre•served and restored, is this; Let it be Offered When David buried a Son, with a•• agreeable Disposition under such a Dispensation, God gave him another Son, and he proved a Solomon. Or if we miss of that then the Holy Spirit of God, will Reward our Piety, with Internal Consolations, an ⟨p. 23⟩Seal us to the Day of Redemption, with such a Rapturous Earnest, and Foretast, and Irradiation of the Heavenly World, as will abundantly compensate all the Troubles upon Earth. A Servant of God, Resigning his Offspring to the Stroke of Death, may perhaps have Opportunity to enter this passage among his Experiences; God now gives to my Resigning Faith, such Rapturous Assurances of His Love to me, and mine as would richly have made amends for the Death of more Children, if He had called for them. However, there is in Heaven, what will make amends for all. Christian, Thy Faith will tell thee such things as these.
