I felt the nourishment of thy food and
the warmth of thy fleece; I remember thy loving and holy visits,
when my poor members were sick and in prison and the like. When they
were strangers and wanderers in the world, thou tookest them in.
Well done, thou good and faithful servant; enter thou into the joy
of thy Lord."
3. Here also will be a reward for all that hardness and Christian
enduring of affliction that thou hast met with for thy Lord, while
thou wast in the world. Here now will Christ begin from the greatest
suffering even unto the least, and bestow a reward on them all, from
the blood of the suffering saint to the loss of a hair.
4. There is also a reward at this day for all the more, secret and
more retired works of Christianity. 1. There is not now one act of
faith in thy soul, either upon Christ or against the devil and
antichrist, but it shall in this day be found out, and praised,
honored, and glorified in the face of heaven. 2. There is not one
groan to God in secret against thy own lusts, and for more grace,
light, Spirit, sanctification, and strength to go through this world
like a Christian, but it shall even at the coming of Christ he
rewarded openly. 3. There has not one tear dropped from thy tender
eye against thy lusts, the love of the world, or for more communion
with Jesus Christ, but as it is now in the bottle of God, so then it
shall bring forth such plenty of reward, that it shall return upon
thee with abundance of increase.
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