þ That is, God will judge every Man in the laft day, accord- ing not to wi others have done, but to what he himlſelt hath done, 1 Corinth. 3. 8. Therefore every one is concerned to prov ks own work; for at laſt his eternal joy and rejoycing, or ſorrow and mourning , ſhall be according to what he himſelf hath wrought, not according to what 6:h>rs have wrought. - Tf ever they enter into the joy of Heaven, th-y ſhall rejov'ce in their own Work. And if eternal Sorrow be their Portion, they ſhall groan under their own Burdens ; they will not be the fins of 0- thers but their own fins which will fink them into eternal miſery. For. though Superiors ſhall anſwer to God tor the tins of their 1n- ferious, yet it ſhall not properly be for their Inferiours fins, but for their ewn fins, in negleQing to warn and to reprove them, and to do what in them lay to have hindred them in their fntul courſes. :
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net deceive the All-lecing and Heart-ſearching God. 9 Further tt encourage them to this communicating, he mindeth them, that what they diftribured in this nature, was no more loft, than the feed is which the Husbandman caſteth into the ground, which in its ſeaſen ſprinzs up, and returneth into the Hushandman's hand with increaſe. This Metaphor of Sowizg is made uſe of alio, Proverbs 11. 138. 2 Coriathians, 9.6. to expreſs Men's Actions, and lets us Enow, that-our Actions, when done, are not done with 5 but as our Zodics ſhall rile azain, fo what we have done in the Fleſh ſhall be revived and judzed z whatſoever either for quantity, or for qua- lity Nen ſow, the ſame ſhall they reap. As to quantity, he had laid in 2 Corinthians, g. 6. that he who /owerb iparingly, ſhould reap ſparincly, and he that ſowed bountif.cifp, ſhould reap bountijully : AS ro quality, he here further addeth.
$ For he that ſoweth to his fleſn p, ſhall of the fleſh reap corruption 4 : but. he that ſoweth to the ſpirit 7, ſhall of the ſpirit reap lite everlaiting, /.
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lens, for the gratifying of the Heſh. q Shall-or may reap ſome carnal Satisfattion, of a corruptible, dying, periſhing Nature. 7 But he who layeth out his Efate, or ſpendeth his time, ſtrength, talents, whatſoever God hath given him, for the glory of God, in obedience to the commands, motions, and diftates of the ſpi- rit, or the Revelations of the Divine Will ; he ſhall not of merit, but of Grace from the Spirit rcap everlaſting Life, Reward and Satisfaftion. <0 that as in the World, that Man doth not ſuffer Iofs that laycth out his mony, time, or ſtrength, about good thinzs cf a valuable and induring Nature; but he only who lay- eth them out about thinzs periſhing, and tranſitory, and of a cor- ruptible Nature: <o that Man ſhall not loſe his Eſtate that lay- eth it out for the maintenance of the Geſpel and uphelding the Miniſtry of it; for he ſoweth to the Spirit, and ſhall thereof reap eternal Life and Salvaticn: He only 1:{eth his Eſtate, &:c. who ſpendeth it to gratifie his Lufts, and pleaſe his Fleſh, for all the return which he ſhall have, will be in poor ſenfible periſhing gc-d thin:zs, which periſh with the ufing, and will be of no fignincan- cy to hjm beyond this Life. : :
o And let us not be weary in well doing: : for in due ſeaſon, we ſhall reap if we faint not .
: We hare the ſame precept, 2 Theſſalonians, 3-13» As the not executing of Judgment ſpecdily imboldens Sinners, and encoura- £cth them to £0 on in courſes of ſin, ſo God's delaying the re- wards of the righteous, often proveth a temptation to good Men to be weary of well-doing. Againſt this the Apoſtle cautioneth us here. a By minding us, that there is a dye Seaſon for all things, (which is beſt known to the wiſe God) and afſuring us, that tho' as we (ce nut the Husbandman preſently reaping as ſoon as he hath ſown, but waiting patiently in hope, that in due Seaſon he ſhall reap; ſo we, tho* we be not preſently rewarded, yet in God's Seaſun ſhall as certainly reap as he doth. But he alſo mindeth us, that if we will reap, we mult not f.zzzt, but go on and perſevere
reap, than the Husbandman that hath ſown well, but out of im- patience before the time cometh for him to reap, ſhall go and plow up again all that he hath ſuwn, Ezek. 33« 13-
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