The saints everlasting rest

These two ways doth this laziness debar us of our comforts.

1. By stopping the fountain, and causing Christ to withhold this blessing from us. Parents use not to smile upon children in their neglects and disobedience. So far as the Spirit is grieved, he will suspend his consolations. Assurance and peace are Christ's great encouragements to faithfulness and obedience: and therefore (though our obedience do not merit them, yet) they usually rise and fall with our diligence in duty. They that ha•• entertained the A•in••ian dotage to c••er their i••••• and viciousness, may talk their m••s•nse agai••• […] at pleasure, but the laborious christian […] experience. As prayer must ha•e fa••• […] •••rocure its success besides the […] of Christ, so must all ⟨p. 179⟩other parts of our obedience. He that will say to us in that triumphing day, Well done, good and faithful servant, enter thou into the joy of thy Lord; will also comfort his servants in their most affectionate and spiritual duties, and say, Well done, good and faithful servant, take this foretaste of thy everlasting joy. It thou grow seldom and customary, and cold in duty, especially in thy secret prayers to GOD, and yet findest no abatement in thy joys, I cannot but fear that thy joys are either carnal or diabolical.

1. By stopping the fountain, and causing Christ to withhold this blessing from us. Parents use not to smile upon children in their neglects and disobedience. So far as the Spirit is grieved, he will suspend his consolations. Assurance and peace are Christ's great encouragements to faithfulness and obedience: and therefore (though our obedience do not merit them, yet) they usually rise and fall with our diligence in duty. They that ha entertained the Ainian dotge to cer their i and viciousness, may talk their msnse agai at pleaure, but the laborious christian xperience. As prayer must hae fa rocure its success besides the of Christ, so must all