Chapter 16

1This enforced from the examples of the holy angels, and from the exceeding greatness of that reward which God has prepared for us. THE good workman with confidence receives the bread of his labour; but the sluggish and lazy cannot look him in the face that set him on work.
2We must therefore be ready and forward in well doing; for from him are all things.
3And thus he foretells us, behold the Lord cometh, and his reward is with him, even before his face, to render to every one according to his work.
4He warns us therefore beforehand, with all his heart to this end, that we should not be slothful and negligent in well doing.
5Let our boasting, therefore, and our confidence be in 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.
6As saith the scripture, thousands of thousands stood before him and ten thousand times ten thousand ministered unto him. And they cried, saying, Holy, holy, holy is the Lord of Sabaoth: The whole earth is full of his glory.
7Wherefore 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.
8For he saith, 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.