Therefore God chastens you as he did Jacob: This is all the fruit, to take away your sin, Isa. xxvii. 9, and that you should be partaker of his holiness, Heb. xii. 10. Be better, therefore, for crosses; then God has his end, when, after his ploughing, harrowing, and threshing of you, he shall reap the harvest of well doing, which he reaps not so much for himself, as for you; for the ground that brings forth fruit meet for him that dresses it, receives blessing from God, Heb. vi. 7. All good works are "treasured up in heaven for the doers of them."

When you have learned this lesson also, how to be abased and to suffer need, as well as how to be full and to abound, Phil. iv. 11, 12, with all the fore-mentioned directions, how at all times, and in all things, to walk with God, you will prove yourself to be a good proficient in the school of Christ, one that has walked to good purpose before God; showing that you are neither barren or unfruitful, in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ, 2 Peter i. 5 - 8.

Thus much concerning the outward frame of your life and conversation, according to which you must walk with God. The inward truth and life of all this, which is, doing all in uprightness, remains to be spoken unto, and is as follows.

CHAPTER XI. OF UPRIGHTNESS.

The sum of this head is contained in this, that in your whole walking with God, you must be upright. Both these, to walk with God, and to be upright, are joined in this precept: Walk with me, and be perfect, or upright, Gen. xvii. 1. He speaks not of an absolute perfection of degrees, in the fulness of all graces, which