Wherefore, let us yield obedience to His ex- cellent and glorious will ; and imploring His mercy and loving-kindness, while we forsake all fruitless labours,'-* and strife, and envy, which leads to death, let us turn and have recourse to His compassions. Let us stedfastly contem- plate those who have perfectly ministered to His excellent glory. Let us take (for instance) Enoch, who, being found righteous in obedi- ence, was translated, and death was never known to happen to him.'° Noah, being found faithful, preached regeneration to the world through his ministry ; and the Lord saved by him the ani- mals which, with one accord, entered into the ark.