Here is the whole duty of man; for we are taught, 1. To keep our eye
upon God's favour as our end: "Lord, I have hoped for thy salvation,
not only temporal but eternal salvation. I have hoped for that as my
happiness and laid up my treasure in it; I have hoped for it as thine,
as a happiness of thy preparing, thy promising, and which consists in
being with thee. Hope of this has raised me above the world, and borne
me up under all my burdens in it." 2. To keep our eye upon God's word
as our rule: I have done thy commandments, that is, I have made
conscience of conforming myself to thy will in every thing. Observe
here how God has joined these two together, and let no man put them
asunder. We cannot, upon good grounds, hope for God's salvation, unless
we set ourselves to do his commandments, Rev. xxii. 14. But those that
sincerely endeavour to do his commandments ought to keep up a good hope
of the salvation; and that hope will both engage and enlarge the heart
in doing the commandments. The more lively the hope is the more lively
the obedience will be.