...doubting our Strength, or miftrufting our Reward ; we are here exhorted and animated to perfevere, and to run with Patience the Race that is fet before us. And in order to this, becaufe once more, thofe that ran in the aforefaid Games, ufed to make themfelves...

...Heb. xii. I, 2. we are exhorted to lay aftde every weight, and theßn which asih fo eaßly íefet u¡, and to run with patience the race that is fet before us : looking unto Jefus the author and ßnißer of our faith; -whi for the joy that -was fet before him,...

...we begin once more to look forward with cheerfulness, and to run with patience the race that is set before us. Such is the general condition of life ; and they who are and have been the happiest of mankind, must acknowledge that the picture bears some resemblance to their own circumstances....