Life eternall, or, A treatise of the knowledge of the divine essence and attributes : delivered in xviii sermons . hen thou doeft thy works out of obedi-ence to him,even thofe works (hall upon any thing that thou haft done forChriB, allthefethings {hall remaine forever:what faithfull praiers foever thou haft made,orwhatfoever thou haft luffercd for ChriB, whatpaines thou haft taken in preaching,or in repen-ting,or in advancing the caufe of Chrifi, thefefhall be had in everlaftmg remembrance. Solooke what finnes unrepented of thou haft men fhal
Life eternall, or, A treatise of the knowledge of the divine essence and attributes : delivered in xviii sermons . hen thou doeft thy works out of obedi-ence to him,even thofe works (hall upon any thing that thou haft done forChriB, allthefethings {hall remaine forever:what faithfull praiers foever thou haft made,orwhatfoever thou haft luffercd for ChriB, whatpaines thou haft taken in preaching,or in repen-ting,or in advancing the caufe of Chrifi, thefefhall be had in everlaftmg remembrance. Solooke what finnes unrepented of thou haft men fhall al-fo remaine. All the praife that comes from anya<5lion,andthepleafure of it, that pafTeth away,and comes to nothing: but lookc what finful-neffe there is in any worke, that remaines, andif thou repent not of it, thatfinne fhall be rec-koned upon thy fcore- and what uprightneflefoever there is in any worke , that alfo (hallremaine. Therefore learne from hence toprize and value oncly thofe goodthings that are immutable,andpropoi tionably to feareand fhunne theevill. •FJHJS. The Immvtabi God. hi. THE FIFTEENTH SERMON. ExO 13,14. ^ndMoksfazd unto God, Behold when I comeunto the children of ifrael, and fhall fay untothem, the God of your fathers hath fent mee untoyott,and they fhallfay unto mejvhat is his name$what fiall rfaj unto them ? KjindGodfaiduntoMofes,./ k^AM, TH AT I S wee are to judge of otherthings by the mutability ofthem: folearneto judge of thyfelfe, of thine ownefpirit, bythac conftancy that thou findeftin well-doing 3 or that muta-bility and unconftancy that thou art fubjeft a man would make a cenfure of himfelfe, lethim confider, that the nearer hee comes to vn-changeailenejfe in well-doing, the better hee is, and
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