If any man's work shall
abide that he hath built thereupon, he shall receive a reward. If
any man's work shall be burned, that man shall suffer loss, but he
himself shall be saved, yet so as by fire."
I am persuaded that there are many things done by the best of
saints, which then they will gladly disown and be ashamed of; yea,
they have and do still do this with great devotion. In many things
now, we offend all; and then we shall see the many offences we have
committed, and shall ourselves judge them as they are.
But yet take notice, that in this day when the saints are thus
accounting for their evil before their Saviour and Judge, they shall
not then, as now at the remembrance and confession of sin, be filled
with that guilt, confusion, and shame, that now, through the
weakness of faith, attend their souls: neither shall they in the
least be grieved or offended that God has, before the angels and the
rest of their holy brethren, laid open to a tittle their infirmities
from the least and first to the biggest and last.
For the God to whom they confess all, they will now more perfectly
than ever see he doth love them and free them from all, even when
and before they confess and acknowledge them to him; and they shall
have their soul so full of the ravishing raptures of the life and
glory that now they are in, that they shall be of it swallowed up in
that measure and manner that neither fear, nor guilt, nor confusion
can come near them or touch them.
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