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THE good workman with confidence receives the bread of his [*127:10] labour; but the sluggish and lazy cannot look him in the face that set him on work.
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We must therefore be ready and forward in well doing; for from him are all things.
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And thus he foretells us, [*127:11] behold the Lord cometh, and his reward is with him, even before his face, to render to every one according to his work.
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He warns us therefore beforehand, with all his heart to this end, that we should not be slothful and negligent in [*128:1] well doing.
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Let our boasting, therefore, and our confidence be in [*128:2] God: let us submit ourselves to his will. Let us consider the whole multitude of his angels, how ready they stand to minister unto his will.
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As saith the scripture, [*128:3] thousands of thousands stood before him and ten thousand times ten thousand ministered unto him. [*128:4] And they cried, saying, Holy, holy, holy is the Lord of Sabaoth: [*128:5] The whole earth is full of his glory.
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Wherefore let us also, being conscientiously gathered together in concord with one another; as it were with one mouth, cry earnestly unto him, that he would make us partakers of his great and glorious promises.
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For he saith, [*128:6] Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God has prepared for them that wait for him
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Footnotes ^127:10 Work.
^127:11 Isaiah xl. 10, lxii. 11.
^128:1 Every good work.
^128:2 Him.
^128:3 Dan. vii. 10.
^128:4 Isaiah vi. 3.
^128:5 Every creature.
^128:6 Isaiah lxiv. 4, 1 Cor. ii. 9.
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