THE
BEST
TREASURE
;
From
EPHESIANS
3.
8.
Vnto
me
who
am
less
than
the
least
of
all
Saints
is
this
grace
given
,
that
I
should
preach
among
the
Gentiles
the
unsearchable
riches
of
Christ
.
CHAP.
I.
The
Occasion
of
this
Discourse
,
with
an
Introduction
to
the
Words
,
and
Explication
of
them
,
and
the
main
truth
contained
in
them
.
RICHES
are
desired
by
most
,
but
true
Treasures
obtained
by
few
,
(
through
the
mistaken
Notion
thereof
.
)
'T
is
sad
to
see
how
sollicitous
many
are
after
Vanities
:
and
(
like
the
Jews
in
Egypt
)
are
scattered
abroad
,
through
all
the
Land
,
to
gather
Stubble
,
whilst
tryed
Gold
lies
neglected
;
and
the
Pearl
of
Price
little
valued
.
O
the
Projects
and
vast
expence
of
Time
and
strength
to
reach
things
that
are
not
;
when
the
infinite
Concerns
of
Eternity
,
and
welfare
of
an
immortal
Soul
,
cannot
get
a
room
in
one
serious
thought
;
or
a
few
minutes
of
shortening
time
to
attend
them
.
'T
is
lamentable
to
behold
,
not
only
the
blind
World
,
but
those
that
profess
themselves
Wise
,
(
like
the
Spider
)
working
out
their
Bowels
to
weave
Cobwebs
,
and
(
with
the
Dog
in
the
Fable
)
letting
go
the
Substance
to
catch
at
Shadows
;
and
running
themselves
out
of
breath
to
sit
down
in
sorrow
.
The
affecting
sense
of
this
Folly
hath
made
me
scatter
some
Balls
of
true
Gold
to
prevent
(
if
possible
)
the
dangerous
haste
of
such
deceived
Souls
,
and
to
allure
them
to
better
and
more
unsearchable
Treasures
,
that
are
to
be
found
in
,
and
fetched
from
the
Lord
Jesus
.
This
is
the
Design
of
the
ensuing
Discourse
on
this
portion
of
Scripture
,
which
I
shall
briefly
open
,
and
then
draw
forth
the
main
Conclusion
I
intend
to
prosecute
.
The
Apostle
layes
down
these
words
as
an
Argument
by
which
he
endeavours
to
strengthen
the
Faith
of
those
believing
Ephesians
in
,
and
to
quicken
their
Affections
to
the
Gospel
of
Christ
,
taken
from
the
blessed
Advantages
it
brings
to
all
that
do
receive
it
.
It
makes
a
Discovery
and
overture
of
unsearchable
Riches
to
them
:
let
them
be
never
so
poor
,
destitute
of
the
affluences
and
good
things
of
this
World
;
yet
,
by
believing
through
this
Gospel
,
they
shall
come
to
attain
to
inestimable
Treasures
;
even
the
unsearchable
Riches
of
Christ
.
In
the
Words
you
have
four
parts
.
First
,
A
Discovery
of
the
admirable
Love
of
God
to
fall'n
man
,
particularly
to
the
blind
,
perishing
Gentiles
,
in
not
only
giving
Christ
to
save
them
,
but
in
opening
Christ
to
them
,
even
his
secret
and
boundless
Treasures
:
The
unsearchable
Riches
of
Christ
.
Secondly
,
Here
's
the
way
by
which
these
are
opened
and
brought
to
light
,
which
is
,
by
the
Gospel
,
in
the
Administration
thereof
by
his
Messengers
:
That
I
should
preach
[
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
]
strictly
taken
,
't
is
to
preach
the
Gospel
,
or
good
news
,
but
generally
it
takes
in
the
whole
work
of
the
Ministry
.
Thirdly
,
Here
's
the
great
expence
of
Grace
the
Lord
Jesus
is
at
to
bring
forth
his
unsearchable
Riches
,
't
is
by
the
laying
out
of
Grace
to
those
that
publish
it
(
To
me
who
am
less
than
the
least
of
all
Saints
,
is
this
Grace
given
;
)
Grace
,
great
Grace
,
to
the
least
of
Saints
,
(
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
)
lesser
,
least
,
or
more
little
than
the
least
;
an
unusual
Degradation
of
a
man's
self
,
and
the
Character
of
an
empty
and
unworthy
Instrument
in
his
own
eye
,
and
so
a
Subject
that
needed
much
Grace
,
to
be
meetned
for
such
high
Service
:
and
yet
such
a
one
did
Christ
use
in
this
great
Work
,
laying
out
large
Grace
to
prepare
him
for
it
.
Fourthly
,
Another
considerable
part
of
the
words
,
are
the
Persons
for
whom
this
Grace
is
given
,
and
to
whom
these
unsearchable
Treasures
are
discovered
,
and
they
were
Subjects
most
unworthy
of
it
,
(
to
the
Gentiles
)
the
chiefest
of
Sinners
,
blind
idolatrous
Souls
,
(
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
)
the
Heathen
,
Persons
extremely
wicked
,
1
Cor.
15.
32.
called
Beasts
,
wild
Beasts
,
Strangers
to
God
,
beyond
the
Line
of
Communication
,
Eph.
2.
12.
Aliens
from
the
Commonwealth
of
Israel
,
Strangers
from
the
Covenants
of
Promise
,
yea
,
Enemies
to
God
in
their
minds
;
to
those
did
the
Lord
lay
out
these
unsearchable
Treasures
.
To
clear
up
my
way
to
the
main
truth
I
intend
to
prosecute
hence
,
and
to
leave
no
difficulty
in
the
words
,
't
is
necessary
I
speak
to
three
things
,
by
way
of
Explication
.
First
,
In
what
sense
Paul
calls
himself
less
than
the
least
of
all
Saints
,
seeing
he
was
a
Person
so
dignified
by
Grace
to
be
a
chosen
Vessel
to
God
,
an
Apostle
of
Christ
,
fill'd
with
the
Graces
of
the
Spirit
,
and
eminent
Endowments
for
the
Ministry
,
beyond
many
,
taken
into
such
high
Communion
with
Christ
,
let
into
the
third
Heavens
to
see
things
unutterable
;
How
then
can
Paul
truly
call
himself
less
than
the
least
of
all
Saints
?
Does
not
Paul
speak
dissemblingly
,
as
the
Pope
does
,
when
he
calls
himself
Servus
Servorum
,
the
Servant
of
Servants
,
and
yet
makes
himself
Lord
over
the
Faith
and
Consciences
of
others
?
I
answer
,
Paul
doth
not
hyperbolically
debase
himself
here
,
but
really
,
and
in
the
deep
sense
of
his
former
Vileness
,
before
Conversion
,
when
he
persecuted
the
Church
,
and
blasphemed
Christ
;
in
the
consideration
of
which
,
he
thought
none
like
him
:
never
such
a
Wretch
as
he
did
God
advance
to
so
high
Dignity
to
be
an
Apostle
of
Christ
:
nor
doth
he
think
that
any
particular
Saint
was
so
guilty
in
that
kind
and
degree
of
wickedness
as
he
was
:
one
that
kick'd
against
the
pricks
,
persecuted
Christ
in
his
Members
,
haling
Him
to
Prison
,
seeking
to
draw
out
his
very
heart
blood
,
and
to
root
out
the
profession
of
him
:
Now
for
such
a
one
as
he
to
obtain
this
Grace
,
to
be
put
in
trust
with
the
Gospel
,
and
to
have
such
Treasures
of
Grace
imparted
to
him
,
he
thinks
that
Christ
never
did
the
like
Favour
to
any
so
vi●e
a
Creature
as
he
was
:
so
base
will
a
Child
of
God
be
in
his
own
eyes
,
when
once
the
Lord
sets
his
Sins
in
order
before
him
.
Paul
,
in
another
place
,
calls
himself
the
chiefest
of
Sinners
,
greater
than
the
greatest
of
Sinners
,
but
never
less
than
the
least
of
Sinners
.
Indeed
compar'd
with
the
Pharisees
,
his
Sin
seemed
less
than
their
Persecution
and
Blasphemy
,
in
the
degree
and
nature
of
it
;
his
was
ignorantly
,
theirs
was
maliciously
perpetrated
,
(
and
so
the
Sin
against
the
Holy
Ghost
)
and
in
that
respect
his
Sin
was
less
than
theirs
,
but
compar'd
with
any
that
were
saved
,
he
thought
himself
really
less
than
any
of
them
in
regard
of
his
sinful
Life
before
Conversion
.
Secondly
,
What
is
this
Grace
which
Paul
so
admires
,
and
by
which
his
Condition
is
so
changed
,
and
he
enabled
to
preach
those
Unsearchable
Riches
of
Christ
?
Answ.
First
,
By
Grace
here
is
understood
that
infinite
Favour
and
free
Grace
of
God
to
him
through
Christ
,
by
which
he
was
called
out
of
the
state
of
Sin
and
Death
into
the
Knowledge
and
Kingdom
of
God
;
that
ever
the
Lord
should
pitch
on
such
a
vile
Wretch
as
he
,
and
choose
him
to
be
a
Vessel
of
Mercy
,
revealing
his
Son
,
with
his
Unsearchable
Riches
,
to
so
poor
and
unworthy
a
Creature
,
pardoning
his
great
Transgressions
,
and
pouring
out
his
infinite
Treasures
on
him
.
Secondly
,
By
Grace
in
this
place
,
some
understand
his
Apostleship
which
he
obtained
at
the
hand
of
Christ
,
and
the
Ministry
he
received
to
preach
to
the
Gentiles
these
Unsearchable
Riches
of
Christ
:
so
is
it
rendred
Rom.
1.
5.
By
whom
we
have
received
Grace
and
Apostleship
.
Thirdly
,
Hereby
is
meant
also
those
excellent
Gifts
he
had
received
for
this
end
;
those
choice
anointings
of
the
Spirit
,
and
Revelation
of
the
Mystery
,
to
so
poor
and
scandalous
a
Creature
as
Paul
had
been
,
and
one
that
was
so
ignorant
of
Christ
and
Salvation
;
that
God
should
make
him
such
an
able
Minister
of
the
New
Testament
,
and
give
him
any
door
of
utterance
,
and
Endowments
fit
for
so
glorious
a
Service
.
This
is
that
Grace
by
which
these
Treasures
were
opened
to
the
Gentiles
.
The
third
thing
to
be
opened
here
is
,
What
are
those
Unsearchable
Riches
of
Christ
which
Paul
preached
to
the
Gentiles
,
and
which
are
held
out
in
the
Gospel
unto
Saints
and
Sinners
?
Answ.
First
,
Those
Riches
which
are
in
Christ
,
as
Mediatour
,
with
which
he
is
enriched
in
himself
;
those
unspeakable
Excellencies
of
his
Person
,
which
,
though
they
reside
and
inhere
in
himself
,
yet
they
contribute
abundantly
to
the
Riches
of
Believers
,
Col.
2.
3.
In
whom
are
hid
all
the
Treasures
of
Wisdom
and
Knowledge
,
(
subjectivè
)
as
his
Treasures
,
found
in
him
.
All
Treasures
,
created
and
uncreated
,
are
not
simply
placed
in
him
,
but
hid
so
,
that
they
can
be
known
by
none
but
those
to
whom
they
are
revealed
.
Secondly
,
Here
are
intended
those
Riches
that
came
by
Christ
,
the
Riches
of
his
Purchase
,
the
vast
Estate
which
he
hath
bought
for
all
Believers
,
for
all
that
come
unto
him
by
Faith
,
the
Estate
which
he
gives
,
makes
over
,
and
prepares
for
such
,
and
this
is
called
Vnsearchable
Riches
:
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
,
Riches
that
cannot
be
found
,
or
traced
out
.
A
Metaphor
taken
from
quick
scented
Hounds
,
that
are
yet
at
a
loss
,
and
can
go
no
farther
:
so
the
most
illuminated
Creature
cannot
follow
home
these
Riches
of
Christ
,
they
are
so
mysterious
that
they
cannot
be
discovered
;
they
leave
no
Footsteps
for
any
to
go
after
them
:
the
best
are
at
a
stand
and
can
go
no
farther
,
when
they
come
to
wade
into
this
Deep
,
so
deep
and
hidden
are
these
Riches
of
Christ
.
Object
.
If
the
Riches
of
Christ
be
so
unsearchable
and
past
finding
out
,
How
then
could
Paul
discover
and
preach
them
out
to
the
Gentiles
?
If
they
are
not
to
be
traced
out
,
then
Ministers
cannot
open
them
,
nor
Hearers
understand
them
.
Answ.
First
,
They
are
undiscoverable
by
any
Humane
Eye
;
the
most
refined
Light
of
Nature
cannot
discern
them
;
they
are
Treasures
that
no
natural
Abilities
can
reach
:
the
most
profound
Learning
,
and
deepest
Studies
of
the
wisest
men
on
Earth
,
can
make
nothing
of
them
;
they
are
no
way
known
but
by
Revelation
and
unveilings
of
the
Spirit
;
and
in
this
sense
are
called
Unsearchable
.
Secondly
,
As
to
the
fulness
of
their
Worth
and
Excellency
,
they
cannot
be
understood
by
any
in
this
Life
;
no
mortal
man
,
no
unglorified
Soul
can
know
them
as
they
are
:
to
cast
up
the
total
value
of
these
Treasures
,
is
beyond
the
Arithmetick
of
Saints
themselves
;
nay
,
Men
and
Angels
cannot
understand
the
things
that
God
hath
prepared
,
that
Christ
hath
purchased
for
them
that
love
him
:
Here
(
sayes
the
Apostle
)
we
know
in
part
,
and
we
prophesie
in
part
,
1
Cor.
13.
9.
We
,
both
you
and
I
,
the
most
elevated
Light
,
by
this
side
Glory
,
know
nothing
of
these
lock't-up
Mysteries
as
we
ought
:
and
on
this
account
also
they
are
Unsearchable
.
The
Words
being
opened
,
and
the
Cabinet
unlock't
,
I
come
to
the
main
Subject
,
and
Treasure
laid
up
in
them
;
which
you
may
take
in
this
general
Doctrine
and
Proposition
.
Doct.
There
are
exceeding
great
,
glorious
,
and
unsearchable
Riches
in
Christ
,
opened
and
tender'd
to
Sinners
in
the
Gospel
.
In
this
Doctrine
lie
three
grand
Assertions
to
be
proved
.
Assertion
1.
That
there
are
exceeding
great
,
glorious
,
and
unsearchable
Riches
in
Christ
.
Assert
.
2.
These
vast
and
hidden
Treasures
of
Christ
are
opened
in
and
by
the
Gospel
.
Assert
.
3.
'T
is
the
Will
of
God
that
all
these
great
and
glorious
Treasures
,
which
are
in
,
and
come
by
Jesus
Christ
,
should
be
open'd
and
offer'd
to
Sinners
,
yea
,
the
chiefest
of
Sinners
.
I
shall
speak
to
each
Assertion
,
but
more
largely
to
the
first
:
That
there
are
exceeding
great
,
glorious
and
unsearchable
Riches
in
Christ
.
And
here
I
shall
first
prove
by
Scripture
,
That
there
are
great
,
glorious
and
unsearchable
Riches
in
Christ
.
Secondly
,
Shew
you
(
according
to
the
Grace
given
me
)
what
are
those
Unsearchable
Riches
of
Christ
.
First
,
That
there
are
such
Riches
in
,
and
come
by
Jesus
Christ
,
the
whole
Gospel
attests
,
which
is
a
Revelation
of
the
Excellency
of
Christ
,
and
those
glorious
things
which
come
by
him
.
I
shall
give
you
three
or
four
Scriptures
to
prove
it
;
Col.
1.
27.
To
whom
God
would
make
known
what
is
the
riches
of
the
glory
of
this
mystery
among
the
Gentiles
;
which
is
Christ
in
you
the
hope
of
glory
.
In
the
former
verse
the
Apostle
calls
the
Gospel
a
Mystery
hid
from
former
Ages
;
the
Excellency
of
which
he
opens
in
this
verse
,
and
sets
out
in
these
two
Epithetes
,
-
1.
Rich.
-
2.
Glorious
.
First
,
'T
is
a
rich
Mystery
,
in
that
it
opens
the
glorious
Riches
of
Christ
,
which
are
better
than
the
Gold
of
Ophir
and
all
precious
Substance
;
the
Riches
of
his
Wisdom
,
Grace
,
Righteousness
and
Redemption
,
which
he
calls
tryed
Gold
,
and
counsels
poor
Sinners
to
come
to
him
for
it
,
Rev.
3.
17.
Secondly
,
'T
is
a
glorious
Mystery
;
called
the
Riches
of
his
Glory
,
Rom.
9.
23.
That
he
might
make
known
the
Riches
of
his
Glory
on
the
Vessels
of
Mercy
.
Eph.
1.
18.
The
Riches
of
his
Glory
,
&c.
The
Gospel
is
a
glorious
Mystery
,
because
it
brings
to
light
great
and
glorious
things
,
even
the
Treasures
of
unknown
Glory
:
and
what
these
Treasures
of
Glory
are
,
he
tells
you
in
the
close
of
the
verse
,
they
are
Christ
in
you
the
hope
of
Glory
:
Christ
Jesus
applied
by
Faith
,
and
received
into
the
Soul
by
the
Spirit
,
is
this
glorious
Treasure
,
in
that
he
gives
them
(
in
his
Union
with
them
)
an
evident
Right
to
Glory
.
See
Prov.
8.
18
,
19.
Riches
and
Honour
are
ascribed
to
him
:
Riches
and
Honour
are
with
me
,
yea
,
durable
Riches
and
Righteousness
:
My
Fruit
is
better
than
Gold
,
yea
,
than
fine
Gold
,
and
my
Revenue
than
choice
Silver
.
This
is
spoken
of
Christ
,
the
true
Wisdom
of
God
,
(
1
Cor.
1.
24.
Christ
the
Wisdom
of
God
,
and
Power
of
God
)
who
is
the
Subject
of
this
Chapter
.
And
't
is
said
of
him
,
that
Riches
,
durable
Riches
,
are
with
him
,
better
Treasures
than
Gold
,
than
choice
Silver
;
Durable
Treasures
,
which
Time
cannot
waste
or
alter
;
Riches
that
last
to
all
Eternity
,
which
Rust
and
Moth
cannot
consume
.
And
Righteousness
(
i.
e.
)
Treasure
justly
gotten
,
Riches
of
Wisdom
and
Grace
given
him
by
the
Father
,
and
Riches
of
Righteousness
bought
by
his
Blood
.
All
this
Treasure
is
in
him
,
and
offer'd
by
him
unto
Sinners
.
In
Christ
must
needs
be
Unsearchable
Riches
,
for
in
him
dwells
the
fulness
of
the
Godhead
bodily
,
Col.
2.
9.
that
is
,
the
Divine
Nature
united
to
the
Humane
Nature
:
perfect
God
,
as
well
as
perfect
Man
;
the
infinite
Treasures
of
the
Divine
Nature
are
his
.
He
is
the
Heir
of
all
things
,
and
therefore
must
needs
be
rich
.
Heaven
and
Earth
are
his
,
Jews
and
Gentiles
,
all
Persons
and
Things
put
under
him
;
in
which
Glory
and
Majesty
,
set
over
all
the
Works
of
Gods
hands
,
he
mounts
his
Throne
(
having
confirmed
his
Title
by
his
Blood
)
and
gives
Gifts
to
men
,
and
makes
a
tender
of
Grace
and
Glory
,
of
Thrones
and
Crowns
,
to
all
that
come
unto
him
,
promising
to
his
Servants
,
that
they
also
shall
inherit
all
things
,
Rev.
21.
7.
and
therefore
he
himself
must
needs
be
rich
.
In
him
are
Treasures
of
Mercy
and
Goodness
,
of
Wisdom
and
Knowledge
,
Riches
,
exceeding
Riches
of
Grace
,
Eph.
2.
7.
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
,
Riches
of
Strength
,
Honour
,
Glory
and
Blessing
.
So
that
the
Scriptures
give
in
full
testimony
to
this
Truth
,
That
there
are
exceeding
great
,
glorious
,
and
unsearchable
Riches
in
Christ
.
And
now
I
shall
endeavour
to
shew
,
Secondly
,
What
are
those
exceeding
great
and
unsearchable
Riches
of
Christ
.
But
alas
!
this
Well
is
deep
,
and
wherewith
shall
we
draw
?
these
Treasures
are
out
of
sight
,
who
can
find
them
out
?
they
are
boundless
,
bottomless
,
numberless
,
endless
;
where
shall
we
begin
?
where
can
we
make
an
end
?
who
can
search
them
out
to
Perfection
?
The
best
of
men
are
but
Learners
,
the
Angels
are
Enquirers
,
the
wisest
men
but
Fools
in
these
Searches
;
we
can
know
but
in
part
,
nor
prophesie
but
in
part
;
when
the
utmost
is
spoken
,
you
have
not
heard
of
one
half
of
his
Glory
.
But
according
to
the
Revelation
of
Christ
,
I
shall
open
some
of
these
Treasures
of
Christ
to
you
,
under
these
two
Heads
,
His
-
Riches
:
-
Personal
-
Purchased
with
some
Applications
and
Improvements
of
them
as
we
go
through
these
Deeps
.
CHAP.
II.
The
Personal
Riches
of
Christ
opened
,
in
his
Divine
Nature
;
manifested
in
his
Attributes
;
with
the
wonderful
Advantages
thereof
to
Believers
.
PArt
of
these
glorious
Treasures
of
Christ
lies
in
his
Personal
Riches
,
that
vast
Worth
and
unknown
Excellency
that
reside
in
himself
,
which
become
the
Believers
Treasure
also
,
by
their
Relation
to
,
their
Union
with
,
Contemplation
of
it
,
with
the
communicated
Fruits
and
Effects
thereof
,
Col.
1.
27.
which
is
Christ
in
you
the
hope
of
glory
.
(
i.
e.
)
which
Treasure
is
Christ
in
you
,
or
Christ
united
to
you
by
Faith
,
and
dwelling
in
you
by
his
Spirit
.
Christ
his
Personal
,
as
well
as
purchased
Treasures
are
yours
,
through
your
Union
with
,
your
Relation
to
,
your
Enjoyment
of
him
,
and
his
glorious
Communications
to
you
.
Now
these
Personal
Treasures
of
Christ
are
demonstrable
,
in
his
Natures
,
in
his
Offices
,
in
his
sweet
and
gracious
Dispositions
.
In
his
Natures
severally
considered
,
and
united
in
his
Hypostatical
and
Personal
Union
.
The
Person
of
Christ
consists
of
two
Natures
,
-
God
,
the
true
Emanuel
or
(
God
with
us
)
God
manifested
in
the
Flesh
.
-
Man
,
the
true
Emanuel
or
(
God
with
us
)
God
manifested
in
the
Flesh
.
So
Joh.
1.
14.
The
Word
was
made
Flesh
,
and
dwelt
among
us
,
and
we
beheld
his
Glory
,
the
Glory
of
the
onely
begotten
Son
of
God
,
full
of
Grace
and
Truth
:
That
is
,
the
Word
,
which
was
God
in
the
Second
Person
;
The
brightness
of
his
Glory
,
and
express
Image
of
his
Person
,
Heb.
1.
3.
took
our
Nature
to
himself
in
one
Person
,
and
became
Mediatour
,
perfect
God
,
and
perfect
Man
First
,
Perfect
God
,
equal
with
the
Father
in
Essence
,
Joh.
10.
30.
I
and
my
Father
are
one
;
that
is
,
one
God
,
not
one
Person
;
't
is
not
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
,
one
Person
,
but
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
,
one
thing
or
Being
.
I
am
in
the
Father
,
and
the
Father
in
me
,
and
therefore
my
Sheep
are
safe
,
they
are
in
my
hand
,
and
in
my
Father's
hand
,
(
here
are
two
distinct
Subsistences
)
and
we
are
the
same
:
I
and
my
Father
are
one
God
;
as
God
,
I
am
equal
with
him
,
the
same
in
Substance
,
equal
in
Power
and
Glory
,
Rom.
9.
5.
Of
whom
concerning
the
Flesh
Christ
came
,
who
is
over
all
,
God
blessed
for
ever
:
over
all
men
,
and
over
all
things
;
or
in
all
,
(
as
Vatab.
)
This
Scripture
is
generally
used
by
all
Interpreters
to
prove
the
Divine
Nature
of
Christ
.
He
is
God
over
all
,
and
blessed
for
ever
,
in
himself
,
and
of
himself
:
and
the
Author
of
all
those
Blessings
his
Creatures
enjoy
.
By
him
are
all
things
created
that
are
in
Heaven
,
and
that
are
in
Earth
,
Visible
and
Invisible
,
whether
they
be
Thrones
,
or
Dominions
,
or
Principalities
,
or
Powers
,
all
things
were
created
by
him
and
for
him
,
Coloss.
1.
16.
And
therefore
he
is
perfect
God
,
this
being
his
peculiar
Operation
to
create
the
World
:
By
him
all
things
consist
;
he
upholds
all
things
by
the
word
of
his
Power
,
Heb.
1.
3.
Supporting
and
ruling
them
,
which
is
another
property
of
the
Divine
Nature
,
the
ruling
and
bearing
up
of
all
things
in
the
World
,
which
none
but
everlasting
Arms
can
do
.
So
he
hath
Power
to
forgive
Sins
,
which
only
God
can
do
:
to
raise
the
Dead
,
to
judge
the
World
,
Mark
2.
5
,
7.
Joh.
11.
43
,
44.
Acts
17.
31.
To
know
the
Secrets
of
all
Hearts
,
Luke
5.
22.
To
be
the
Object
of
Religious
Worship
,
Heb.
1.
16.
All
which
abundantly
prove
the
Lord
Jesus
to
be
perfect
God
:
and
so
of
infinite
Perfection
and
Blessedness
,
to
inrich
all
that
come
unto
him
;
which
will
evidently
appear
,
if
we
do
but
a
little
consider
those
Perfections
of
the
Divine
Nature
,
as
opened
in
the
Scriptures
,
all
which
are
in
Jesus
Christ
.
First
,
His
Simplicity
,
being
a
most
pure
Essence
without
the
least
Composition
or
Diversity
of
Parts
or
Accidents
.
There
is
no
mixture
of
Qualities
or
Excellencies
in
God
,
but
every
Attribute
is
his
entire
Essence
,
and
therefore
he
is
a
most
pure
and
simple
Being
,
as
the
Names
he
gives
himself
import
,
especially
these
two
,
Ehejeh
,
Exod.
3.
14.
I
am
hath
sent
me
unto
you
.
The
Word
is
in
the
future
Tense
,
I
will
be
,
hath
sent
me
;
but
in
the
Hebrew
,
the
future
Tense
expresseth
often
both
the
Present
and
preterperfect
;
and
so
this
Word
holds
forth
God's
most
simple
,
absolute
,
and
immutable
Being
and
self
Existence
.
So
Jehovah
,
a
Name
which
God
seems
to
take
most
Delight
in
,
and
which
doth
as
it
were
sum
up
all
his
glorious
Excellencies
in
one
word
,
importing
his
most
pure
,
glorious
,
and
incomprehensible
Essence
,
which
he
hath
in
and
from
himself
,
before
all
time
,
and
unto
all
Eternity
,
subsisting
in
,
and
of
himself
,
and
giving
Being
to
all
his
Creatures
,
and
therefore
must
needs
be
the
most
perfect
and
simple
Being
.
The
Unity
of
his
Essence
proves
his
Simplicity
,
he
is
one
God
(
though
three
Persons
)
Deut.
6.
4.
Hear
O
Israel
,
the
Lord
our
God
is
one
God
;
he
is
the
first
Being
,
and
one
undivided
Essence
,
and
therefore
most
pure
and
simple
.
He
is
altogether
a
most
perfect
Being
,
in
and
of
himself
,
who
wants
nothing
that
is
excellent
,
nor
can
have
any
thing
in
himself
that
is
evil
,
and
therefore
is
a
most
simple
,
pure
Nature
.
And
if
Jesus
Christ
,
as
God
,
be
such
a
simple
and
excellent
Being
,
then
he
is
a
most
perfect
Treasure
to
his
People
;
there
is
nothing
wanting
in
him
to
make
them
happy
,
nor
can
there
be
any
thing
in
him
or
come
from
him
to
make
them
miserable
;
then
he
is
true
and
faithful
to
Believers
;
there
can
be
no
Contrarieties
in
him
,
or
Contradictions
proceed
from
him
;
his
Love
is
sincere
,
his
Purposes
are
true
,
there
is
a
reality
in
his
Expressions
;
for
he
is
one
,
and
of
one
mind
to
his
redeemed
ones
.
O
Believers
!
think
on
the
Purity
of
Christ's
Nature
,
the
Perfection
of
his
Blessedness
,
the
Integrity
of
his
Affections
,
and
the
Infiniteness
of
all
his
Perfections
,
to
make
his
beloved
ones
happy
.
There
's
no
Moth
,
or
Rust
,
no
Worm
or
Death
,
can
ware
out
his
pure
Affections
to
his
People
.
There
is
no
mixture
in
his
Nature
:
Composition
is
the
Corruption
,
or
Imperfection
of
created
Beings
,
but
in
Christ's
Divine
Nature
there
is
Unity
and
Simplicity
,
there
is
nothing
can
alter
his
Thoughts
and
Resolutions
to
his
sincere
ones
:
he
is
most
true
,
and
most
full
in
all
his
Perfections
and
this
his
Simplicity
:
assures
Believers
of
eternal
and
infinite
Blessedness
in
their
Union
with
,
and
Relation
unto
him
,
for
he
is
in
himself
the
most
absolute
and
perfect
Being
,
the
first
and
most
simple
Being
:
he
is
most
perfect
in
and
of
himself
,
for
he
hath
all
his
Perfections
in
and
of
himself
(
as
God
)
and
all
that
is
sufficient
for
his
infinite
Blessedness
,
in
and
from
himself
,
and
hath
all
that
in
him
,
which
is
sufficient
for
the
Good
of
his
Creatures
,
and
highest
Happiness
of
his
People
.
Again
,
he
is
most
perfect
,
because
he
wants
nothing
from
another
to
make
him
blessed
.
He
needs
no
Creatures
to
contribute
any
thing
to
him
,
nor
doth
he
lose
any
thing
by
Creatures
falling
from
him
:
or
can
have
any
Addition
to
his
Glory
or
Blessedness
,
by
the
access
of
men
,
or
Angels
to
him
.
So
also
,
he
doth
what
pleaseth
himself
,
nothing
can
resist
his
Will
,
or
frustrate
his
Purposes
,
and
therefore
is
most
perfect
in
himself
.
And
if
the
Lord
Jesus
be
so
perfect
in
himself
,
then
he
is
the
Author
of
Perfection
to
his
People
,
for
he
hath
made
over
himself
,
his
whole
Person
,
God-Man
,
to
Believers
,
to
be
their
Shield
and
exceeding
great
Reward
.
Then
Believer
,
thy
case
is
happy
,
thy
Treasure
is
full
and
perfect
,
thy
Choice
is
a
blessed
Choice
,
and
thy
Lot
a
perfect
Lot
,
fall'n
in
a
good
Ground
.
Then
the
Person
of
thy
Beloved
is
altogether
lovely
,
his
Accomplishments
being
altogether
perfect
,
not
a
Spot
or
Blemish
in
him
.
Then
all
his
Gifts
to
his
Spouse
are
perfect
,
his
Righteousness
is
a
perfect
Righteousness
that
makes
Believers
in
God's
Account
as
perfect
as
Christ
himself
,
were
not
the
robe
of
his
Righteousness
every
way
as
large
as
thy
Guilt
and
Nakedness
,
were
it
not
long
enough
and
broad
enough
to
cover
all
thy
Deformities
,
and
hide
all
thy
Imperfections
from
the
pure
and
judging
Eye
of
the
Father
,
it
were
not
perfect
.
But
all
his
Procurements
by
his
Blood
are
perfect
.
His
Holiness
is
a
perfect
Holiness
,
and
he
will
make
his
Peoples
Graces
perfect
too
,
e're
he
hath
done
.
He
is
the
Rock
,
his
Work
is
perfect
,
i.
e.
He
doth
perfectly
fulfill
his
Promises
,
his
Works
are
true
to
his
Word
,
and
he
will
perfect
that
which
concerns
his
People
.
Psal.
138.
8.
i.
e.
He
will
accomplish
that
which
he
hath
begun
in
me
.
Let
the
doubting
Believer
know
,
that
the
Perfection
of
Christ
is
Security
for
Perfection
in
his
Graces
also
,
in
due
time
;
he
that
hath
begun
a
a
good
work
in
thy
Soul
,
will
perfect
it
until
the
day
of
Jesus
Christ
;
he
will
,
e're
he
hath
done
,
bring
thy
weak
Graces
to
Perfection
,
that
when
he
shall
appear
to
Judgment
,
thy
Holiness
shall
be
presented
to
the
Father
without
Spot
or
wrinkle
.
Secondly
,
As
the
Godhead
of
Christ
,
is
a
most
pure
and
simple
Being
,
so
is
he
an
infinite
Essence
,
both
internally
,
without
all
Limitation
or
Dimension
of
his
Being
;
and
externally
,
without
all
Comprehension
of
Places
or
Capacities
;
every
Attribute
of
his
is
infinite
,
His
Vnderstanding
is
infinite
.
Psal.
147.
5.
His
Wisdom
,
Power
,
Love
,
Mercy
,
Faithfulness
,
and
all
his
Perfections
,
are
one
entire
,
infinite
Being
,
that
cannot
be
known
or
comprised
,
no
Bounds
or
Measures
can
be
set
to
his
divine
Excellencies
,
The
Heaven
of
Heavens
cannot
contain
him
,
1
Kings
8.
27.
or
compass
his
Greatness
;
how
much
less
can
a
narrow
Heart
receive
his
Fulness
,
his
Love
:
and
all
his
Attributes
are
beyond
Knowledge
.
Isa.
40.
25.
To
whom
then
will
ye
liken
me
,
or
shall
I
be
equal
,
saith
the
holy
one
.
This
Infiniteness
of
Christs
divine
Nature
,
is
a
mystery
too
deep
for
humane
Capacity
to
fathom
,
not
curiously
to
be
searched
out
,
but
humbly
to
be
ador'd
,
and
no
way
discoverable
,
but
by
his
own
Light
,
and
according
to
the
model
of
a
created
understanding
.
Some
dark
Reflections
of
this
visible
Glory
,
are
discoverable
in
the
Glass
of
sacred
Scripture
,
which
declare
the
Greatness
of
God
,
both
as
to
his
incomprehensibleness
and
Eternity
;
he
is
every
where
,
and
yet
circumsc●ibed
no
where
,
he
fills
all
places
in
the
World
,
or
without
the
World
,
but
confin'd
no
where
;
no
where
included
,
no
where
excluded
:
containing
all
things
,
contained
by
none
,
his
essential
Presence
is
in
all
places
,
not
by
any
Extension
or
Division
of
parts
,
which
are
not
in
God
,
but
(
as
the
Soul
in
the
Body
,
so
is
God
in
the
Universe
)
the
whole
in
the
whole
,
and
the
whole
in
every
part
;
He
is
essentially
present
in
all
Places
;
not
by
imparting
his
Essence
to
any
created
Being
,
but
by
giving
and
preserving
the
Being
of
those
things
which
fill
up
those
Places
:
so
his
Power
is
every
where
,
in
that
all
things
are
subject
to
his
Power
;
his
Wisdom
fills
Heaven
and
Earth
,
in
that
all
Things
and
Places
are
manifest
in
his
sight
.
And
this
yields
,
-
1.
Comfort
to
Believers
.
-
2.
Terrour
to
Sinners
.
-
3.
Caution
to
all
.
First
,
Wonderful
Comfort
to
Believers
,
in
the
Assurance
of
Christ's
Omnipresence
with
them
,
to
counsel
and
comfort
them
.
The
Believer
can
say
,
what
none
else
can
,
Where
I
am
,
there
is
my
Treasure
with
me
:
In
all
Estates
and
Places
is
the
Lord
Jesus
with
his
People
(
while
they
keep
with
him
.
)
In
the
Water
,
he
wades
with
them
;
in
the
Flames
,
he
stands
between
them
,
to
keep
off
Destruction
from
them
;
when
under
Wants
,
Temptations
,
Dangers
,
he
is
by
them
at
their
right
hand
to
relieve
them
:
he
knows
their
Soul
in
Adversity
,
for
he
is
near
them
:
He
is
by
,
when
Corruptions
insurrect
in
them
,
when
Satan
with
his
fiery
Darts
assaults
them
,
or
Enemies
oppress
them
;
he
sees
when
their
Fears
rise
and
their
Tears
fall
:
He
stands
behind
Ephraim's
back
when
he
is
mourning
,
and
puts
his
Tears
into
his
Bottle
,
and
layes
his
Complaints
upon
his
Heart
.
No
sooner
is
Mary
mourning
for
her
departed
Lord
,
but
he
is
by
her
side
to
comfort
her
.
When
his
Daniels
are
thrown
into
the
Lyons
Den
,
he
goes
with
them
to
shut
the
mouthes
of
devouring
Lyons
,
or
to
give
Life
in
the
midst
of
Death
:
When
the
Knife
is
at
the
Throats
of
his
Isaacks
,
his
Power
is
by
to
hold
back
the
murtherous
hand
from
destroying
;
We
will
break
their
bands
,
and
cast
their
cords
from
us
,
Psal.
2.
3.
say
the
Saints
Enemies
:
Hold
there
,
saith
Christ
,
I
am
with
them
to
defend
them
.
No
cruel
Edicts
can
exile
them
from
his
Presence
:
He
was
in
Patmos
with
John
,
and
turn'd
it
into
a
Pavilion
;
with
Jeremiah
in
the
Dungeon
,
and
gave
him
Goal
delivery
.
Earthly
men
may
be
abroad
,
and
their
Treasures
at
home
;
but
faithful
Believers
carry
their
Treasure
with
them
,
or
their
Portion
,
their
Inheritance
follows
them
.
Secondly
,
The
Immensity
and
Omnipresence
of
Christ
speaks
Terrour
to
the
Wicked
,
in
that
he
is
near
them
to
behold
and
requite
their
Transgressions
;
He
knows
their
Works
and
their
Thoughts
,
all
their
secret
Designs
are
naked
in
his
sight
;
There
's
no
covering
from
his
Eye
,
The
Darkness
and
Light
are
both
alike
to
him
,
Psal.
139.
12.
He
sees
their
Rage
and
Fury
against
him
;
their
hidden
works
of
Darkness
:
All
their
Plots
and
Purposes
against
his
Interest
are
open
to
his
Eye
:
their
inward
Thoughts
,
filthy
Lusts
,
close
Practises
,
are
before
him
;
he
is
behind
thy
back
,
Sinner
,
to
hear
thy
blasphemous
Oaths
,
thy
reproachful
Slanders
of
his
wayes
and
People
:
thy
malicious
resolves
,
thy
bloody
Decrees
against
his
poor
and
faithful
ones
:
He
is
before
thee
to
obviate
thy
Designs
,
to
frustrate
thy
Attempts
,
and
requite
thy
Spight
and
Mischiefs
.
O
you
who
are
yet
in
your
blood
and
gore
of
Sin
,
in
your
confederacy
with
Death
and
Hell
,
in
your
fixed
Wrath
against
the
Lord
and
his
Anointed
,
be
perswaded
to
believe
the
greatness
of
your
Danger
before
you
feel
it
;
think
how
visible
all
your
works
of
darkness
are
,
when
God
,
who
is
all
Eye
,
is
in
every
place
;
and
how
desperate
your
sinful
Adventures
are
,
on
the
drawn
Sword
of
Divine
Justice
at
your
Breasts
;
how
unsafe
your
securest
state
is
,
who
are
compass'd
within
the
Circle
of
Omnipresence
,
and
have
Vengeance
continually
at
your
heels
,
yea
,
are
taken
in
the
Arms
of
devouring
Judgment
.
Thirdly
,
The
belief
of
Christ's
being
every
where
,
gives
a
Caution
to
all
to
carry
themselves
in
all
Places
and
Undertakings
,
as
such
who
are
ever
in
his
sight
:
His
Eyes
run
to
and
fro
,
to
behold
the
Evil
and
the
Good
:
He
stands
by
thy
Bed
side
,
to
inspect
thy
waking
Thoughts
,
to
observe
thy
unchaste
Motions
,
thy
Earthy
,
vain
Cogitations
;
no
sooner
is
a
forbidden
wish
in
thy
Heart
,
but
his
Eye
is
there
also
:
thy
tow'ring
Pride
,
thy
pale
Envy
,
thy
flaming
Anger
,
thy
frothy
Pleasure
,
thy
lustful
Desires
,
thy
revengeful
Projects
thy
Earthy
Thoughts
,
are
legible
Characters
to
his
discerning
look
.
And
should
not
the
sense
of
this
advise
thy
rational
Soul
to
more
watchfulness
over
thy
treacherous
Heart
:
And
surely
,
were
Christs
All-seeing
Eye
more
observed
,
Persons
Thoughts
would
be
more
weighed
,
and
their
Insides
more
regarded
.
O
,
Reader
,
whoever
thou
art
,
Lodge
this
Truth
in
thy
Heart
,
and
carry
this
Belief
up
and
down
with
thee
,
wherever
thou
goest
;
The
Eye
of
God
is
on
thee
:
He
that
must
shortly
be
thy
Judge
,
is
now
thy
Recorder
;
and
puts
a
Remark
on
all
thy
Thoughts
,
Words
and
Wayes
,
for
which
he
will
bring
thee
into
Judgment
.
Set
a
watch
on
all
the
rising
motions
of
thy
Heart
;
stop
thy
hasty
words
at
the
door
,
and
examine
what
they
are
,
whence
they
come
,
whither
they
go
,
before
thou
let
them
pass
;
and
measure
thy
designed
Actions
by
the
Standard
of
the
Sanctuary
,
e're
thou
let
them
go
under
thy
hand
;
seeing
he
that
is
thy
Judge
comes
with
his
measuring
Line
to
take
an
Account
of
them
,
and
to
render
according
to
their
nature
and
merit
.
Thirdly
,
Again
,
As
Christs
Infiniteness
exceeds
all
confines
of
Place
,
so
he
passes
beyond
all
terminations
of
Time
;
being
from
Everlasting
to
Everlasting
,
without
Beginning
,
without
End
:
Psal.
90.
2.
His
Duration
admits
of
no
distinction
of
Time
,
and
therefore
must
needs
be
Eternal
.
Time
is
the
measure
of
Finite
Beings
,
which
are
capable
of
Priority
and
Succession
,
but
the
Divine
Essence
hath
no
Beginning
,
and
so
can
have
no
End
:
He
is
the
Author
of
all
other
Beings
,
and
therefore
cannot
have
a
Beginning
;
there
being
nothing
before
him
to
give
him
a
Being
:
God
hath
his
Essence
in
and
of
himself
,
and
so
must
needs
be
Eternal
.
Neither
is
he
only
Eternal
,
(
saith
Aquinas
)
but
he
is
his
own
Eternity
,
because
he
is
his
own
Essence
,
subsisting
in
and
of
himself
;
which
Essence
,
or
Eternity
of
his
,
is
the
very
reason
of
Eternity
,
and
of
all
things
contained
therein
:
for
the
Divine
Essence
,
subsisting
of
himself
,
must
needs
be
before
all
things
that
are
made
,
as
the
Cause
is
before
the
Effect
,
and
Eternity
before
Time
;
seeing
the
things
that
are
made
are
made
by
him
,
Joh.
1.
3.
His
Unity
also
proves
his
Eternity
,
being
one
uncompounded
and
undivided
Being
,
and
so
before
all
,
as
Unity
is
before
Multitude
:
and
whatever
Beings
are
,
they
are
derived
from
Unity
;
and
without
End
,
for
take
off
Unity
and
nothing
remains
.
The
Scriptures
bear
full
witness
to
the
Eternity
of
Christ
:
Before
the
Mountains
were
brought
forth
,
or
ever
thou
hadst
formed
the
Earth
,
and
the
World
,
from
Everlasting
to
Everlasting
thou
art
God
,
Psal.
90.
2.
I
am
the
first
,
and
I
am
the
last
,
and
besides
me
there
is
no
God
,
Isa.
44.
6.
He
is
the
Alpha
and
Omega
,
the
beginning
and
the
Ending
,
which
is
,
which
was
,
and
which
is
to
come
,
Rev.
1.
8.
He
is
before
all
,
and
by
him
all
things
consist
,
Col.
1.
17.
And
though
Christ
be
called
the
onely
begotten
Son
of
God
,
Joh.
1.
14.
and
so
implies
the
Father
to
be
before
the
Son
;
yet
this
priority
is
of
Order
,
not
of
Time
;
Christ
,
as
God
,
is
Eternal
with
the
Father
,
and
so
before
all
Time
,
Joh.
1.
1.
and
to
Everlasting
.
And
this
greatens
the
Believers
Happiness
beyond
all
conception
,
that
his
Treasure
is
Eternal
:
Time
limits
all
the
Comforts
and
Interests
of
Christless
Souls
,
let
them
seem
never
so
amiable
and
great
(
through
the
multiplying
▪
glass
of
mistaken
Sense
)
yet
the
shortness
of
their
Duration
narrows
up
their
Felicity
;
whereas
the
portion
of
Heaven-born
Souls
exceeds
all
Dimensions
and
Terminations
:
The
Moth
of
Time
cannot
consume
their
Treasure
:
their
Lease
can
never
expire
:
thousands
of
years
,
that
comprise
the
extent
of
Earthly
Estates
,
substracts
nothing
from
that
Eternity
,
which
gives
duration
to
the
Saints
Treasure
.
Rejoyce
,
O
Believer
,
in
the
assured
perpetuity
of
thy
best
Interests
;
here
thy
most
desired
Mercies
are
but
of
short
continuance
:
Thy
Priviledges
are
but
Tabernacle-priviledges
;
thy
Enjoyments
determinable
,
thy
Frames
are
transient
,
thy
Pleasures
fading
,
Hope
,
Peace
,
Love
,
Grace
,
endures
but
for
a
Season
,
but
thy
Possessions
beyond
the
Grave
,
are
eternal
:
and
as
long
as
Christ
lives
,
shall
thy
Treasure
last
,
thy
Holiness
,
Happiness
,
Pleasures
,
and
Perfections
in
the
other
World
,
shall
be
coexistent
with
thy
Soul
;
and
as
far
from
expiring
as
the
Love
that
gave
them
was
from
beginning
.
And
as
thy
Comforts
here
are
short
liv'd
,
so
are
thy
Troubles
too
,
Sorrow
enduring
for
a
Night
,
light
Afflictions
,
and
but
for
a
moment
,
2
Cor.
4.
17.
Tears
contained
within
a
Bottle
,
Fears
,
Wants
,
Losses
,
Dangers
,
confin'd
within
this
Span
of
time
,
and
expir'd
▪
with
this
short
Vapor
of
Life
,
but
thy
Consolations
,
Gain
,
Enjoyments
,
Peace
,
Safety
,
shall
be
eternal
,
no
more
liable
to
the
Injury
of
time
;
thy
wet
and
weary
Sowings
,
are
but
for
a
Season
;
thy
weak
and
wasting
Duties
,
will
be
over
;
but
thy
reaping
,
thy
resting
shall
know
no
end
,
but
endure
while
the
Eternity
and
Omnipotency
of
Christ
can
make
them
good
.
Fourthly
,
The
Divine
Nature
of
Christ
is
immutable
also
,
above
all
Alteration
and
Change
,
He
is
the
same
Yesterday
,
to
Day
,
and
for
ever
.
Heb.
13.
8.
Immutable
is
his
Nature
,
being
a
most
simple
Essence
,
free
from
parts
or
any
Mixture
,
that
might
render
him
capable
of
Corruption
;
he
is
also
the
first
Being
,
and
so
free
from
the
Influence
and
Dispose
of
a
higher
Power
.
Change
in
any
thing
comes
,
either
from
a
Corruptibleness
in
its
Nature
,
or
from
the
Will
of
a
Superiour
Power
:
but
God
being
the
first
and
supreme
Cause
,
is
above
all
,
and
so
unalterable
in
his
Nature
.
Isa.
44.
6.
I
am
the
first
and
the
last
.
He
is
infinite
too
,
and
so
comprehends
all
Fullness
of
Perfection
in
himself
,
and
cannot
meet
with
Alteration
;
they
are
imperfect
things
,
that
are
subject
to
change
,
old
things
that
pass
away
,
but
God
is
infinitely
perfect
,
and
therefore
cannot
change
or
be
moved
from
what
he
is
,
by
any
external
or
internal
Cause
;
he
cannot
cease
to
be
what
he
was
,
or
begin
to
be
what
he
was
not
:
(
as
to
his
Divine
being
)
indeed
the
Word
,
the
second
Person
,
in
time
assumes
the
humane
Nature
,
into
a
Union
with
himself
,
but
then
he
doth
not
cease
to
be
what
he
was
,
that
is
perfect
God
,
and
so
doth
not
change
:
and
though
he
alters
his
Laws
and
Administrations
of
Worship
,
in
the
times
of
the
Gospel
,
yet
he
alters
not
his
mind
,
this
Change
was
decreed
from
all
Eternity
:
God
determined
them
to
be
mutable
,
and
therefore
they
must
change
,
or
God
would
not
be
immutable
.
And
whereas
it
may
be
urged
,
that
God
doth
threaten
to
do
what
he
doth
not
,
and
promise
to
perform
,
what
he
hath
never
fulfilled
,
and
therefore
is
mutable
.
I
answer
,
that
God
never
threatens
and
promises
in
his
word
absolutely
,
but
conditionally
,
and
the
Condition
failing
,
the
Act
on
which
it
depends
fails
:
but
God
doth
not
change
his
Mind
,
neither
was
this
Mutability
in
man
,
accidental
to
God
,
but
foreseen
and
sure
,
and
so
Gods
Purposes
thereabout
,
are
not
alterable
,
but
eternal
.
And
whereas
God
is
said
,
now
to
be
angry
,
and
then
to
Love
,
which
argues
a
Mutation
:
yet
that
Change
is
not
in
Gods
Will
and
Affection
,
which
is
one
Essence
with
himself
,
but
in
his
outward
Dispensation
.
So
that
the
Divine
Nature
in
Christ
is
unchangeable
,
both
in
his
Nature
and
Will
,
he
cannot
,
he
will
not
vary
;
in
him
is
no
Variableness
,
or
Shadow
of
turning
;
he
is
a
Rock
,
and
his
Work
perfect
;
Time
or
Change
in
Creatures
,
work
no
Change
in
God
;
't
is
the
Mistake
of
Unbelief
,
to
think
that
the
Heart
of
God
changes
,
as
the
poor
Believer
doth
;
like
those
that
row
by
the
Shore
,
fancy
the
Land
and
Houses
on
it
to
move
,
when
't
is
but
the
Vessel
changes
his
place
.
Comfort
thy
Heart
poor
Soul
(
who
hast
sincerely
chosen
the
Lord
to
be
thy
Portion
)
on
this
Assurance
,
that
the
Thoughts
of
God
are
the
same
towards
thee
as
ev●●
:
all
thy
changeable
Frames
,
and
unfaithful
Dealings
with
him
,
works
no
more
Alteration
in
his
Heart
to
thee
,
than
the
interposing
Clouds
,
do
on
the
essential
Light
of
the
Sun
;
or
the
Provocations
of
the
Child
,
on
the
Fathers
Relation
,
who
is
still
a
Father
,
how
unlike
soever
he
carries
himself
to
the
Child
:
but
these
Instances
are
too
short
to
adumbrate
and
set
out
the
Immutability
of
God
,
who
cannot
but
be
Truth
,
though
every
man
be
a
Lye
:
he
is
faithful
and
cannot
deny
himself
to
his
,
though
they
believe
not
:
'T
is
his
Faithfulness
secures
thy
Faith
,
and
not
thy
Faith
makes
good
his
Faithfulness
.
Rom.
3.
3.
4.
Shall
their
Vnbelief
make
the
Faith
(
or
Faithfulness
)
of
God
,
of
none
Effect
?
God
forbid
.
Mat.
3.
6.
I
the
Lord
,
change
not
,
therefore
ye
Sons
of
Jacob
are
not
consumed
.
Is
Christ
immutable
?
Then
there
is
Ground
enough
for
Believers
to
cast
Anchor
on
him
,
and
to
bottom
their
strong
Hopes
upon
his
Promises
:
for
faithful
is
he
that
hath
promised
.
Heb.
10.
23.
He
is
not
as
man
that
he
should
lye
,
or
as
the
Son
of
man
,
that
he
should
repent
.
Numb.
23.
19.
Hath
he
spoken
,
and
shall
he
not
make
it
good
.
He
cannot
alter
the
Word
that
is
gone
out
of
his
Mouth
,
Heaven
and
Earth
shall
pass
away
,
but
not
one
Tittle
of
his
Word
,
till
all
be
fullfilled
:
For
this
end
hath
God
shewed
to
the
Heirs
of
Promise
,
the
Immutability
of
his
Council
(
confirmed
by
an
Oath
)
that
by
two
immutable
things
(
his
Purpose
and
Promise
)
in
which
't
is
impossible
for
God
to
lye
,
they
might
have
strong
Consolation
who
have
fled
for
Refuge
,
to
lay
hold
on
the
Hope
set
before
them
.
Heb.
6.
18.
19.
O
Believer
,
suffer
not
thy
Soul
to
be
tossed
to
and
fro
,
with
every
change
of
Providence
without
,
or
of
thy
heart
within
,
but
roul
thy
Hopes
on
this
Rock
of
Ages
,
on
whom
the
Pillars
of
the
Earth
hang
for
their
Stedfastness
,
the
whole
Creation
for
its
Sustentation
,
by
whom
Winter
and
Summer
,
Day
and
Night
are
kept
within
their
Seasons
,
and
all
the
changes
of
his
People
,
reduced
into
a
Consistency
with
his
Covenant
Fidelity
.
This
also
yields
encouragement
to
Believers
,
for
perseverance
in
the
way
of
Duty
,
whatever
Alterations
are
in
their
Conditions
and
the
Times
they
live
in
:
because
he
that
leads
them
is
the
same
,
in
the
worst
,
as
well
as
the
best
of
Times
;
and
as
able
to
secure
them
,
and
as
firm
in
his
Affections
to
them
,
seeing
he
changes
not
,
and
therefore
cannot
,
will
not
leave
them
.
Again
,
To
this
Immutability
of
God
in
Christ
,
may
gracious
Souls
go
to
get
their
unsteddy
Hearts
fixed
,
and
derive
by
Faith
more
constancy
to
their
Spirits
towards
God
:
He
who
is
faithful
hath
engaged
it
,
to
establish
their
Hearts
with
Grace
,
and
keep
them
from
Evil.
2
Thes.
3.
3.
But
the
Lord
is
faithful
,
who
shall
establish
you
and
keep
you
from
evil
.
2
Chro.
20.
20.
Believe
God
,
so
shall
you
be
established
.
As
Christ's
Life
is
Security
for
the
Believer's
Life
,
Joh.
14.
19.
His
Power
for
their
Preservation
,
2
Tim.
1.
12.
so
is
his
Immutability
for
their
Stedfastness
,
Psal.
102.
12.
The
Author
of
this
Psalm
,
under
the
sense
of
his
weakness
,
and
the
languishing
state
of
Sion
,
comforts
himself
in
the
consideration
of
Gods
Immutability
:
But
thou
,
O
Lord
,
shalt
endure
for
ever
:
And
upon
this
mountain
of
Spices
raises
his
hopes
of
Sion
(
this
he
takes
for
granted
,
from
his
unalterableness
)
He
shall
appear
in
his
Glory
.
Go
,
Believer
,
and
lay
(
by
Faith
)
thy
changeable
Heart
on
Christ's
Constancy
;
as
the
Shunamite
did
her
dead
Child
on
Elisha's
Bed
,
till
she
received
him
to
Life
again
,
2
Kings
4.
21.
And
she
said
(
when
her
Child
was
dead
)
It
shall
be
well
,
vers.
23.
So
in
the
same
Spirit
of
Faith
with
her
,
Leave
thy
Soul
with
a
Faithful
Jesus
to
be
made
faithful
also
.
1
Thes.
5.
24.
Faithful
is
he
that
calleth
you
,
who
will
also
do
it
.
Fifthly
,
The
Omniscience
of
Christ
is
another
of
his
Divine
Attributes
,
by
which
he
doth
perfectly
,
and
in
one
Eternal
and
immutable
Act
,
know
himself
,
and
all
things
that
were
,
are
,
or
shall
be
:
and
things
that
are
not
,
that
never
were
or
never
shall
be
;
things
natural
and
voluntary
,
necessary
and
contingent
;
things
in
their
Causes
and
Effects
,
acted
or
intended
,
good
or
evil
,
finite
or
infinite
;
all
are
most
clearly
and
fully
naked
and
open
in
his
sight
.
He
alone
fully
knows
himself
and
his
Divine
Perfections
,
2
Cor.
2.
10.
The
Spirit
searcheth
all
things
,
yea
,
the
deep
things
of
God
,
ver.
11.
For
what
man
knoweth
the
things
of
man
,
save
the
Spirit
of
a
man
,
which
is
in
man
,
even
so
the
things
of
God
knoweth
no
man
,
but
the
Spirit
of
God
So
Matth.
11.
27.
No
man
knoweth
the
Son
,
but
the
Father
,
neither
knoweth
any
man
the
Father
,
save
the
Son
:
That
is
,
No
man
can
know
the
Divine
Nature
but
God
himself
,
immediately
and
perfectly
;
That
knowledge
which
the
Saints
have
of
God
,
is
but
a
secondary
and
communicated
knowledge
,
of
Gods
back
parts
,
as
revealed
in
his
Works
,
Word
,
and
in
a
Mediatour
,
according
to
the
measure
of
the
Gift
of
Christ
:
But
God
knows
himself
immediately
and
fully
as
he
is
:
for
his
Knowledge
is
his
Essence
,
and
so
as
Infinite
as
his
Being
is
.
He
is
a
pure
Act
without
any
potentiality
:
therefore
his
Understanding
and
himself
are
the
same
.
He
knows
also
all
things
else
that
are
in
Being
and
not
in
Being
;
things
past
,
present
,
or
to
come
,
in
one
eternal
Act
,
without
any
search
into
Principles
or
Causes
;
as
Humane
Understandings
do
,
in
a
discoursive
way
,
and
by
succession
:
but
hath
the
Idea's
of
all
things
in
himself
,
his
Essence
being
the
Exemplar
of
those
things
,
seeing
he
gives
them
their
Being
:
As
the
Artificer
knows
the
Forms
of
the
Pieces
he
makes
,
and
the
Writer
the
proportion
of
his
own
Letters
;
so
doth
God
,
the
first
Cause
,
know
all
things
that
receive
their
Nature
from
him
;
they
being
first
in
him
,
and
so
eternally
present
to
him
.
Hence
the
knowledge
of
God
is
most
certain
and
infallible
,
and
things
are
as
he
knows
them
,
seeing
his
Knowledge
gives
them
their
Being
:
which
must
be
understood
of
the
things
that
God
approves
of
,
as
his
Creatures
,
his
Providences
,
and
Evils
of
Punishment
,
which
are
just
and
righteous
:
But
sinful
Evils
have
no
dependance
on
his
Fore-knowledge
,
or
Influence
from
his
Essence
.
Indeed
Actions
,
as
they
are
natural
,
have
their
Being
from
God
;
but
the
pravity
and
sinfulness
of
those
Acts
(
Sin
being
but
the
privation
of
that
good
which
was
,
and
should
be
in
them
)
is
derived
from
the
Subject
whose
Acts
they
are
:
As
the
Motion
of
the
Clock
is
from
the
Art
of
the
Artificer
;
but
the
obliquity
of
the
Motion
is
from
some
defect
in
the
Clock
it self
:
Gods
fore-knowledge
of
Sin
confers
no
Physical
Vertue
and
necessity
to
the
Being
and
succession
of
Sin
,
and
yet
his
knowledge
of
it
is
certain
;
all
things
being
naked
and
manifest
in
his
sight
,
who
is
Truth
it self
,
and
cannot
deceive
or
be
deceived
:
He
determining
to
permit
the
Being
of
Sin
,
must
needs
fore-know
it
;
else
his
Knowledge
would
not
be
perfect
:
and
if
his
Knowledge
should
be
imperfect
,
his
Essence
would
be
so
too
,
they
being
both
the
same
;
but
this
cannot
consist
with
the
Fountain
of
all
Perfection
:
He
is
the
Holy
One
,
and
can
do
no
Iniquity
,
Zeph.
3.
5.
His
Fore-knowledge
of
Sin
,
doth
not
offer
Violence
to
the
Nature
of
man
,
or
destroy
the
natural
Freedom
of
his
Will
,
but
foreseeing
what
man
would
be
,
determined
to
leave
him
to
the
natural
Motion
of
his
own
Will
.
Judas
betraying
Christ
,
as
it
was
sinful
,
was
the
Consequent
of
Gods
Foreknowledge
,
but
the
effect
of
his
own
Covetousness
.
Acts
2.
23.
All
Contingencies
are
perfectly
foreseen
of
God
also
,
both
in
himself
as
the
first
Cause
,
and
so
they
are
necessary
to
succeed
in
due
time
;
he
sees
them
also
in
the
second
Causes
,
in
respect
of
which
they
are
said
to
be
contingent
,
for
to
God
nothing
is
accidental
,
although
it
seems
so
to
men
,
through
an
Unacquaintedness
with
their
Dependance
on
the
first
Cause
:
Rebeccah's
meeting
Abraham's
Servant
at
the
Well
,
and
her
Discourse
with
him
.
Gen.
24.
15.
seem
to
Standers
by
,
to
be
things
contingent
:
but
look
back
to
the
former
Verse
,
and
you
will
see
them
to
be
the
answer
of
Prayer
,
and
so
before
appointed
:
The
like
was
the
Midianites
drawing
Joseph
out
of
the
Pit
,
Gen.
37.
and
the
Wind
blowing
down
the
House
on
Job's
Children
,
Job
1.
though
they
look
like
Accidents
,
yet
were
the
Effects
of
Gods
Permission
and
fore-appointment
.
Again
,
God
fore-knows
all
Contingencies
,
not
only
as
they
are
in
their
first
and
second
Causes
,
but
as
they
are
in
themselves
;
for
all
things
being
present
to
him
,
he
perfectly
knows
what
every
Cause
will
produce
in
time
,
and
so
must
necessarily
come
to
pass
;
according
to
that
Axiome
;
Every
thing
that
is
,
when
once
it
is
,
it
appears
necessary
that
it
should
be
:
Acts
15.
18.
Known
unto
God
are
all
his
Works
,
from
the
beginning
of
the
World
.
Heb.
4.
13.
Neither
is
there
any
Creature
which
is
not
manifest
in
his
sight
,
but
all
things
are
naked
and
open
to
the
Eyes
of
him
with
whom
we
have
to
do
.
Psal.
56.
8.
Thou
tellest
my
wandrings
,
put
thou
my
tears
into
thy
Bottle
,
are
not
they
in
thy
Book
?
Psal.
139.
2.
Thou
understandest
my
Thoughts
afar
off
:
that
is
,
before
they
are
in
Being
.
Prov.
15.
3.
The
Eyes
of
the
Lord
are
in
every
place
,
beholding
the
evil
and
the
good
.
This
Wisdom
of
Christ
,
as
God
,
is
part
of
his
Unsearchable
Treasure
,
and
so
great
a
Deep
,
that
't
is
past
finding
out
,
by
his
most
intelligent
Creatures
in
Heaven
and
Earth
.
Rom.
11.
33.
O
the
depths
of
the
Riches
,
both
of
the
Wisdom
and
knowledge
of
God
,
how
unsearchable
are
his
Judgments
,
and
his
wayes
past
finding
out
.
Again
,
as
God
is
infinitely
wise
in
himself
,
so
is
he
the
Author
of
all
Wisdom
to
his
Creatures
;
He
enlightneth
every
one
that
cometh
into
the
World
.
Jo.
1.
9.
This
is
laid
down
to
prove
the
Divine
Nature
of
Christ
,
he
is
the
Word
,
which
is
God
;
this
appears
both
in
his
making
all
things
verse
3.
and
in
his
incomprehensible
Essence
,
He
is
the
Light
shining
in
Darkness
,
and
the
Darkness
comprehends
it
not
:
Also
,
he
is
the
Fountain
of
all
that
Light
and
Life
his
Creatures
enjoy
,
and
therefore
must
needs
be
God
.
The
Evangelist
doth
not
speak
here
of
Christ
as
Mediator
,
and
so
of
that
saving
Light
,
which
he
gives
to
his
Elect
,
by
his
Spirit
;
but
of
his
divine
Essence
,
which
the
Jews
would
not
own
,
and
as
a
proof
of
it
;
doth
instance
in
his
creatorly
Power
:
he
is
the
Fountain
of
that
natural
Light
,
which
all
men
have
:
all
Wisdom
comes
from
him
,
who
is
the
Father
of
Lights
;
he
is
the
Fountain
of
Light
,
able
to
fill
the
Children
of
men
with
all
that
Knowledge
that
is
necessary
,
to
their
highest
Happiness
,
to
guide
them
with
his
Eye
,
and
lead
them
into
all
Truth
.
First
,
This
yields
wonderful
Comfort
to
Believers
,
that
they
have
chosen
such
a
Saviour
,
as
is
able
to
make
them
wise
to
Salvation
;
who
not
only
knows
what
is
best
for
them
,
but
can
also
reveal
and
make
out
the
Knowledge
thereof
to
them
,
that
they
might
know
and
chuse
,
what
makes
for
their
best
Good
here
and
for
ever
:
He
is
the
Son
of
Righteousness
,
Mal.
4.
2.
The
bright
Morning
Star
.
Rev.
22.
16.
The
Light
of
Israel
,
Isa.
10.
7.
The
Pillar
of
Fire
by
Night
.
Neh.
9.
12.
To
shew
them
their
way
,
in
their
greatest
Difficulties
and
Obscurity
.
Secondly
,
This
assures
gracious
Souls
,
that
he
who
hath
undertaken
their
Conduct
,
Supply
,
and
Preservation
to
Glory
,
knows
how
to
make
it
good
and
finish
the
work
he
is
intrusted
with
:
he
can
keep
that
good
thing
committed
to
him
;
he
can
help
them
in
the
worst
of
Straits
,
and
lead
them
through
the
greatest
Improbabilities
,
Weaknesses
,
Dangers
,
yea
Impossibilities
to
their
desired
Rest
.
Thirdly
,
This
also
relieves
them
,
that
they
have
a
Friend
in
Heaven
,
who
knows
their
Soul
in
Adversity
,
and
is
acquainted
with
all
their
Troubles
,
Wants
,
Weaknesses
,
Wrongs
,
Fears
,
Dangers
,
yea
with
all
their
Labours
,
Duties
,
Desires
and
Designs
for
him
,
and
knows
how
to
succour
,
comfort
,
support
and
deliver
them
,
when
all
Refuge
fails
them
,
and
there
is
none
to
help
;
and
how
to
requite
,
and
crown
all
their
Duties
and
Sufferings
for
his
Name
:
He
knows
their
Corruptions
,
the
Strength
,
and
Prevalency
of
them
,
and
how
to
subdue
and
destroy
them
;
he
sees
their
Ways
and
Infirmities
,
and
how
to
heal
them
,
he
knows
the
Power
and
Malice
of
their
Enemies
,
to
restrain
them
,
and
discovers
the
most
secret
Plots
against
his
innocent
ones
,
to
disappoint
them
,
that
in
vain
is
the
Snare
laid
in
his
Sight
against
them
.
He
observes
thy
Tears
Believer
,
thy
corner
Duties
,
thy
Bed-side
Breathings
after
him
,
though
hid
from
others
;
he
takes
notice
of
thy
Innocency
,
when
men
revile
thee
,
and
knows
how
to
plead
thy
Cause
,
and
bring
thee
to
the
Light
.
Fourthly
,
This
will
serve
to
humble
the
proud
Heart
of
men
,
that
God
is
acquainted
with
all
their
Vileness
;
he
sees
their
high
,
their
fretful
,
their
vain
,
their
unclean
,
their
unsound
,
their
rebellious
Hearts
.
Souls
;
men
see
the
best
of
you
,
your
fair
and
specious
Duties
,
but
he
sees
your
inside
and
all
your
secret
Rottenness
,
when
you
sit
before
him
,
as
his
People
sit
,
and
seem
devout
in
your
Services
;
he
at
the
same
time
knows
where
your
Thoughts
are
wandring
,
and
espies
every
vain
Motion
and
sinful
glance
of
your
deceitful
Eye
:
when
thou
prayest
with
greatest
Zeal
,
his
Eye
is
upon
thy
close
Hypocrisie
,
thy
spiritual
Pride
,
thy
base
ends
,
and
those
conceived
Lusts
,
which
will
break
out
,
when
thy
Duties
are
over
.
O
how
should
this
abase
thy
proud
Heart
,
and
prevent
thy
swelling
Thoughts
upon
conceited
Excellencies
in
thy self
,
or
supposed
Worth
in
thy
Duties
,
seeing
he
knows
what
is
in
thee
,
and
how
vain
man
would
be
wise
.
This
also
should
advise
thy
Soul
to
Sincerity
,
in
thy
Profession
,
Purposes
,
Promises
,
Duties
,
because
he
beholds
thee
,
and
weighs
thy
Paths
,
searcheth
thy
Heart
,
tries
thy
Reins
,
and
will
shortly
bring
thy
secret
things
to
Judgment
.
Lastly
.
This
counsels
such
as
want
Wisdom
,
to
be
looking
to
Jesus
,
and
waiting
at
the
Fountain
,
and
Spring-head
,
for
their
Instruction
.
Sixthly
,
the
Omnipotency
of
Christ
,
is
another
of
those
glorious
Properties
of
the
divine
nature
,
which
renders
him
so
vast
,
and
unconceivable
a
Treasure
,
to
all
that
receive
him
,
He
is
the
mighty
God
the
everlasting
Father
.
Isa.
9.
6.
who
hath
infinite
Strength
to
order
and
establish
his
Kingdom
,
and
to
exert
his
Government
in
Sion
,
and
over
Nations
:
his
Strength
must
needs
be
infinite
,
because
his
Kingdom
is
eternal
;
no
created
humane
arm
,
can
sway
the
Scepter
of
the
World
,
and
maintain
an
everlasting
Rule
over
the
Hearts
and
Conversations
of
all
his
People
,
in
all
Ages
;
and
therefore
,
he
must
be
God
,
and
the
mighty
God
,
to
transact
the
whole
Work
,
that
concerns
him
,
as
Mediator
,
and
to
answer
the
Appellations
given
him
in
Scripture
.
Things
are
ascribed
to
Christ
,
which
cannot
be
performed
by
less
than
an
infinite
Power
.
First
,
His
creating
all
things
in
Heaven
and
Earth
,
Col.
1.
16.
By
him
were
all
things
created
,
that
are
in
Heaven
and
that
are
in
Earth
,
visible
and
invisible
,
whether
they
be
Thrones
,
or
Dominions
,
or
Principalities
,
or
Powers
,
all
things
were
created
by
him
,
and
for
him
:
He
is
the
eternal
Word
,
the
Exemplar
,
and
efficient
Cause
of
all
created
Beings
;
The
Heavens
and
Earth
,
Angels
and
men
,
the
Inhabitants
of
the
upper
and
nether
World
,
were
all
form'd
by
Jehovah
,
Christ
,
who
gave
Being
to
all
his
Creatures
,
as
pleased
him
;
and
therefore
his
Power
must
needs
be
Almighty
,
who
is
the
everlasting
God
,
the
Lord
,
the
Creator
of
the
ends
of
the
Earth
,
that
fainteth
not
,
be
that
giveth
Breath
unto
the
People
upon
it
,
and
Spirit
to
them
that
walk
therein
.
Isa.
40.
28.
chap.
42.
5.
What
a
potent
Lord
have
Believers
chosen
,
who
can
supersede
all
their
Difficulties
,
by
his
Creation-help
?
if
his
whole
Store-house
of
Heaven
and
Earth
be
not
full
enough
to
supply
their
Wants
,
he
can
soon
set
forth
a
new
Edition
of
Mercies
by
his
own
immediate
arm
;
if
their
way
to
Glory
,
lye
through
a
waste
howling
Wilderness
where
no
Foot-steps
can
be
seen
to
guide
them
,
he
can
create
a
Cloud
by
day
,
and
Pillar
of
Fire
by
Night
to
conduct
them
:
If
their
Provisions
fail
to
relieve
them
in
their
Journey
,
he
can
rain
a
Shower
of
Manna
from
his
secret
Granary
,
and
open
the
Caverns
of
the
Flinty
Rock
,
and
put
new
Springs
into
the
barren
Wilderness
to
refresh
them
;
when
they
are
invironed
with
Troops
of
Death
,
he
can
,
in
a
Moment
,
interpose
his
fiery
Chariots
and
Horse-men
,
and
when
all
their
Deliverers
fail
,
send
from
Heaven
,
and
save
them
:
when
the
Visibility
of
Religion
ceases
,
and
the
Heavens
pass
away
as
a
Scrole
,
when
the
Glory
of
the
Lords
House
is
dissolv'd
into
a
Chaos
,
when
the
Gold
of
the
Sanctuary
is
become
Dross
,
and
the
Gospel-Church
metamorphoz'd
into
the
old
World
,
he
can
even
then
create
a
new
Heaven
,
and
a
new
Earth
,
wherein
dwelleth
Righteousness
.
Is
thy
Heart
,
Believer
,
full
of
filthiness
?
Thy
Redeemer
can
create
a
clean
Heart
:
and
if
thy
Tempest-tossed
Soul
can
find
no
rest
,
thy
Lord
can
create
the
Fruit
of
the
Lips
,
Peace
for
thee
:
What
is
too
hard
for
a
creating
Arm
to
do
?
Or
what
can
undoe
that
People
,
who
have
a
faithful
Creator
to
commit
themselves
,
and
all
their
Concerns
unto
?
Secondly
,
Another
Proof
of
the
Omnipotency
of
Christ
,
is
the
upholding
all
things
by
the
Word
of
his
Power
,
Heb.
1.
4.
Who
being
the
Brightness
of
his
Fathers
Glory
,
and
the
express
Image
of
his
Person
,
and
upholding
all
things
by
the
Word
of
his
Power
.
Here
's
another
Royalty
of
the
divine
Nature
of
Christ
,
a
new
beaming
out
of
his
Glory
as
God
,
even
in
the
bearing
up
,
maintaining
,
and
Dispose
of
the
whole
Creation
,
in
the
former
ver.
the
forming
of
the
Universe
,
and
whole
World
,
was
ascribed
to
Christ
:
and
here
the
Preservation
of
it
also
,
is
laid
upon
him
,
as
a
further
Evidence
of
his
oneness
with
the
Father
:
having
begun
his
Work
in
the
Creation
,
he
carries
it
on
in
his
providential
Sustentation
thereof
,
He
is
before
all
things
,
and
by
him
all
things
consist
.
Col.
1.
17.
He
is
the
Foundation
that
underprops
the
whole
Fabrick
of
Heaven
and
Earth
,
which
would
soon
sink
down
into
its
first
nothing
,
if
everlasting
Arms
were
withdrawn
from
beneath
it
,
he
that
first
gives
Being
to
his
Creatures
,
must
continue
it
;
Conservation
is
but
a
Continuation
of
the
first
act
of
Creation
,
to
preserve
the
World
from
Destruction
,
to
continue
the
Creatures
in
their
peculiar
Nature
and
Properties
,
and
to
govern
those
Diversities
in
an
united
Subserviency
to
his
Will
and
Glory
;
and
the
Well-being
of
the
whole
,
is
a
work
of
infinite
Power
,
and
needs
the
same
Strength
,
that
first
produced
them
.
And
this
is
the
work
(
Christians
)
of
your
Messiah
,
that
person
who
is
God-Man
;
who
by
his
divine
power
and
efficacious
Providence
,
animates
,
actuates
,
cherishes
,
quickens
,
and
sweetly
disposes
of
all
Creatures
,
Actions
and
Affairs
in
the
World
.
He
is
the
great
Monarch
of
Heaven
and
Earth
,
that
changes
Times
and
Seasons
,
whose
hands
are
under
his
Wings
,
and
hath
a
wheel
within
the
Wheels
,
that
turns
about
things
as
pleaseth
him
;
brings
Light
out
of
Darkness
,
Order
out
of
Confusion
,
Good
out
of
Evil
:
who
hath
the
Government
on
his
Shoulders
,
and
absolute
Power
in
his
hand
,
to
dispose
of
all
persons
and
things
,
as
may
most
further
the
Pleasure
of
his
own
Will
,
the
Advance
of
his
Glory
,
and
the
Good
of
them
that
fear
him
.
And
is
not
this
Security
enough
to
those
,
who
have
intrusted
themselves
and
all
their
Concerns
,
with
this
glorious
Potentate
,
and
King
of
Kings
,
who
hath
the
Management
of
all
things
in
Heaven
and
Earth
,
that
it
shall
be
well
at
last
with
the
righteous
?
the
momentous
Affairs
of
the
world
,
and
of
Sion
,
shall
issue
in
the
best
Good
of
those
that
love
his
Name
.
How
should
this
calm
the
tumultuous
Fears
of
the
godly
into
a
sweet
Serenity
of
Spirit
,
and
still
their
tempestuous
Thoughts
in
a
quiet
Relyance
on
the
Arm
,
Care
,
and
Faithfulness
of
their
Lord
,
who
knows
how
to
govern
the
World
,
and
can
,
and
will
bring
about
his
Work
to
gracious
ends
by
all
seeming
Contrarieties
,
and
interfering
Providences
in
the
World
.
Why
art
thou
afraid
,
saith
Caesar
,
to
the
Master
of
the
Ship
,
that
began
to
be
disturb'd
in
his
Spirits
,
by
reason
of
the
Storm
and
the
Darkness
of
the
Night
?
Thou
carryest
Caesar
.
How
much
more
should
Believers
be
sedate
and
quiet
in
their
Minds
,
who
have
embarqued
Christ
.
Caesar
had
only
some
Command
at
Land
,
none
over
the
Sea
;
he
govern'd
the
Bodies
of
a
few
men
,
but
Christ
rules
at
Land
and
Sea
;
he
sits
upon
the
Floods
,
and
at
the
Helm
of
this
great
Vessel
of
the
World
;
how
should
this
lift
the
Saints
Heads
above
all
their
Waters
?
Thirdly
,
Christ's
working
Miracles
by
his
own
Power
,
proves
his
Omnipotency
,
that
nothing
is
too
hard
for
him
;
a
Miracle
is
somewhat
done
,
which
is
above
and
besides
the
Power
and
Course
of
Nature
;
not
only
as
the
thing
done
,
but
as
the
manner
of
doing
,
when
the
Cause
is
secret
,
and
unknown
to
us
,
and
the
thing
utterly
beyond
all
natural
Causes
,
that
's
a
Miracle
which
none
but
God
can
do
,
either
mediately
by
secondary
Agents
,
or
immediately
of
himself
.
Miracles
are
only
done
by
a
divine
hand
,
because
none
but
God
can
change
the
Order
of
Nature
:
and
this
Christ
did
,
not
by
anothers
,
but
by
his
own
power
:
The
Humane
Nature
in
Christ
was
but
the
Instrument
of
the
divine
Action
,
and
the
humane
Action
received
it's
Vertue
from
the
divine
Nature
,
saith
Aquinas
.
It
was
by
his
own
Power
,
that
Christ
did
such
mighty
works
as
no
man
ever
did
.
'T
is
said
,
Vertue
went
out
of
him
,
and
healed
all
their
Diseases
who
touched
him
.
Luke
6.
19.
It
was
by
his
word
he
cast
out
Devils
,
and
healed
them
that
were
sick
.
Mat.
8.
6.
The
Wind
,
and
the
Seas
obey'd
him
.
ver.
27.
With
Authority
he
commanded
the
unclean
Spirits
and
they
obey'd
him
.
Mark
.
1.
27.
He
opened
the
Eyes
of
them
that
were
born
blind
,
made
the
dumb
to
speak
,
the
dead
to
walk
;
by
which
mighty
Works
,
he
proves
himself
to
be
one
with
the
Father
:
What
he
seeth
the
Father
do
,
these
also
doth
the
Son
likewise
;
for
as
the
Father
raiseth
up
the
dead
and
quickneth
them
,
even
so
the
Son
quickneth
whom
he
will
.
Jo.
6.
19.
24.
Neither
did
he
shew
such
Wonders
himself
only
,
but
by
his
Power
he
enables
his
Servants
also
,
to
do
such
mighty
Works
,
as
were
above
the
Power
of
lapsed
Nature
to
do
.
Mark
.
16.
17.
18.
And
these
Signs
shall
follow
them
that
believe
in
my
Name
(
i.
e.
by
my
Power
and
Authority
from
me
)
shall
they
cast
out
Devils
,
they
shall
speak
with
new
Tongues
,
they
shall
take
up
Serpents
,
and
if
they
d●ink
any
deadly
thing
,
it
shall
not
hurt
them
,
they
shall
lay
hands
on
the
sick
,
and
they
shall
recover
.
And
surely
,
if
the
exerted
Power
of
Christ
by
weak
Instruments
,
could
do
such
mighty
things
,
above
the
Capacity
of
natural
Agents
,
then
the
essential
Power
of
Christ
can
do
much
more
than
what
he
hath
done
.
Fourthly
,
That
must
needs
be
an
Almighty
Power
in
Christ
,
that
can
bestow
on
the
Saints
,
all
things
that
they
shall
ask
of
the
Father
in
his
name
:
but
such
is
the
Power
of
Christ
,
Joh.
14.
13.
Whatsoever
ye
shall
ask
of
the
Father
in
my
Name
,
that
will
I
do
,
that
the
Father
may
be
glorified
in
the
Son
.
He
doth
not
say
,
my
Father
shall
do
it
,
or
that
will
I
procure
for
you
by
my
Mediation
and
Interest
in
the
Father
;
though
that
be
true
also
:
but
that
will
I
do
by
my
own
Power
,
as
God
equal
with
the
Father
.
(
I
will
do
it
)
this
he
repeats
again
in
the
next
ver.
If
ye
shall
ask
any
thing
in
my
Name
,
I
will
do
it
,
being
willing
to
fix
this
glorious
Truth
in
their
Minds
,
that
as
he
was
resolv'd
to
fullfill
all
their
just
Desires
,
made
in
his
name
,
so
he
was
able
to
do
it
,
the
Father
and
he
being
one
.
And
this
must
needs
be
an
Almighty
power
,
to
hear
and
answer
all
the
Requests
of
all
the
Saints
on
Earth
,
at
once
:
what
multitudes
are
there
of
Believers
in
every
Age
,
more
than
can
be
numbred
,
who
are
alway
compassing
the
Throne
,
and
sending
up
a
Cloud
of
Incense
,
to
the
Mercy
Seat
daily
;
putting
up
Variety
of
Requests
to
the
Father
,
through
Christ
,
and
that
not
for
mean
things
neither
?
They
beg
for
the
holy
Spirit
,
for
the
Sheddings
abroad
of
his
Love
,
and
Shinings
out
of
his
Glory
;
for
treading
down
of
Satan
,
for
subduing
of
Corruption
,
for
Conquest
over
his
Enemies
,
Enlargement
of
his
Kingdom
;
for
an
Almightiness
to
do
,
and
invincible
Patience
to
suffer
the
whole
Will
of
God
,
for
the
Forgiveness
of
great
Sins
,
and
Multitudes
of
Sins
,
for
Perseverance
in
Grace
,
and
for
an
eternal
Crown
of
Glory
;
these
a●e
many
things
and
great
things
,
things
that
none
but
a
God
can
give
,
and
yet
no
more
than
what
Christ
is
engag'd
to
bestow
on
all
that
sincerely
seek
him
;
and
therefore
must
needs
be
God
Almighty
,
and
worthy
of
Sinners
Choice
,
and
of
the
Saints
Trust
.
Fifthly
,
This
also
sets
forth
the
Omnipotency
of
Christ
,
that
he
is
able
not
only
to
do
all
things
for
,
but
in
his
People
,
working
all
their
Works
in
them
;
the
Apostle
tells
us
,
2
Cor.
3.
5.
We
are
not
sufficient
of
our selves
,
to
think
a
Thought
that
is
good
;
Neither
know
we
what
to
pray
for
as
we
ought
.
Rom.
8.
26.
In
them
dwells
no
good
thing
,
as
they
are
in
themselves
;
Neither
can
they
do
any
thing
without
him
:
their
Eyes
are
unto
him
for
all
their
Help
,
their
Springs
are
in
him
:
in
the
Lord
shall
one
say
have
I
Righteousness
and
S●rength
;
they
are
dead
as
to
any
self-sufficiency
for
the
least
thing
that
is
good
;
but
he
is
their
Life
,
the
Soul
that
animates
all
their
Faculties
,
the
hand
that
leads
them
,
the
Wisdom
that
directs
them
,
the
Power
that
actuates
them
in
every
good
thing
.
Their
Works
must
be
wrought
in
God
or
can
never
be
good
;
't
is
he
that
works
in
them
,
to
will
,
and
to
do
,
of
his
good
Pleasure
,
he
teacheth
them
to
profit
,
he
held
Israel
by
the
hand
teaching
him
to
go
:
he
carries
his
Lambs
in
his
Arms
,
and
gently
drives
them
that
are
with
young
;
drawing
those
that
are
indisposed
,
quickening
them
that
are
dead
:
he
is
the
Fountain
that
fills
all
their
Pits
,
the
Head
that
gives
out
animal
Influences
to
every
Member
,
for
every
Duty
:
and
must
not
he
then
be
an
all-sufficient
God
,
and
have
an
infinite
Treasury
to
give
to
all
richly
to
enjoy
,
and
an
Almighty
Arm
to
do
all
the
work
of
Saints
on
Earth
?
O
admire
Believers
,
and
relye
on
this
Jesus
.
Sixthly
,
raising
the
dead
is
an
act
of
Omnipotency
,
a
peculiar
Property
of
the
divine
Nature
,
which
hath
been
,
is
,
and
shall
be
the
Work
of
Christ
;
I
am
the
Resurrection
and
the
Life
.
Jo.
11.
25.
i.
e.
He
for
whose
sake
and
by
whose
Power
the
dead
shall
be
raised
at
the
last
day
.
Martha
suspects
Christs
Ability
to
revive
her
dead
Brother
,
she
believed
indeed
,
he
should
rise
at
the
last
day
,
and
not
before
;
why
saith
Christ
,
they
that
shall
then
rise
from
the
dead
,
shall
rise
by
my
Power
;
and
if
I
will
raise
up
the
dead
then
,
I
can
as
easily
do
it
now
.
The
hour
is
comming
in
which
all
that
are
in
their
Graves
,
shall
hear
his
Voice
,
and
shall
come
forth
,
they
that
have
done
Good
,
unto
the
Resurrection
of
Life
,
and
they
that
have
done
evil
,
unto
the
Resurrection
of
Damnation
.
Joh.
5.
28.
29.
And
I
will
raise
him
up
at
the
last
day
.
Joh.
6.
54.
That
there
shall
be
a
general
Resurrection
of
the
dead
,
at
the
last
day
;
when
every
Body
(
though
now
consumed
)
shall
be
raised
up
and
reunited
to
the
Soul
,
and
be
brought
to
the
final
Judgment
,
is
not
questioned
by
those
that
believe
,
and
know
the
Scriptures
.
The
Author
of
this
Resurrection
is
God
,
as
God
,
but
the
second
Person
,
the
Lord
Jesus
,
is
delegated
to
accomplish
this
Work
,
which
he
shall
do
by
his
own
Voice
,
(
saith
Christ
himself
)
by
a
Shout
,
by
the
Voice
of
the
Arch-Angel
,
and
with
the
Trump
of
God
,
saith
the
Apostle
,
1
Thes.
4.
16.
with
a
great
Sound
of
a
Trumpet
,
saith
the
Evangelist
,
Mat.
24.
31.
That
is
,
the
Lord
Jesus
shall
,
at
that
last
day
,
by
his
mighty
Voice
,
pronounced
by
the
Arch-Angel
,
cause
all
the
dead
,
both
small
and
great
,
to
arise
in
their
same
Bodies
,
though
chang'd
into
an
immortal
State
,
and
suitable
Capacity
,
to
that
Condition
,
to
which
they
are
intended
,
to
receive
their
Soul
,
and
to
come
to
Judgment
.
And
is
not
this
a
mighty
Work
,
to
quicken
the
dead
,
a
work
peculiarly
ascribed
to
God
.
2.
Cor.
1.
9.
For
we
had
the
Sentence
of
Death
in
our selves
,
that
we
should
not
trust
in
our selves
,
but
in
God
which
raiseth
the
Dead
:
'T
is
the
work
of
God
,
and
of
none
but
God
,
to
raise
the
dead
:
'T
is
a
work
full
of
Wonder
and
Amazement
,
beyond
all
Principles
of
created
reason
,
to
conceive
how
those
Bodies
dissolved
to
dust
,
mingled
with
other
Bodies
in
the
Grave
,
digested
into
other
Natures
,
by
Beasts
,
Fishes
,
Fowls
,
that
have
devoured
them
,
should
yet
return
and
be
separated
from
other
Dust
and
Natures
,
into
the
same
Individuals
,
is
such
a
Miracle
as
is
only
fit
matter
for
Faith
,
not
Sense
,
and
a
firm
Foundation
for
the
Believers
Hope
and
Comfort
.
It
may
be
thou
seest
nothing
but
Deaths
on
thy
Graces
,
Frames
and
Capacities
;
thou
findest
Decayes
in
thy
Soul
,
the
Spirit
of
Life
seems
to
be
departed
from
thee
,
thou
canst
not
pray
,
hear
,
converse
,
with
that
sweetness
and
delight
as
heretofore
;
Comfort
thy self
Believer
;
He
that
is
the
Life
,
is
the
Resurrection
also
:
He
that
quickned
thy
Heart
,
when
Dead
,
will
revive
it
,
when
decay'd
:
'T
is
as
easie
with
him
to
restore
thy
Spiritual
Frames
,
as
to
bestow
them
:
He
that
can
raise
the
whole
World
from
their
Bodily
,
total
Death
;
can
easily
,
and
will
,
in
due
time
,
cure
thy
Soul-dyings
also
.
Again
,
This
will
chear
drooping
Sion
,
who
faints
at
her
Desolations
,
and
fears
what
will
become
of
the
destruction
on
her
Interests
:
'T
is
lamentable
to
observing
Souls
,
to
see
how
Religion
goes
down
daily
:
Holiness
is
departed
from
the
Earth
:
The
Rod
of
the
wicked
lies
on
the
back
of
the
Righteous
:
the
wicked
are
exalted
,
and
the
Righteous
oppressed
:
The
House
of
David
waxes
weaker
and
weaker
,
and
the
House
of
Saul
waxes
stronger
:
This
is
a
sad
Spectacle
;
yet
in
this
case
Relief
is
to
be
fetch'd
from
an
Omnipotent
Jesus
:
who
hath
said
,
His
dead
men
shall
live
:
who
can
open
his
Peoples
graves
,
and
revive
his
decay'd
Interest
,
and
cause
a
Nation
to
bring
forth
in
a
day
:
and
Overturn
,
Overturn
,
Overturn
,
till
his
Kingdom
be
established
in
the
Earth
.
CHAP.
III.
The
Humane
Nature
of
Christ
,
distinctly
consider'd
;
it
's
Reality
proved
:
His
Personality
,
or
the
Divine
and
Humane
Nature
in
one
Person
;
shewing
what
kind
of
Vnion
it
is
,
and
the
glorious
Consequents
and
Advantages
thereof
.
WE
have
a
little
enquired
into
the
Divine
Nature
of
Christ
:
the
Beams
of
whose
Glory
,
but
darkly
seen
,
yield
a
wonderful
splendor
,
and
reviving
to
a
believing
Eye
.
In
the
next
place
,
let
us
consider
his
Humanity
:
The
Nature
of
Man
,
which
the
second
Person
,
assumes
into
a
Personal
Union
with
himself
:
He
is
perfect
Man
as
well
as
God
:
The
Woman's
Seed
;
Made
of
a
Woman
,
made
under
the
Law
,
Gal.
4.
4.
Made
of
the
Seed
of
David
according
to
the
Flesh
.
Rom.
1.
3.
For
he
took
not
on
him
the
Nature
of
Angels
,
but
the
Seed
of
Abraham
.
Heb.
2.
16.
The
Children
being
partakers
of
flesh
and
blood
,
he
likewise
took
part
of
the
same
,
ver.
14.
And
was
in
all
things
made
like
to
his
Brethren
,
ver.
17.
Called
the
Son
of
Man
:
the
Man
Christ
Jesus
:
having
the
Substante
of
the
Humane
Nature
;
though
not
the
Personal
Subsistence
thereof
:
He
did
not
take
the
Person
of
Man
into
Union
with
himself
:
for
then
he
would
have
had
two
Persons
:
and
so
have
been
no
true
Mediator
:
The
Mediator
being
one
:
1
Tim.
2.
5.
For
there
is
one
God
,
and
one
Mediator
between
God
and
Man
,
the
Man
Christ
Jesus
:
But
if
the
Lord
Jesus
had
taken
the
Person
of
Man
,
then
he
would
have
consisted
of
two
Persons
:
the
Divine
Subsistence
and
the
Humane
;
and
so
there
would
have
been
two
Mediators
,
or
Persons
mediating
,
which
is
contrary
to
Scripture
.
Neither
did
he
take
on
him
the
vicious
Qualities
or
Accidents
of
the
Humane
Nature
:
being
holy
,
harmless
,
separate
from
Sinners
:
the
Holy
Spirit
overshadowing
the
Virgin
Mary
,
and
purging
the
Humane
Nature
of
all
its
sinful
dregs
:
forming
it
of
the
Substance
of
the
Virgin
:
not
of
his
own
Essence
:
whence
the
Holy
thing
begotten
by
the
Spirit
was
not
God
,
but
Man
;
called
the
Holy
Child
Jesus
:
purely
conceived
in
the
Womb
of
a
Sinner
,
without
the
least
participation
of
her
Sin
,
or
vicious
Defects
of
her
Nature
,
receiving
only
the
perfect
Substance
of
Man
.
-
Having
the
Essential
parts
of
the
-
Body
.
-
Soul
.
-
Humane
Nature
,
A
true
and
real
Body
,
and
not
a
Phantasme
,
and
Airy
Vehicle
,
as
the
Marcionites
and
Hereticks
of
old
held
:
He
had
Flesh
and
Bones
,
which
a
Spirit
hath
not
,
Luke
24.
39.
Handle
me
and
see
me
,
for
a
Spirit
hath
not
flesh
and
bones
as
ye
see
me
have
:
This
was
after
his
Resurrection
,
when
the
Disciples
doubted
that
it
was
an
Apparition
and
not
him
,
and
even
then
Christ
had
a
real
Body
,
palpable
and
visible
,
the
object
of
External
Senses
.
A
Natural
,
and
not
an
Heavenly
Body
,
as
the
Manichees
affirm'd
from
1
Cor.
15.
47.
The
first
man
is
of
the
Earth
,
Earthy
;
the
second
man
is
the
Lord
from
Heaven
.
But
to
this
I
answer
with
Zanchy
,
The
Apostle
doth
not
speak
here
of
the
Essential
Body
of
Christ
;
but
of
his
Heavenly
Spiritual
Power
,
which
he
lets
out
in
raising
the
Dead
;
as
in
the
former
verse
.
The
first
man
Adam
was
made
a
living
Soul
,
the
last
Adam
was
made
a
quickning
Spirit
:
He
speaks
not
here
of
the
Nature
,
but
of
the
person
of
the
second
Adam
,
as
Mediator
;
the
Difference
between
whom
was
great
:
the
first
Adam
but
a
Creature
,
this
a
Creator
or
Quickning
Spirit
:
the
first
Adam
had
his
Rise
from
the
Earth
,
this
second
Adam
,
as
to
his
person
,
from
Heaven
:
whence
(
saith
Paraeus
)
't
is
evident
,
the
Apostle
doth
not
speak
here
of
the
matter
of
Christs
Body
,
but
of
the
Original
and
Dignity
of
his
Person
:
for
he
grants
in
this
whole
Discourse
,
that
Christ's
Body
is
one
and
the
same
with
ours
;
else
how
can
his
Resurrection
be
a
proof
of
ours
:
and
't
is
said
,
As
by
man
came
death
,
so
by
man
came
also
the
Resurrection
of
the
Dead
:
1
Cor.
15.
20
,
21
,
22.
And
if
Christ
had
not
a
real
,
natural
Body
,
then
he
could
not
be
the
Seed
of
the
Woman
;
neither
had
his
Death
been
a
real
Death
,
or
a
satisfactory
Propitiation
;
if
the
same
Nature
that
sinned
had
not
also
suffered
:
And
therefore
it
must
needs
be
that
Christ
had
a
Natural
Body
:
He
Eat
,
Drank
,
Spake
,
Walked
,
was
weary
,
smitten
,
bound
,
crucified
:
which
are
also
demonstrations
of
a
Natural
Body
.
And
as
he
had
a
perfect
Body
,
so
had
he
a
Soul
also
;
contrary
to
the
Doctrine
of
Apollinaris
;
or
else
he
could
not
be
a
perfect
Man
,
and
in
all
things
made
like
unto
his
Brethren
:
for
't
is
said
,
when
God
made
Man
,
He
breathed
into
his
Nostrils
the
Breath
of
Life
,
and
man
became
a
living
Soul
,
Gen.
2.
7.
Hence
,
saith
Lactantius
,
A
Soul-less
Body
is
no
Humane
Body
:
'T
is
said
,
His
Soul
was
exceeding
sorrowful
,
even
unto
Death
,
Mat.
26.
38.
Had
not
Christ
a
real
Soul
,
he
had
not
been
a
living
man
,
nor
could
be
said
to
have
died
,
when
he
cried
out
,
Father
,
into
thy
hands
I
commit
my
Spirit
,
Luke
23.
46.
And
having
said
so
,
he
gave
up
the
Ghost
.
This
Spirit
the
Lord
Jesus
gave
up
into
his
Father's
hands
,
was
not
his
Divine
Nature
,
for
that
was
one
with
,
and
ever
with
the
Father
:
and
therefore
must
needs
be
his
Soul
;
which
was
his
Life
;
and
that
departing
,
he
is
said
to
dye
,
and
give
up
the
Ghost
.
Besides
,
That
Knowledge
in
which
he
is
said
to
increase
,
with
those
Humane
Affections
that
manifestly
appeared
in
him
,
and
those
Acts
of
his
Natural
Will
,
plainly
proves
his
Soul
:
these
being
the
Essential
Faculties
of
a
Rational
Spirit
.
Neither
could
he
have
perfectly
transacted
the
Office
of
a
Mediator
,
and
undergone
all
the
Sufferings
that
were
to
be
borne
for
the
Sin
of
Man
,
had
he
not
consisted
of
a
Humane
Soul
,
as
well
as
Body
;
part
of
these
Penalties
,
yea
the
greatest
part
being
Spiritual
,
and
such
as
none
but
the
Soul
could
be
fully
sensible
of
:
And
in
point
of
Justice
,
the
Soul
of
man
having
sinned
,
there
must
be
a
Soul
also
in
the
Redeemer
to
undergo
Sufferings
;
wherefore
he
must
needs
be
perfect
man
in
the
Essential
Parts
of
the
Humane
Nature
,
-
Body
.
-
Soul
.
He
had
also
the
Properties
of
the
Humane
Nature
,
both
Essential
and
Accidental
:
The
Essential
Properties
of
man
,
as
well
of
the
Soul
,
as
Body
,
were
in
him
:
The
Essential
Properties
,
and
Faculties
of
the
Soul
,
which
are
the
Understanding
,
Will
,
Affections
,
were
seated
in
his
Nature
;
he
had
a
created
Understanding
,
that
eminently
shin'd
out
in
his
youthful
years
,
being
able
,
at
Twelve
years
old
,
to
dispute
with
the
Learned
Doctors
,
of
his
Day
,
even
to
the
astonishment
of
his
Hearers
.
Luke
2.
46
,
47.
And
they
found
him
in
the
Temple
,
sitting
in
the
midst
of
the
Doctors
,
both
hearing
them
,
and
asking
them
Questions
;
and
all
that
heard
him
were
astonished
at
his
Vnderstanding
and
Answers
.
And
ver.
52.
Jesus
increased
in
Wisdom
and
Stature
.
He
had
likewise
Natural
Affections
,
so
as
without
sin
:
He
loved
the
young
man
in
the
Gospel
,
for
those
Excellencies
that
were
in
him
,
Mark
10.
21.
And
had
a
peculiar
degree
of
Affection
to
John
above
the
rest
of
the
Disciples
,
Joh.
19.
26.
He
had
compassion
on
the
multitude
,
Mat.
9.
36.
And
was
grieved
for
the
Heart
hardness
of
his
Disciples
,
Mark
3.
5.
And
had
indignation
against
Peter's
tempting
him
to
decline
his
Redemption-work
.
Mark
.
8.
33.
He
had
also
the
Essential
Properties
of
a
Humane
Body
,
such
as
do
flow
from
the
Essence
thereof
,
and
are
so
absolutely
necessary
to
it
,
as
that
without
these
the
Body
would
cease
to
be
a
Body
:
as
Quantity
,
Figure
,
Members
,
Dimensions
:
He
had
a
Material
Body
,
consisting
of
Flesh
and
Bone
,
with
its
Lineaments
and
Members
;
Face
,
Hands
,
Feet
;
he
had
a
Stature
,
in
which
he
grew
,
as
other
men
do
,
Luke
2.
52.
A
Body
circumscribed
in
a
place
,
that
must
needs
have
a
Circumference
,
and
be
in
one
place
at
once
circumscriptively
,
not
definitively
,
as
Spirits
are
:
Neither
does
its
Union
with
the
Divine
Nature
,
or
its
glorified
state
in
Heaven
,
alter
this
Essential
Property
of
a
Body
:
Nor
is
the
Omnipotency
of
God
a
sufficient
Argument
to
warrant
the
Body
of
Christ
to
be
in
Heaven
,
and
Earth
,
and
in
divers
places
at
once
;
seeing
God's
Absolute
Power
never
crosseth
his
Actual
Power
,
or
infer
a
contrariety
to
his
Truth
,
and
to
the
natural
Being
of
things
.
Neither
did
he
assume
the
Parts
and
Essential
Properties
of
Man
only
,
but
the
Infirmities
also
,
and
accidental
Properties
of
the
Humane
Nature
:
though
not
those
which
were
Personal
and
Vicious
,
and
procur'd
by
Personal
Sins
,
or
defection
in
their
particular
Natures
,
as
Diseases
,
Blindness
,
Lameness
,
Deformity
,
which
were
not
the
absolute
and
universal
Products
of
Original
Sin
,
incident
to
every
one
,
but
arising
from
some
particular
Causes
,
and
peculiar
to
some
Persons
onely
;
these
our
Lord
Jesus
did
not
take
upon
him
,
but
such
Infirmities
as
were
accidental
to
the
whole
Nature
,
for
that
he
himself
also
is
compassed
with
Infirmities
,
Heb.
5.
2.
not
sinful
;
as
culpable
Ignorance
and
Errour
,
but
Natural
Infirmities
,
such
as
were
incident
to
our
Natures
,
(
Sin
excepted
)
and
such
as
were
the
Effects
and
Punishment
of
Sin
:
these
Christ
took
on
him
,
as
inculpable
Ignorance
,
Humane
Passions
of
Sorrow
,
Fear
,
Anger
in
the
Soul
,
Hunger
,
Thirst
,
Weariness
,
Pain
,
bloody
Sweat
,
and
Death
in
the
Body
.
Mark
13.
32.
Mark
11.
13.
Math.
26.
38.
Math.
9.
36.
Mat.
16.
23.
Joh.
19.
28.
Joh.
4.
6.
Heb.
5.
8.
Luke
22.
44.
Mat.
27.
50.
And
O
what
enriching
Priviledges
,
and
full
Consolation
,
do
flow
to
Believers
,
from
the
Words
assuming
the
Humane
Nature
into
Personality
with
himself
!
And
what
glorious
Excellencies
are
in
Jesus
Christ
,
as
he
is
God-Man
,
in
one
Person
!
infinite
Treasures
,
which
can
never
be
traced
out
,
nor
fully
understood
by
the
Children
of
men
,
as
will
appear
,
if
we
consider
the
kind
of
this
Union
,
and
the
Consequents
of
it
.
First
,
Consider
the
kind
of
this
Union
,
between
the
Divine
and
Humane
Nature
of
Christ
;
and
O
what
a
glorious
Mystery
is
it
!
First
,
It
is
a
real
Union
:
't
is
not
Nominal
,
in
Name
onely
,
or
Metaphorical
,
in
Shew
or
Similitude
;
but
in
Reality
and
Truth
.
The
Divine
and
Humane
Nature
do
constitute
one
Person
,
which
is
Jesus
Christ
.
We
have
already
proved
that
Jesus
Christ
is
perfect
God
,
and
perfect
Man
:
he
is
really
so
in
one
person
,
Joh.
1.
14.
The
Word
was
made
Flesh
,
and
dwelt
amongst
us
,
and
we
beheld
his
Glory
.
The
Word
,
that
is
,
the
divine
Nature
,
the
God-head
of
Christ
,
was
made
Flesh
;
that
is
,
united
to
the
humane
Nature
,
and
this
in
a
visible
way
:
and
dwelt
amongst
us
,
it
was
not
a
Fiction
,
but
really
Christ
,
God-man
,
dwelt
amongst
us
,
and
we
beheld
his
Glory
,
it
was
obvious
to
our
view
,
1
Tim.
3.
16.
Great
is
the
Mystery
of
Godliness
,
God
was
manifest
in
the
Flesh
,
justified
in
the
Spirit
,
seen
of
Angels
.
If
this
be
not
real
,
what
can
be
so
?
He
was
manifest
in
the
Flesh
,
How
?
By
way
of
real
Union
,
Justified
in
the
Spirit
,
by
the
divine
Nature
;
here
's
Flesh
,
and
here
's
the
divine
Nature
,
in
one
person
,
Jesus
Christ
,
God-Man
,
seen
of
Angels
,
Rom.
1.
3.
4.
Concerning
his
Son
Jesus
Christ
our
Lord
,
which
was
made
of
the
seed
of
David
according
to
the
Flesh
,
and
declared
to
be
the
Son
of
God
with
Power
,
according
to
the
Spirit
of
Holiness
,
by
the
Resurrection
from
the
Dead
:
Here
's
a
Person
consisting
of
both
these
Natures
,
real
man
,
born
of
the
Seed
of
David
,
then
real
God
;
thus
the
Divine
Nature
was
manifested
to
be
in
Christ
,
by
the
Resurrection
of
the
dead
,
Rom.
9.
5.
And
of
whom
as
concerning
the
Flesh
Christ
came
,
who
is
over
all
,
God
blessed
for
ever
.
Here
both
Natures
are
attributed
to
one
Person
;
Jesus
Christ
,
as
concerning
the
Flesh
,
descended
from
Abraham
,
he
came
from
David
,
that
is
,
he
received
the
humane
Nature
from
the
Virgin
Mary
,
and
he
is
God
over
all
,
blessed
for
ever
.
The
God-head
is
said
to
dwell
in
him
bodily
,
Col.
2.
9.
Secondly
,
It
is
a
very
near
Union
,
the
nearest
Union
that
possibly
can
be
.
As
the
Soul
and
the
Body
make
up
one
man
,
so
the
divine
and
humane
Nature
of
Christ
,
make
up
one
Person
.
It
is
set
forth
by
way
of
Inhabitation
,
Col.
2.
9.
In
him
dwells
all
the
Fullness
of
the
God-head
bodily
.
God
manifest
in
the
Flesh
,
and
justified
in
the
Spirit
makes
up
one
entire
Person
.
As
the
Matter
and
the
Form
makes
up
one
Being
,
so
this
divine
and
humane
Nature
makes
up
one
person
.
Thirdly
,
It
is
a
mystical
and
unconceivable
Union
.
There
's
a
relative
Union
between
Man
and
Wife
,
making
one
Flesh
;
a
real
Union
between
the
Head
and
Members
,
constituting
one
Body
;
but
this
cannot
reach
this
Union
;
it
is
unconceivable
,
above
all
Conception
,
1
Tim.
3.
16.
Great
is
the
Mystery
of
Godliness
,
God
manifest
in
the
Flesh
.
We
may
admire
it
,
and
adore
it
,
but
we
cannot
fathom
the
depth
of
this
Union
between
the
divine
and
humane
Nature
of
Christ
.
Fourthly
,
It
is
a
pure
and
unmixed
Union
as
to
each
Nature
.
In
regard
of
Essence
the
divine
Nature
cannot
be
converted
into
the
humane
,
nor
the
humane
into
the
divine
,
but
each
Nature
remains
distinct
,
and
it's
Properties
are
distinct
,
Rom.
1.
3.
4.
So
that
there
are
in
Jesus
Christ
,
two
Natures
,
two
Wills
,
a
divine
Will
,
and
a
humane
Will
:
he
hath
the
Will
and
Affections
of
a
man
,
though
fully
sanctified
and
glorified
:
he
wills
whatever
the
God-head
wills
,
but
still
,
as
to
his
humane
Nature
,
it
is
with
a
humane
Will
;
so
that
something
of
the
workings
of
Christ
,
are
by
the
divine
Power
,
and
something
by
the
humane
Nature
.
This
Union
consists
in
the
Communication
of
the
divine
Nature
with
the
humane
,
the
God-head
,
and
the
humane
Nature
agree
;
so
that
the
divine
Nature
of
Christ
communicates
all
its
fullness
as
far
as
may
further
Redemption-ends
;
for
the
Sanctification
and
Salvation
of
the
whole
body
of
Christ
,
and
for
the
fulfilling
of
all
Redemption-Work
,
1
Pet.
3.
18.
This
is
a
glorious
Union
,
but
it
is
worthy
to
be
known
.
Ah
how
little
of
Christ
is
known
as
to
these
two
Natures
!
how
little
a
portion
do
we
know
of
him
!
Fifthly
,
It
is
an
inseparable
Union
,
it
can
never
be
parted
more
.
Therein
lies
the
Happiness
of
Believers
,
that
Jesus
Christ
is
God-man
,
to
all
Eternity
,
never
can
there
be
an
end
of
this
Relation
;
Jesus
Christ
God-Man
,
is
the
same
Yesterday
,
to
day
,
and
for
ever
,
Heb.
13.
8.
He
was
the
same
while
in
his
obediential
Work
,
on
Earth
;
he
is
the
same
in
Glory
,
and
will
be
the
same
to
all
Eternity
.
This
Union
of
Christ's
two
Natures
must
be
eternal
,
or
else
he
cannot
be
said
ever
to
live
to
make
Intercession
;
But
he
ever
lives
to
make
Intercession
,
Heb.
7.
25.
That
which
made
Christ's
Redemption
infinite
,
was
that
he
was
God
as
well
as
Man
:
Christ
the
Interceder
,
God-Man
,
is
now
in
Heaven
,
and
this
must
be
for
ever
.
O
what
a
glorious
Truth
is
this
,
that
there
can
be
no
Cessation
of
this
Union
!
could
this
Union
be
separated
as
Nestorius
holds
,
then
Redemption-work
would
cease
:
He
is
over
all
,
God-Man
,
blessed
for
evermore
,
Rom.
9.
5.
If
the
Saints
Union
with
Christ
be
inseparable
,
and
their
Interest
in
the
Love
of
Christ
inseparable
,
then
Christ
is
unalterable
;
but
because
the
Saints
must
have
an
eternal
Union
with
him
,
and
he
is
an
eternal
Jesus
,
he
must
be
eternally
God-Man
,
Romans
8.
34
,
35
,
36
,
37
,
38
,
39.
Joh.
17.
21.
23.
24.
Secondly
,
What
are
the
Effects
and
Consequents
,
that
flow
from
,
and
issue
out
of
this
Union
between
the
divine
and
humane
Nature
●●
Christ
?
First
,
from
this
Union
of
these
two
Natures
in
Christ
,
there
follows
a
Communication
of
Properties
;
so
that
which
is
said
to
be
done
by
each
Nature
,
is
applied
to
the
whole
Person
of
Christ
;
O
this
is
a
very
glorious
Mystery
.
as
this
,
Christ's
Sufferings
in
the
humane
Nature
,
is
applyed
to
the
whole
Person
of
Christ
;
therefore
the
Blood
of
Christ
,
which
was
but
the
Blood
of
the
humane
Nature
,
is
called
the
Blood
of
God
,
Acts
20.
28.
Feed
the
Church
of
God
,
which
he
hath
purchased
with
his
own
Blood
;
being
of
infinite
Value
and
Worth
.
So
the
Sufferings
of
the
humane
Nature
are
ascribed
sometimes
to
the
divine
Nature
,
and
to
the
whole
person
of
Christ
;
so
,
1
Tim.
3.
16.
God
manifest
in
the
Flesh
,
and
justified
in
the
Spirit
;
yet
both
these
applyed
to
the
person
of
Christ
:
whatever
the
divine
nature
can
do
is
applyed
to
the
Person
of
Christ
,
by
a
Communication
of
Properties
,
●●owing
from
this
Union
.
Secondly
,
From
this
Union
,
flows
this
Consequence
,
That
there
is
Fullness
of
Grace
plac'd
in
Jesus
Christ
to
be
given
out
to
all
his
Seed
.
The
God-head
fills
the
humane
Nature
of
Christ
,
Jo.
3.
34
,
God
hath
not
given
the
Spirit
by
measure
to
him
.
When
we
read
of
Christ's
receiving
any
thing
,
understand
it
of
his
humane
Nature
;
for
the
divine
Nature
cannot
be
capable
of
receiving
any
thing
;
it
is
as
full
of
Grace
as
ever
it
can
hold
:
And
,
as
the
Breast
is
full
of
Milk
for
the
Poor
Babe
,
so
is
Jesus
Christ
full
of
Grace
in
his
Humane
Nature
,
to
distribute
to
his
Children
:
His
pity
moves
him
to
give
out
this
,
and
the
other
Grace
to
his
People
,
and
it
is
in
him
to
bestow
it
.
He
wills
the
best
good
to
all
his
People
,
and
what
he
wills
,
he
is
able
to
perform
;
hence
't
is
said
,
Joh.
1.
16.
Of
his
Fulness
we
have
all
received
,
and
Grace
for
Grace
.
Of
that
Fulness
which
the
Divine
Nature
is
alwayes
issuing
out
to
the
Humane
Nature
of
Christ
,
do
Believers
receive
Grace
for
Grace
;
Grace
sutable
to
Grace
in
Christ
;
so
that
the
Humane
Nature
of
Christ
must
needs
be
alwayes
full
of
Grace
,
by
reason
of
its
Union
with
the
Divine
:
As
the
Sun
that
gives
out
Light
is
alwayes
full
of
Light
,
and
the
Sea
that
sends
forth
Waters
to
the
Rivers
,
is
never
vacant
.
This
is
a
glorious
Mystery
,
of
wonderful
Encouragement
to
Believers
,
to
consider
what
a
full
Jesus
they
are
related
to
.
Thirdly
,
By
vertue
of
this
Union
,
the
Lord
Jesus
Christ
hath
right
to
all
Glory
,
and
Adoration
of
Men
and
Angels
,
as
Mediatour
.
He
is
the
most
Illustrious
Person
;
all
Honour
,
Blessing
,
Praise
,
Glory
,
Adoration
is
due
to
him
.
Heb.
1.
6.
When
he
bringeth
in
the
first-begotten
into
the
world
,
he
saith
,
And
let
all
the
Angels
of
God
worship
him
.
Surely
he
must
be
a
glorious
Person
,
when
all
the
Angels
must
bow
at
his
Feet
;
Seraphims
,
Cherubims
,
and
all
the
Host
of
Heaven
,
stoop
and
give
Homage
to
him
,
this
the
Lord
Jesus
Christ
hath
a
proper
Right
to
,
as
he
is
God-Man
:
Phil.
2.
9.
Wherefore
God
hath
highly
exalted
him
,
and
given
him
a
Name
above
every
name
;
Every
Tongue
shall
confess
at
last
,
that
he
is
Lord
,
ver.
11.
Rev.
1.
17.
And
when
I
saw
him
,
I
fell
at
his
Feet
as
dead
.
O
the
very
Vision
of
Christ
is
enough
to
strike
a
poor
Creature
to
the
Earth
,
Rev.
4.
9
,
10
,
11.
The
four
and
twenty
Elders
fell
down
and
worshipped
this
glorious
Person
that
sate
upon
the
Throne
,
which
is
Jesus
Christ
,
Joh.
5.
23.
That
all
men
should
honour
the
Son
,
even
as
they
honour
the
Father
:
So
that
God
the
Son
,
the
Second
Person
,
the
Mediatour
of
his
People
,
deserves
all
that
Divine
and
Religious
Worship
which
is
due
to
God
,
as
God
:
Thrones
and
Principalities
are
made
by
him
,
and
put
under
him
.
Col.
1.
16.
17.
Fourthly
,
By
vertue
of
this
Union
,
the
Lord
Jesus
Christ
hath
absolute
Authority
,
Kingship
,
and
Headship
in
his
Church
,
and
over
all
things
to
the
Church
,
Matt.
28.
18.
All
Power
is
given
to
me
in
Heaven
and
Earth
.
O
what
vast
Power
is
this
!
All
Power
on
Earth
,
to
do
what
he
will
there
;
All
Power
in
Heaven
,
to
do
what
he
will
there
,
Eph.
1.
22.
And
hath
put
all
things
under
his
Feet
,
and
gave
him
to
be
the
Head
over
all
things
to
the
Church
.
Jesus
Christ
,
as
God-Man
,
is
invested
with
all
Power
and
Authority
,
to
transact
the
Work
of
a
Mediator
,
to
perform
the
Offices
of
Prophet
,
Priest
,
and
King
:
The
Godhead
of
Christ
,
working
,
as
God
,
and
the
Manhood
of
Christ
,
working
,
as
Man
,
yet
both
these
Natures
concurr
towards
the
management
of
Redemption-work
.
As
a
Prophet
,
he
is
able
to
reveal
the
Will
of
God
,
for
he
knoweth
the
mind
of
the
Spirit
,
being
God
,
he
is
infinite
in
Wisdom
,
Job
.
36.
4.
Rom.
11.
33.
All
Knowledge
comes
from
him
,
as
Mediator
:
In
him
are
hid
the
Treasures
of
Wisdom
,
Col.
2.
3.
He
maketh
Wise
to
Salvation
;
He
giveth
Wisdom
,
Prov.
2.
6.
He
openeth
the
Eyes
of
the
blind
,
and
giveth
Light
to
them
that
sit
in
Darkness
,
and
in
the
Region
and
shadow
of
Death
,
Matth.
4.
16.
Luke
2.
32.
Ministers
can
but
preach
to
the
Ear
,
but
Christ
can
preach
to
the
Heart
:
Ministers
can
but
open
the
Scriptures
,
Christ
can
open
the
Heart
:
He
is
a
full
and
effectual
Head
to
his
Body
,
the
Church
,
to
guide
,
influence
and
adorn
it
,
Col.
1.
18.
As
a
Priest
:
And
so
there
's
an
infinite
Sufficiency
in
his
Satisfaction
and
Intercession
,
seeing
he
is
God-Man
;
In
his
Satisfaction
enough
to
silence
all
Pleas
against
his
People
;
He
can
arrest
all
the
Sentences
and
Executions
of
the
Law
against
them
.
As
an
High-priest
;
he
is
a
sufficient
Sacrifice
for
the
Sins
of
the
People
:
He
was
made
Sin
for
us
,
that
we
might
be
made
the
Righteousness
of
God
in
him
,
2
Cor.
5.
21.
By
the
Obedience
of
Christ
all
Believers
are
made
Righteous
,
Rom.
5.
19.
The
Obedience
of
the
Saints
is
represented
compleat
in
Christ
,
though
imperfect
in
themselves
.
Hence
Believers
that
are
wounded
with
the
shortness
of
their
Services
in
themselves
,
may
lift
up
their
Heads
,
when
they
look
upon
the
perfect
Righteousness
of
the
Lord
Jesus
Christ
.
Hence
,
1
Joh.
2.
1
,
2.
If
any
man
Sin
,
we
have
an
Advocate
with
the
Father
,
Jesus
Christ
the
Righteous
:
And
he
is
the
propitiation
for
our
Sins
.
Though
the
Saints
do
sin
,
Christ
becomes
a
Sacrifice
for
them
.
This
one
Offering
of
Christ
ever
appears
before
God
;
when
new
Provocations
appear
in
his
People
:
By
one
Offering
he
perfected
for
ever
them
that
are
sanctified
,
Heb.
10.
14.
By
vertue
of
this
Union
,
his
Blood
becomes
infinite
Blood
,
equally
as
large
as
the
Offence
:
Nay
,
it
is
more
able
to
save
,
than
the
Sins
of
Believers
to
damn
:
It
is
the
Blood
of
Christ
that
cleanseth
from
all
Sin
,
1
Joh.
1.
7.
Therefore
his
Obedience
is
a
perfect
Obedience
,
and
his
Sufferings
perfect
Sufferings
:
of
more
satisfaction
to
Divine
Justice
,
than
if
all
the
Sinners
in
the
World
had
lain
in
Hell
to
all
Eternity
.
This
Blood
is
so
wonderfully
precious
,
that
it
is
accounted
by
the
Father
as
the
Blood
of
God
,
Acts
20.
28.
If
Infinite
can
satisfie
Infinite
,
then
the
Father
is
satisfied
by
the
Blood
of
Christ
;
because
whatever
the
Justice
of
God
can
expect
,
the
Obedience
of
Christ
can
fully
satisfie
.
This
Righteousness
to
Justification
,
the
perfect
Obedience
and
Sufferings
of
Christ
,
receives
no
Addition
or
Diminution
by
the
Obedience
,
or
Disobedience
of
his
People
,
Eph.
1.
6.
He
hath
made
us
accepted
in
the
Beloved
.
Ah!
little
do
Souls
know
the
Bottom
they
stand
upon
:
It
is
not
(
poor
Believer
)
the
shortness
of
thy
Obedience
,
the
multitude
and
greatness
of
thy
Sins
,
can
out-match
this
matchless
Righteousness
of
Christ
.
All
the
Injuri●s
and
Wrongs
thou
hast
done
is
but
the
Injury
of
a
Creature
,
but
the
Satisfaction
of
Jesus
Christ
is
the
Satisfaction
of
God
;
it
is
the
Satisfaction
of
God
the
Soh
,
presented
to
God
the
Father
:
O
what
a
blessed
state
are
Believers
in
,
where
there
is
such
a
price
paid
for
their
Sins
.
Again
,
By
vertue
of
this
Union
,
There
's
Sufficiency
in
the
Intercession
of
Jesus
Christ
:
He
must
needs
be
able
to
save
to
the
uttermost
all
that
come
to
God
by
him
,
seeing
he
ever
lives
to
make
Intercession
,
Heb.
7.
24
,
25.
How
much
more
shall
the
Blood
of
Christ
,
who
,
through
the
Eternal
Spirit
,
offered
himself
without
spot
to
God
,
purge
your
Consciences
from
dead
works
,
Heb.
9.
14.
The
Blood
of
Christ
meritoriously
purges
the
Soul
from
all
filthiness
,
being
offered
through
the
Eternal
Spirit
.
God
will
not
deny
himself
:
whatever
God
the
Son
intercedes
for
,
God
the
Father
will
grant
;
so
that
Christ's
Intercession
must
needs
be
effectual
.
O
what
potency
hath
Christ
in
Heaven
!
what
Prevalency
in
all
his
Addresses
to
the
Father
!
Eph.
5.
25
,
26
,
27.
Christ
gave
himself
for
his
Church
;
that
he
might
sanctifie
and
cleanse
it
;
and
that
he
might
present
it
to
himself
a
glorious
Church
,
without
spot
or
wrinkle
.
Here
's
a
double
Effect
of
Christ's
Mediatorship
:
One
is
,
By
vertue
of
this
Blood
,
the
Spirit
comes
,
and
cleanses
away
the
Corruption
,
and
subdues
the
Iniquities
of
his
People
:
this
is
that
cleansing
by
Sanctification
:
Then
there
's
a
presenting
the
Saints
to
the
Father
,
complete
in
him
,
without
spot
or
wrinkle
:
thus
the
vertue
of
Christ's
Intercession
,
and
Righteousness
applied
by
him
to
the
Believer
.
doth
prove
such
a
covering
for
all
Believers
,
that
it
hides
every
spot
from
God's
Judicial
Eye
,
that
the
Lord
is
said
to
behold
no
Iniquity
in
them
,
i.
e.
so
as
to
be
angry
with
them
;
they
are
presented
lovely
,
and
comely
in
Christ
,
though
black
and
deformed
in
themselves
.
As
a
King
:
And
so
he
hath
Authority
to
erect
a
Kingdom
of
Grace
in
the
World
,
to
make
Laws
for
the
well-being
of
his
Church
,
and
to
require
Obedience
of
all
Persons
.
Hence
the
Magistrates
of
the
World
are
call'd
upon
to
stoop
to
Christ
.
Psal.
2.
12.
Kiss
the
Son
lest
he
be
angry
.
All
Authority
in
the
World
is
placed
under
Jesus
Christ
,
in
order
to
the
carrying
on
his
Mediatorly
Kingdom
:
Hence
't
is
said
,
Prov.
8.
15.
By
me
Kings
Reign
,
and
Princes
decree
Justice
:
they
have
their
Power
and
Authority
,
by
the
Government
,
and
disposing
of
Jesus
Christ
,
who
is
said
to
be
King
of
Kings
,
and
Lord
of
Lords
,
Rev.
19.
16.
He
hath
absolute
Power
over
every
Creature
;
Every
Knee
must
bow
,
and
every
Tongue
confess
to
him
;
all
must
subject
to
him
,
Psal.
22.
28.
For
the
Kingdom
is
the
Lords
,
and
he
is
the
Governour
among
the
Nations
:
He
shall
have
Dominion
also
from
Sea
to
Sea
,
and
from
the
River
unto
the
ends
of
the
Earth
:
They
that
dwell
in
the
Wilderness
shall
bow
before
him
,
and
his
Enemies
shall
lick
the
dust
,
Psal.
72.
8
,
9.
As
a
King
,
he
is
invested
with
Right
and
Power
,
to
give
out
the
Spirit
of
Grace
for
the
effectual
fulfilling
of
,
and
compleating
Obedience
to
all
his
Laws
,
by
his
Church
and
People
.
Obedience
to
the
Laws
of
Christ
cannot
be
yielded
but
by
the
Spirit
;
the
best
of
his
People
are
no
further
subject
to
him
,
than
they
are
Spiritual
;
for
the
Carnal
mind
is
Enmity
against
God
:
Hence
he
saith
,
When
I
go
away
,
I
will
send
the
Comforter
,
John
16.
7.
It
is
an
Expression
that
notes
Authority
:
When
I
go
away
,
when
I
mount
my
Throne
,
I
will
send
the
Spirit
;
and
he
shall
promote
Obedience
:
He
shall
lead
his
People
into
all
Truth
,
ver.
13.
14.
Whenever
he
intends
the
flourishing
of
his
Kingdom
in
the
World
,
he
hath
residues
of
the
Spirit
to
give
out
;
the
more
Holiness
there
is
in
Saints
and
Churches
,
the
more
there
are
of
the
pourings
out
of
the
Spirit
:
I
will
pour
out
my
Spirit
upon
thy
Seed
,
and
they
shall
spring
up
as
among
the
grass
,
as
Willows
by
the
Water-courses
,
Isa.
44.
3
,
4.
So
Joel
2.
28
,
29.
I
will
pour
out
my
Spirit
upon
all
Flesh
,
&c.
In
those
days
,
that
is
,
in
the
time
of
the
Gospel
,
and
especially
when
the
Jews
are
called
.
Again
,
as
King
,
the
Lord
Jesus
Christ
hath
sufficient
Power
to
protect
and
rule
his
People
,
to
govern
and
subdue
his
Enemies
.
He
is
altogether
compleat
to
enact
his
own
Purposes
,
and
to
fulfill
his
own
Will
;
for
as
God
,
nothing
is
too
hard
for
him
;
He
takes
up
the
Isles
as
a
very
little
thing
,
Isa.
40.
15.
It
is
an
easie
thing
with
him
to
blow
off
the
Nations
,
and
subdue
all
the
Powers
that
oppose
him
:
He
that
sitteth
in
the
Heavens
shall
laugh
,
the
Lord
shall
have
them
in
Derision
,
Psal.
2.
4.
He
makes
nothing
of
all
the
Powers
of
his
Enemies
;
it
is
but
to
look
through
the
Clouds
,
and
trouble
their
Hosts
,
Exod.
14.
24.
One
Angel
can
suddenly
destroy
thousands
of
them
:
he
hath
absolute
Power
over
all
Creatures
to
bring
down
all
his
Enemies
,
where
and
when
he
will
;
and
he
must
reign
till
he
hath
brought
them
all
down
,
Heb.
2.
8.
Thou
shalt
break
them
with
a
Rod
of
Iron
,
thou
shalt
dash
them
in
pieces
like
a
Potters
Vessel
,
Psal.
2.
9.
The
Saints
are
ready
to
tremble
when
they
consider
the
Potency
of
their
Enemies
;
but
it
is
far
easier
for
Christ
to
dash
all
the
Powers
of
the
World
in
pieces
,
than
for
a
man
to
break
an
earthen
Pitcher
:
He
will
order
and
establish
his
Kingdom
with
Judgment
and
Justice
,
Isa.
9.
7.
It
is
not
for
want
of
Ability
in
Christ
to
order
and
perfect
the
Obedience
of
his
Church
and
People
,
that
there
are
such
Disorders
found
amongst
them
;
only
he
is
pleased
to
leave
Irregularities
for
a
while
,
that
he
may
come
at
last
with
his
Fan
,
and
purge
them
:
So
neither
men
nor
Devils
can
pluck
his
Sheep
out
of
his
hand
,
Jo.
10.
28.
Enemies
may
touch
them
;
Temptations
may
wound
and
buffet
them
,
and
sometimes
Captivate
his
People
;
but
they
cannot
remove
them
out
of
his
hand
;
he
will
still
support
and
preserve
,
all
that
the
Father
hath
given
him
.
Fifthly
,
In
this
personal
Union
of
the
Lord
Jesus
Christ
,
lies
his
Mediatorship
:
In
these
two
Natures
he
takes
upon
him
,
and
undergoes
the
Office
of
Mediator
.
And
this
is
so
great
a
deep
,
that
time
is
too
short
to
give
a
full
Display
of
the
Glory
of
Christ's
Mediatorship
.
Heb.
8.
6.
But
now
he
hath
obtained
a
more
excellent
Ministry
by
how
much
also
he
is
the
Mediator
of
a
better
Covenant
.
But
now
&c.
That
is
by
vertue
of
this
Union
of
both
Natures
in
the
Person
of
Christ
,
he
is
become
a
Mediator
of
a
better
Covenant
;
this
we
may
see
,
if
we
look
back
in
vers.
1.
The
Apostle
speaks
of
Christs
divine
Nature
,
who
is
set
on
the
right
hand
of
the
Throne
of
the
Majesty
in
Heaven
;
and
vers.
2.
his
humane
Nature
is
shewn
,
called
the
Minister
of
the
Sanctuary
,
and
vers.
3.
ordained
to
offer
Gifts
:
and
having
spoken
of
Christ
in
both
his
Natures
,
he
tells
us
that
he
is
now
become
a
Mediator
,
betwixt
God
and
Man
;
a
middle
Person
,
a
days-Man
,
he
hath
a
Mediety
or
Middleness
of
Nature
,
as
God-Man
,
and
is
a
Mediator
in
regard
of
his
Office
,
in
which
Office
,
the
Lord
Jesus
stands
in
a
double
Relation
,
first
,
to
God
,
secondly
,
to
Man
;
having
both
Natures
,
he
is
interested
in
both
parties
,
the
Son
of
God
,
and
the
Son
of
Man
,
one
with
God
,
Joh.
10.
30.
I
and
my
Father
are
one
:
of
one
Nature
,
one
Will
,
one
Delight
,
having
one
Design
and
one
Glory
.
As
man
he
is
of
the
same
Nature
,
Flesh
and
Blood
with
fall'n
man
,
Heb.
2.
11.
14.
17.
He
hath
the
same
Temptations
,
the
same
Weaknesses
and
Infirmities
with
them
(
Sin
excepted
)
that
he
might
have
a
fellow
feeling
of
the
Infirmities
of
his
people
,
and
put
on
Bowels
of
Compassions
,
that
he
might
be
capable
of
fulfilling
all
Righteousness
,
suffering
for
them
,
and
holding
Communion
with
them
,
Heb.
5.
1.
2.
This
Term
Mediator
,
is
taken
sometimes
in
a
more
large
sense
,
sometimes
in
a
more
strict
sense
.
First
,
This
Term
,
as
it
is
taken
in
a
large
Sense
,
so
the
Lord
Jesus
Christ
is
a
Mediator
,
as
he
is
the
Head
,
the
middle
between
God
and
his
Creatures
,
so
he
is
the
Mediator
of
Angels
as
well
as
men
:
It
is
by
him
the
Angels
were
made
,
and
in
him
the
Elect
Angels
are
chosen
,
and
by
him
they
are
preserved
:
for
Angels
cannot
be
thought
to
come
to
such
a
State
of
Felicity
,
and
such
near
Union
with
God
,
but
upon
the
account
of
a
second
person
,
Col.
1.
20.
in
the
sixteenth
verse
,
Christ
is
said
to
be
the
Creator
of
Angels
,
and
in
this
20.
ver.
there
's
his
Mediatorship
for
Angels
:
By
him
to
reconcile
all
things
to
himself
,
whether
they
be
things
in
Earth
or
things
in
Heaven
.
This
is
a
place
of
very
great
Difficulty
,
and
hath
puzled
many
Interpreters
:
some
conceive
it
is
to
reconcile
man
and
Angels
together
,
supposing
the
Angels
were
enemies
to
fallen
man
,
but
by
Jesus
Christ
,
brought
into
a
State
of
Amity
:
but
it
cannot
be
so
understood
here
;
for
the
Parties
reconciled
,
are
not
said
to
be
men
and
Angels
,
but
God
,
and
these
things
:
how
then
is
this
understood
?
Some
therefore
conceive
,
that
this
Reconciliation
is
to
be
understood
by
way
of
Proportion
and
Similitude
,
not
as
if
the
Angels
needed
Pardon
,
for
they
never
sinned
;
but
they
stand
in
need
of
a
Mediator
,
that
they
may
not
sin
;
for
as
Creatures
,
they
are
mutable
,
and
as
subject
,
in
their
Nature
to
sin
,
as
the
Devils
were
;
and
it
is
by
Jesus
Christ
they
are
preserved
,
and
kept
in
the
Favour
of
God
.
It
is
said
,
all
things
in
Heaven
:
The
Heavens
themselves
are
,
or
shall
be
brought
into
a
capacity
of
meetness
,
for
the
presence
of
God
,
Saints
and
Angels
,
by
Jesus
Christ
,
as
Mediatour
:
The
Angels
are
called
Elect
Angels
,
1
Tim.
5.
21.
And
how
?
but
as
they
are
chosen
in
Christ
;
for
all
Election
is
founded
in
the
Lord
Jesus
Christ
,
as
a
middle
Person
,
as
the
Head
of
Election
,
Eph.
1.
4.
According
as
he
hath
chosen
us
in
him
;
all
those
Creatures
that
shall
be
made
,
or
kept
holy
,
are
plac'd
in
the
Lord
Jesus
Christ
.
Likewise
the
Angels
are
call'd
the
Sons
of
God
,
Job
38.
7.
When
the
Morning
Stars
sang
together
,
and
all
the
Sons
of
God
shouted
for
Joy
:
Now
all
Adoption
is
in
the
Lord
Jesus
Christ
:
If
they
are
reputed
as
the
Sons
of
God
,
this
Relation
must
needs
be
in
Christ
,
who
is
the
onely
begotten
Son
of
God
:
therefore
all
the
Angels
must
needs
have
dependance
upon
Christ
,
as
Mediator
,
Eph.
1.
10.
That
in
the
dispensation
of
the
fulness
of
time
,
he
might
gather
together
in
one
,
all
things
in
Christ
,
both
which
are
in
Heaven
,
and
which
are
on
Earth
,
even
in
him
.
Some
conceive
it
is
meant
of
those
Saints
that
were
in
Heaven
,
before
Christ
came
to
suffer
;
but
that
cannot
be
,
it
being
put
in
the
Neuter
Gender
,
All
things
in
Heaven
:
so
that
the
Lord
Jesus
Christ
is
the
Mediator
of
Angels
,
in
that
he
procures
for
them
Preservation
with
God
:
and
were
it
not
for
a
Mediator
,
they
would
never
be
secur'd
from
Falling
.
Secondly
,
More
strictly
.
Christ
is
called
Mediatour
in
respect
to
God
,
and
fallen
Man
,
coming
betwixt
them
,
as
a
middle
Person
,
to
make
up
the
Breach
,
effect
a
Peace
,
and
reconcile
them
together
,
Heb.
9.
15.
He
is
the
Mediator
of
the
New
Testament
,
Heb.
12.
24.
And
to
Jesus
the
Mediatour
of
the
new
Covenant
,
John
14.
6.
He
is
the
Way
,
the
Truth
,
and
the
Life
:
It
is
through
his
Name
alone
Salvation
is
to
be
had
,
Acts
4.
12.
He
is
appointed
of
God
the
Father
to
this
end
,
Joh.
3.
16.
Rom.
3.
25.
Whom
God
hath
set
forth
to
be
a
Propitiation
for
our
Sins
:
to
be
one
that
may
reconcile
God
to
Man
,
and
render
him
propitious
and
favourable
to
him
,
Acts
2.
23.
1
Pet.
1.
20.
Heb.
5.
4.
Joh.
6.
24.
For
him
hath
God
the
Father
sealed
:
He
was
annointed
and
furnished
with
all
Abilities
for
this
end
,
Isa.
61.
1
,
2.
And
he
is
the
onely
Mediator
,
1
Tim.
2.
5
,
6.
The
onely
Surety
,
Heb.
8.
6.
The
onely
Advocate
,
1
Joh.
2.
1
,
2.
'T
is
God
the
Son
,
the
Second
Person
,
is
the
only
Mediator
;
't
was
he
that
made
man
,
and
therefore
fittest
for
him
to
re-make
him
;
It
would
be
a
great
derogation
from
Christs
Honour
(
saith
Austin
)
should
another
mend
and
reform
that
spoiled
work
which
he
made
.
He
is
fittest
to
restore
man
to
the
lost
Image
of
God
,
who
himself
is
the
express
Image
of
the
Father
:
'T
is
best
meet
for
him
to
commend
the
Love
of
God
to
man
,
who
himself
is
the
Son
of
the
Father's
Love
:
He
is
the
onely
begotten
Son
of
the
Father
,
and
so
fit
to
Adopt
others
into
a
state
of
Sonship
.
As
Man
also
,
Christ
hath
Right
to
Redemption-work
,
Lev.
25.
23.
As
God
,
he
hath
Ability
to
redeem
;
As
Man
he
was
capable
to
suffer
:
As
God
,
he
was
able
to
bear
up
the
Humane
Nature
under
Sufferings
;
As
Man
,
he
could
bear
the
Punishment
of
Sin
;
As
God
,
he
could
remove
our
Sins
,
and
purifie
our
Natures
:
As
Man
,
he
could
compassionate
his
People
;
As
God
,
he
could
help
them
:
As
Man
,
he
is
capable
to
tender
a
Satisfaction
;
As
God
,
to
render
it
infinite
:
As
Man
,
he
was
able
to
become
a
Sponsor
,
a
Surety
,
to
make
a
promise
in
the
behalf
of
his
Seed
;
And
,
as
God
,
he
could
make
good
his
Promise
:
He
can
reveal
the
mind
,
and
disclose
the
deep
things
of
God
,
and
pour
out
the
Spirit
of
Grace
;
He
hath
all
Power
in
Heaven
and
Earth
,
and
is
able
to
save
to
the
uttermost
:
He
can
exalt
his
Interest
,
and
subjugate
his
Enemies
under
his
Feet
;
He
sits
at
the
Right
hand
of
God
,
and
is
God
with
the
Father
,
and
Man
with
Man
.
CHAP.
IV.
Shewing
,
what
is
the
Work
of
Jesus
Christ
,
as
he
is
Mediator
.
WE
come
in
the
next
place
,
to
shew
wherein
the
Office
and
Work
of
this
Mediator
lies
:
And
it
will
much
conduce
to
the
Glory
of
Christ
,
to
display
his
Mediatorship
.
Now
we
must
consider
him
in
a
double
Relation
.
The
Lord
Jesus
Christ
hath
to
deal
with
two
different
Parties
,
where
there
is
a
Breach
.
-
1.
His
Work
lies
with
respect
to
God
the
Father
.
-
2.
His
Work
lies
with
respect
to
fallen
Man
.
First
,
His
Work
lies
with
respect
to
God
the
Father
:
And
here
his
Office
lies
in
several
particulars
.
First
,
One
great
part
of
the
Work
of
Christ
,
as
Mediator
,
is
,
to
mediate
in
the
behalf
of
fallen
Man
,
with
the
Father
,
so
as
to
procure
terms
of
Reconciliation
:
Thus
a
Mediator
is
to
agitate
with
the
offended
Person
,
to
bring
to
terms
of
Peace
:
This
was
the
Work
of
Jesus
Christ
,
from
before
all
time
;
He
did
act
with
God
the
Father
,
that
there
might
be
a
way
found
out
for
agreement
between
him
and
poor
Sinners
.
This
was
drawn
up
in
the
Covenant
between
the
Father
and
the
Son
,
as
in
Isa.
42.
6
,
7.
I
the
Lord
have
called
thee
in
Righteousness
,
and
will
hold
thy
hand
,
and
will
keep
thee
,
and
give
thee
for
a
Covenant
of
the
People
,
for
a
Light
of
the
Gentiles
:
To
open
the
blind
eyes
,
to
bring
out
the
Prisoners
from
the
Prison
.
Here
's
the
result
of
Christs
Mediation
in
the
behalf
of
fall'n
Sinners
:
He
doth
treat
with
the
Father
,
that
he
would
be
pleased
to
shew
pity
to
fall'n
man
;
and
the
Father
returns
this
Answer
,
That
he
will
consent
to
the
terms
of
Jesus
Christ
,
for
the
saving
of
Sinners
;
that
he
shall
be
a
Covenant
for
the
People
,
and
give
out
Salvation
to
perishing
Sinners
:
So
Isa.
49.
5.
to
the
10
vers.
The
Persons
for
whom
the
Lord
Jesus
Christ
mediates
,
are
Jews
and
Gentiles
,
and
under
these
are
comprised
all
the
Elect
of
God
:
And
the
Father
treats
,
and
concludes
with
Christ
,
about
the
saving
of
these
two
Parties
:
In
an
acceptable
time
(
saith
he
)
have
I
heard
thee
,
and
I
will
give
thee
for
a
Covenant
of
the
People
.
All
the
Elect
of
God
,
both
among
the
Jews
and
Gentiles
,
shall
be
called
and
saved
by
this
Mediation
of
Jesus
Christ
.
But
what
are
the
terms
upon
which
the
Father
consents
to
the
Mediation
of
Christ
,
that
there
shall
be
Peace
for
all
that
come
to
him
?
First
,
One
thing
concluded
upon
between
the
Father
and
the
Son
,
is
,
That
the
Lord
Jesus
Christ
shall
make
up
the
Breach
of
the
first
Covenant
:
There
's
a
Righteous
Covenant
of
God
broken
,
by
the
Sin
of
Adam
,
and
upon
the
breach
of
this
Covenant
,
God
is
bound
,
in
Justice
,
to
lay
Death
upon
Adam
,
Condemnation
upon
all
fall'n
Mankind
.
Now
,
that
this
Blessing
may
be
procured
,
which
Christ
mediates
for
,
the
Sentence
of
Death
is
to
be
reversed
;
and
this
cannot
be
till
the
Punishment
of
the
broken
Covenant
be
borne
.
Now
the
Lord
Jesus
Christ
voluntarily
undertakes
to
do
this
,
Heb.
10.
7.
Then
said
I
,
Lo
,
I
come
.
All
other
ways
were
ineffectual
to
make
satisfaction
to
the
Justice
of
God
for
Adam's
Sin
.
Now
,
when
no
way
could
make
up
this
Breach
,
then
Christ
comes
,
and
consents
to
pay
the
price
himself
,
to
be
a
Sacrifice
for
Sinners
;
Lo
,
I
come
to
do
thy
Will.
What
is
the
Will
of
God
?
Why
,
that
Mercy
and
Justice
be
reconciled
.
Justice
was
all
for
Punishment
;
Justice
would
not
be
satisfied
till
the
Penalty
was
executed
:
Now
Christ
must
come
in
the
Sinners
room
,
and
undergo
the
Penalty
of
this
broken
Covenant
.
Sayes
God
,
In
the
day
thou
breakest
this
Covenant
thou
shalt
dye
;
therefore
Christ
must
come
and
dye
.
This
is
one
of
the
terms
;
If
the
Lord
Jesus
Christ
will
be
a
Substitute
in
the
room
of
the
Offender
,
and
undergo
the
Punishment
,
then
he
will
take
off
the
Condemnation
,
Rom.
8.
3.
For
Sin
condemned
Sin
in
the
Flesh
,
that
is
,
in
the
Flesh
of
Christ
,
Justice
must
be
satisfied
.
The
Law
could
not
do
this
:
God
sends
his
Son
,
and
he
must
undergo
the
curse
,
Gal.
3.
13.
And
this
the
Lord
Jesus
Christ
did
consent
unto
.
Secondly
,
Another
thing
required
is
,
That
the
Lord
Jesus
Christ
should
obey
the
Precepts
of
this
Covenant
perfectly
,
in
his
own
Person
,
in
the
behalf
of
all
his
Seed
:
That
God
might
have
no
Quarrel
with
the
Children
of
the
Covenant
,
Christ
must
dye
to
make
up
the
former
Breach
of
this
Covenant
:
He
must
obey
,
to
fulfill
the
End
of
the
Covenant
;
he
was
not
only
to
undergo
Sufferings
,
but
he
was
to
complete
all
active
Righteousness
:
and
this
the
Lord
Jesus
Christ
consented
to
▪
Hence
he
saith
,
It
behoveth
us
to
fulfil
all
Righteousness
,
Mat
:
3.
15.
God
sent
forth
his
Son
,
made
of
a
Woman
,
made
under
the
Law
,
Gal.
4.
4.
The
Lord
Jesus
Christ
,
as
Mediator
,
becomes
obliged
to
the
preceptive
Law
of
God
,
and
must
in
his
own
Person
fulfil
all
the
parts
of
this
Law
,
and
must
work
out
a
perfect
Holiness
and
Obedience
,
that
the
first
Covenant
might
be
fulfilled
,
if
Salvation
be
obtained
.
Thirdly
,
Another
thing
which
the
Father
and
Jesus
Christ
agree
upon
,
about
this
Work
of
Reconciliation
,
is
,
That
the
first
Covenant
,
to
all
its
demands
,
being
fulfilled
,
and
there
being
nothing
now
to
lay
in
against
the
Believer
from
this
Covenant
;
that
Salvation
may
be
sure
,
he
concludes
to
make
a
new
Covenant
;
which
,
that
it
may
be
faultless
,
Jesus
Christ
should
now
become
the
Surety
of
another
,
and
better
Covenant
.
The
first
Covenant
God
found
fault
with
,
and
therefore
he
thinks
upon
a
second
,
that
may
be
effectual
to
all
the
ends
of
Salvation-grace
,
Heb.
8.
7
,
8.
For
if
that
first
Covenant
had
been
faultless
,
then
should
no
place
have
been
sought
for
the
second
:
for
,
finding
fault
with
them
,
he
saith
,
Behold
,
the
dayes
come
,
when
I
will
make
a
new
Covenant
with
the
House
of
Israel
and
Judah
.
As
if
the
Lord
should
say
to
his
Son
,
The
first
Covenant
will
never
answer
thy
Proposals
,
to
save
fallen
Man
,
and
that
thy
Seed
may
be
blessed
,
therefore
there
shall
be
a
new
Covenant
drawn
,
that
shall
be
effectual
to
the
ends
of
Salvation
;
and
thou
shalt
be
the
Head
and
Mediator
of
this
Covenant
;
this
was
the
agreement
between
the
Father
and
the
Son
.
Now
Jesus
Christ
becomes
the
Angel
of
this
Conant
:
God
agrees
with
Jesus
Christ
for
fallen
man
:
Jesus
Christ
covenants
with
the
Father
,
in
the
behalf
of
all
his
Seed
,
that
he
will
bring
them
to
Life
:
He
promises
to
work
in
them
and
for
them
all
that
is
required
to
Salvation
,
and
that
they
shall
be
saved
to
the
uttermost
,
Heb.
7.
22
,
25.
By
so
much
was
Jesus
made
a
Surety
of
a
better
Testament
:
wherefore
he
is
able
to
save
to
the
uttermost
.
Thus
he
becomes
an
Engager
to
the
Father
in
the
behalf
of
all
Believers
.
O
Friends
!
this
is
a
glorious
Mystery
;
I
fear
too
few
are
insighted
in
the
glorious
Work
of
the
Mediatorship
of
Christ
.
The
Lord
Jesus
Christ
becomes
a
Surety
,
not
only
to
pay
the
Debt
,
but
to
perform
the
Condition
.
A
Surety
,
or
a
Sponsor
,
is
one
that
promises
and
undertakes
in
the
behalf
of
another
,
to
fulfill
what
he
was
bound
to
do
.
T●us
the
Lord
Jesus
Christ
hath
performed
this
first
Office
of
a
Mediator
,
by
drawing
up
an
Agreement
between
God
and
fallen
Man
,
by
bringing
the
Father
to
terms
of
Reconciliation
.
Secondly
,
The
terms
being
thus
concluded
upon
,
the
second
part
of
this
mediatory
work
of
Christ
is
,
that
he
actually
set
about
this
Obedience
and
Suffering
,
and
make
good
the
Agreement
between
the
Father
and
himself
;
and
this
he
did
in
the
fulness
of
time
;
he
comes
and
actually
accomplishes
all
his
Promises
to
the
Father
,
in
point
of
Merit
and
Satisfaction
.
There
are
two
great
things
Jesus
Christ
is
to
do
,
in
order
to
the
fulfilling
of
this
Promise
to
the
Father
,
in
behalf
of
his
Seed
:
First
,
meritoriously
procuring
the
things
for
them
;
and
Secondly
,
efficaciously
applying
what
he
procures
,
Heb.
9.
15.
And
for
this
cause
he
is
the
Mediator
of
the
new
Testament
,
that
by
means
of
Death
,
for
the
Redemption
of
the
Transgressions
that
were
under
the
first
Covenant
,
they
which
are
called
might
receive
the
promise
of
eternal
Inheritance
.
There
could
be
no
Redemption
of
them
that
were
bound
an
I
cast
by
the
Statute
of
the
first
Covenant
,
but
by
Christs
Sufferings
;
therefore
Christ
did
actually
lay
down
his
Life
a
Ransom
for
all
his
Seed
.
1
Pet.
3.
18.
For
Christ
also
hath
once
suffered
for
Sins
the
just
for
the
unjust
,
that
he
might
bring
us
unto
God
.
2
Cor.
5.
21.
He
hath
made
him
to
be
Sin
for
us
:
By
way
of
Stipulation
and
Agreement
,
he
was
made
a
Sin-offering
,
he
did
actually
undergo
all
those
Sufferings
while
he
was
on
Earth
,
which
was
a
full
sufficient
,
equal
,
just
,
valuable
,
and
proportionable
Satisfaction
to
divine
Justice
,
all
that
it
could
demand
,
in
foro
judicii
;
Justice
hath
nothing
more
to
charge
;
the
Extremity
and
Rigour
of
the
Law
was
fulfillled
;
and
whatever
the
Believer
should
have
suffered
in
his
own
person
,
was
all
born
by
Christ
.
1
Tim.
2.
6.
Who
gave
himself
a
Ransom
.
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
,
as
Gomarus
observes
,
signifies
an
equal-price
of
Redemption
,
an
Eye
for
an
Eye
,
a
Tooth
for
a
Tooth
,
caput
capite
redimo
,
saith
Arist.
So
full
is
this
Satisfaction
made
by
Christ
,
that
God
declares
himself
well
pleased
.
Math.
3
17.
So
great
was
the
delight
and
Pleasure
that
God
took
in
his
Sons
Satisfaction
,
as
that
by
an
audible
Voice
from
Heaven
,
in
the
Presence
of
men
and
Angels
,
he
discharges
him
,
and
gives
him
an
Acquittance
.
Again
,
This
Satisfaction
must
needs
be
full
,
because
upon
the
very
Promise
of
this
Ransom
,
when
the
Conclusion
was
made
between
the
Father
and
the
Son
,
did
the
Lord
let
his
Prisoner
free
,
and
give
the
purchased
Possession
to
the
Seed
of
Christ
,
before
ever
Christ
did
fully
pay
the
Debt
:
as
much
as
to
say
,
assoon
as
ever
the
Lord
Jesus
Christ
gave
Bond
for
the
payment
of
this
Debt
,
the
Father
gives
out
the
Fruit
of
it
,
and
so
all
the
Saints
that
were
saved
before
Christ
came
,
were
saved
by
Virtue
of
this
Promise
of
Christ
to
the
Father
,
fully
to
pay
the
Debt
;
and
the
Spirits
of
just
men
,
were
made
perfect
with
God
before
Christ
came
into
the
World
,
upon
the
account
of
this
compleat
Satisfaction
afterwards
to
be
made
.
Again
,
A
Proclamation
is
sent
out
from
Heaven
,
upon
the
Death
and
Resurrection
of
Christ
,
that
now
Peace
is
made
for
fallen
man
,
upon
the
terms
of
Sinners
coming
to
and
receiving
of
the
Lord
Jesus
Christ
:
now
God
would
never
have
sent
forth
this
Proclamation
from
Heaven
,
had
not
the
Satisfaction
Christ
made
,
been
compleat
and
full
.
Matt.
11.
28.
Come
unto
me
,
whoever
you
be
,
let
your
Burdens
be
never
so
great
,
your
Wearyness
never
so
much
,
your
Dangers
never
so
many
,
come
unto
me
,
and
I
will
give
you
rest
:
thus
he
proclaims
in
the
great
Feast
.
Joh.
7.
27.
If
any
man
thirst
,
let
him
come
unto
me
and
drink
,
be
he
what
he
will
,
here
's
enough
to
satiate
his
Soul
,
if
he
comes
;
here
's
Redemption
procur'd
:
And
upon
this
,
by
the
joynt
Agreement
of
the
Father
and
Son
,
a
Commission
is
given
to
a
certain
number
of
men
,
to
preach
the
Gospel
and
tender
Reconciliation
to
lost
Sinners
,
Luke
24.
47.
And
that
Repentance
and
Remission
of
Sins
should
be
preached
in
his
Name
among
all
Nations
,
Mark
.
16.
15.
And
he
said
unto
them
,
go
ye
into
all
the
World
and
preach
the
Gospel
to
every
Creature
.
O
Friends
!
These
are
glorious
things
,
if
they
be
but
believed
.
Tenders
of
Life
must
be
made
to
all
the
perishing
World
,
that
all
may
know
,
that
this
was
a
full
and
sufficient
Ransom
which
Christ
gave
,
and
that
the
Father
was
compleatly
satisfied
with
it
.
Again
,
Upon
the
Fathers
actual
Acceptance
of
Christs
Redemption
and
Mediation
,
he
doth
give
out
begun
Salvation
to
Believers
,
they
are
admitted
to
the
actual
Enjoyment
of
this
purchase
;
so
all
Believers
upon
their
Reception
of
Christ
,
have
the
Spirit
of
Christ
given
them
,
which
to
them
is
begun
Salvation
,
a
Seal
of
Glory
,
the
first
fruits
of
Heaven
,
2
Cor.
1.
22.
Who
hath
also
sealed
us
,
and
given
the
earnest
of
the
Spirit
in
our
Hearts
.
Now
seeing
the
Father
,
upon
the
receiving
of
this
Payment
made
by
Christ
,
delivers
out
Grace
,
and
therein
the
Begi●nings
of
Glory
,
to
all
that
savingly
close
with
Christ
,
therefore
this
price
paid
by
Jesus
Christ
,
must
needs
be
compleat
and
full
That
's
the
second
thing
that
this
Mediator
doth
,
he
doth
actually
pay
down
the
price
the
Father
demands
,
and
this
becomes
a
full
Satisfaction
to
divine
Justice
,
for
every
Soul
that
doth
savingly
close
with
Jesus
Christ
.
Thirdly
,
Another
thing
the
Lord
Jesus
Christ
doth
as
Mediator
,
is
this
.
By
his
shed
blood
,
he
seals
to
,
and
engages
with
the
Father
in
the
Behalf
of
Believers
,
that
they
shall
abide
with
God
in
his
Covenant
,
and
shall
no
more
wickedly
depart
from
him
:
we
have
shewn
before
,
that
this
was
one
of
those
Terms
agreed
upon
,
between
the
Father
and
the
Son
;
that
Jesus
Christ
should
be
the
Surety
of
another
and
better
Covenant
:
and
here
the
Lord
Jesus
Christ
stands
actually
bound
for
the
Preservation
of
all
the
Saints
to
Glory
.
O
if
Souls
had
this
Truth
let
into
their
Hearts
,
it
would
wonderfully
prevent
many
stumbling
Blocks
by
reason
of
their
Unbelief
:
he
stands
bound
to
the
Father
,
as
a
Sponsor
or
Surety
,
in
the
Behalf
of
Believers
,
that
he
will
work
all
in
them
,
and
for
them
,
that
tends
to
the
Salvation
of
their
Souls
:
for
in
this
new
Covenant
,
God
doth
not
deal
with
man
,
but
by
a
Surety
;
mans
single
Bond
will
never
pass
more
in
the
Court
of
Heaven
;
no
,
it
was
broken
in
Adam's
Fall
,
and
God
made
no
more
Covenant
with
man
upon
these
Terms
:
there
must
be
a
Surety
;
hence
he
is
said
to
be
the
Surety
of
a
better
Testament
,
Heb.
7.
22.
So
that
that
which
is
to
be
wrought
in
and
by
Believers
,
the
Lord
Jesus
Christ
undertakes
to
do
,
Rom.
8.
4.
That
the
Righteousness
of
the
Law
might
be
fulfill'd
in
us
:
That
is
,
that
Righteousness
which
the
Law
requires
,
even
a
perfect
Conformity
to
the
will
of
God
,
might
be
fully
found
in
Christ
our
Head
,
for
us
and
in
us
,
by
way
of
Imputation
and
Application
through
Faith
;
by
vertue
of
the
Union
between
Christ
and
his
Members
,
all
the
Righteousness
and
Obedience
,
which
was
wrought
in
Christ's
own
person
,
as
their
Head
,
Redeemer
,
and
Mediator
of
this
new
Covenant
,
is
imputed
to
them
as
their
Obedience
and
Righteousness
,
and
accepted
of
God
the
Father
,
as
if
it
were
done
by
them
;
and
so
it
is
fulfilled
in
Believers
:
so
that
the
Lord
Jesus
Christ
stands
engaged
to
the
Father
,
for
the
Obedience
of
all
his
Seed
,
that
it
shall
be
wrought
in
them
,
and
for
them
,
in
Truth
,
and
Sincerity
.
And
he
begins
to
place
this
inward
Conformity
to
God
,
in
the
Soul
,
when
he
doth
new
create
it
in
the
Image
of
God
;
there
is
something
in
every
part
and
Faculty
of
the
believing
Soul
,
that
corresponds
and
answers
to
the
Holiness
of
God
,
though
but
in
Part
and
Degrees
,
in
their
Understandings
,
something
of
the
true
Light
of
God
:
in
their
Wills
something
of
real
Conformity
to
the
Will
of
God
:
a
gracious
Soul
would
be
holy
as
God
is
holy
.
O
says
the
poor
Believer
,
I
cannot
evidence
that
Holiness
I
should
,
but
God
knows
,
I
would
be
holy
,
I
would
cast
off
every
Sin
,
I
would
perform
every
Duty
in
a
right
manner
:
so
in
the
Affections
,
there
is
the
Seed
of
divine
Love
to
God
,
his
Will
,
and
Holiness
;
there
is
sincere
Love
,
though
but
in
part
,
and
imperfect
:
but
seeing
this
Holiness
begun
in
the
Saints
in
Truth
,
is
but
in
part
,
and
full
of
Spots
;
Christ
comes
,
in
the
next
place
,
and
presents
his
spotless
Obedience
in
the
Behalf
of
Believers
,
and
by
Vertue
of
this
mystical
Union
between
Believers
and
Christ
,
this
Holiness
of
Christ
is
the
Holiness
of
Believers
,
and
God
accepts
of
it
as
their
Holiness
:
O
if
Souls
did
but
see
more
into
this
,
they
would
not
take
up
all
their
standing
upon
their
own
Legs
,
and
see
their
Happiness
or
Misery
lye
in
their
compleat
or
incompleat
Obedience
,
but
they
would
see
all
Holiness
lye
in
Christ
:
hence
you
see
the
meaning
of
that
Scripture
,
Rom.
5.
19.
By
the
Obedience
of
one
,
many
are
made
righteous
.
God
looks
upon
sincere
Souls
as
presented
in
Christ
,
that
so
far
as
Christ
is
holy
,
they
are
holy
in
him
;
for
all
the
Obedience
and
Holiness
of
Christ
as
Mediator
,
is
the
Obedience
and
Holiness
of
his
People
;
for
what
he
did
was
not
for
himself
,
but
for
his
people
.
And
thus
much
of
the
first
,
how
this
Mediator
deals
with
God
the
Father
for
fallen
man
.
Secondly
,
The
Lord
Jesus
Christ
as
Mediator
,
deals
with
men
the
other
party
too
.
Now
this
he
doth
.
First
,
As
an
Interceder
to
Sinners
in
the
Behalf
of
God
the
Father
,
he
comes
and
treats
with
men
,
by
virtue
of
his
Mediatorship
,
to
draw
and
perswade
them
to
Terms
of
Reconciliation
,
2
Cor.
5.
18.
All
things
are
of
God
,
who
hath
reconciled
us
to
himself
by
Jesus
Christ
,
and
hath
given
us
the
Ministry
of
Reconciliation
.
The
Lord
Jesus
Christ
comes
as
the
Messenger
of
the
Lord
,
and
delivers
over
Counsel
,
and
tenders
God
the
Father
to
Sinners
:
this
he
doth
in
his
person
:
vers.
19.
God
in
Christ
reconciling
the
World
to
himself
;
By
his
Ministry
,
in
opening
the
Gospel
to
Sinners
,
discovering
those
great
Transactions
between
the
Father
and
himself
,
and
the
great
willingness
of
God
to
be
reconciled
,
and
inviting
lost
Souls
to
himself
.
vers.
20.
We
pray
you
in
Christ's
stead
be
you
reconciled
to
God
.
You
see
the
Errand
of
the
Gospel
to
you
,
(
Souls
)
and
the
Business
of
Christ
in
every
Sermon
,
it
is
to
bring
you
to
a
willingness
to
accept
of
the
Terms
of
Reconciliation
,
to
come
over
to
God
by
Jesus
Christ
,
that
you
may
be
saved
.
Secondly
,
By
giving
out
the
holy
Ghost
,
by
which
Sinners
are
effectually
called
,
and
adopted
into
the
Sonship
of
God
;
this
is
necessary
in
order
to
the
Application
of
what
the
Lord
Jesus
Christ
hath
done
in
his
own
person
,
whilst
on
Earth
:
he
promised
when
he
left
the
World
,
to
send
the
Spirit
in
his
Room
,
seeing
it
is
of
necessity
,
he
must
go
away
and
take
possession
of
the
Kingdom
of
Glory
for
his
people
,
and
must
go
within
the
Veil
,
as
the
great
High-priest
;
therefore
that
this
Work
might
go
on
in
his
Absence
,
the
comforter
must
come
.
Jo.
16.
7.
If
I
depart
I
will
send
him
unto
you
.
And
what
shall
he
do
?
He
will
reprove
the
World
of
Sin
,
of
Righteousness
,
and
Judgment
,
vers
.
8.
He
will
guide
you
into
all
Truth
,
vers.
13.
So
that
the
Lord
Jesus
Christ
sends
the
Spirit
in
the
Gospel
,
to
make
all
the
Administrations
of
it
effectual
,
to
such
as
shall
be
saved
.
All
that
Ministers
can
do
,
cannot
remove
the
thick
Veil
,
that
is
,
upon
the
Minds
of
Sinners
,
we
cannot
give
eyes
to
see
,
nor
Ears
to
hear
,
it
is
the
work
of
the
Spirit
,
it
must
be
an
Almighty
power
,
must
open
this
two
leafed
gate
,
and
let
in
Jesus
Christ
into
the
Heart
;
it
must
be
by
the
Almighty
Power
,
and
Energy
of
the
Spirit
,
that
the
work
becomes
successful
to
any
Soul
,
we
find
it
so
.
How
many
precious
Sermons
are
cast
away
upon
flinty
Hearts
,
they
will
not
bow
nor
turn
till
the
Spirit
comes
;
therefore
the
Lord
Jesus
Christ
in
the
exercise
of
his
Mediatorship
pours
out
the
Spirit
,
Gal.
4.
6.
That
we
might
receive
the
Promise
of
the
Spirit
through
Faith
.
Gal.
3.
14.
Or
the
promised
Spirit
through
the
Word
of
Faith
;
for
Faith
cannot
be
had
till
the
Spirit
be
had
:
Faith
comes
by
hearing
;
How
received
ye
the
Spirit
,
by
the
Works
of
the
Law
,
or
by
the
hearing
of
Faith
?
Gal.
3.
2.
There
's
no
such
Commission
given
at
all
to
the
Law
,
to
give
out
the
Spirit
;
it
is
by
the
hearing
of
Faith
,
by
the
opening
this
Box
of
precious
Ointment
,
this
blessed
savour
comes
to
Sinners
:
till
that
be
done
,
no
Conversion-work
can
be
done
;
till
the
Spirit
enters
the
Soul
,
Jesus
Christ
cannot
enter
the
Soul
:
the
Spirit
of
Christ
is
the
harbinger
,
and
goes
before
,
and
makes
way
for
this
blessed
Mediator
,
to
come
into
the
Sinners
heart
:
the
Spirit
is
tendred
to
all
,
but
the
Lord
gives
it
to
whom
he
pleases
;
for
it
is
as
the
Wind
that
blows
,
Jo.
3.
8.
So
is
the
way
of
the
Spirit
:
thus
the
Lord
Jesus
Christ
gives
the
Spirit
to
all
that
come
to
him
,
and
by
this
he
carries
on
his
Mediatory
work
.
Thirdly
,
Another
thing
Jesus
Christ
doth
with
respect
to
men
,
in
the
exercise
of
his
Mediatorship
;
He
applies
his
Redemption-work
to
all
those
that
do
believe
in
him
,
he
makes
over
himself
,
and
all
that
is
his
,
by
a
free
Donation
,
to
all
that
receive
him
,
Rev.
3.
20.
If
any
man
open
the
door
,
I
will
come
into
him
,
and
will
sup
with
him
:
The
great
work
is
to
get
open
this
bolted
door
of
the
Heart
to
Jesus
Christ
,
and
when
the
door
stands
open
,
and
the
Sinner
consents
to
take
Christ
,
and
esteeming
it
a
good
Bargain
to
have
him
,
upon
the
most
costly
Terms
;
then
he
makes
over
himself
to
the
Soul
,
I
will
sup
with
him
,
I
will
impart
my
Spiritual
refreshings
to
him
,
I
will
give
my self
to
him
,
he
shall
feed
upon
my
Flesh
and
Blood
:
we
have
an
Overture
made
,
Rev.
21.
6.
I
will
give
to
him
that
is
a
thirst
of
the
Fountain
of
the
Water
of
Life
freely
,
So
Rev.
22.
17.
When
once
God
hath
brought
the
Sinner
to
a
thirst
for
Christ
,
to
a
sense
of
his
Misery
without
Christ
,
that
he
cannot
live
without
him
;
when
the
Sinner
is
persuaded
to
believe
in
him
,
and
give
up
himself
to
him
;
then
the
Lord
Jesus
gives
out
himself
,
his
Spirit
,
these
Waters
of
Life
,
the
Waters
of
Regeneration
;
then
he
puts
the
Believing
Soul
into
the
possession
of
Life
and
Righteousness
,
of
Grace
,
and
an
earnest
of
Glory
.
He
gives
to
such
,
a
Right
and
Title
to
all
that
is
his
,
Joh.
1.
12.
He
gives
out
to
them
the
fruit
of
his
Sweat
and
Bleeding
,
the
fruit
of
his
Groans
and
Dying
,
as
they
are
capable
to
receive
.
He
died
that
they
might
have
Life
,
and
have
it
more
abundantly
:
He
was
made
Sin
for
them
,
that
they
might
be
made
the
Righteousness
of
God
in
him
,
2
Cor.
5.
21.
And
now
he
is
performing
this
,
and
strips
the
poor
Soul
of
his
filthy
Garments
,
and
takes
away
the
filth
of
Original
and
Actual
Sin
,
and
comes
and
cloaths
the
Soul
with
Righteousness
,
and
puts
his
fair
Ornaments
upon
it
,
and
makes
it
as
a
fair
Jewel
in
the
sight
of
God
;
and
when
the
Soul
hath
bespotted
his
own
Garments
,
Christ
comes
and
cloaths
him
with
pure
Rayment
:
So
that
here
's
alwayes
Work
for
Christ
to
do
for
his
People
,
whilst
on
Earth
,
to
apply
the
fruits
of
his
Purchase
.
Fourthly
,
The
Lord
Jesus
Christ
,
in
pursuing
his
Mediatorly
Work
,
doth
take
upon
him
the
Work
of
an
Intercessor
in
Heaven
,
and
Advocates
in
the
behalf
of
all
his
People
;
He
hath
done
all
that
was
needful
for
him
to
do
on
Earth
,
and
now
he
is
entred
into
the
Heavens
,
and
sate
down
at
the
Right
hand
of
God
,
and
ever
lives
to
make
Intercession
for
the
Saints
,
Heb.
7.
25
,
27.
That
is
his
Work
now
in
Heaven
,
to
perform
that
part
of
his
Priestly
Office
,
as
is
needful
for
him
to
do
,
as
a
Mediator
there
.
CHAP.
V.
Wherein
is
opened
the
glorious
Advocateship
of
Christ
,
with
the
unspeakable
Comforts
and
Advantages
thereof
.
THere
are
two
parts
of
Christs
Priesthood
;
(
1.
)
His
Satisfaction
.
(
2.
)
His
Intercession
.
The
first
I
have
spoken
to
already
,
and
proved
,
That
the
Lord
Jesus
,
by
his
Active
and
Passive
Obedience
,
hath
satisfied
the
Law
of
God
,
and
made
a
full
Atonement
for
the
Sins
of
all
Believers
;
that
he
underwent
all
that
they
were
bound
to
undergo
,
and
that
in
their
Name
,
Room
,
and
Stead
,
for
their
Sakes
,
Heb.
7.
22.
Gal.
4.
4
,
5.
Rom.
5.
19.
This
he
did
by
his
Active
Obedience
,
and
also
by
his
Passive
,
Isa.
53.
4.
to
vers.
7.
Gal.
3.
13
,
14.
Joh.
1.
28
,
29.
And
by
this
one
Offering
of
his
,
hath
he
perfected
them
that
are
sanctified
for
ever
,
Heb.
10.
14.
by
way
of
Merit
;
that
God
hath
no
more
now
to
charge
on
Believers
,
by
way
of
Punishment
for
their
Sins
,
seeing
Christ
hath
borne
it
in
his
own
Body
for
them
on
the
Tree
.
By
this
he
hath
obtained
Salvation
for
them
:
that
's
the
first
part
of
his
Priestly
Work
.
But
,
Secondly
,
Having
dispatch'd
his
Expiation
,
't
is
needful
that
he
carry
on
his
Application
of
this
Obedience
and
Suffering
to
them
;
and
this
is
done
by
his
interceding
in
Heaven
for
them
.
Now
,
because
so
much
of
the
Riches
of
Christ
lies
in
this
part
of
his
Mediatorly
Work
,
and
it
is
of
such
infinite
Concernment
,
as
to
the
Faith
,
Comfort
,
and
Advantage
of
Believers
,
therefore
,
I
shall
speak
the
more
fully
to
this
Subject
,
and
shall
prove
,
1.
That
the
Lord
Jesus
Christ
,
God-Man
,
doth
now
sit
down
at
the
Right
Hand
of
God
,
Interceding
there
in
Heaven
.
2.
How
the
Lord
Christ
carries
on
this
Work
of
Intercession
in
Heaven
.
3.
For
whom
he
doth
intercede
in
Heaven
.
4.
What
he
doth
intercede
for
.
5.
Why
the
Lord
Jtsus
Christ
,
as
a
Mediator
,
carries
on
this
Work
of
Intercession
.
6.
What
are
the
unspeakable
Comforts
and
Advanvantages
that
flow
from
this
Intercession
of
Christ
.
First
,
Jesus
Christ
doth
now
sit
down
at
the
Right
Hand
of
God
,
and
is
entred
upon
the
Work
of
Intercession
.
There
are
two
Arguments
to
prove
this
.
First
,
The
nature
of
the
Office
the
Lord
Jesus
Christ
hath
undertaken
now
in
Heaven
:
He
hath
taken
on
him
the
Office
of
an
Advocate
,
on
the
behalf
of
his
People
.
1
Joh.
2.
1.
If
any
man
sin
,
we
have
an
Advocate
with
the
Father
,
Jesus
Christ
the
Righteous
;
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
:
This
word
is
ordinarily
rendred
a
Comforter
,
when
applied
to
the
Holy
Ghost
;
but
when
spoken
of
Christ
(
as
Gomarus
,
and
other
Learned
men
affirm
)
it
is
taken
for
an
Advocate
,
or
one
that
undertakes
the
Cause
of
another
;
an
Atturney
,
or
Officer
at
Law
,
that
appears
in
Court
for
one
that
is
there
concerned
and
accused
,
to
look
after
,
and
plead
his
Cause
:
He
is
one
that
is
,
by
Law
,
deputed
and
set
apart
to
that
Office
,
and
so
is
bound
to
do
his
utmost
for
his
Client
,
as
for
himself
:
Thus
is
Jesus
Christ
set
apart
,
and
deputed
,
by
the
Father
,
to
this
Office
of
Advocate
and
Intercessor
,
Joh.
6.
27.
For
him
hath
God
the
Father
sealed
.
That
is
,
appointed
,
set
apart
,
and
confirmed
to
be
Mediator
and
High-Priest
,
Psal.
110.
4.
That
he
might
satisfie
for
the
Sins
of
his
People
,
and
sue
out
the
Benefits
of
it
for
them
.
Secondly
,
Christs
Fidelity
in
the
Performance
of
this
Work
,
proves
he
is
now
in
Heaven
,
interceding
.
He
cannot
be
content
to
have
a
Name
and
no
more
;
he
is
faithful
in
things
pertaining
to
Men.
The
Lord
Jesus
Christ
did
actually
carry
on
this
Work
of
interceding
for
his
People
,
before
he
took
their
Nature
upon
him
,
and
came
into
the
World
,
Isa.
53.
12.
He
bore
the
Sins
of
many
,
and
made
Intercession
for
the
Transgressors
.
Upon
his
Deputation
to
this
Office
,
and
by
vertue
of
the
Sacrifice
to
be
offer'd
,
he
did
,
ever
since
the
Fall
,
mediate
for
his
People
,
and
put
on
Bowels
for
them
.
He
carried
them
all
the
dayes
of
Old
,
Isa.
63.
9.
whilst
he
was
in
Heaven
,
ever
since
Adam's
Fall
,
assoon
as
he
had
any
Seed
on
Earth
.
Again
,
Christ
was
faithful
in
this
Work
of
Mediation
and
Intercession
,
whilst
on
Earth
,
Heb.
5.
7.
Who
in
the
dayes
of
his
Flesh
,
when
he
had
offered
up
Prayers
and
Supplications
;
with
strong
cries
and
tears
.
Those
cries
and
tears
he
put
up
were
for
his
People
,
not
for
himself
,
he
needed
it
not
:
He
was
willing
to
be
subject
to
his
Fathers
Will
,
to
drink
of
the
Cup
the
Father
gave
him
to
drink
;
But
he
prayed
for
the
conversion
of
those
the
Father
had
given
him
,
and
prayes
for
the
Salvation
of
his
People
,
Joh.
17.
19
,
20.
Luke
22.
32.
And
this
he
doth
now
he
is
in
Heaven
;
he
carries
on
this
Work
there
in
his
Humane
Nature
:
He
is
entred
into
Heaven
it self
,
there
to
appear
in
the
presence
of
God
for
us
,
Heb.
9.
24.
It
is
a
Metaphor
taken
from
an
Atturney
,
that
appears
in
the
behalf
of
his
Clients
:
So
Jesus
Christ
is
at
the
Right
hand
of
God
making
intercession
,
by
way
of
Office
.
When
Satan
or
the
Law
doth
accuse
Believers
,
there
's
Christ
at
the
Bar
,
ready
to
make
answer
for
them
,
to
plead
the
Cause
of
his
Clients
,
and
procure
their
Justification
:
the
Apostle
makes
use
of
Christs
Intercession
to
this
purpose
,
Who
shall
lay
any
thing
to
the
charge
of
God's
Elect
?
It
is
God
that
justifieth
:
Who
is
he
that
condemneth
?
it
is
Christ
that
died
;
yea
rather
,
that
is
risen
again
,
who
is
even
at
the
right
hand
of
God
,
who
also
maketh
Intercession
for
us
,
Rom.
8.
33
,
34.
So
Heb.
6.
19
,
20.
Which
Hope
we
have
,
as
an
Anchor
of
the
Soul
,
both
sure
and
stedfast
,
and
which
entreth
into
that
within
the
veil
;
whither
the
Fore-runner
is
for
us
entred
,
even
Jesus
,
made
an
High-Priest
for
ever
.
By
an
entrance
within
the
veil
,
was
typified
out
Heaven
,
Glory
.
As
the
High-Priest
entred
within
the
veil
,
so
Christ
,
as
an
High-Priest
,
is
now
in
Heaven
,
to
carry
on
Redemption-work
:
He
is
there
to
oppose
all
Designs
against
his
People
,
and
secure
them
against
all
the
Impleadings
of
their
Enemies
;
He
ever
lives
to
make
Intercession
,
Heb.
7.
25.
The
word
signifies
,
to
attain
the
Mark
,
as
an
Archer
doth
;
or
he
that
throws
Darts
hits
the
Mark
,
so
the
Lord
Jesus
Christ
intercedes
so
as
to
prevail
.
Secondly
,
How
doth
Christ
intercede
in
Heaven
?
Ans.
1.
Negatively
,
Jesus
Christ
doth
not
intercede
in
Heaven
,
Figuratively
,
As
if
his
Intercession
were
no
more
but
the
vertue
of
his
Merit
,
as
Abel's
Blood
is
said
to
speak
,
Heb.
12.
24.
But
formally
as
one
that
takes
upon
him
the
Cause
of
his
sinning
,
suffering
people
.
Secondly
,
he
doth
not
intercede
Charitatively
,
by
way
of
Courtesie
and
Kindness
,
which
he
might
do
or
leave
undone
,
as
he
pleaseth
;
but
officially
by
way
of
Office
and
Trust
committed
to
him
,
for
so
he
is
our
Advocate
,
1
Joh.
2.
1.
Thirdly
,
Neither
doth
he
intercede
Precario
,
in
such
an
humble
manner
and
Mode
of
Supplication
of
bowing
the
Knee
,
and
submissive
Intreaties
with
Cries
and
Tears
,
as
the
Saints
do
,
and
as
once
he
did
whilst
on
Earth
;
for
this
is
inconsistent
with
that
State
of
Majesty
and
Glory
,
he
is
in
at
the
right
hand
of
God
,
Heb.
1.
3.
But
Authoritatively
,
by
way
of
Right
and
Power
,
as
one
that
hath
deposited
a
sufficient
Price
,
and
now
demands
his
Captives
,
as
one
that
hath
made
a
Purchase
,
and
now
requires
the
thing
purchased
,
as
one
that
hath
deserved
what
he
moves
for
,
and
hath
Power
,
as
God
,
to
bestow
:
Secondly
,
Affirmatively
,
and
so
.
First
,
Christ's
Intercession
in
Heaven
is
,
by
his
appearing
there
for
us
,
as
our
Mediator
and
Surety
,
presenting
his
person
,
God-man
,
as
our
Agent
and
High-priest
,
Heb.
9.
24.
As
the
High-priest
of
old
did
appear
in
the
holyest
of
all
,
with
the
Names
of
the
twelve
Tribes
on
his
Breast
and
Shoulders
,
for
a
Memorial
before
the
Lord
,
Exod.
28.
9.
to
22.
to
which
,
says
one
,
the
Church
alludes
,
Cant.
8.
6.
Set
me
as
a
Seal
on
thy
Heart
,
as
a
a
Seal
upon
thy
Arm
,
as
a
Manifestation
of
his
Love
;
so
Christ's
interceding
,
is
his
appearing
in
the
behalf
of
his
People
,
as
their
Advocate
;
and
Christ's
sitting
in
Heaven
,
in
this
Relation
to
his
people
may
be
calle●
his
interceding
.
Secondly
,
By
presenting
his
Obedience
and
Sufferings
before
the
Father
on
their
behalf
,
that
they
might
have
the
Benefit
of
it
,
and
that
God
would
in
Justice
,
communicate
the
Fruits
of
it
to
all
his
Seed
,
1
Joh.
2.
1
,
2.
A
type
of
this
we
might
see
in
the
High-priest's
bringing
the
blood
of
the
Sacrifice
within
the
Veil
,
and
sprinkling
it
on
the
Mercy
Seat
,
Lev.
16.
11.
to
17.
First
he
killed
the
Sin-offering
,
and
then
brought
in
the
Blood
before
the
Lord
within
the
Veil
;
without
which
his
Act
was
not
compleat
.
Thus
Christ
first
sheds
his
Blood
on
Earth
,
for
his
People
,
then
enters
into
Heaven
,
there
to
present
his
Blood
for
us
,
Heb.
8.
4.
Thirdly
,
By
declaring
his
Willingness
,
that
his
People
should
have
all
that
Mercy
and
Salvation
which
they
need
,
and
that
he
purchases
for
them
.
Joh.
17.
24.
Father
,
I
will
that
those
whom
thou
hast
given
me
,
be
where
I
am
;
Father
,
I
will
that
my
Children
have
their
due
:
't
is
true
,
they
have
sinned
but
I
have
suffered
,
they
have
fallen
short
but
I
have
fulfilled
all
Righteousness
:
thou
knowest
I
obeyed
for
them
,
and
dyed
for
them
,
that
all
which
thou
hast
promised
might
be
made
good
to
them
:
and
Father
,
I
will
that
Justice
be
done
for
them
in
Heaven
;
and
I
will
,
that
this
and
the
other
Mercy
be
given
out
to
them
here
,
according
as
their
Necessities
and
Capacities
require
:
whilst
Christ
was
on
Earth
,
he
came
to
do
his
Fathers
Will
,
and
now
he
is
in
Heaven
,
he
must
in
all
things
have
his
own
,
Joh.
11.
42.
Thus
much
may
be
understood
by
the
manner
of
Christ's
Intercession
in
Heaven
.
Thirdly
,
For
whom
doth
Jesus
Christ
intercede
in
Heaven
?
Answ.
For
all
that
come
to
God
by
him
,
Heb.
9.
27.
For
all
that
do
believe
in
him
.
Joh.
17.
20.
Some
desponding
Sinners
may
be
ready
to
say
,
alas
!
this
is
not
for
me
,
I
am
unworthy
of
so
choice
a
Mercy
:
will
Christ
plead
for
such
a
grace-abusing
wretch
as
I
?
Why
Sinner
,
if
thou
art
one
that
comest
over
to
Jesus
Christ
,
and
believest
on
the
Son
,
thou
mayest
lay
claim
to
this
Advocate
in
Heaven
,
and
confidently
expect
the
Benefit
of
his
Intercession
.
Again
,
The
Lord
Christ
intercedes
for
all
his
People
on
Earth
,
Joh.
17.
11.
And
now
I
am
no
more
in
the
World
,
but
these
are
in
the
World
,
holy
Father
keep
,
through
thy
own
Name
,
those
whom
thou
hast
given
me
.
The
Saints
on
Earth
are
the
Subjects
for
whom
he
intercedes
:
particularly
,
for
his
sinning
people
:
he
made
Intercession
for
the
Transgressors
.
Isa.
53.
12.
Some
trembling
Soul
may
say
,
Christ's
Intercession
is
for
them
that
are
holy
,
but
I
am
vile
;
but
know
,
O
Soul
,
Christ
interceeds
in
Heaven
for
his
people
that
sin
against
him
,
1
Joh.
2.
2.
Again
,
Christ
intercedes
in
Heaven
for
his
weak
and
impotent
people
,
that
are
compast
about
with
Clouds
of
Infirmities
,
he
hath
a
special
Respect
to
these
,
as
a
tender
Father
hath
to
a
weak
Child
;
Christ's
grace
was
sufficient
for
Paul
,
when
his
own
fail'd
under
the
horrible
Buffetings
of
Satan
,
2
Cor.
12.
9.
Such
as
are
weak
in
themselves
,
that
know
not
how
to
pray
▪
or
wait
upon
God
in
any
holy
Duty
as
they
should
;
these
are
the
Persons
Christ
pleads
for
to
help
them
,
such
as
are
ready
to
be
overcome
by
Temptations
;
Simon
,
Simon
,
Satan
hath
desired
to
have
you
,
that
he
may
sift
you
as
Wheat
,
but
I
have
prayed
for
thee
,
that
thy
Faith
fail
not
,
Luke
22.
31.
32.
Poor
tempted
Souls
,
hurryed
up
and
down
,
sometimes
assaulted
with
blasphemous
Thoughts
,
then
poysoned
by
ugly
Temptations
,
put
upon
this
Sin
,
and
then
the
other
Sin
,
every
day
the
Devil
following
them
with
new
Temptations
,
laying
in
new
Batteries
against
them
:
Now
the
Lord
Jesus
Christ
sits
at
the
right
hand
of
God
,
interceding
for
these
.
Again
,
Christ
intercedes
in
Heaven
for
his
suffering
People
,
such
as
are
in
danger
of
being
overcome
by
their
Enemies
,
and
have
no
Might
,
and
none
to
intercede
for
them
,
Isaiah
59.
16.
Sore
Judgments
there
were
upon
the
People
of
God
,
and
that
justly
;
for
their
Transgressions
,
no
Righteousness
of
their
own
to
plead
for
them
,
nothing
at
all
that
could
justly
intervene
between
Wrath
and
them
:
Now
in
this
case
Christ
steps
in
,
and
he
intercedes
,
and
brings
Salvation
.
These
are
the
persons
Christ
intercedes
for
in
Heaven
.
Fourthly
,
What
doth
the
Lord
Jesus
intercede
for
in
the
behalf
of
his
People
?
First
,
One
thing
he
pleads
for
is
,
for
their
Preservation
in
the
World
,
and
from
the
Evil
of
the
World
,
Joh.
17.
15.
I
pray
not
that
thou
shouldest
take
them
out
of
the
World
,
but
that
thou
should'st
keep
them
from
the
Evil.
This
implies
,
Christ's
mind
is
,
his
People
should
continue
in
the
World
till
their
Work
be
done
;
that
neither
Sin
nor
Danger
may
cut
them
off
till
their
full
time
be
come
;
but
that
they
may
be
kept
from
Evil
;
from
the
Evil
of
Temptation
,
and
the
Evil
of
Persecution
.
Secondly
,
He
intercedes
for
the
Sanctification
of
his
People
;
and
this
is
a
glorious
Priviledge
indeed
,
Jo.
17.
17.
Sanctifie
them
through
thy
truth
;
thy
Word
is
truth
:
By
the
word
of
thy
Truth
,
make
them
partakers
of
thy
Holiness
:
For
their
sakes
.
I
sanctifie
my self
,
ver.
19.
I
set
apart
my self
,
now
on
Earth
,
as
an
High-Priest
and
Mediator
:
And
why
so
?
That
they
may
be
sanctified
through
the
Truth
.
It
may
be
a
poor
tempted
Soul
hath
beg'd
for
Grace
,
but
finds
no
answer
;
as
Paul
prayed
twice
,
thrice
,
many
times
without
return
;
but
Jesus
Christ
intercedes
,
who
will
prevail
;
and
because
he
prayes
,
they
shall
obtain
,
according
to
the
measure
of
Christ
,
and
in
his
time
.
Thirdly
,
The
Lord
Jesus
Christ
pleads
in
Heaven
,
for
Believers
Union
with
himself
,
and
with
one
another
,
Jo.
17.
11
,
21
,
22
,
23.
Holy
Father
,
keep
,
through
thy
own
Name
,
those
whom
thou
bast
given
me
,
that
they
may
be
one
,
as
we
are
:
That
they
all
may
be
one
,
as
thou
,
Father
,
art
in
me
,
and
I
in
thee
,
that
they
also
may
be
one
in
us
;
I
in
them
,
and
thou
in
me
,
that
they
may
be
made
perfect
in
one
.
This
he
died
for
,
to
gather
his
People
into
one
,
and
this
he
will
procure
in
due
time
.
Their
Union
with
himself
shall
be
inseparable
;
their
Communion
may
be
interrupted
,
but
their
Union
can
never
be
broken
.
And
it
is
a
matter
of
Comfort
to
Believers
,
that
grieve
for
the
sad
Breaches
amongst
Saints
,
how
that
Christ
intercedes
in
Heaven
for
their
Union
,
who
cannot
be
denied
.
Fourthly
,
The
Lord
Jesus
Christ
intercedes
for
his
Peoples
Succour
,
and
support
,
under
,
and
deliverance
from
Temptation
,
Luke
22.
32.
I
have
prayed
for
thee
,
that
tby
Faith
fail
not
.
Ah
Soul
!
Art
thou
followed
with
new
Temptations
every
day
?
Doth
the
Devil
vex
thee
,
casting
in
wicked
,
vile
thoughts
,
that
do
make
thee
tremble
,
pulling
and
haling
thee
?
Fear
not
,
sayes
Christ
,
the
Devil
shall
not
prevail
.
O
,
sayes
a
Soul
,
What
shall
I
do
for
Faith
?
I
cannot
take
hold
of
this
,
and
the
other
Promise
.
Why
,
Christ
in
Heaven
pleads
for
Believers
,
that
their
Faith
shall
not
fail
,
shall
not
sink
away
,
nor
faint
in
the
day
of
Temptation
,
He
will
not
suffer
you
to
be
tempted
above
measure
,
1
Cor.
10.
13.
He
will
make
a
way
to
escape
.
As
sure
as
Christ
himself
hath
escaped
from
Satan
,
and
Dangers
unto
Glory
,
so
sure
shall
Believers
pass
thither
also
.
O
Soul
!
thou
canst
not
tell
how
to
pray
;
this
and
the
other
wicked
thought
hurries
thee
;
Faith
and
Hope
,
all
seem
to
be
gone
:
but
,
O
,
what
a
blessed
thing
is
this
,
that
there
is
a
Mediator
in
Heaven
to
pray
for
thee
!
Fifthly
,
Jesus
Christ
intercedes
in
Heaven
for
the
Pardon
of
all
the
Sins
of
his
People
,
and
for
the
enjoyment
of
his
Fathers
favour
,
If
any
man
sin
,
we
have
an
Advocate
with
the
Father
,
1
Joh.
2.
1.
That
's
part
of
Christ's
Work
in
Heaven
,
to
Advocate
in
regard
of
their
Sins
:
So
Joh.
17.
26.
That
the
Love
with
which
thou
lovest
me
may
be
in
them
.
I
have
purchased
thy
Favour
for
them
,
and
Peace
with
thee
,
by
my
own
Blood
;
therefore
,
Father
,
O
take
not
away
thy
loving
kindness
from
them
:
O
,
do
not
be
angry
with
them
for
ever
.
O
,
what
a
wonderful
Priviledge
is
this
!
Christ
is
not
contented
that
his
Father
love
them
with
an
ordinary
and
a
common
Love
;
but
his
Will
is
,
that
the
same
Love
with
which
the
Father
loved
Christ
,
as
Mediator
,
be
bestowed
upon
them
.
Sixthly
,
The
Lord
Jesus
Christ
Advocates
in
Heaven
for
the
supply
of
all
the
wants
of
his
People
,
Phil.
4.
19.
My
God
shall
supply
all
your
need
,
according
to
the
Riches
of
his
Glory
,
by
Jesus
Christ
.
Observe
the
ground
,
and
meritorious
cause
of
all
the
Supplies
of
the
Saints
Needs
,
is
the
Riches
of
Christ
in
Heaven
;
the
Riches
of
Christs
Intercession
.
O!
when
the
poor
Believer
goes
mourning
under
a
sense
of
this
,
and
the
other
Want
,
Christ
in
Heaven
is
interceding
for
them
.
O
,
sayes
one
,
I
want
a
soft
Heart
;
a
Heart
to
love
God
:
I
want
more
power
over
Corruptions
and
Temptations
:
More
Humility
,
sayes
another
:
O
,
my
proud
heart
!
I
want
more
Patience
;
I
am
fill'd
with
the
Fire
of
Hell
:
I
want
more
Purity
,
unclean
Thoughts
lodge
in
my
Soul
:
but
Christ
in
Heaven
is
interceding
for
them
,
thus
.
Father
,
There
's
a
Child
of
mine
wants
a
soft
Heart
;
I
will
that
thou
give
it
to
him
:
there
's
another
goes
complaining
for
want
of
more
power
over
Corruptions
;
I
will
that
thou
grant
it
to
him
:
Another
wants
Bodily
supplies
;
he
is
in
straits
in
the
World
,
and
knows
not
what
to
do
;
Father
,
thou
hast
made
me
Heir
of
all
things
,
and
I
will
that
thou
give
him
some
of
mine
Inheritance
.
O
that
Believers
did
know
this
!
when
they
are
pining
away
in
their
straits
,
that
they
would
look
to
Jesus
,
and
by
Faith
see
him
interceding
for
them
.
Seventhly
,
Another
thing
Christ
pleads
in
Heaven
for
,
is
,
the
subduing
of
all
the
Enemies
of
his
People
:
Whatever
is
like
to
endanger
their
well-being
,
in
thelr
work
of
glorifying
God
,
and
in
their
way
to
Glory
with
God
,
Christ
pleads
that
it
may
be
removed
.
Are
the
Snares
of
the
World
like
to
carry
away
one
?
the
Snare
of
Prosperity
,
or
vain
Company
,
like
to
ruin
another
?
Doth
the
Flesh
lust
against
the
Spirit
,
and
ready
to
reduce
it
into
Bondage
?
Christ
pleads
in
Heaven
for
the
destruction
of
these
Leviathans
;
and
will
,
in
his
own
time
,
bring
down
all
the
Enemies
of
his
People
:
Yea
,
Gog
and
Magog
,
and
all
the
implacable
Adversaries
of
Sion
must
be
subdued
,
because
Christ
intercedes
for
it
,
and
Reigns
till
he
hath
put
down
all
Enemies
under
his
Feet
,
1
Cor.
15.
25.
Eighthly
,
He
intercedes
for
his
Peoples
Consolation
;
He
seems
to
be
much
concern'd
in
this
,
that
his
People
be
of
good
cheer
in
the
World
,
Joh.
16.
33.
Be
of
good
cheer
,
Pluck
up
your
Spirits
,
walk
comfortably
,
I
have
overcome
the
World
for
you
,
I
will
not
leave
you
comfortless
;
I
will
not
leave
you
in
danger
of
overwhelming
:
Christ
takes
care
that
his
People
be
not
overladen
with
trouble
,
but
that
they
have
comfort
in
due
time
.
Ninthly
,
The
Lord
Jesus
Christ
pleads
for
their
thorough
and
compleat
Salvation
,
for
their
preservation
in
Grace
,
and
their
sure
and
certain
enjoyment
of
Glory
.
Wherefore
he
is
able
to
save
to
the
utmost
,
because
he
ever
lives
to
make
Intercession
,
Heb.
7.
25.
Whatever
their
dangers
,
straits
,
and
hazards
be
,
Christ
intercedes
in
Heaven
,
for
their
utmost
saving
,
thorough
all
,
and
from
all
.
The
gracious
Soul
miscarries
sadly
,
this
,
and
the
other
time
;
in
this
,
and
the
other
matter
:
he
falls
dangerously
,
and
bruises
his
Bones
;
but
Christ
pleads
in
Heaven
,
that
this
might
not
prove
a
mortal
wound
:
Father
,
I
will
that
those
whom
thou
hast
given
me
,
be
with
me
where
I
am
,
to
behold
my
Glory
,
Joh.
17.
24.
All
his
Glory
,
that
he
hath
purchased
with
his
Blood
,
is
for
his
People
.
As
a
Father
,
if
he
gets
a
large
Estate
,
his
Children
shall
fare
the
better
for
it
,
he
will
leave
it
all
to
them
;
so
Christ
in
Heaven
intercedes
,
Father
,
I
will
that
my
Children
may
share
with
me
in
my
Glory
;
may
Reign
,
and
sit
on
Thrones
,
and
be
crowned
with
Immortality
with
me
.
Where
I
am
,
there
shall
my
Servant
be
.
Thus
you
see
what
Christ
intercedes
for
in
Heaven
.
Fifthly
,
Why
doth
the
Lord
Jesus
Christ
intercede
in
Heaven
?
First
,
Because
he
hath
undertaken
this
Work
for
his
People
:
He
is
their
Advocate
,
1
Joh.
2.
1.
He
is
an
Officer
in
Heaven
for
them
,
and
hath
undertaken
their
Cases
;
and
being
bound
,
he
will
be
faithful
:
He
is
there
,
as
their
Fore-runner
,
and
his
Fidelity
lies
at
stake
,
to
make
their
way
plain
to
Glory
.
If
they
come
not
after
,
how
can
he
be
their
Fore-runner
?
Secondly
,
Because
of
his
Interest
in
them
,
they
are
very
near
to
him
,
they
are
his
own
.
Having
loved
his
own
,
that
were
in
the
World
,
Joh.
13.
1.
Persons
use
to
love
their
own
.
The
World
loves
its
own
;
therefore
is
Christ
so
concern'd
in
the
welfare
of
his
People
,
because
they
are
his
Propriety
;
They
are
his
Friends
,
Joh.
15.
14
,
15.
Ye
are
my
Friends
,
I
have
called
you
Friends
.
And
will
not
a
man
concern
himself
about
his
Friends
?
There
's
never
a
man
on
Earth
,
that
hath
a
Friend
so
near
his
heart
,
as
the
Saints
are
to
the
heart
of
Christ
;
They
are
his
Brethren
;
He
is
not
ashamed
to
call
them
Brethren
,
Heb.
2.
11.
He
is
their
Elder
Brother
,
and
they
are
younger
Brethren
,
and
he
cannot
but
have
a
tender
heart
towards
them
.
How
full
of
Bowels
was
Joseph
to
his
Brethren
,
though
they
had
sold
him
,
and
injured
him
;
yet
how
affectionately
did
he
discover
himself
to
them
,
he
wept
,
that
the
Egyptians
heard
him
?
Gen.
45.
It
is
a
most
affecting
Story
,
to
shew
what
the
heart
of
a
Brother
is
,
or
should
be
.
O
,
how
much
is
Jesus
Christ
concerned
in
the
welfare
of
his
People
!
Again
,
He
is
their
Father
;
He
hath
the
Bowels
of
a
Father
:
He
pleads
in
Heaven
,
at
the
Right
hand
of
God
,
as
a
Father
doth
speak
for
his
Children
.
O!
if
a
man
had
a
Child
,
or
some
Children
,
condemn'd
to
dye
,
how
would
a
tender
Father
speak
for
them
,
and
weep
for
them
,
that
they
might
not
dye
!
with
such
Bowels
doth
Jesus
Christ
plead
for
his
People
in
Heaven
.
Again
,
They
are
his
Spouse
,
his
Love
,
his
Dove
,
married
to
him
,
Cant.
5.
And
can
a
tender
affectionate
Husband
shut
up
his
Bowels
towards
his
own
Flesh
?
So
Christ
,
in
Heaven
,
accounts
nothing
too
dear
that
might
be
for
the
welfare
of
his
People
,
because
of
their
conjugal
relation
to
him
.
Thirdly
,
Because
of
the
great
Love
he
bears
to
them
,
therefore
will
he
make
Intercession
for
them
,
Isa.
63.
9.
In
his
Love
and
pity
he
redeemed
them
.
Nor
men
,
nor
Angels
can
tell
the
Height
,
Depth
,
Length
and
Breadth
of
the
Love
of
Christ
;
it
is
Love
,
passing
Knowledge
,
Eph.
3.
18.
Christ's
Love
to
his
people
,
is
unconceivable
,
unchangeable
:
many
waters
cannot
quench
it
,
all
their
Unkindness
cannot
diminish
it
,
therefore
he
remembers
their
Concernments
,
and
pleads
their
Cause
.
Fourthly
,
Because
of
the
Sympathy
the
Lord
Jesus
Christ
hath
with
them
,
he
hath
a
fellow-feeling
of
all
their
Infirmities
and
Afflictions
:
as
he
is
their
head
,
he
cannot
but
sympathize
,
with
all
the
Maladies
and
Distempers
of
every
Member
;
he
is
the
high-priest
,
and
must
have
Compassion
,
Heb.
4.
15.
For
we
have
not
an
High-priest
which
cannot
be
touched
with
the
feeling
of
our
Infirmities
:
He
cannot
be
capable
of
Insensibility
,
of
the
Cases
,
Concerns
and
Conditions
of
his
people
;
Weaknesses
,
Sins
and
Wants
,
whatever
becomes
the
Burden
of
his
People
,
it
is
near
his
Heart
:
It
is
not
his
own
Glory
in
Heaven
,
can
take
off
his
Thoughts
and
Care
of
them
:
He
that
abuseth
the
Saints
offers
Violence
to
Christ's
Eye
,
Zach.
2.
8.
He
that
toucheth
you
,
toucheth
the
Apple
of
his
Eye
.
While
he
was
in
Heaven
,
in
the
Possession
of
the
Fathers
Glory
,
no
sooner
did
their
Cry
come
up
from
Aegypt
,
but
presently
it
reached
his
Heart
;
God
tells
Moses
he
could
not
stand
still
to
hear
the
Complaint
of
his
poor
afflicted
people
:
God
in
Christ
,
the
second
person
,
the
Angel
of
the
Covenant
resents
the
Miseries
and
Afflictions
of
his
people
,
Exod.
2.
23.
24.
I
have
surely
seen
the
Afflictions
of
my
People
which
are
in
Aegypt
,
and
have
heard
their
Cry
,
and
I
am
come
down
to
deliver
them
,
Exod.
3.
7
,
8.
And
if
he
was
so
pityful
,
as
to
be
soon
afflicted
with
the
Afflictions
of
his
people
before
he
assumed
the
humane
Nature
upon
him
,
is
he
not
as
much
now
sith
he
hath
taken
our
Nature
upon
him
,
and
stands
in
Heaven
cloathed
with
our
Body
and
Soul
?
Heb.
5.
2.
Christ
carries
no
Weaknesses
to
Heaven
with
him
,
he
hath
no
kind
of
Wants
,
Pains
,
nor
Sorrows
,
but
he
is
compassed
with
Infirmities
,
that
is
,
a
Sense
of
the
Weaknesses
,
and
Remembrance
of
the
Afflictions
and
Infirmities
,
whilst
he
was
here
:
He
knows
the
Heart
of
a
Stranger
,
he
knows
what
it
is
to
be
under
the
Wrath
of
God
,
therefore
cannot
but
have
a
fellow-feeling
of
the
Infirmities
of
his
People
.
No
tender
Mother
can
be
more
affected
with
the
pain
of
a
little
sucking
Child
,
with
the
Fear
of
losing
it
,
than
Christ
is
with
the
case
of
his
people
,
therefore
he
pleads
for
them
.
Fifthly
,
Jesus
Christ
cannot
chuse
but
speak
for
his
People
in
Heaven
,
because
he
hath
purchased
them
,
he
hath
bought
them
,
and
paid
for
them
:
he
thought
it
fit
to
lay
down
a
very
great
price
for
every
believing
Soul
,
1
Cor.
6.
19.
You
are
bought
with
a
price
.
He
was
willing
to
have
his
Heart
opened
,
and
his
Side
opened
,
that
he
might
let
out
his
Blood
for
them
;
and
surely
he
cannot
but
be
willing
to
intercede
for
them
,
when
he
was
willing
to
dye
,
and
bear
divine
Wrath
for
them
:
he
hath
bought
Grace
and
Glory
for
them
,
and
he
must
needs
speak
,
that
they
might
have
what
he
hath
paid
for
.
It
is
true
,
if
God
should
deal
upon
the
account
of
Creature-deservings
,
they
would
soon
be
totally
destitute
:
but
though
unworthy
in
themselves
,
Christ
pleads
his
Worthyness
:
Father
,
I
will
,
that
thou
give
out
this
and
the
other
Mercy
to
them
,
I
have
purchased
it
for
them
:
it
is
true
,
they
have
abused
the
Gospel
,
and
sinn'd
away
the
Light
of
thy
Countenance
;
but
I
will
that
thou
speak
comfortably
to
them
for
my
sake
;
for
I
have
always
obey'd
thee
,
and
done
thy
Will
.
Sixthly
,
Because
of
his
Promise
to
them
,
he
hath
promised
he
will
not
leave
them
,
Jo.
14.
18.
I
go
away
,
says
Christ
,
but
I
will
not
leave
you
;
I
go
to
Heaven
but
it
is
for
you
;
I
carry
your
Names
on
my
Heart
,
that
I
might
think
upon
you
,
when
I
am
in
Glory
:
when
I
see
how
Satan
buffets
and
assaults
you
from
day
to
day
,
then
I
look
upon
the
Palms
of
my
hands
and
see
your
names
engraven
there
,
and
will
not
leave
you
comfortless
,
I
will
come
again
to
you
.
He
sends
his
Spirit
to
keep
them
Company
here
on
Earth
,
and
he
will
come
and
fetch
them
home
at
last
;
he
will
be
faithful
to
them
in
all
things
,
that
pertain
to
God
,
and
for
the
Salvation
of
their
Souls
,
Heb.
2.
17.
and
Believers
may
urge
him
with
his
Promise
and
Faithfulness
,
and
this
obliges
Christ
to
do
all
he
can
for
them
.
Seventhly
,
Because
of
the
great
Necessity
they
have
of
his
pleading
for
them
;
He
sees
they
would
be
undone
if
he
did
not
stand
up
for
them
.
Satan
would
lay
in
his
Accusations
,
he
is
the
Accuser
,
and
what
ways
he
hath
to
accuse
the
Saints
before
God
,
we
know
not
:
he
accused
Job
,
and
doubtless
he
is
ever
and
anon
laying
in
fresh
Charges
against
the
people
of
God
;
therefore
Christ
pleads
for
them
:
he
sees
they
want
Grace
and
want
Strength
,
therefore
he
cannot
be
silent
:
he
saw
Peter
had
need
of
Support
,
Luke
22.
31
,
32.
therefore
he
prayed
for
him
:
Christ
sees
they
stand
in
need
of
Promises
,
Experiences
,
Consolations
and
Priviledges
,
therefore
he
pleads
in
Heaven
for
them
.
Sixthly
,
What
are
the
Comforts
and
Advantages
that
flow
from
the
Intercession
of
Jesus
Christ
to
believing
Souls
?
There
's
Cause
of
wonderful
Joy
and
Consolation
to
Believers
,
when
they
cast
their
believing
Looks
towards
Heaven
,
to
see
their
Advocate
there
.
First
,
In
regard
of
the
Excellency
of
this
Intercessor
:
O!
what
a
glorious
,
mighty
,
and
potent
Friend
,
have
Believers
to
plead
for
them
;
he
is
no
mean
person
,
he
is
the
Son
of
God
,
the
express
Image
of
his
Fathers
Person
,
Heb.
1.
3.
He
is
one
that
made
the
World
,
and
upholdeth
the
World
,
and
after
he
had
suffered
for
Sin
,
he
is
gone
to
Glory
,
and
takes
his
Seat
at
the
right
hand
of
the
Majesty
,
on
high
;
he
doth
not
stand
by
as
a
Begger
,
but
sits
down
on
the
Throne
,
by
the
Fathers
side
,
and
speak
as
a
Friend
for
them
:
O
what
a
glorious
and
transcendent
person
is
he
!
it
is
not
an
Angel
,
it
is
not
a
Saint
,
but
it
is
the
Lord
Jehovah
,
Jehovah
Christ
.
O
when
the
Believer
,
by
Meditation
,
comes
to
reflect
on
his
Glorious
Agent
in
Heaven
,
how
he
is
honoured
by
Angels
,
Saints
,
and
every
Creature
,
it
will
wonderfully
consolate
his
Languishing
Spirit
.
Secondly
,
Consider
the
Successfullness
of
this
Intercession
,
and
it
cannot
but
yield
much
Comfort
,
the
Father
heareth
him
always
,
Joh.
11.
42.
The
Father
and
he
are
one
,
of
one
Nature
,
one
Glory
,
one
Will
:
what
the
Son
wills
the
Father
wills
;
and
Jesus
Christ
is
the
Executor
of
his
own
Will
,
and
hath
all
Power
in
his
hands
to
give
out
,
and
perform
what
he
pleads
for
:
What
would'st
thou
have
,
Soul
?
Lord
,
sayes
the
Soul
,
I
would
have
more
Grace
,
be
more
holy
,
have
strength
against
this
,
and
the
other
Temptation
:
I
am
afraid
I
shall
perish
under
these
Blasphemous
Thoughts
.
Oh
,
the
horrible
injections
of
Satan
!
Lord
,
support
me
.
Why
,
(
sayes
Christ
)
Fear
not
,
Soul
,
In
me
is
Everlasting
strength
,
thou
shalt
have
it
in
my
time
,
and
according
to
my
measure
.
Thirdly
,
Consider
the
extent
of
Christs
Intercession
,
and
that
will
contribute
wonderful
Joy
to
Believers
:
His
Favour
is
not
narrowed
up
to
one
or
two
Favourites
,
but
for
all
his
Saints
:
All
that
come
to
God
by
him
,
Heb.
7.
25.
All
that
believe
in
him
,
Joh.
17.
20.
Christ
excepts
none
:
In
this
he
out-goes
the
Affections
of
all
Creatures
.
It
is
rare
for
the
largest
Affections
of
Men
,
not
to
run
within
some
narrow
limits
;
but
Jesus
Christ
hath
an
equal
respect
for
all
his
Seed
.
And
then
he
intercedes
for
them
in
all
their
Matters
,
Isa.
63.
9.
In
all
their
Affiictions
he
is
afflicted
:
There
is
no
part
of
their
Trouble
but
he
is
concern'd
in
it
:
As
Christ
is
an
Advocate
in
Heaven
,
he
is
engag'd
to
attend
the
Concerns
of
his
People
,
though
they
should
neglect
him
,
Isa.
57.
18.
He
is
privy
to
all
their
Matters
:
How
should
this
revive
the
Believing
Soul
?
It
is
the
usual
complaint
of
Souls
,
O
,
I
fear
Christ
will
not
intercede
for
me
;
I
am
so
Carnal
,
so
full
of
Deceit
,
Hypocrisie
and
Backslidings
.
It
is
true
,
He
takes
pleasure
in
the
Prosperity
of
his
People
;
but
,
I
fear
,
I
am
none
of
his
.
They
that
pray
and
plead
Spiritually
may
hope
,
but
I
cannot
pray
,
nor
look
up
.
But
let
me
tell
every
poor
trembling
Believer
,
There
's
never
a
Soul
that
hath
the
Lord
for
his
God
,
that
Jesus
Christ
can
be
unmindful
of
:
He
intercedes
for
all
his
People
,
and
in
all
their
Concernments
.
Fourthly
,
This
may
yield
wonderful
Comfort
to
Believers
,
to
consider
,
That
Jesus
Christ
doth
not
onely
intercede
in
Heaven
,
in
their
Names
,
but
in
their
very
Natures
:
He
presents
the
Humane
Nature
in
his
own
Person
,
glorified
;
and
in
this
Nature
he
pleads
to
God
for
them
.
He
is
set
forth
as
the
Man
Christ
Jesus
,
1
Tim.
2.
5.
He
cannot
but
be
full
of
Pity
and
Compassion
,
because
he
is
of
the
same
Nature
with
them
:
They
are
Members
of
his
Body
,
of
his
Flesh
,
and
of
his
Bones
,
Eph.
5.
30.
O
,
if
that
Scripture
were
but
put
into
the
Believing
Meditation
of
Believers
,
what
Comfort
will
flow
from
it
?
O
trembling
Saint
!
thou
mayest
object
thy
Unworthiness
and
defiled
Nature
;
but
Jesus
Christ
hath
thy
Nature
glorified
now
in
Heaven
,
at
the
Father's
right
hand
.
Fifthly
,
The
restlesness
and
unweariedness
of
Christs
pursuing
the
Blessedness
and
Salvation
of
all
his
Seed
,
is
that
which
may
yield
wonderful
comfort
to
the
Believing
Soul
.
Consider
his
Temper
and
Disposition
,
whiles
he
was
on
Earth
:
His
Spirit
shall
not
fail
,
till
he
hath
set
Judgment
in
the
Earth
,
Isa.
42.
4.
And
if
Christ
was
so
earnest
to
undergo
such
work
then
,
and
was
so
restless
and
active
till
it
was
done
;
surely
he
must
needs
be
restless
to
carry
on
this
Work
now
in
Heaven
:
He
lives
ever
to
make
Intercession
,
Heb.
7.
25.
There
are
some
times
when
men
on
Earth
cannot
agitate
the
Cause
of
their
Friends
;
but
Christ
is
alwayes
taken
up
about
this
Work
of
Mediation
:
Christ's
Authority
is
capable
to
manage
all
the
Affairs
of
his
People
,
were
they
millions
of
men
,
therefore
it
must
needs
be
matter
of
wonderful
Comfort
to
Believers
,
that
they
have
such
a
Mediator
in
Heaven
.
Sixthly
,
Consider
the
Advantages
that
flow
from
this
Intercession
of
Christ
to
Believers
,
and
it
will
yield
matter
of
wonderful
comfort
.
Their
Sins
shall
be
surely
pardoned
.
O
what
wonderful
comfort
is
this
!
Blessed
is
the
man
whose
Transgression
is
forgiven
,
and
whose
Sins
are
pardoned
,
Psal.
32.
1.
He
is
an
Advocate
for
them
,
to
take
away
their
Sins
,
1
Joh.
2.
1
,
2.
1
Joh.
1.
7
,
9.
No
Bill
shall
be
laid
in
against
them
at
the
Bar
of
God
:
Who
dares
accuse
that
Soul
that
is
covered
over
with
the
Blood
of
the
Redeemer
?
Rom.
8.
33
,
34.
Their
Persons
and
Performances
shall
surely
find
acceptance
with
God
,
through
this
Intercession
of
Christ
,
Eph.
1.
6.
Who
hath
made
us
accepted
in
the
Beloved
.
All
that
glorious
Chain
of
Mercy
that
is
made
over
to
,
and
fastned
upon
the
Believer
,
hath
its
tye
to
Jesus
Christ
:
Predestination
,
Adoption
,
Justification
,
Sanctification
and
Salvation
,
are
all
laid
upon
Christ
.
It
is
a
piece
of
usual
weakness
in
poor
Believers
,
or
rather
Doubting-souls
,
to
judge
of
their
Acceptance
with
God
,
or
Non-acceptance
,
according
to
their
Deservings
,
or
ill-deservings
,
and
the
nature
and
frame
of
their
Spirits
and
Duties
:
when
they
have
been
drawn
out
in
Frames
,
and
wonderfully
rais'd
in
Duties
,
they
think
now
they
shall
find
Favour
;
But
it
is
not
that
which
gives
your
Suits
Entertainment
in
Heaven
;
it
is
as
God
accepts
the
Soul
in
Christ
,
notwithstanding
all
the
Failings
and
Infirmities
of
Believers
;
they
are
entertained
with
a
well
done
good
and
faithful
Servant
,
upon
the
account
of
Christ
.
Again
,
They
are
sure
to
be
secur'd
against
the
prevailing
Power
of
all
their
Enemies
;
let
Beelzebub
with
all
his
Train
and
Forces
be
united
against
them
,
he
must
be
broken
to
pieces
;
for
Christ
is
at
the
right
hand
of
the
Father
,
interceding
for
them
:
Sin
shall
have
no
Dominion
over
them
,
Rom.
6.
14.
God
will
bruise
Satan
under
their
Feet
shortly
,
Rom.
16.
20.
Hence
it
is
,
they
may
be
sure
none
of
their
Enemies
shall
prevail
,
Luke
1.
74.
Again
,
They
may
be
sure
to
receive
more
Grace
,
and
Life
more
abundantly
,
God
giveth
more
Grace
,
James
5.
6.
whilst
Christ's
Interest
holds
in
Heaven
,
whilst
he
hath
a
Fullness
of
Grace
to
bestow
,
Believers
may
expect
more
.
Access
to
the
Throne
of
Grace
at
all
times
in
his
Name
,
is
another
procured
Advantage
of
his
Intercession
;
it
is
by
the
Blood
of
Christ
Believers
come
to
God
with
Boldness
,
Heb.
4.
14.
16.
Heb.
10.
21.
22.
Hence
the
Blood
of
Christ
makes
Peace
,
and
an
open
door
for
Believers
to
approach
to
God
,
Eph.
3.
12.
Because
he
is
there
at
the
Throne
of
Grace
,
he
will
open
his
Door
to
his
Children
,
and
let
them
in
,
within
the
Veil
:
what
tender
Mother
would
shut
the
door
against
her
weeping
Child
?
Again
,
They
have
not
only
Access
to
the
Throne
of
Grace
,
but
Success
;
they
shall
speed
when
they
cry
with
all
their
Hearts
,
Joh.
14.
13.
14.
Whatsoever
you
shall
ask
in
my
Name
,
that
will
I
do
,
that
the
Father
may
be
glorified
in
the
Son
:
if
you
shall
ask
any
thing
in
my
Name
,
I
will
do
it
.
Christ
was
leaving
his
Disciples
,
and
they
might
tremblingly
dispond
,
how
shall
we
live
when
thou
art
gone
?
the
World
will
persecute
us
,
and
Satan
will
devour
us
?
Why
says
Christ
,
I
will
protect
you
then
,
as
well
as
now
,
and
hear
your
Requests
:
you
think
it
is
only
your
Concernment
,
to
have
your
Prayers
answered
;
no
,
it
is
the
Concernment
of
my
Father
too
,
his
Glory
lies
at
stake
for
it
.
O!
what
bold
Encouragement
is
this
Rev.
8.
3
,
4
,
5.
Prayers
ascended
up
,
and
presently
comes
down
Thunders
,
Noises
,
Lightnings
,
and
Earth-quakes
:
as
a
Symbol
of
God's
Reception
:
believe
it
,
Saints
have
still
as
great
Potency
with
God
,
on
the
Account
of
Christ
,
as
ever
,
and
their
right
Prayers
shall
surely
find
an
answer
at
the
Throne
of
Grace
.
Again
,
They
shall
certainly
have
Perseverance
in
Grace
:
for
the
Certainty
of
a
Believers
Graces
depend
not
upon
his
own
Strength
,
that
it
should
dye
if
he
cease
to
exercise
it
;
but
is
secured
by
the
Intercession
of
Christ
,
Luke
22.
32.
Jer.
32.
40.
Another
Effect
of
Christ's
Intercession
is
this
,
The
Saints
have
Oneness
with
and
an
Interest
in
the
Love
of
God
,
Jo.
17.
21.
22.
And
they
shall
be
sure
of
Grace
and
of
Glory
:
they
shall
have
a
Mansion
in
Heaven
,
Jo.
14.
3.
Jo.
17.
24.
Father
,
I
will
that
those
whom
thou
hast
given
me
,
be
with
me
where
I
am
,
to
behold
my
Glory
.
CHAP.
VI.
Shewing
the
Willingness
of
Christ
,
that
Sinners
should
be
saved
,
the
Sin
and
Misery
of
such
as
refuse
Christ
,
with
Reproof
to
several
sorts
of
Persons
WE
have
a
little
opened
the
Transcendent
Glory
of
Christ
as
Mediator
,
wherein
so
much
of
his
vast
Treasury
lies
:
we
come
now
to
make
some
Application
of
this
glorious
point
.
First
,
By
way
of
Information
.
First
,
How
wonderfully
are
poor
Sinners
indebted
to
the
Lord
for
giving
such
a
Mediator
as
Jesus
Christ
,
God-Man
;
none
else
in
Heaven
or
Earth
could
have
procured
the
Salvation
of
lost
Sinners
:
had
he
been
God
only
,
he
had
had
neither
Right
or
Capacity
to
suffer
:
had
he
been
only
Man
,
he
could
never
have
born
up
under
the
dreadful
weight
of
these
Sufferings
;
Death
would
have
had
Dominion
over
him
,
his
Sufferings
unsatisfactory
,
his
Intercession
rejected
,
and
all
the
hopes
of
Sinners
perished
;
but
now
he
is
able
to
save
all
that
come
to
God
by
him
:
O
admire
at
,
and
rejoyce
in
this
Love
of
God
,
in
giving
Christ
,
Jo.
3.
16.
God
so
loved
the
World
,
that
he
gave
his
only
begotten
Son
.
Life
and
Liberty
Health
and
Strength
,
Peace
and
Plenty
,
are
excellent
Mercies
;
but
the
giving
of
Christ
is
transcendently
super-eminent
:
Can
you
bless
the
Lord
for
lower
Springs
?
O
adore
these
upper
ones
,
this
Grace
that
brings
Salvation
.
Secondly
,
See
the
Willingness
of
Christ
,
that
Sinners
should
be
saved
,
he
would
never
else
have
assum'd
the
work
of
a
Mediatour
,
nor
have
given
himself
for
this
very
end
that
Sinners
might
be
brought
to
God
,
1
Pet.
3.
18.
He
would
never
have
undertaken
the
bloody
way
of
Death
,
nor
drunk
off
such
a
bitter
tremendous
Cup
,
that
Sin
had
brewed
for
him
;
he
would
not
have
interceded
with
God
for
Terms
of
Reconciliation
,
nor
undergone
such
direful
,
unconceivable
Torments
,
had
he
not
been
willing
Sinners
should
live
:
hath
Christ
so
carefully
prepared
the
Ministration
of
Reconciliation
,
and
absolutely
commanded
the
Promulgation
of
the
Gospel
to
every
Creature
?
Mark
.
16.
15.
Hath
he
laid
such
a
Necessity
on
his
Messengers
and
Ambassadors
,
and
oblig'd
them
,
by
the
Penalty
of
fearful
Woes
,
to
preach
the
Gospel
,
and
he
is
not
willing
that
Sinners
should
be
saved
?
1
Cor.
9.
16.
See
how
he
charges
his
Servants
to
be
instant
in
Season
and
out
of
Season
,
to
reprove
,
rebuke
,
and
exhort
with
all
Long-suffering
and
Kindness
,
2
Tim.
4.
1.
To
perswade
and
beseech
men
to
be
reconciled
,
2
Cor.
5.
11.
20.
And
will
he
reject
them
when
they
come
?
He
would
not
have
griev'd
and
mourn'd
so
much
at
Sinners
Unbelief
,
and
out-standing
the
day
of
Grace
,
had
he
been
unwilling
they
should
have
liv'd
,
Joh.
5.
40.
Luke
19.
41.
42.
Behold
how
he
waits
till
the
last
hour
of
the
Day
,
and
treats
his
Enemies
with
an
affectionate
Kindness
,
why
will
you
dye
,
O
House
of
Israel
?
He
heaps
up
Coals
of
Fire
on
their
Heads
,
and
draws
them
with
Cords
of
Love
,
and
with
the
bands
of
a
man
,
Mat.
5.
45.
Hos.
11.
4.
he
offers
Violence
by
his
Spirit
,
to
unwilling
Souls
,
and
attempts
the
most
charming
Persuasions
to
allure
them
to
him
;
he
thunders
and
lightens
,
as
on
Mount
Sinai
,
and
threatens
them
terribly
if
they
will
not
come
,
Joh.
3.
18.
Ah
troubled
Souls
,
you
that
tremble
,
least
he
will
no
more
have
Mercy
on
you
;
but
reject
your Selves
and
Duties
,
shut
up
his
Bowels
,
and
harden
his
Heart
against
your
Cries
.
Ah!
do
but
consider
and
seriously
reflect
on
what
Christ
hath
already
done
and
suffered
for
you
,
think
on
his
Carriage
whilst
on
Earth
,
and
his
tender
Reception
of
all
that
came
to
him
;
he
debarred
none
,
surely
,
then
his
Advancement
in
Heaven
,
produces
no
Alteration
in
him
:
it
may
enlarge
his
Capacity
but
cannot
straiten
his
Bowels
to
perishing
Sinners
.
Honour
doth
not
puff
him
up
,
or
make
him
unmindful
of
their
Concernments
;
think
upon
his
Promises
,
he
will
cast
out
none
that
come
to
him
,
Joh.
6.
37.
Let
their
Sins
be
as
red
as
Scarlet
,
he
will
make
them
as
white
as
Wool
,
Isa.
1.
18.
He
knows
the
Heart
of
a
Stranger
,
Exod.
23.
29.
He
remembers
what
't
is
to
lye
under
the
Pangs
of
a
troubled
Soul
,
when
he
trode
the
Wine-press
of
his
Fathers
Wrath
alone
;
and
therefore
cannot
but
compassionate
the
Miserable
,
and
those
that
are
consumed
with
the
Terrors
of
the
Almighty
.
Cease
Soul
,
to
lay
thy
Charge
on
Christ
,
't
is
thy
own
Unwillingness
and
Unbelief
that
impedes
thy
way
to
Life
,
not
his
.
Thirdly
,
How
fearful
then
is
the
Sin
,
and
how
dreadful
will
be
the
misery
of
all
those
that
refuse
this
Mediator
,
will
not
hearken
to
this
Prophet
,
nor
consent
to
his
Proposals
for
Salvation
:
The
Tongues
of
Men
and
Angels
are
not
capable
here
to
commit
an
Hyperbole
,
nor
can
such
themselves
sufficiently
conceive
it
,
till
they
feel
it
.
Ah
,
Sinners
!
Weigh
a
little
these
ensuing
particulars
,
and
you
will
find
it
true
.
First
,
It
is
a
most
aggravated
Sin
,
and
hath
all
the
circumstances
of
Evil
in
it
:
There
's
no
sin
of
so
deep
a
Dye
,
and
foul
a
Guilt
.
It
is
a
sin
against
the
highest
Mercy
,
and
greatest
Deeps
of
Divine
Favour
.
There
were
some
Discoveries
of
Mercy
that
God
expended
on
the
Gentile
World
:
In
the
times
of
their
Ignorance
God
did
wink
at
them
,
feed
them
,
and
cloath
them
;
But
the
Treasures
of
Grace
were
reserved
for
the
Fulness
of
Time
,
the
Gospel
dayes
.
O
wretched
Caitiff
!
By
refusing
Christ
,
thou
kickest
against
the
most
sounding
Bowels
,
against
rich
Mercy
,
Eph.
2.
4.
Against
tender
Mercy
,
Luke
1.
18.
Against
Free
Mercy
,
Eph.
2.
8.
It
is
a
Sin
against
,
and
a
forsaking
of
thy
own
Mercy
:
Thou
stabbest
thy
own
Soul
with
the
same
Dagger
thou
flingest
at
Christ
.
O
wretched
Sinner
!
thou
takest
pains
to
shut
thy self
out
of
the
door
of
Mercy
,
and
to
argue
thy self
into
the
depth
of
Misery
:
O
Israel
,
thou
hast
destroyed
thy self
.
Oh
Sinner
,
thou
sheddest
the
blood
of
thy
own
Soul
,
Hos.
13.
9.
It
is
a
sin
against
the
choicest
and
costliest
Remedy
that
ever
God
prepared
:
The
Garment
God
made
to
cloath
thy
Soul
,
is
dip'd
in
Blood
,
and
this
thou
throwest
from
thee
.
How
justly
will
thy
Soul
rot
in
chains
of
Darkness
to
all
Eternity
,
that
refusest
such
a
chargeable
Remedy
laid
out
upon
thee
?
The
Law
was
but
leading
to
it
,
Gal.
3.
24.
Had
you
liv'd
to
see
the
Priests
killing
the
Sheep
and
Lambs
,
and
cutting
the
throats
of
these
poor
Creatures
,
to
make
an
Atonement
for
Sin
,
you
would
have
said
,
surely
the
Antitype
must
needs
be
bloody
:
All
those
charges
men
were
at
in
their
daily
Sacrifices
,
could
not
take
away
one
Sin
;
the
Blood
of
Christ
must
do
it
.
O
expensive
Mercy
!
And
this
thy
Soul
despiseth
:
O
cursed
Sin
!
All
other
Dispensations
could
not
make
those
that
use
them
perfect
,
Heb.
9.
9.
Nor
all
the
World
,
if
sold
,
can
pay
the
Debt
of
one
Soul
,
or
the
price
of
one
sin
.
It
is
a
sin
against
the
most
glorious
Majesty
that
ever
was
,
Phil.
2.
9.
Thou
spittest
in
that
Face
that
is
infinitely
above
all
Spots
and
Stains
;
that
the
Angels
admire
and
adore
;
one
Smile
of
which
maintains
all
the
Life
and
Consolation
of
the
Saints
in
Glory
;
this
Jesus
thou
despisest
.
O
unbelieving
Sinner
!
where
wilt
thou
go
to
hide
thy self
from
the
wrath
of
the
Lamb
at
the
last
day
?
Lastly
,
'T
is
a
rejection
of
thy
own
Duty
,
a
throwing
Christ
out
of
his
own
Vineyard
,
and
how
will
God
deal
with
such
?
He
will
miserably
destroy
these
miserable
men
,
Matth.
21.
41.
The
Lord
Jesus
Chrst
hath
Right
to
rule
thee
,
and
thou
rejectest
the
Homage
thou
owest
to
him
,
and
despisest
his
lawful
Right
and
Authority
which
is
a
most
grievous
Sin
indeed
.
Secondly
,
'T
is
a
most
unreasonable
Sin
,
there
's
no
Plea
at
all
will
bear
in
the
Court
of
Reason
for
such
a
Sin
;
thy
own
Reason
will
judge
and
condemn
thy
Soul
.
O!
that
ever
thou
shouldest
chuse
Death
rather
than
Life
,
and
take
the
Iron
Rod
of
Satan
over
thee
,
and
despise
the
golden
Scepter
of
Jesus
Christ
;
Ah!
Sinner
,
there
's
cause
why
thou
shouldst
leave
thy
Lusts
and
wicked
Companions
,
and
depart
from
the
Chambers
of
Death
,
in
which
thy
Soul
hath
dwelt
so
long
,
but
none
at
all
why
thou
should'st
not
come
over
to
Christ
:
what
doth
Christ
propose
to
thee
that
thou
can'st
cavil
at
?
Is
it
to
leave
thy
Lusts
?
If
not
,
these
will
ruine
thy
Soul
;
if
thou
had'st
Fire
in
thy
Bosom
,
thou
would'st
think
it
reason
to
cast
it
out
;
if
Fetters
upon
thy
Feet
,
and
Clogs
about
thy
Body
,
to
shake
them
off
;
if
a
Serpent
in
thy
Bosom
,
to
cast
him
out
:
O
Sinner
,
sit
down
,
and
consult
with
the
Principles
of
Reason
,
never
was
a
better
Bargain
offered
thee
.
Think
on
it
,
What
if
the
Gate
seem
straight
,
it
is
not
so
to
thy
Soul
,
but
to
thy
Lusts
,
thou
can'st
not
shun
Trouble
,
but
must
meet
with
it
either
here
or
to
all
Eternity
.
Thirdly
,
'T
is
a
most
condemning
Sin
,
Joh.
3.
19.
This
will
justifie
the
severest
Doom
of
God
,
that
they
might
have
Life
,
but
would
not
:
Salvation
came
home
to
them
,
but
they
turn'd
it
off
.
O
Sinner
,
take
heed
how
thou
refusest
him
that
speaks
from
Heaven
,
despise
not
Christ
.
Secondly
,
As
't
is
the
greatest
Sin
so
't
is
attended
with
the
greatest
Misery
.
For
first
,
it
opens
the
Windows
of
Vengeance
,
and
le
ts
down
divine
Wrath
on
thy
Soul
;
it
takes
off
all
Possibility
of
Salvation
;
he
that
shuts
up
this
door
leavs
none
open
to
Life
,
Acts
4.
12.
Christ
is
the
only
Way
,
the
Truth
,
and
the
Life
,
no
possibility
of
escaping
Wrath
to
come
,
if
thou
refuse
the
Lord
Christ
,
Heh.
2.
3.
Don't
flatter
thy self
with
Hopes
of
after
Mercy
;
if
thou
give
Christ
a
final
Denial
,
all
hopes
of
Mercy
is
gone
,
when
once
Christ
who
is
the
Blessing
,
is
gone
from
thy
Soul
.
Secondly
,
There
's
no
Acceptance
of
any
of
thy
duties
,
't
is
his
Righteousness
and
Intercession
makes
way
for
thy
Acceptance
,
Eph.
1.
6.
All
Acceptableness
of
the
best
Services
of
any
,
is
through
him
,
1
Pet.
2.
5.
None
of
thy
Complaints
or
doleful
Cries
,
can
ever
enter
into
Gods
Ears
,
if
they
be
not
mixt
with
the
Odours
of
his
Incense
:
Ah
Sinner
,
thou
flatterest
thy self
with
this
,
that
thou
wilt
pray
,
cry
,
and
weep
upon
a
Death-Bed
;
Ah!
what
are
all
thy
Cries
,
when
God
hears
not
?
Thirdly
,
there
's
sure
Damnation
waits
for
thy
Soul
,
the
Devil
stands
by
,
and
expects
the
time
when
Christ
will
take
his
final
leave
of
thee
.
O
Sinner
,
if
once
thy
time
be
gone
,
and
precious
Overtures
of
Grace
do
cease
,
then
certain
Ruine
follows
:
as
sure
as
the
Work-man's
wages
is
due
to
him
,
so
will
Damnation
be
to
thy
Soul
,
that
dost
live
and
dye
in
thy
Refusal
of
Christ
;
every
Soul
that
will
not
hear
this
Prophet
shall
be
destroyed
,
Acts
3.
23.
Psal.
2.
12.
Fourthly
,
all
the
precious
Intercessions
of
Jesus
Christ
will
be
turn'd
against
thee
;
and
this
is
a
most
doleful
Consideration
,
enough
to
make
the
hardest
heart
to
break
:
now
while
there
's
hope
,
the
blood
of
Christ
pleads
,
Father
,
wait
a
little
longer
for
this
Sinner
;
when
divine
Justice
says
,
cease
interceding
.
that
I
may
take
Vengeance
on
this
wretch
;
no
says
the
blood
of
Christ
,
spare
this
Drunkard
,
a
little
longer
,
O
wait
one
day
longer
,
one
year
longer
,
for
this
Swearer
:
but
upon
thy
final
Refusal
of
Christ
,
the
blood
of
Christ
pleads
another
w●y
,
Father
,
I
will
the
Damnation
of
this
Sinner
,
I
will
that
Mercy
be
no
more
tendred
to
him
,
Luke
2.
34.
This
Child
is
set
for
the
Fall
and
Rising
again
of
many
in
Israel
.
Christ
is
for
the
Fall
as
well
as
the
rising
of
many
;
and
believe
it
,
his
blood
hath
as
great
a
Vertue
to
heighen
the
Damnation
of
willful
Unbelievers
,
as
ever
it
hath
to
further
the
Salvation
of
Believers
;
and
O
what
a
dreadful
thing
is
this
,
when
the
blood
of
Christ
shall
plead
against
thee
.
It
may
be
upon
thy
Death-bed
,
thou
wilt
cry
,
Lord
pardon
me
,
Lord
let
me
never
go
to
the
place
of
Torment
:
but
the
Blood
of
Christ
will
say
,
Father
,
damn
him
,
he
made
me
wait
many
Days
and
Years
,
and
would
not
let
me
into
his
Heart
,
Father
let
him
perish
;
and
whom
do
you
think
the
Father
will
hear
?
This
is
one
of
the
most
trembling
Considerations
that
I
know
,
to
heighten
the
Wrath
of
Sinners
:
that
Soul
must
needs
go
deep
into
Hell
,
that
the
Blood
of
Christ
sends
thither
;
the
blood
of
Christ
cries
for
Vengeance
:
Ah!
Sinners
think
of
it
,
what
a
fearful
thing
it
is
to
refuse
this
Mediator
:
the
Lord
open
your
Ears
,
and
the
Lord
work
upon
your
Hearts
that
you
may
turn
and
live
while
there
is
Hope
.
Fourthly
,
Hence
see
whence
't
is
that
the
Prayers
of
any
are
so
prevailing
with
God
:
what
is
it
that
makes
Faith
and
Prayer
so
omnipotent
?
'T
is
the
Intercession
of
Christ
in
Heaven
that
wings
our
Prayers
,
and
makes
them
so
speedily
arrive
at
the
Mercy-seat
,
and
come
off
with
an
answer
of
Peace
.
'T
is
a
Friend
in
the
Court
of
Heaven
that
makes
the
Saints
Sutes
so
prevailing
with
God
,
Rev.
8.
3
,
4
,
5.
'T
is
his
Incense
makes
way
for
the
Prayers
of
the
Saints
,
and
then
Fire
comes
out
of
the
Censer
,
and
burns
up
the
Enemies
of
Christ
:
O
there
's
wonderful
Mightiness
in
the
prayers
of
the
Saints
whom
Christ
favours
with
his
Mediation
.
Vse
2.
Of
Confutation
.
If
the
Lord
Jesus
Christ
be
the
Great
and
onely
Mediator
between
God
and
Man
;
then
this
will
strike
down
that
dangerous
,
damnable
Errour
of
the
Papists
,
Of
Praying
to
Saints
,
and
setting
up
other
Interceders
besides
Christ
,
making
Addresses
to
the
Virgin
Mary
,
placing
her
in
the
Throne
with
Christ
.
If
there
be
but
one
Mediator
,
1
Tim.
2.
5.
and
one
that
liveth
to
make
Intercession
,
and
that
the
Assurance
of
Salvation
depends
on
this
Intercession
of
Christ
,
Heb.
7.
25.
Then
't
is
a
damnable
Errour
of
the
Papists
to
pray
to
the
Virgin
Mary
,
as
they
do
in
their
Missal
:
one
of
which
is
thus
;
O
Virgin
,
the
onely
chaste
Mother
,
loosing
our
Sins
,
give
us
the
Kingdom
,
for
thou
art
Queen
of
the
World
,
art
able
to
do
all
things
,
and
,
with
thy
Son
,
disposest
all
things
.
Another
is
,
That
God
,
by
the
Prayers
and
Merits
of
the
ever
blessed
Virgin
,
and
of
all
Saints
,
would
bring
us
to
the
Kingdom
of
Heaven
,
Amen
.
Nay
,
they
say
,
That
Prayers
made
to
,
and
delivered
by
the
Saints
,
are
better
than
those
by
Christ
;
So
Sal.
Now
,
if
Christ
be
the
only
way
to
the
Father
,
and
Acceptance
is
through
him
alone
,
then
this
is
a
false
Way
,
and
never
of
Gods
appointing
,
but
blasphemous
Sacrilege
,
and
horrible
Robbery
of
the
very
Flower
of
Christ's
Crown
:
Nothing
plucks
the
Scepter
out
of
Christ's
Hand
,
his
Crown
from
his
Head
,
as
these
irreligious
Opinions
of
the
Papists
.
If
Prayer
be
an
act
of
Worship
,
Matth.
4.
10.
then
't
is
onely
due
to
God
:
Indeed
there
's
a
civil
Worship
due
to
Superiours
,
but
Religious
Adoration
is
God's
Prerogative
.
If
we
must
trust
on
him
to
whom
we
pray
,
Rom.
10.
13
,
14.
then
we
must
pray
to
none
but
God
,
in
Christ
;
for
,
cursed
is
the
man
that
trusteth
in
man
,
Jer.
17.
5.
He
to
whom
we
pray
must
be
able
to
know
our
wants
,
and
our
Hearts
;
to
see
our
Miseries
,
and
hear
our
Prayers
.
Now
this
the
Saints
in
Heaven
cannot
do
:
Abraham
is
ignorant
of
us
,
and
Israel
acknowledgeth
us
not
,
Isa.
63.
16.
'T
is
Omnisciency
alone
can
hear
our
Prayers
,
and
Omnipotency
that
can
Answer
them
,
Psal.
65.
2.
Matth.
6.
6.
8.
32.
Eccles.
9.
5.
Thus
we
may
see
the
Heterodox
Assertions
of
the
Papists
,
in
making
many
Mediators
.
Vse
3.
For
Reprehension
to
the
professing
People
of
God
.
First
,
To
such
as
are
no
more
affected
with
this
great
and
glorious
Privilege
of
having
an
Advocate
with
the
Father
.
Ah!
Did
Souls
but
know
what
an
Ocean
of
Privileges
,
and
Fountain
of
Mercies
is
comprised
in
this
one
Mediator
,
Jesus
Christ
,
it
would
fill
their
Hearts
with
Joy
,
tip
their
Tongues
with
Praises
,
and
make
them
more
glad
in
the
Salvation
of
God
.
But
,
it
may
be
,
you
are
more
affected
with
your
Frames
,
fine
Expressions
,
and
your
own
Duties
,
than
with
the
Pleadings
of
Jesus
Christ
.
This
deserves
a
sharp
Reproof
.
2dly
,
Such
as
make
little
Use
of
the
Intercession
of
Jesus
Christ
.
Alas
!
how
few
employ
Christ
about
their
Matters
in
Heaven
,
and
engage
him
in
the
momentous
and
weighty
Matters
of
their
Souls
?
May
not
Christ
complain
still
,
as
once
,
on
Earth
,
Joh.
5.
40.
You
will
not
come
to
me
that
you
may
have
Life
.
'T
is
sad
indeed
,
that
the
Lord
Jesus
Christ
should
enter
upon
so
costly
an
Office
,
and
pay
so
dear
for
a
Right
to
do
thy
Soul
good
,
and
thou
neglect
to
use
him
after
all
:
This
is
the
condemnation
to
Unbelieving
Sinners
,
That
they
turn
their
Backs
upon
the
Intercession
of
Jesus
Christ
.
Alas
,
Soul
!
Are
not
thy
wants
great
,
and
thy
Sins
many
?
thy
Provocations
and
abuses
of
Mercy
daily
,
and
yet
wilt
thou
not
engage
Christ
for
thy
help
,
to
procure
thy
Pardon
,
and
Passage
from
Death
to
Life
?
O
,
how
justly
miserable
will
thy
case
be
,
who
might'st
be
happy
,
but
would'st
not
!
He
is
worthily
miserable
(
saith
one
)
that
will
not
be
happy
for
the
asking
.
Who
knows
but
that
thy
hard
heart
might
have
been
softened
;
thy
filthy
heart
cleansed
;
thy
covetous
heart
spiritualized
,
and
thy
captivated
Soul
set
free
from
the
damning
Power
of
Sin
and
Satan
,
had'st
thou
but
improv'd
a
Mediator
in
Heaven
?
Know
,
Soul
,
if
ever
Life
and
Salvation
be
obtained
,
it
must
be
by
a
Mediator
.
Thirdly
,
Here
's
a
Reproof
to
such
as
make
Mediators
of
their
Duties
;
that
trust
their
Prayers
more
than
Christ
,
and
lay
all
their
hopes
of
obtaining
on
the
act
of
seeking
.
Indeed
the
Promise
of
having
is
made
to
asking
,
Matth.
7.
7.
but
not
for
asking
.
Thy
Matters
(
saith
Luther
)
do
not
depend
on
the
worth
of
thy Self
,
or
Prayer
,
but
solely
on
the
account
of
Christ
,
Joh.
14.
13.
It
is
Prayer
in
his
Name
:
And
therefore
(
saith
Luther
)
Nulla
Oratio
extra
Christum
.
There
is
no
Prayer
at
all
out
of
Christ
.
'T
is
the
Altar
that
sanctifies
the
Gift
,
Matt.
23.
19.
Our
very
Righteousnesses
are
as
filthy
Rags
,
Isa.
64.
6.
When
you
have
done
all
,
you
are
unprofitable
Servants
,
Luke
17.
10.
Not
unto
us
,
O
Lord
,
not
unto
us
,
but
to
thy
Name
give
Glory
,
Psal.
115.
1.
All
acceptance
with
God
is
through
Christ
.
To
trust
to
thy
Prayers
,
is
to
trample
on
the
Blood
of
Christ
,
accounting
it
an
unholy
thing
,
and
the
most
effectual
course
to
provoke
the
Lord
to
a
real
abhorrency
of
thy
Duties
,
and
to
throw
them
back
as
Dung
on
thy
Face
.
CHAP.
VII
.
Shewing
,
what
Consolation
flows
to
Believers
from
the
Intercession
of
Christ
.
IF
the
Lord
Jesus
Christ
be
the
onely
Mediator
between
God
and
Man
,
then
here
's
Comfort
for
Believers
in
several
Cases
.
First
,
To
weak
Believers
;
such
as
need
Mercy
,
and
are
unable
to
beg
it
as
they
should
.
Poor
Soul
!
Art
thou
sensible
of
thy
urgent
Necessities
?
that
thy
Wants
are
more
than
can
be
numbred
?
Knowest
thou
the
Hardness
,
Pride
,
Filthiness
,
and
Ungratefulness
of
thy
Heart
?
understandest
thou
thy
need
of
the
Spirit
of
Grace
,
and
the
Gifts
of
Grace
,
but
canst
not
pray
for
supplies
so
understandingly
,
sensibly
,
affectionately
,
and
believingly
as
thou
oughtest
,
and
therefore
fearest
,
shalt
never
find
an
Answer
,
or
obtain
any
reviving
comfort
to
thy
Soul
,
in
the
believing
view
of
Christ's
Intercession
in
Heaven
.
Let
me
tell
thee
,
desponding
Christian
,
thou
canst
not
be
really
poor
,
and
pray
in
Faith
;
thou
canst
not
perish
for
want
,
and
have
a
Jesus
in
Heaven
interceding
for
thee
,
Heb.
7.
25.
Him
the
Father
heareth
alwayes
,
Joh.
11.
42.
If
the
matter
depended
upon
thy
own
Oratory
and
Eloquence
,
thy
Case
were
sad
;
but
there
is
one
in
Heaven
that
is
wise
,
mighty
,
merciful
,
omniscient
,
who
minds
thy
case
,
considers
thy
needs
,
hears
thy
groans
,
knows
thy
distresses
,
and
ever
liveth
to
make
Intercession
for
thee
.
Object
.
But
,
sayes
a
Soul
,
How
shall
I
know
that
Christ
intercedes
for
me
,
who
am
not
worthy
to
lye
under
his
Table
,
nor
crawl
at
his
Feet
;
I
fear
he
hath
greater
concernments
upon
his
Heart
than
to
remember
me
.
For
Resolution
in
this
,
look
back
to
Chap.
4.
where
is
shewn
for
whom
Christ
intercedes
.
He
prayes
for
all
that
believe
in
him
,
Joh.
17.
15.
Art
thou
one
that
believest
in
Christ
?
Hast
thou
chosen
him
as
thy
Lord
and
Righteousness
?
And
is
he
precious
to
thy
Soul
?
Could'st
thou
be
content
to
part
with
all
for
him
?
Pleasures
,
Profits
,
and
Worldly
Grandeur
,
are
they
nothing
,
when
they
come
in
competition
with
him
.
Canst
thou
not
say
,
O!
None
but
Christ
,
none
but
Christ
;
Christ
with
Poverty
,
with
Disgrace
,
with
Bondage
and
misery
,
is
far
more
preferrable
than
Riches
,
Repute
,
Liberty
,
and
Mercies
without
him
?
Dost
thou
consent
to
all
his
terms
?
and
art
thou
willing
to
take
up
his
yoke
,
and
to
learn
of
him
?
to
bear
his
Cross
,
and
follow
him
?
to
leave
all
,
and
come
to
him
,
and
that
considerately
,
and
from
thy
whole
Heart
?
Dost
thou
cast
and
adventure
thy
Soul
,
and
thy
All
,
upon
his
Ability
to
save
thee
?
Believest
thou
all
that
the
Scripture
reporteth
concerning
him
?
his
Personal
Excellencies
,
and
purchased
Sufficiencies
?
That
he
is
able
and
willing
to
save
all
that
come
to
God
by
him
,
and
will
not
cast
out
any
that
really
come
?
And
in
this
hope
art
thou
resolved
to
trust
thy
All
upon
him
,
and
if
thou
perish
,
to
perish
at
his
Feet
?
Then
art
thou
that
Soul
for
whom
Christ
intercedes
in
Heaven
,
Luke
10.
42.
Lam.
3.
24.
Isa.
44.
5.
Esth.
4.
16.
Mark
,
9.
24.
Object
.
But
I
cannot
pray
as
I
ought
,
according
to
the
Will
of
God
.
Alas
!
how
cold
,
dead
,
spiritless
are
my
Prayers
?
and
will
God
hear
me
?
Sol.
'T
is
not
for
thy
name
thou
art
heard
,
but
for
the
Name
of
Christ
;
as
you
have
already
heard
,
Joh.
14.
13.
Rom.
8.
26
,
27.
We
know
not
what
to
pray
for
as
we
ought
.
Neither
I
Paul
,
nor
you
believing
Romans
,
know
how
to
pray
as
we
ought
.
If
thou
wantest
words
,
yet
if
thou
hast
sighs
and
groans
,
thy
Prayers
are
heard
through
Christ
.
Again
,
Thou
sayest
thou
canst
not
pray
according
to
the
Will
of
God
.
I
Answ.
1.
If
thy
Prayers
are
for
such
things
as
God
requires
,
for
things
that
concern
his
Glory
,
and
the
good
and
Salvation
of
thy
Soul
;
and
for
these
outward
things
,
as
God
sees
needful
for
thee
:
If
thou
prayest
for
these
,
as
God
promiseth
them
,
for
Spiritual
blessings
absolutely
,
and
for
others
,
with
submission
to
his
Wisdom
and
Will
;
if
thou
seekest
these
onely
in
the
Name
of
Christ
,
and
ultimately
for
the
Glory
of
God
;
with
all
thy
Heart
,
and
with
all
thy
Strength
,
thou
askest
aright
,
and
God
will
grant
thee
.
Secondly
,
God
in
his
infinite
Grace
,
through
Christ
,
accounts
those
things
in
his
People
that
are
not
,
as
if
they
were
,
Rom.
4.
17.
He
judges
his
People
to
be
what
they
would
be
,
Rev.
2.
9.
I
know
thy
Works
,
and
Tribulation
,
and
Poverty
,
but
thou
art
rich
.
The
Lord
judgeth
of
his
People
,
not
so
much
by
their
Frames
,
inherent
Qualifications
,
and
external
Performances
,
but
by
their
real
Sincerity
,
and
unfeigned
desires
,
Psal.
38.
9.
Thou
complainest
thy
Prayers
be
cold
,
and
dead
,
heartless
and
lifeless
,
but
doth
this
please
thee
,
or
trouble
thee
?
Is
not
this
the
burden
of
thy
Soul
?
that
which
thou
mournest
over
,
prayest
and
strivest
against
?
Doth
no
Prayer
content
thee
,
but
what
is
spiritual
and
fervent
,
affectionate
and
upright
?
Why
,
poor
Soul
,
chear
up
thy self
,
God
esteems
thy
Prayers
such
,
through
Christ
,
as
if
they
were
so
.
Thirdly
,
The
Procurement
of
thy
needed
Mercies
,
doth
not
depend
upon
thy
Prayer-frames
,
or
the
Modes
and
Measures
of
thy
Holiness
,
but
on
the
Mediation
of
Jesus
Christ
.
Pray
,
weigh
that
Scripture
,
Joh.
14.
14
,
16.
If
you
shall
ask
any
thing
in
my
Name
,
I
will
do
it
.
And
I
will
pray
the
Father
.
(
Any
thing
)
that
is
,
any
thing
you
absolutely
need
;
Any
thing
that
is
fit
for
you
to
ask
and
me
to
give
,
I
will
do
it
.
He
doth
not
say
The
Modes
of
your
Prayers
,
the
measures
of
your
Frames
and
Holiness
shall
do
it
;
but
if
ye
ask
,
though
with
broken
Language
,
and
troubled
Expressions
,
Sighs
and
Groans
,
I
will
do
it
.
You
have
but
one
Advocate
with
the
Father
,
I
will
word
your
Requests
,
and
perfume
them
with
my
Incense
;
not
the
Excellency
of
your
Duties
,
but
the
Worthiness
of
my
Intercession
,
shall
procure
your
needed
Mercies
.
Secondly
,
Here
's
Comfort
to
troubled
Believers
,
such
as
are
in
the
depth
of
Soul-misery
,
and
cast
down
with
the
sight
of
their
Sins
,
guilt
of
their
Consciences
,
and
Fears
of
their
Condition
,
that
go
mourning
all
the
day
long
,
forget
to
eat
their
Bread
,
feed
on
Worm-wood
and
Gall
,
refuse
(
with
Rachel
)
to
be
comforted
,
because
their
first
born
,
their
Comforts
,
first
Love
and
Holiness
are
not
,
Jer.
31.
15.
This
is
the
case
of
some
poor
Souls
from
day
to
day
;
they
meet
with
no
Consolation
,
eat
Ashes
in
stead
of
Bread
,
and
mingle
their
Tears
with
their
Drink
;
they
go
from
Ordinance
to
Ordinance
,
and
their
Fear
come
and
go
with
them
;
they
feel
little
Change
by
all
they
do
,
or
enjoy
,
their
Hearts
are
har●
,
proud
,
vain
,
carnal
,
unbelieving
,
hence
they
fear
they
are
Hypocrites
,
and
shall
be
cast
away
to
all
Eternity
.
Now
here
's
Comfort
to
such
from
Christs
Intercession
in
Heaven
,
he
is
there
pleading
thy
cause
,
and
pressing
after
thy
cure
;
thou
hast
provoked
God
,
but
he
is
appeasing
his
Wrath
,
1
John
.
2.
1.
2.
Thou
art
angring
God
every
day
,
but
he
is
always
pleasing
him
for
thee
;
thou
art
making
Breaches
upon
the
Law
of
God
,
and
he
is
there
closing
up
those
Breaches
by
his
Blood
and
Intercession
;
thou
art
busie
making
wounds
upon
the
Glory
of
the
Father
,
and
Christ
is
there
presenting
the
deep
Gashes
,
and
bloody
Stroaks
his
Justice
laid
upon
him
for
those
very
Sins
:
when
God
is
resolv'd
to
be
aveng'd
for
thy
Backslidings
,
Christ
is
then
discovering
his
constant
Obedience
,
and
upright
Faithfulness
for
thee
,
he
pleads
with
the
Father
thus
,
Father
,
shall
thy
Anger
burn
for
ever
,
and
thy
Vengeance
always
wax
hot
against
this
Soul
,
My
Child
?
Remember
what
I
have
borne
for
him
,
I
have
already
suffered
for
his
Sin
,
and
given
a
plenary
Satisfaction
to
the
Demands
of
Justice
,
and
wilt
thou
charge
it
on
him
?
Father
,
let
his
Sins
be
on
me
,
as
David
,
2
Sam.
24.
17.
Let
thy
hand
I
pray
thee
,
be
against
me
,
these
Sheep
what
have
they
done
?
'T
is
I
am
their
Surety
,
and
in
thy
Account
the
Offender
;
I
have
answered
for
their
Offences
,
and
discharged
their
Debts
,
why
wilt
thou
pursue
them
in
thy
Anger
?
Holy
Father
,
in
Justice
spare
these
Offenders
;
behold
them
in
my
Blood
,
and
cloathed
with
my
Righteousness
,
Obedience
,
and
Suffering
;
't
is
true
,
their
Natures
are
vile
,
but
mine
is
holy
,
and
they
are
Members
of
my
Flesh
and
of
my
Bones
,
they
are
diseased
but
I
have
undertaken
their
Cure
,
and
will
present
them
to
thee
without
Spot
and
Wrinkle
.
And
this
Intercession
of
Christ
shall
certainly
prevail
with
God
for
thee
,
that
thy
Iniquities
may
be
pardoned
and
thy
Sins
remembred
no
more
,
Heb.
8.
12.
All
that
is
promis'd
in
the
new
Covenant
,
Christ
intercedes
for
in
Heaven
;
for
he
is
the
Angel
of
the
Covenant
Mal.
3.
1.
The
Mediator
of
the
new
Covenant
,
Heb.
9.
15.
But
the
Forgiveness
of
Believers
Sins
,
is
part
of
the
new
Covenant
,
Jer.
31.
34.
Mich.
7.
18.
where
God
forgives
one
Sin
he
forgives
them
all
,
Jer.
33.
8.
I
will
cleanse
them
from
all
their
Iniquities
,
&c.
He
will
pardon
not
only
Sins
before
,
but
after
Grace
;
not
only
small
but
great
Sins
,
Psal.
25.
11.
Not
only
Sins
that
have
been
once
,
but
often
committed
,
Jer.
3.
22.
Return
ye
back-sliding
Children
,
and
I
will
heal
your
Back-slidings
.
He
doth
not
say
once
or
twiee
,
but
let
their
Back-slidings
be
never
so
great
and
many
upon
their
Return
God
will
pardon
them
;
nay
though
they
be
as
Scarlet
,
and
as
red
as
Crimson
,
Isa.
1.
18.
Object
.
I
did
once
hope
that
God
had
pardon'd
all
my
Sins
,
but
now
I
fear
it
,
because
I
have
back-sliden
after
Mercy
,
and
wallowed
in
Sin
after
washing
,
and
God
threatens
he
will
not
forgive
such
,
Jer.
14.
10.
chap.
5.
7.
Sol.
1.
The
Reason
why
God
would
not
pardon
their
Sin
,
was
not
because
they
were
too
great
for
Pardon
,
but
because
they
would
not
return
,
Jer.
15.
7.
I
will
destroy
my
People
,
because
they
return
not
from
their
Ways
,
Jer.
23.
14.
The
Lord
promiseth
to
such
as
have
gone
aside
from
his
Ordinances
,
even
from
their
Youth
,
that
if
they
will
return
to
him
,
he
will
return
to
them
,
Mal.
3.
7.
Jer.
4.
1.
Secondly
,
If
God
will
pardon
all
their
Sins
,
then
he
will
pardon
their
Relapses
after
Mercy
,
be
they
never
so
great
,
upon
their
returning
to
him
;
God
speaks
indefinitely
,
I
will
cleanse
them
from
all
Iniquity
,
Jer.
33.
8.
Thirdly
,
If
God
will
pardon
their
Sins
before
Grace
,
much
more
those
after
Grace
;
if
he
will
forgive
them
when
Enemies
,
then
much
more
being
reconciled
;
the
Apostle
useth
the
same
Argument
,
Rom.
5.
8.
9.
Fourthly
,
If
there
be
no
Condemnation
to
them
that
are
in
Christ
Jesus
,
then
God
will
surely
pardon
all
their
Sins
,
that
ever
they
commit
:
for
there
is
never
a
Sin
,
but
will
condemn
the
Soul
if
it
be
not
pardoned
;
but
the
Soul
that
is
in
Christ
,
is
never
,
no
not
one
Minute
of
time
in
a
condemned
State
,
Rom.
8.
1.
Fifthly
,
If
the
Lord
Jesus
ha●h
satisfi'd
for
all
the
Sins
of
Believers
,
then
they
shall
furely
be
forgiven
;
otherwise
,
God
would
be
argu'd
of
Injustice
,
and
Christ
would
shed
his
blood
in
vain
:
but
the
Lord
Jesus
hath
satisfied
divine
Justice
to
the
full
,
for
the
Sins
of
all
his
People
,
Isa.
53.
5.
6.
The
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
or
Ransome
,
1
Tim.
2.
6.
paid
by
Christ
,
was
a
full
and
sufficient
price
,
and
therefore
his
Satisfaction
is
compleat
for
all
their
Sins
:
if
this
were
not
so
,
he
could
not
have
cleans'd
them
from
all
Sin
,
but
he
cleanseth
them
from
all
Sin
,
1
Joh.
1.
7.
Christ
could
not
have
saved
them
to
the
uttermost
that
come
to
God
by
him
,
were
his
Satisfaction
imperfect
,
but
this
he
doth
,
Heb.
7.
25.
Lastly
,
If
the
Lord
should
not
pardon
all
the
Sins
of
his
People
,
he
would
be
unjust
and
unfaithful
,
1
Joh.
1.
9.
but
that
he
cannot
be
,
Zeph.
3.
5
,
He
will
not
do
Iniquity
,
he
is
the
faithful
one
that
cannot
deceive
or
be
deceiv'd
,
Isa.
45.
21.
Let
God
be
true
,
and
every
man
a
Lyar.
Thirdly
,
Here
's
Comfort
to
Believers
,
that
are
dejected
in
the
sense
of
their
strong
Corruptions
,
and
unsubdued
Lusts
;
The
Body
of
Death
in
some
doth
make
them
doubt
the
truth
of
Grace
,
and
fills
their
Lives
with
Bitterness
and
Terrours
:
The
badness
of
their
Hearts
,
and
vileness
of
their
Natures
,
makes
some
conclude
their
final
Ruine
;
But
here
's
Comfort
to
such
.
Firstly
,
In
that
it
hath
been
and
is
the
case
of
the
dearest
Children
of
God
,
their
Corruptions
,
like
the
Sons
of
Zerviah
,
have
been
too
hard
for
them
.
Abraham
accounts
himself
Dust
and
Ashes
,
Gen.
18.
27.
Job
cries
out
I
am
vile
,
Job
.
40.
4.
David
says
,
Mine
Iniquities
are
gone
over
my
head
,
as
a
Burden
too
heavy
to
bear
,
Psal.
38.
4.
Isaiah
,
from
a
reflex
View
of
God's
Glory
,
concludes
he
was
undone
because
a
man
of
unclean
Lips
,
Isa.
6.
4
,
5.
And
the
Church
,
Isaiah
64.
6.
profess
they
were
as
an
unclean
thing
.
Paul
an
elect
Vessel
,
a
man
of
singular
Revelations
,
yet
laments
that
in
him
dwelt
no
good
thing
,
Rom.
7.
18.
That
he
was
carnal
and
sold
under
Sin
,
ver.
14.
and
when
he
would
do
good
evil
was
present
with
him
,
ver.
21.
Secondly
,
Here
's
Comfort
,
that
their
Corruptions
in
them
shall
not
break
their
Covenant
Relation
to
God
,
Psal.
89.
30.
to
35.
There
can
be
no
Forfeiture
of
this
Promise
,
I
will
be
their
God
,
and
they
shall
be
my
People
.
Thy
Lye
cannot
make
God
untrue
,
Rom.
3.
3.
4.
Thy
evil
Eye
cannot
make
his
Eye
evil
too
,
Matth.
20.
15.
Thy
wicked
Thoughts
cannot
alter
his
gracious
Thoughts
,
Isa.
55.
8.
9.
Thy
invincible
Corruptions
cannot
overcome
his
Mercies
,
nor
the
Enmity
of
thy
Nature
make
God
thy
Enemy
.
Thirdly
,
Christ
is
employed
in
Heaven
about
this
very
Work
of
subduing
thine
Iniquities
,
he
intercedes
ever
,
and
why
?
That
this
People
might
be
sanctified
by
the
Truth
,
Joh.
17.
17.
That
they
might
have
more
Grace
,
and
the
Spirit
given
out
to
mortifie
their
Corruptions
;
he
reigns
in
Heaven
on
purpose
to
bring
down
his
and
their
Enemies
,
1
Cor.
15.
25.
He
carries
on
the
work
of
Redemption
in
Heaven
,
and
what
is
that
but
to
set
his
People
free
indeed
:
he
hath
an
assured
care
now
in
Glory
to
fulfil
his
Promises
,
one
of
which
is
that
Iniquity
shall
be
subdued
,
Mic.
7.
18.
Romans
6.
14.
Fourthly
,
Christ's
promise
to
the
Father
,
is
security
for
the
Destruction
of
thy
Sin
,
he
is
engaged
to
present
his
people
compleat
to
the
Father
,
Eph.
5.
27.
and
to
keep
them
unblameable
to
his
heavenly
Kingdom
,
1
Thes.
5.
23.
Fifthly
,
His
Glory
and
Pleasure
is
concerned
in
the
Death
of
thy
Corruptions
,
Isa.
53.
10.
The
Pleasure
of
the
Lord
shall
prosper
in
his
hand
.
What
is
this
Pleasure
of
the
Lord
?
It
is
the
Redemption
of
his
People
from
the
Tyranny
of
Sin
,
and
the
Slavery
of
Satan
,
into
the
glorious
Liberty
of
the
first
born
of
Glory
,
2
Thes.
1.
11
,
12.
Lastly
,
Grace
is
of
a
prevailing
Nature
,
and
must
destroy
thy
Lusts
at
last
,
and
the
Spirit
of
Grace
is
in
his
people
,
Mat.
12.
20.
the
Interest
of
Sin
and
Sinners
cannot
always
stand
before
the
Interest
of
God
and
his
people
,
Esther
6.
13.
Fourthly
,
Here
's
Comfort
to
tempted
Believers
,
such
as
are
always
dogged
with
filthy
and
frigh●ing
Temptations
,
restlessly
haunted
with
vile
and
blasphemous
Thoughts
,
and
miserably
buffeted
with
dreadful
and
dangerous
Suggestions
:
if
Christ
be
interceding
in
Heaven
,
then
surely
he
will
one
day
or
other
,
put
an
end
to
all
the
Temptations
,
and
in
the
mean
time
over-rule
them
,
that
they
shall
not
prevail
over
thee
,
1
Cor.
10.
13.
Heb.
2.
19.
For
in
that
he
himself
hath
suffered
,
being
tempted
,
he
is
able
to
succour
those
that
are
tempted
.
Christ
is
a
merciful
High-priest
,
and
wants
neither
Knowledge
,
Bowels
or
Abiliiy
,
which
might
render
him
capable
to
relieve
the
tempted
;
he
hath
the
tempting
Serpent
,
the
roaring
Lion
in
Chains
,
and
will
mercifully
say
to
that
proud
one
,
come
so
far
,
and
no
farther
.
Fifthly
,
Here
's
Comfort
to
Gods
people
under
their
Afflictions
and
Sufferings
in
the
World
,
or
by
the
World
;
if
Christ
be
interceding
in
Heaven
for
them
,
then
surely
he
will
not
leave
them
comfortless
in
their
Sufferings
for
him
,
Joh.
14.
8.
chap.
16.
32.
33.
Then
Tribulation
,
nor
Persecution
,
nor
any
thing
else
can
separate
them
from
the
Love
of
God
in
Christ
,
Rom.
8.
35.
He
that
is
for
them
is
stronger
than
all
that
are
against
them
,
●ers
.
31.
He
will
be
with
them
in
the
Fire
and
in
the
Water
,
Isa.
43.
2.
Christ
is
never
sweeter
than
when
the
World
is
most
bitter
to
a
Child
of
God
;
Afflictions
can
but
file
away
the
Rust
and
scoure
away
the
Filth
,
it
cannot
diminish
the
,
Grace
,
nor
injure
the
State
of
those
that
are
interested
in
Christ's
Mediation
;
Christ's
Cordials
are
never
better
,
than
when
his
people
are
most
faint
and
languishing
:
Christ
in
Heaven
,
laughs
at
the
vain
hopes
of
his
Enemies
,
and
will
dash
all
their
Attempts
against
himself
and
Interest
in
pieces
,
Psal.
2.
4
,
9.
He
will
strengthen
his
tyred
,
distressed
Servants
under
Sufferings
,
Isa.
42.
10.
2
Cor.
12.
9.
His
Arm
is
made
bare
,
his
Power
display'd
and
his
Strength
made
perfect
in
their
Weaknesses
,
Psal.
27.
14.
This
may
be
the
Trouble
and
dejecting
Fears
of
some
,
how
they
shall
hold
out-in
times
of
Tryal
.
I
am
afraid
(
says
one
)
I
shall
never
bare
Reproaches
,
Hatred
,
Bonds
,
Loss
of
Goods
,
and
death
for
Christ
,
with
a
magnanimous
and
Gospel
Spirit
:
Why
Soul
?
It
shall
be
given
thee
in
that
hour
not
only
to
believe
,
but
to
suffer
for
Christ
,
Phil.
1.
29.
The
Fury
of
the
Adversary
shall
not
terrifie
you
,
nor
their
rampent
Rage
deject
your
Courage
.
Isa.
35.
4.
Sixthly
,
Here
's
Comfort
to
such
as
are
Mourners
for
Sion
,
and
grieve
at
the
Afflictions
of
God's
People
:
That
lament
to
see
Christ's
Interest
on
foot
,
and
the
Wicked
on
horse-back
,
Transgressors
to
prosper
,
and
the
Godly
afflicted
,
that
weep
to
behold
Divine
Providences
thwarting
his
Promises
.
The
Lord
hath
promised
,
that
to
Christ
shall
every
Knee
bow
,
and
every
Tongue
confess
.
Men
read
of
glorious
things
spoken
of
Sion
;
but
when
they
look
to
the
Interest
of
God
,
they
see
nothing
but
matter
of
trouble
and
grief
.
They
look
to
the
Earth
,
and
behold
Darkness
and
Confusions
;
they
look
to
the
Church
of
Christ
,
and
lo
,
Decayes
and
Dyings
:
Now
this
breeds
trouble
to
the
Friends
of
Christ
,
to
see
things
run
counter
,
and
cross
to
expectation
and
promise
:
yet
here
is
Comfort
from
the
Intercession
of
Christ
on
this
account
.
For
,
First
,
The
Lord
Jesus
sits
at
Helm
,
he
is
upon
the
Throne
,
and
reigns
as
King
for
ever
;
and
this
hath
been
the
Faithful
▪
s
Refuge
and
Support
in
the
worst
of
Times
,
Psal.
10.
2.
4.
16.
Psa.
29.
10.
The
Lord
Jesus
hath
the
Government
of
Nations
,
as
well
as
of
Sion
,
on
his
shoulders
,
Isa.
9.
6.
Eph.
1.
22.
He
rules
over
all
,
Psal.
103.
19.
His
Kingdom
ruleth
over
all
.
Men
and
Devils
cannot
wrest
the
Scepter
out
of
his
hands
:
In
spight
of
all
he
is
King
of
Sion
,
Psal.
2.
6.
and
his
Government
is
maintained
in
all
the
Confusions
that
are
on
the
Earth
;
and
if
so
,
there
is
no
cause
for
the
People
of
Christ
to
be
dejected
.
Fear
not
,
(
said
Caesar
to
his
Mariners
in
a
Storm
)
Caesar
is
here
.
Why
are
ye
so
fearful
,
(
said
Christ
to
his
Disciples
,
when
trembling
at
their
Dangers
in
a
boysterous
Storm
)
O
ye
of
little
Faith
,
Matth.
8.
26.
That
Vessel
cannot
miscarry
that
hath
Christ
at
Helm
,
and
if
it
could
(
said
Luther
)
mallem
ruere
cum
Christo
quam
regnare
cum
Caesare
.
I
had
rather
perish
with
Christ
than
reign
with
Caesar
.
Secondly
,
His
Paths
are
in
the
deep
waters
,
Psal.
77.
19.
Thy
way
is
in
the
Sea
,
thy
paths
are
in
the
deep
waters
,
and
thy
foot-steps
are
not
known
.
The
Psalmist
alludes
to
that
Providence
of
God
in
leading
Israel
through
the
red
Sea
;
when
Deaths
were
on
every
hand
,
God
walked
on
those
Waters
,
and
made
a
way
through
them
for
his
People
.
So
Nah.
1.
3.
The
Lord
hath
his
way
in
the
Whirlwind
,
and
in
the
Storm
and
the
Clouds
are
the
dust
of
his
Feet
.
Those
ways
that
men
cannot
stand
up
in
,
are
Gods
usual
walks
,
in
which
he
leads
on
his
Work
and
Interest
.
His
wayes
are
above
our
wayes
,
and
,
In
the
Mount
will
the
Lord
be
seen
,
Gen.
22.
14.
His
Providences
,
Ezek.
1.
16.
are
like
a
Wheel
in
the
middle
of
a
wheel
,
and
a
skain
of
Silk
strangely
entangled
.
When
Israel
was
come
near
the
Borders
of
the
promised
Land
,
they
must
be
turned
back
again
into
the
Wilderness
,
and
wander
up
and
down
forty
years
in
the
Desarts
:
When
Sion's
Mercies
were
come
to
the
Birth
,
they
prov'd
Abortive
;
Strange
indeed
is
the
Womb
of
Divine
Providence
,
and
seemingly
contradictory
to
Humane
Reason
.
Thirdly
,
No
cross
Providences
can
hinder
Christ's
Work
in
the
World
:
He
hath
purposed
,
and
will
perform
it
.
Combinations
of
men
,
Psal.
2.
1
,
2.
the
Gates
of
Hell
,
Matth.
16.
18.
and
the
Powers
of
this
World
can
no
more
impede
the
Success
of
Christ's
Work
,
than
the
Barking
of
Dogs
can
hinder
the
Moon
's
passage
to
its
Journey
end
,
Isa.
43.
13.
I
will
work
,
and
who
shall
let
it
?
Who
art
thou
,
O
great
Mountain
,
before
Zerubbabel
?
thou
shalt
become
a
plain
,
Zach.
4.
7.
He
taketh
up
the
Isles
as
a
very
slender
thing
;
Isa.
40.
15.
The
Lord
brings
in
his
mightiness
here
,
to
comfort
Israel
under
Discouragements
,
by
reason
of
Difficulties
in
the
way
of
their
Mercy
.
Comfort
ye
my
People
,
saith
the
Lord
,
ver.
1.
Tell
her
her
warfare
is
accomplished
,
ver.
2.
The
glory
of
the
Lord
shall
be
revealed
,
ver.
5.
O
Jerusalem
,
that
bringest
good
tidings
,
lift
up
thy
voice
with
strength
:
Be
not
afraid
of
Dangers
,
preach
my
Word
,
be
undaunted
in
my
Service
:
Behold
your
God
,
ver.
9.
He
will
come
,
and
his
Reward
with
him
,
ver.
10.
He
will
feed
his
Flock
like
a
Shepherd
,
v.
11.
He
will
keep
up
his
Word
and
Ordinances
in
spight
of
all
opposition
.
Obj.
But
our
Enemi●s
are
many
.
Ans.
Why
,
he
hath
measured
all
the
waters
of
opposition
in
the
hollow
of
his
hand
,
vers.
12.
Obj.
But
all
our
wisdom
cannot
see
how
these
great
things
should
be
brought
about
.
Ans.
Why
,
who
hath
directed
the
Spirit
of
the
Lord
?
ver.
13.
He
wants
not
wisdom
to
accomplish
his
Work
.
Obj.
But
Nations
and
Islands
combine
against
God's
Israel
.
Answ.
What
if
they
do
?
they
are
no
more
to
God
than
the
drop
of
a
bucket
,
and
the
dust
of
the
Balance
,
ver.
15.
Therefore
,
fear
not
,
he
will
perform
his
Promises
,
and
fulfil
his
Designs
.
Quest.
Why
,
what
hath
he
promised
?
Answ.
He
hath
promised
,
that
the
stone
cut
out
of
the
Mountain
without
hands
,
shall
become
a
great
Mountain
,
and
break
in
pieces
the
Image
of
the
Beast
,
Dan.
2.
35
,
45.
and
that
he
will
set
up
the
Kingdom
of
his
Son
in
the
World
,
ver.
44.
Isa.
2.
2.
He
hath
promised
Peaceful
times
to
the
Church
of
God
,
when
the
Sword
shall
be
turned
into
Plow-shares
,
Isa.
2.
4.
Isa.
55.
13.
Great
shall
be
the
peace
of
thy
Children
:
None
shall
hurt
or
destroy
in
all
God's
holy
Mountain
,
Isa.
65.
25.
Ezek.
28.
24
,
Isa.
16.
18.
Psal.
72.
9.
He
hath
promised
times
of
Light
and
Knowledge
,
Isa.
11.
9.
chap.
52.
8.
ch.
54.
13.
ch.
60.
19
,
20.
He
hath
promised
times
of
Holiness
,
Isa.
60.
21.
ch.
4.
3.
ch.
35.
8.
Zech.
14.
20
,
21.
He
hath
promised
times
of
Union
,
Zech.
14.
9.
Zeph.
3.
9.
Ezek.
37.
19.
He
hath
promised
times
of
Joy
and
Comfort
to
his
Interest
,
Isa.
65.
13
,
14.
ch.
35.
10.
ch.
25.
8.
He
hath
promised
Enlargement
to
the
Church
,
Isa.
2.
2.
ch.
60.
8
,
9
,
13.
He
hath
promised
Stability
and
Settlement
,
Isa.
54.
14.
ch.
60.
20.
He
hath
promised
Activity
and
Liveliness
,
Isa.
26.
19.
Fourthly
,
As
those
great
and
glorious
things
are
spoken
of
Sion
,
so
they
shall
certainly
be
accomplished
in
due
time
,
Isa.
60.
22.
Deut.
32.
35.
The
Vision
is
but
for
an
appointed
time
,
Hab.
2.
3.
As
the
Things
are
appointed
,
so
is
the
Time
,
beyond
which
God
will
not
go
one
moment
,
Exod.
12.
41
,
42.
The
self-same
day
;
the
Jewish
Doctors
say
it
was
mid-day
,
as
soon
as
one
hundred
and
thirty
years
was
out
,
to
an
hour
,
God
fulfill'd
his
Promise
.
Lastly
,
God
takes
usually
the
most
unlikely
time
to
fulfill
his
Promises
:
As
in
Abraham
,
when
his
Body
was
dead
,
Gen.
18.
10
,
11.
Abraham
and
Sarah
were
sensible
of
an
utter
inability
and
unfitness
in
themselves
for
such
a
Mercy
,
yet
then
was
the
Promise
fulfilled
,
Gen.
22.
14.
So
Israel
were
brought
out
of
Egypt
,
when
all
things
made
against
it
;
their
Oppressions
increased
,
Exod.
2.
23.
chap.
5.
7
,
8
,
19.
Pharaoh
resolv'd
not
to
let
them
go
,
Exod.
10.
27.
and
Moses
charg'd
to
see
his
face
no
more
,
on
pain
of
Death
,
chap.
10.
28.
When
Gods
time
was
come
to
bring
Israel
out
of
Babylon
,
they
were
as
dry
Bones
,
and
said
,
Our
hope
is
lost
,
we
are
cut
off
for
our
parts
,
Ezek.
37.
11
,
12.
Psal.
126.
1.
Deut.
32.
36.
Mic.
4.
10.
Thou
shalt
go
into
Babylon
,
and
there
shalt
thou
be
delivered
.
Before
that
glorious
Salvation
of
the
Jews
in
Shushan
,
under
Ahasuerus
,
they
were
brought
under
a
Sentence
of
Death
,
the
Decree
was
seal'd
,
and
posted
away
,
the
time
appointed
for
their
destruction
,
and
no
possible
hopes
left
of
reversing
it
,
Esth.
3.
12.
to
the
end
,
compar'd
with
Chap.
8.
So
much
for
the
Use
of
Consolation
.
CHAP.
VIII
.
Containing
an
Vse
of
Exhortation
to
Sinners
and
Saints
.
IF
the
Lord
Jesus
Christ
be
such
a
Glorious
Mediator
,
then
,
First
,
Let
perishing
Sinners
be
perswaded
to
get
an
Interest
in
him
:
And
for
Motive
herein
,
consider
these
four
or
five
things
.
First
,
The
Lord
Jesus
will
Mediate
for
,
and
save
none
but
those
that
are
his
.
Many
common
Mercies
,
Favours
,
and
Boons
he
bestows
on
his
Enemies
,
but
Salvation-blessings
are
the
priviledges
only
of
his
People
,
Matth.
1.
21.
2
Tim.
2.
19.
Luke
1.
68.
Secondly
,
Many
will
lay
claim
to
Christ
,
who
have
no
Interest
in
him
,
Luke
13.
25.
High
Pretenders
may
be
shaken
off
,
Math.
7.
22.
chap.
25.
12.
Some
that
shall
think
themselves
something
,
may
be
found
nothing
;
some
that
shall
be
thought
Saints
by
others
,
may
yet
be
cast
away
,
1
Joh.
2.
19.
As
Hymenaeus
and
Alexander
,
1.
Tim.
1.
20.
The
Galathians
and
scattered
Saints
,
Gal.
1.
6.
chap.
3.
3.
2
Pet.
1.
20.
Rev.
8.
12.
Nay
the
very
Elect
shall
find
it
hard
to
stand
,
Matth.
24.
24.
Thirdly
,
There
is
but
a
time
in
which
Christ
may
be
found
,
Isa.
55.
6.
Seek
ye
the
Lord
while
he
may
be
found
;
intimating
,
there
is
a
time
in
which
he
will
not
,
when
the
door
will
be
shut
,
and
Christ
will
speak
,
knock
,
and
call
no
more
;
There
is
but
a
day
of
Grace
,
an
hour
of
Salvation
,
O
Sinner
be
not
wise
too
late
.
Fourthly
,
It
is
a
most
dreadful
,
tremendous
thing
,
to
leave
the
World
without
an
Interest
in
Christ
;
to
be
summon'd
to
Judgment
and
have
nothing
to
help
them
,
no
Mediator
to
plead
for
them
,
no
Righteousness
to
cover
them
,
no
Duties
to
accompany
them
,
no
Eye
to
pity
them
,
Isa.
57.
12.
chap.
30.
13.
Jer.
5.
5.
This
is
sad
indeed
,
when
all
Bowels
are
gone
,
and
boundless
Miseries
to
be
undergone
.
Fifthly
,
Of
all
perishing
Sinners
,
such
as
perish
under
the
Gospel
,
have
the
most
dreadful
Miseries
,
Matth.
11.
21.
22.
The
Heathens
and
Pagans
,
Publicans
and
Harlots
,
shall
have
a
more
tolerable
place
in
Hell
,
than
such
as
refuse
a
tender'd
Jesus
:
How
shall
we
escape
,
if
we
neglect
so
great
Salvation
?
Heb.
2.
3.
O
miserable
Sinners
!
sleight
not
,
Salvation
tenders
,
despise
not
,
Gospel
calls
,
but
hasten
away
to
this
Redeemer
.
Secondly
,
Let
the
People
of
God
be
exhorted
,
first
to
bless
God
for
this
Mediator
,
Eph.
1.
3.
Christ
is
the
Fountain
of
Blessings
,
the
Author
of
Salvation
,
the
Gift
of
God
,
and
have
you
no
Hosanna's
for
the
Enjoyment
of
so
rich
a
person
?
1
Joh.
4.
9
,
10.
Secondly
,
Ply
hard
the
Throne
of
Grace
,
find
Work
for
Christ
,
Heb.
4.
15
,
16.
Let
us
come
boldly
to
the
Throne
of
Grace
,
make
known
your
Requests
unto
God
,
Phil.
4.
6.
Consider
Soul
,
You
have
always
need
of
Mercy
;
not
a
Moment
but
you
want
Supplies
from
God
for
Soul
and
Body
:
your
Corruptions
are
alwayes
resisting
the
Spirit
,
Gal.
5.
17.
never
at
peace
with
Grace
,
but
as
a
Bow
that
is
bent
,
are
still
pressing
after
their
former
Liberty
,
and
as
Waters
penn'd
back
,
are
striving
to
force
their
way
;
therefore
Christians
,
you
alwayes
need
the
Spirit
's
help
,
and
fresh
Supplies
of
Grace
:
your
Guilt
is
always
encreasing
,
James
3.
2.
The
Righteous
falleth
seven
times
a
day
,
hence
daily
Sacrifices
were
appointed
,
because
of
daily
Sins
,
Heb.
7.
27.
Your
Temptations
are
continually
renewed
,
1
Pet.
5.
8.
New
Tryals
are
daily
falling
on
you
,
new
Difficulties
are
frequently
occurring
your
Life
,
new
Troubles
and
Afflictions
are
constantly
betiding
you
.
This
is
God's
appointed
way
,
in
which
he
will
give
out
Mercy
,
Ezek.
36.
37.
Matth.
7.
7.
'T
is
true
,
sometimes
God
hears
before
we
ask
,
but
yet
preventing
Mercy
doth
not
excuse
from
Duty
,
and
we
have
no
ground
to
expect
Mercy
out
of
the
way
of
Duty
.
You
are
invested
with
a
holy
Priest-hood
,
on
purpose
that
you
may
be
much
employed
in
this
Work
,
1
Pet.
2.
5.
Your
Work
and
Offices
lies
in
this
,
to
offer
up
daily
Sacrifices
to
God
by
Christ
.
The
Lord
Jesus
waits
in
Heaven
to
receive
your
Prayers
,
't
is
his
Business
and
work
in
Glory
,
to
pursue
your
Advantages
,
and
therefore
he
expects
to
hear
from
you
,
9.
Heb.
24.
As
an
Agent
that
expects
to
hear
from
his
Clyent
,
and
receive
Intimation
about
his
Condition
;
as
a
Friend
in
a
forreign
Country
,
that
is
hearkning
for
Letters
from
his
Friend
,
Christ
in
Heaven
desires
to
hear
from
his
People
on
Earth
;
not
that
he
is
ignorant
of
them
,
or
needs
to
be
put
in
Remembrance
,
but
this
way
are
his
Graces
in
them
exercised
,
their
Love
and
Duty
maintain'd
,
and
himself
glorified
,
Isa.
30.
18.
Therefore
will
the
Lord
wait
that
he
may
be
gracious
.
In
the
Original
it
is
,
he
longs
and
as
it
were
,
greedily
and
enlargedly
desires
an
Occasion
to
be
gracious
;
he
waits
in
Heaven
to
be
pu●
in
Remembrance
to
do
his
People
good
.
This
way
is
their
blessed
Intercourse
maintained
betwixt
Christ
in
Heaven
,
and
Believers
on
Earth
,
by
this
Christ
hears
from
them
on
Earth
,
and
they
from
him
in
Heaven
,
Cant.
2.
14.
chap.
8.
13
,
14.
Thou
that
dwellest
in
the
Gardens
,
the
Companions
hearken
to
thy
Voice
,
cause
me
to
hear
it
:
'T
is
,
in
the
Original
,
Cause
to
hear
me
,
which
occasions
a
twofold
reading
.
First
,
Cause
me
to
he
heard
,
they
are
Christs
Words
to
his
Spouse
,
Let
me
be
the
Subject
of
thy
Discourse
to
others
.
Secondly
,
Cause
me
to
hear
it
,
that
is
,
let
me
be
spoken
to
,
let
me
hear
thy
Voice
in
Prayer
,
as
a
man
desires
to
hear
from
his
Wife
,
when
absent
;
and
in
the
next
vers
.
She
eccho's
back
the
same
Request
to
Christ
,
that
he
would
hasten
his
Return
to
her
,
that
she
might
have
his
Company
also
:
by
Prayer
Christ
and
Believers
have
sweet
Intercourse
with
each
other
,
Cant.
1.
7
,
8.
chap.
2.
5.
8.
The
Lord
Jesus
is
wonderfully
delighted
to
hear
from
his
People
,
Cant.
2.
14.
chap.
4.
11.
chap.
6.
13.
Return
,
Return
,
O
Shulamite
,
&c.
This
word
Shulamite
comes
either
from
Solomon
,
and
so
her
Husbands
name
is
named
on
her
,
or
from
Salem
,
Peace
,
which
is
Jerusalem
,
shewing
her
Descent
to
be
from
Jerusalem
above
;
hence
Christ
desires
her
Company
because
it
was
pleasure
to
him
to
look
upon
her
,
her
Countenance
was
as
two
Armies
;
it
is
in
the
Original
,
Mahanaim
,
the
same
word
that
Jacob
puts
on
the
place
where
God
met
him
,
Gen.
32.
1.
2.
As
if
Christ
should
say
,
thy
Sight
is
Angelical
to
me
,
tho
thou
art
impure
in
thy self
,
yet
thou
art
fair
in
mine
Eye
.
'T
is
a
mighty
thriving
way
:
there
's
no
such
course
can
be
taken
to
grow
rich
apace
in
divine
Treasures
;
Prayer
is
the
Key
that
opens
Christ
Treasury
,
and
fetches
out
the
Riches
of
Heaven
,
because
such
may
have
of
God
what
they
will
,
Joh.
15.
7.
God
is
always
giving
where
gracious
Souls
are
rightly
asking
;
God's
readiness
to
give
should
be
an
Argument
always
to
crave
:
as
Sir
Walter
Raleigh
when
Q.
Eliz.
ask'd
him
when
he
would
leave
off
beging
,
answered
,
when
your
Majesty
leaves
off
giving
.
Thirdly
,
Trust
to
an
interceding
Jesus
,
expect
all
your
Mercies
from
him
,
Psal.
5.
3.
In
the
Morning
I
will
direct
my
Prayer
to
thee
,
and
look
up
:
the
Arabick
,
and
some
other
Versions
have
it
,
I
will
prepare
or
stand
before
him
,
and
he
will
see
me
.
But
this
agrees
not
with
the
Original
,
where
't
is
,
I
will
order
or
dispose
my
Prayer
,
as
a
General
doth
his
Army
,
and
will
look
out
as
a
man
that
watches
on
a
Tower
,
to
see
what
I
can
espy
and
what
Answer
he
will
give
.
By
a
Metonomy
,
it
signifies
to
expect
or
look
for
some
thing
,
Matth.
22.
21.
In
his
Name
shall
the
Gentiles
trust
.
The
Lord
Jesus
is
the
sure
and
certain
Object
of
a
Believers
Trust
;
O
Christians
!
is
Christ
entred
into
Heaven
,
there
to
appear
for
his
People
?
O
then
depend
upon
his
Intercession
,
expect
all
your
needed
Mercies
by
him
,
take
up
your
Acquiescence
in
his
Mediation
for
you
,
rest
satisfied
(
Believers
)
that
your
case
is
good
,
and
it
shall
be
well
with
you
in
every
Condition
,
because
Christ
intercedeth
for
you
.
Now
to
strengthen
your
Dependance
on
Christ
.
Consider
,
His
Engagement
to
the
Father
to
become
your
Advocate
,
Heb.
10.
9.
Joh.
6.
39.
His
Promise
to
Believers
to
pursue
their
Cause
in
Heaven
,
Joh.
14.
16.
And
his
full
Accomplishments
with
whatever
is
needful
to
compleat
this
Work
.
He
is
infinitely
wise
,
and
knows
how
to
manage
your
Concerns
and
prosper
,
Col.
2.
3.
He
hath
Skill
and
Counsel
to
finish
his
Affairs
with
Discretion
;
he
knows
your
Cases
better
than
your selves
,
and
what
Arguments
to
plead
so
as
to
prevail
,
Psal.
103.
14.
Joh.
2.
24.
25.
Psal.
31.
7.
Heb.
4.
13.
Isa.
40.
27.
28.
He
is
active
and
laborious
;
and
quick
at
Work
,
as
well
as
in
Wisdom
.
Isa.
11.
3.
He
is
still
unwearied
in
his
Business
,
and
his
Spirit
never
fails
,
Isa.
42.
4.
His
Eyes
are
always
open
,
he
never
slumbers
or
sleeps
,
Psal.
121.
4.
1
Kin.
8.
29.
Isa.
27
,
3.
He
loseth
no
time
,
but
takes
the
fittest
Occasion
to
perfect
his
Designs
,
1
Pet.
5.
6.
He
is
faithful
in
his
Undertakings
,
and
one
whom
you
may
confide
,
Heb.
2.
17.
His
name
is
faithful
,
Rev.
19.
11.
He
is
omnipotent
and
powerful
to
fulfil
his
Pleasure
,
Heb.
7.
25.
The
Almighty
one
who
can
prevail
with
the
Father
,
and
is
one
with
him
,
Joh.
11.
42.
chap.
10.
30.
Consider
Christ's
Interest
in
his
people
,
they
are
his
own
,
John
13.
1.
They
are
his
Seed
,
Treasure
,
Jewels
,
Members
,
and
Sheep
,
Joh.
10.
3.
They
are
his
Spouse
,
and
therefore
he
cannot
forget
,
or
neglect
their
Concerns
,
Ephesians
5.
29.
Isa.
58.
7.
Think
on
his
Concernments
in
all
the
Affairs
of
his
Interest
;
by
vertue
of
that
Union
betwixt
Christ
and
his
People
,
he
becomes
a
sharer
with
them
in
all
their
Conditions
,
their
Mercies
are
his
Delight
,
Psal.
35.
27.
and
their
Afflictions
are
his
Trouble
,
Isa.
63.
9.
He
sympathizeth
with
them
as
the
head
with
the
Members
,
and
the
Husband
with
the
Spouse
;
their
loss
is
his
Loss
,
and
their
Gain
he
reckons
as
his
Interest
.
Should
Saints
and
their
Concernments
miscarry
at
last
,
Christ
himself
would
be
a
certain
and
eternal
Looser
:
he
would
loose
his
Blood
,
and
purchase
,
his
Obedience
and
Sufferings
.
Lastly
,
Consider
,
Christ's
Glory
consists
in
the
Good
and
Salvation
of
Believers
,
2
Thes.
1.
12.
His
Glory
is
wrapt
up
in
their
Glory
,
and
his
Life
in
their
Life
,
Joh.
14.
19.
2
Cor.
8.
23.
Joh.
17.
10.
Fourthly
,
acknowledge
the
Intercession
of
Christ
to
be
the
procuring
Cause
of
all
your
Mercies
;
in
every
Reception
of
Mercy
see
an
Interceding
Jesus
,
and
say
Lord
,
't
is
thy
Mediation
I
owe
these
Enjoyments
,
Priviledges
,
and
Prayer-returns
unto
,
Luke
22.
32.
Psal.
115.
1.
Pro.
3.
6.
In
all
thy
ways
acknowledge
him
.
This
is
to
pay
Tribute
to
Christ
in
Heaven
,
and
advance
the
Glory
of
the
blessed
Mediator
;
this
is
giving
Christ
his
Due
,
Rom.
13.
7.
and
a
sacrificing
to
God
and
not
to
your
Dreg
;
as
it
is
Christ
in
Belelievers
is
the
Hope
of
Glory
,
so
it
is
Christ
in
Heaven
is
the
Hope
and
Procurer
of
Mercy
.
Fifthly
,
If
Christ
be
your
Advocate
in
Heaven
,
then
follow
his
Instructions
on
Earth
,
Matth.
17.
5.
He
that
commits
his
Cause
to
another
,
commits
himself
to
his
Counsel
also
to
be
guided
by
him
in
every
thing
,
that
might
conduce
to
his
Success
in
it
;
Christ's
work
in
Heaven
is
to
order
and
regulate
his
People
on
Earth
,
and
therefore
he
is
the
Law-giver
,
and
King
as
well
as
Saviour
,
Isa.
33.
22.
Jam.
4.
12.
and
the
Duty
of
all
Christ's
Clyents
on
Earth
,
is
to
live
by
his
Prescription
and
Order
given
them
;
and
therefore
't
is
said
,
Numb.
21.
18.
The
Princes
digged
the
Well
,
even
the
Nobles
of
the
People
,
digged
it
by
the
Direction
of
the
Law-giver
.
This
is
spoken
of
that
famous
Well
Beer-Elim
:
that
is
,
the
Well
of
the
mighty
ones
,
that
God
gave
Israel
in
the
Wilderness
:
it
was
alone
the
Gift
of
God
,
verse
16.
I
will
give
them
Waters
,
yet
they
must
dig
for
it
,
as
here
;
and
that
according
to
Prescription
,
as
Moses
gave
them
from
the
Lord
:
This
well
was
a
Figure
of
Christ
,
as
the
Hebrews
themselves
,
in
their
Midrash
Koheleth
do
acknowledge
,
as
(
say
they
)
The
first
Redeemer
caused
a
Well
to
spring
up
,
so
the
last
Redeemer
shall
cause
Waters
to
spring
up
;
as
't
is
said
,
Joel
3.
18.
A
Fountain
shall
come
forth
from
the
House
of
the
Lord
,
and
shall
water
the
Valley
of
Shittim
;
which
signified
the
Graces
of
the
Spirit
,
that
Well
of
Water
springing
up
to
Life
eternal
,
Joh.
4.
14.
Sixthly
,
Become
Advocates
for
Christ
on
Earth
,
confess
his
name
.
Rom.
14.
11.
chap.
15.
9.
Phil.
2.
11.
Plead
his
cause
before
men
,
Hos.
2.
2.
Plead
with
your
Mother
.
This
is
spoken
to
the
pious
in
Israel
(
as
Jonathas
Caldaeus
,
Jerom
,
and
others
conceive
)
who
are
the
men
,
and
the
whole
House
of
Israel
their
Mother
,
and
their
pious
Children
must
plead
,
that
is
,
expostulate
,
reason
,
and
contend
with
her
for
God
to
bring
her
to
the
Sense
of
her
Sin
and
Danger
;
the
Lord
Jesus
underwent
all
dangers
in
owning
your
Cause
,
so
should
you
in
his
:
he
always
intercedes
for
you
,
so
should
you
for
him
in
Word
and
Deed
;
your
Lives
and
Lips
should
plead
for
him
:
He
pleads
effectually
for
you
,
so
should
you
labour
to
be
as
successful
as
you
may
for
him
,
Joh.
3.
29.
and
in
order
to
the
Discharge
of
this
important
Duty
,
consider
,
That
the
suitable
Qualifications
of
an
Advocate
must
be
acquired
,
you
must
get
Wisdom
to
know
Christ
and
the
things
of
his
Will
,
Kingdom
,
and
Glory
,
you
are
not
likely
to
do
much
Service
to
Christs
Interest
,
if
you
are
ignorant
and
unacquainted
with
his
Laws
and
Concernments
,
Mic.
6.
8.
Col.
1.
9
,
10.
2
Pet.
3.
18.
Matth.
10.
16.
Phil.
1.
9.
Eph.
1.
17.
You
must
be
active
and
vigorous
for
God
,
Rom.
12.
11.
Slothful
Spirits
are
not
like
to
be
much
serviceable
,
Prov.
27.
15.
Eccles.
10.
18.
chap.
9.
10.
Heb.
6.
11
,
12.
You
must
be
faithful
,
and
have
Truth
in
the
inner
parts
,
Rev.
2.
10.
1
Cor.
4.
2.
Luke
12.
42.
You
must
labour
after
Potency
and
Mightiness
through
Christ
,
that
you
may
prevail
for
him
,
Phil.
4.
13.
1
Chro.
22.
13.
1
Cor.
16.
13.
Now
the
way
to
get
this
Strength
for
Christ
,
is
by
Faith
to
live
on
him
,
Eph.
6.
10.
2
Tim.
2.
1.
You
must
make
a
thorough
and
open
Profession
of
him
,
and
of
all
his
Truth
,
1
Tim.
6.
12
,
13
,
14.
Heb.
4.
14.
2
Cor.
9.
13.
profess
him
at
all
times
,
Matth.
10.
32.
profess
him
openly
,
plainly
,
sincerely
,
and
boldly
,
so
did
the
Apostles
.
You
must
patiently
,
persevere
under
all
Sufferings
for
him
,
Acts
21.
13.
2
Tim.
2.
10.
Heb.
10.
32.
You
must
speak
well
for
Christ
at
all
times
,
Mat.
11.
19.
Cant.
5.
10.
1
Pet.
2.
9.
You
must
live
out
his
Glory
,
Math.
5.
16.
Phil.
2.
15.
2
Cor.
9.
13.
Thus
have
we
done
with
the
Applicatory
part
of
this
Point
,
and
dispatch'd
the
wonderful
Riches
of
Christ
,
as
to
his
personal
Union
.
CHAP.
IX
.
Opening
somewhat
of
the
sweet
Dispositions
of
Christ
,
viz.
His
Goodness
,
Love
,
and
the
Riches
thereof
,
as
to
the
kind
,
Fruits
,
and
Effects
of
it
.
I
Am
now
come
to
the
third
particular
,
wherein
we
shall
make
a
Discovery
of
the
Riches
of
Christ
,
as
they
consist
in
his
excellent
and
sweet
Dispositions
as
Mediator
,
with
those
precious
Graces
and
Endowments
in
him
,
which
will
much
illustrate
the
personal
Riches
of
Christ
,
and
be
of
wonderful
Encouragement
both
to
Saints
and
Sinners
,
to
think
better
of
him
,
and
to
hasten
after
a
Dependance
on
him
.
Now
the
first
thing
we
shall
treat
of
,
is
the
goodness
of
his
Nature
:
He
is
Goodness
it self
,
Psal.
34.
8.
O
tast
and
see
that
the
Lord
is
good
:
This
Psalm
was
penn'd
by
David
,
when
he
was
driven
from
Achish
,
and
was
in
sore
danger
of
his
Life
;
in
this
Condition
,
he
seeks
the
Lord
,
and
found
help
,
by
reason
of
the
Goodness
of
God
,
that
is
,
God
in
Christ
;
indeed
there
is
Creation-Goodness
,
and
providential-Goodness
,
but
the
choicest
is
his
Redemption-goodness
,
that
Goodness
which
he
lets
out
to
poor
Sinners
in
a
Mediator
.
Thus
is
Jesus
Christ
the
Gift
of
his
best
Love
,
and
is
qualified
,
and
disposed
to
commend
the
infinite
Goodness
of
God
to
perishing
Sinners
:
his
Goodness
is
great
,
Zac.
9.
17.
called
the
Riches
of
his
Goodness
,
Rom.
2.
4.
Now
this
goodness
of
Christ
appears
.
First
,
In
it's
Extensiveness
,
he
is
good
to
all
,
Mans
goodness
is
contracted
and
narrow
,
its
greatest
Proportion
reacheth
but
a
few
,
none
but
Friends
,
Relations
,
and
such
as
may
oblige
or
requite
them
,
are
usually
Sharers
in
it
;
but
the
goodness
of
Christ
is
immense
,
it
reacheth
to
all
the
work
of
his
hands
,
Psal.
145.
9.
The
Lord
is
good
to
all
,
by
him
all
things
consist
,
Col.
1.
17.
He
upholdeth
all
things
by
the
word
of
his
Power
,
Heb.
1.
3.
The
very
vilest
,
and
most
unworthy
Grace-abusing
Soul
have
some
kind
of
share
in
Christs
Goodness
;
he
upholds
his
very
Enemies
,
and
maintains
the
Being
and
Enjoyment
of
such
as
oppose
him
.
Secondly
,
In
it's
Invincibleness
;
all
the
Provocations
of
his
Enemies
cannot
impede
it
's
designed
current
,
he
is
resolved
they
shall
have
a
share
in
his
Mercy
,
though
they
oppose
their
own
Mercies
;
nay
all
the
Unkindness
of
his
people
cannot
conquer
it
,
nor
many
Waters
quench
it
:
He
maketh
his
Sun
to
shine
upon
the
good
and
bad
,
Math.
5.
45.
It
's
strange
to
think
how
rare
a
portion
of
Mercy
the
wicked
have
in
their
day
;
he
that
cryed
Father
forgive
them
they
know
not
what
they
do
,
cries
Father
spare
them
to
see
what
they
will
be
.
Thirdly
,
It
's
Freeness
;
't
is
not
extracted
,
but
flows
out
of
it
's
own
Accord
,
Isa.
65.
24.
Before
they
call
,
I
will
answer
,
&c.
It
hath
no
Creature-merit
to
provoke
it
,
Exek.
16.
6.
I
said
unto
thee
,
when
thou
wast
in
thy
Blood
,
live
,
when
there
was
no
Beauty
to
attract
it
,
no
desires
to
draw
it
forth
:
mans
Worthyness
is
no
ground
for
the
Communication
of
Christs
Goodness
,
what
Lovelyness
had
the
Ephesians
to
deserve
it's
liberal
Effusions
?
Eph.
2.
1.
Fourthly
,
't
is
unwearied
,
enduring
Goodness
,
it
hath
not
the
Shallowness
of
a
slender
Vessel
,
which
is
easily
emptyed
,
but
the
Unfathomableness
of
the
Ocean
that
can
never
be
exhausted
:
the
vast
Expences
and
Communications
of
it
,
from
the
Creation
of
the
World
to
it
's
final
Destruction
,
will
not
diminish
it
one
Iota
;
his
Anger
indeed
hath
but
a
momentary
Continuance
,
Psal.
30.
5.
But
his
Goodness
endureth
for
ever
,
Psal.
52.
1.
Fifthly
,
'T
is
Communicative
goodness
,
running
over
,
flowing
down
,
and
liberally
diffusing
it self
for
the
good
of
others
;
so
't
is
defined
to
be
a
Vertue
by
which
a
person
of
his
own
accord
is
abundantly
prone
to
acts
of
Benignity
:
Christ's
Goodness
is
manifestative
,
distributive
,
and
it's
Dispensations
are
as
natural
as
the
irradiating
Beams
of
the
Sun
.
Secondly
,
Another
excellent
Disposition
in
Christ
,
is
his
Love
,
not
only
his
Phylanthropy
,
or
good
Will
he
bears
to
all
men
,
and
the
Desire
he
hath
of
their
Salvation
,
Ezek.
33.
11.
But
his
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
his
special
Love
,
from
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
valde
&
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
acquiesco
,
such
an
ardent
Affection
hath
the
heart
of
Christ
,
for
a
person
adhering
to
him
,
that
it
greatly
acquiesces
in
,
and
is
fully
contented
with
him
,
Eph.
2.
4.
Such
is
the
Sweetness
of
Christ's
Nature
,
that
it
is
full
of
Love
,
God
is
Love
,
1
John
4.
16.
And
as
the
Father
hath
loved
me
,
so
have
I
loved
you
,
Joh.
15.
9.
Now
this
Love
of
Christ
to
his
people
,
is
,
First
,
A
supreme
Love
,
the
chiefest
Love
,
he
hath
a
love
of
Benevolence
to
all
,
Mark
10.
21.
He
beheld
the
young
man
and
loved
him
;
but
the
Love
he
bears
his
own
,
is
transcendent
,
and
exceeds
the
Love
of
men
and
Angels
,
Joh.
15.
13.
Secondly
,
An
infinite
Love
,
Love
that
passeth
all
Knowledge
,
exceedeth
all
Dimensions
,
Eph.
3.
18.
Chist's
Love
(
saith
one
)
hath
Length
in
it
,
because
he
loved
his
Elect
from
Eternity
to
Eternity
;
O
unmeasurable
Length
that
hath
no
end
!
his
Love
hath
Breadth
in
it
,
because
not
the
Jews
only
,
but
the
Gentiles
also
,
are
sharers
in
it
;
't
is
extended
to
the
whole
World
,
Math.
28.
19.
It
hath
depth
in
it
,
because
it
brought
him
down
into
the
Deeps
,
not
only
of
the
Earth
,
but
of
unconceivable
Sufferings
:
It
brought
him
as
low
as
the
Grave
,
yea
to
the
very
Borders
of
Hell
,
Isa.
53.
3.
It
hath
height
in
it
,
because
it
ascended
far
above
all
Heavens
,
that
he
might
fill
all
in
all
,
become
our
Advocate
there
,
prepare
us
for
it
,
and
it
for
us
,
and
at
last
takes
us
up
to
himself
,
that
we
may
behold
his
Glory
.
Thirdly
,
An
eternal
Love
,
Jer.
31.
3.
I
have
loved
thee
with
an
everlasting
Love
.
All
Creature-affections
have
their
Beginning
and
End
,
their
Risings
and
Settings
,
but
the
Love
of
Christ
is
as
himself
,
everlasting
,
Rev.
1.
13.
The
transiency
of
his
peoples
Love
,
cannot
injure
its
permanency
,
for
where
he
loves
,
he
loves
to
the
end
,
Joh.
13.
1.
Fourthly
,
An
unchangeable
Love
,
it
hath
no
Ebbings
and
Flowings
,
Waxings
and
Waneings
,
Risings
and
Fallings
,
but
is
th●
same
Yesterday
,
to
Day
,
and
for
ever
,
Heb.
13.
8.
It
knows
no
Alteration
,
Addition
,
or
Diminution
:
the
Heavens
shall
wax
old
as
a
Garment
,
and
be
changed
,
Heb.
1.
11.
12.
But
Christ
and
his
Love
is
invariable
,
Mal.
3.
6.
'T
is
true
,
the
Manifestations
of
his
Love
is
mutable
,
(
he
may
smile
to
day
,
and
frown
to
morrow
)
but
not
the
nature
of
it
;
the
Cisterns
may
be
dry
but
not
the
Fountain
.
Fifthly
,
A
free
Love
,
it
hath
no
Consideration
of
Creature-merit
,
fore-seen
Faith
,
or
persevering
Holiness
,
Hos.
14.
4.
I
will
heal
their
Back-slidings
,
and
love
them
freely
.
What
reason
can
be
given
,
that
of
the
same
Lump
should
be
made
one
Vessel
of
Honour
,
and
another
of
Dishonour
;
nay
that
persons
of
the
most
exquisite
Abilities
,
natural
Endowments
,
unspotted
Moralities
,
and
uncontroulable
Sovereignty
,
should
be
rejected
,
and
left
to
the
hardness
of
their
Heart
,
and
the
righteous
Judgment
of
God
,
and
that
others
of
the
meanest
parts
,
inconsiderable
Qualifications
,
prodigiously
vitious
Lives
and
miserable
Penury
,
should
be
elected
to
the
highest
Priviledges
,
received
into
the
most
intimate
Communion
,
and
made
partaker
of
the
highest
Glory
?
Sixthly
,
The
Spring
and
Fountain
of
all
that
Love
that
is
in
Believers
to
God
and
one
another
,
Creature-affections
are
but
streams
deriv'd
from
this
Ocean
,
Candles
lighted
at
this
Sun
:
We
love
him
because
he
first
loved
us
,
1
John
4.
19.
The
ascending
Love
of
Saints
is
a
faint
Reflection
of
the
descending
Love
of
Christ
;
the
same
Waters
that
empty
themselves
into
the
Sea
,
have
their
Birth
from
it
.
Seventhly
,
An
active
love
,
Creature-affections
are
dull
and
sluggish
,
and
savour
rankly
of
the
Vessel
they
are
in
,
but
Christ's
are
vigorous
and
laborious
;
a
parental
Love
,
that
sets
his
Wisdom
on
designing
,
his
Faithfulness
on
securing
,
and
his
Power
on
accomplishing
the
chiefest
Concernments
,
and
highest
good
of
his
Children
.
Lastly
,
a
fruitful
Love
,
full
of
good
Works
,
't
is
commended
love
,
Rom.
5.
8.
manifested
love
,
1
John
4.
9.
Not
love
in
the
Womb
,
or
abortive
,
but
love
in
the
Birth
:
I
shall
name
some
of
it's
Fruits
to
his
People
.
First
,
the
giving
of
himself
for
them
,
Eph.
5.
25.
Who
loved
me
,
and
gave
himself
for
me
,
Gal.
2.
20.
This
is
the
highest
Testimony
of
his
Love
imaginable
,
he
could
not
have
bestowed
a
better
thing
;
he
that
gives
himself
,
gives
all
.
He
gave
himself
to
procure
a
purchased
Treasure
to
enrich
them
,
to
destroy
the
partition
Wall
,
and
fill
up
that
bottomless
Gulf
,
that
lay
in
their
way
to
glory
:
he
gave
himself
to
discharge
their
Debts
,
remove
their
Guilt
,
justifie
their
Persons
fulfil
all
Righteousness
,
and
make
good
the
new
Covenant
.
Secondly
,
The
opening
of
his
heart
to
them
,
John
15.
14
,
15.
I
have
called
you
Friends
,
for
all
that
I
have
heard
of
my
Father
,
I
have
made
known
unto
you
:
O!
the
wonderful
Love
and
Kindness
of
Christ
to
his
People
,
that
he
communicates
his
Secrets
,
and
opens
to
them
the
Thoughts
of
his
Heart
from
all
Eternity
;
he
leads
them
into
his
retired
Chambers
and
secret
Recesses
,
and
feasts
them
liberally
with
hidden
Manna
,
and
excellent
Discoveries
of
the
things
freely
given
them
of
God
:
Saints
cannot
ascend
up
into
Heaven
,
and
see
the
Length
Depth
,
Breadth
and
Height
of
those
glorious
things
God
hath
prepared
for
them
,
but
they
have
the
Priviledge
to
wade
deep
into
sanctuary
Waters
,
and
the
Spirit
of
Grace
is
freely
given
them
to
reveal
the
Depths
of
divine
Love
.
Thirdly
,
The
Communication
of
all
good
things
to
them
,
He
will
give
Grace
and
Glory
,
and
no
good
thing
will
he
withhold
,
Psa.
84.
11.
Psal.
34.
10.
O
boundless
Love
indeed
!
he
may
bestow
some
sublunar
Portions
on
his
Enemies
,
but
his
Children
only
shall
have
the
Inheritance
,
they
shall
have
his
Wisdom
to
direct
them
,
his
Goodness
to
supply
them
,
his
Power
to
protect
them
,
and
his
Spirit
to
instruct
them
,
Joh.
16.
13.
14.
And
O
what
a
wonderful
Gift
is
the
Spirit
;
he
will
shew
them
their
Duty
,
reprove
them
for
their
Sin
,
answer
their
Doubts
,
clear
up
their
Way
,
and
enlighten
them
in
their
Darkness
:
he
will
open
their
Hearts
,
enlarge
their
Souls
,
regulate
their
Wills
,
illuminate
their
Minds
,
and
sanctifie
their
Persons
;
he
will
communicate
Counsel
,
reveal
Christ
,
discover
their
Inheritance
,
and
seal
them
up
to
the
day
of
Redemption
.
Fourthly
,
His
minding
and
pursuing
all
their
Concerns
in
Heaven
,
the
Business
Believers
have
in
another
Country
where
they
cannot
come
is
very
weighty
;
they
need
Receptions
of
more
Grace
every
day
,
Strength
against
Corruption
,
Wisdom
in
their
Difficulties
,
Patience
in
their
Sufferings
,
and
Faith
in
their
Temptations
;
now
Christ
doth
agitate
their
Cause
,
becomes
their
Factor
,
and
dispatches
their
Work
,
Exod.
28.
29.
Heb.
7.
25.
Isa.
49.
15.
16.
Fifthly
,
His
gracious
Presence
with
them
,
Joh.
14.
18.
I
will
not
leave
you
comfortless
,
Heb.
13.
5.
Jer.
32.
40.
2
Cor.
6.
16
,
He
may
hide
his
face
for
sometime
,
and
suspend
the
gracious
light
of
his
Countenance
:
he
may
stand
behind
the
Wall
,
and
step
behind
the
Curtain
,
yet
these
are
but
momentary
,
not
continual
,
and
imaginary
,
not
real
.
Sixthly
,
His
bearing
with
them
,
and
forbearing
of
them
,
1
Cor.
13.
7.
Charity
beareth
all
things
,
it
cannot
easily
be
overloaded
:
what
gross
Indignities
and
abusive
Injuries
doth
Christ
patiently
receive
from
the
hands
of
his
People
?
Amos
2.
13.
Psal.
95.
10.
Seventhly
,
His
thinking
often
and
well
of
them
,
and
his
being
a
Friend
to
their
Friends
,
and
an
Enemy
to
their
Enemies
:
where
a
mans
Affections
are
there
will
his
Thoughts
be
also
;
the
Adulterers
Thoughts
are
on
his
Uncleanness
,
the
wordly
man
's
on
his
Treasures
,
and
the
Ambitious
on
his
Honours
,
but
Christ's
are
on
his
People
,
Isa.
43.
4.
They
are
his
Hephzibah's
,
the
delight
of
his
Soul
,
his
Jewels
and
Treasures
,
Isa.
62.
4.
Mal.
3.
17.
He
esteems
their
Enemies
as
his
,
Exod.
23.
29.
and
favours
their
Friends
with
peculiar
Blessings
,
Exod.
1.
20.
Gen.
39.
5.
Eighthly
,
His
being
troubled
with
their
Troubles
,
and
delighted
with
their
Welfare
,
Joh.
11.
33.
35
,
36.
when
the
Lord
Jesus
came
to
raise
Lazarus
from
the
dead
,
and
saw
Mary
weeping
,
and
the
Jews
that
were
with
her
,
't
is
said
,
He
groaned
in
Spirit
,
and
was
troubled
:
nay
when
he
came
to
the
place
where
Lazarus
lay
,
he
wept
;
whereupon
the
Jews
said
,
Behold
how
he
loved
him
,
and
his
Heart
is
the
same
now
in
Heaven
,
Isa.
63.
9.
True
love
will
suffer
in
the
Tryals
of
it's
Friend
,
Acts
9.
4.
hence
the
Afflictions
of
Saints
are
call'd
the
Afflictions
of
Christ
,
Col.
1.
24.
what
Hester
said
concerning
her
people
,
may
be
more
truly
spoken
by
Christ
,
Hester
.
8.
6.
How
can
I
endure
to
see
the
Evil
that
shall
come
upon
my
people
.
He
is
grieved
at
the
Evil
of
their
Sins
or
Sufferings
,
Mark
.
3.
5.
Eph.
4.
13.
and
takes
wonderful
Pleasure
in
their
Welfare
,
Poov
.
8.
31.
no
tender
parent
can
more
earnestly
desire
the
Happiness
,
and
rejoyce
in
the
Advantages
of
his
Children
,
than
Jesus
Christ
in
his
,
Psal.
147.
11.
If
the
Joy
of
his
Ambassadors
doth
much
depend
upon
the
Prosperity
of
the
Souls
of
their
Auditors
,
3
Epist.
Joh.
ver
.
4.
Then
surely
himself
is
not
altogether
unconcern'd
.
Lastly
,
His
preparing
a
Heaven
for
them
,
John
14.
2
,
3.
In
my
Fathers
House
are
many
Mansions
,
I
go
to
prepare
a
place
for
you
,
&c.
The
Lord
Jesus
knows
that
his
departure
from
the
World
with
the
sad
Consequences
thereof
,
would
breed
great
Trouble
in
the
Hearts
of
his
Disciples
;
therefore
labours
to
prevent
it
,
by
telling
them
of
the
occasion
of
his
Departure
,
that
it
was
for
their
sakes
,
and
in
their
business
;
and
though
the
World
would
abuse
them
when
he
was
gone
,
and
cast
them
out
of
their
House
and
Country
,
yet
he
tells
them
,
he
had
a
Father
in
Heaven
that
would
receive
them
,
and
he
was
going
thither
to
prepare
a
place
for
them
,
and
there
was
store
of
room
for
them
in
Heaven
.
The
word
,
translated
Mansion
here
,
signifies
,
an
abiding
,
fixed
place
.
Here
you
dwell
in
Tabernacles
,
but
in
Heaven
are
places
for
you
,
out
of
which
you
shall
never
be
turned
more
.
Don't
expect
much
Happiness
in
the
World
,
but
look
to
Heaven
for
all
your
satisfying
Comforts
:
There
's
a
Rest
for
you
,
after
all
your
wearying
Duties
and
Troubles
;
there
are
pleasant
Habitations
,
after
all
your
Wilderness
Journeyings
:
There
's
a
large
dwelling-place
;
here
you
are
thrust
into
corners
,
and
may
be
have
little
conveniencies
in
your
Houses
:
Here
you
dwell
in
Strangers
,
and
perhaps
,
Enemies
Houses
,
but
there
your
dwelling
shall
be
in
your
Father's
House
.
'T
is
really
so
,
I
do
not
flatter
you
with
vain
hopes
,
or
feed
you
with
false
reports
:
if
it
were
not
so
,
I
would
have
told
you
.
Some
might
object
here
,
That
there
may
be
Houses
in
Heaven
,
and
yet
they
in
Hell
.
No
(
says
Christ
)
I
go
to
prepare
a
place
for
you
;
when
I
come
to
Heaven
,
I
will
bespeak
a
House
for
you
,
it
shall
be
your
own
,
your
own
proper
Right
,
every
one
of
you
,
and
of
all
my
People
,
shall
have
a
House
of
their
own
,
and
it
shall
be
Fee
simple
,
theirs
to
all
Eternity
.
But
some
may
say
,
How
shall
we
be
sure
of
this
,
that
when
we
dye
we
shall
have
a
place
in
Glory
?
Why
,
saith
Christ
,
As
sure
as
I
go
to
Heaven
,
shall
you
have
a
Mansion
there
;
for
,
't
is
one
end
of
my
going
thither
;
't
is
part
of
my
business
there
,
I
go
to
prepare
a
place
for
you
.
(
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
)
This
word
,
saith
Grotius
,
notes
a
Divine
Appointment
,
a
place
that
God
allots
and
appoints
for
you
:
that
you
might
not
think
it
is
procured
by
your
own
Merit
and
labours
.
As
if
he
should
say
,
you
may
be
sure
,
my
People
,
you
shall
not
miss
of
a
place
in
my
Father's
House
,
because
he
hath
given
you
a
house
in
Heaven
,
and
I
go
to
possess
it
for
you
,
and
to
make
it
sure
:
My
Father
hath
given
it
,
and
I
have
purchased
it
,
and
now
I
go
to
take
it
into
my
own
hand
for
you
:
yea
,
to
fit
and
sute
your
Lot
in
Heaven
,
as
may
be
most
meet
for
you
,
and
as
may
bear
a
full
proportion
to
all
your
Labours
,
and
Sufferings
for
me
.
And
thus
the
word
likewise
imports
(
saith
Dr.
Preston
)
to
fit
and
fashion
one
,
as
a
Vessel
is
fashion'd
and
shap'd
to
its
proper
Use
.
But
Believers
may
urge
,
Lord
,
how
shall
we
get
thither
?
the
Journey
is
far
,
the
Way
we
know
not
;
many
Dangers
lye
betwixt
this
and
Heaven
;
the
Prince
of
the
Air
,
and
all
the
Devils
of
Hell
lye
betwixt
this
and
Glory
;
and
how
shall
we
get
safely
through
all
these
Dangers
?
Why
,
saith
Christ
,
I
will
come
again
and
receive
you
,
when
I
have
done
your
Work
in
Heaven
,
when
I
have
difpatched
my
gathering
,
and
compleating
work
on
Earth
,
when
all
my
Saints
are
called
and
perfected
,
then
will
I
come
again
,
and
receive
you
to
my self
;
I
will
come
and
unite
your
Souls
and
Bodies
together
,
and
then
will
shew
you
the
way
to
Heaven
,
and
lead
you
into
your
own
habitations
there
,
and
as
surely
put
you
into
possession
of
Glory
,
as
I
am
going
to
possess
it
for
my self
;
and
in
the
mean
time
,
I
will
take
care
of
you
in
the
way
,
and
send
my
Spirit
to
guide
you
,
and
bear
you
thorow
it
,
and
my
Angels
,
when
you
are
at
your
Journeys
end
,
shall
receive
your
Souls
,
and
bring
them
unto
me
,
that
where
I
am
you
may
be
also
,
Joh.
17.
24.
Joh.
12.
26.
What
greater
Love
can
there
be
than
the
Engagements
of
Christ's
Heart
,
to
get
all
his
Children
brought
home
to
Heaven
,
that
they
may
be
ever
with
him
,
and
partake
of
his
Glory
,
1
Cor.
15.
22
,
23.
CHAP.
X.
Several
Deductions
drawn
from
the
Love
of
Christ
.
IF
the
Lord
Jesus
be
so
full
of
Love
and
tender
Affection
:
then
,
First
,
What
reason
have
Sinners
never
to
be
quiet
,
till
the
Lord
Jesus
become
their
Friend
,
till
they
have
an
Interest
in
his
special
Love
.
Alas
,
poor
Souls
▪
the
common
Love
of
Christ
,
though
now
you
fare
the
better
for
it
,
will
shortly
be
at
an
end
:
His
Philanthropy
,
though
procious
,
yet
is
but
like
a
Box
of
Ointment
,
which
may
be
wasted
and
consum'd
,
Mark
,
14.
4.
But
his
special
Love
is
like
the
two
Olive
Trees
,
Zach.
4.
12.
always
emptying
out
it self
through
the
golden
Pipes
of
his
Ordinandes
to
his
People
:
Christ's
common
Love
to
Sinners
,
is
like
a
Land-flood
,
that
will
be
drained
:
But
his
special
Love
is
compar'd
to
a
Fountain
,
a
Wood
of
Water
that
springeth
up
to
Life
Eternal
.
O
then
labour
after
an
Interest
in
this
Love
of
Christ
,
that
brings
Salvation
:
Put
away
the
Evil
of
thy
doings
,
hearken
to
Christ's
counsel
,
receive
him
into
thy
Heart
by
Faith
;
obey
his
Voice
,
take
him
to
be
thy
Lord
and
God
,
and
thou
shalt
possess
his
love
too
,
Psal.
45.
10.
Secondly
,
Then
what
an
abominable
thing
is
it
to
hate
Christ
?
how
unexcusable
will
Sinners
Enmity
against
him
be
when
he
comes
to
Judgment
,
Jer.
2.
5.
Prov.
8.
36.
All
they
that
hate
me
love
Death
,
Psal.
21.
8
,
9.
Psal.
132.
18.
Nah.
1.
2.
3dly
,
Then
why
should
Believers
take
up
such
hard
thoughts
of
Christ
?
Isa.
40.
27.
Why
sayest
thou
,
O
Jacob
,
my
way
is
hid
from
the
Lord
,
and
my
Judgment
is
passed
over
from
my
God
?
that
is
,
my
Condition
,
my
trouble
,
my
Soul
is
out
of
God's
thoughts
:
He
takes
no
notice
of
,
nor
cares
what
becomes
of
me
:
And
my
Judgment
;
that
is
,
God's
judging
my
Cause
,
his
righting
and
helping
my
oppressed
Soul
,
is
gone
from
me
,
or
he
hath
laid
it
aside
,
he
will
not
help
me
in
my
Affliction
.
This
was
Sion's
complaint
,
and
hard
thoughts
of
God
,
and
this
displeased
him
;
Why
sayest
thou
,
O
Jacob
,
&
c
?
As
if
he
should
say
,
what
cause
hast
thou
,
O
Israel
,
my
People
,
to
entertain
such
harsh
conceptions
of
my
Love
?
what
Iniquity
hast
thou
found
in
me
?
what
wrong
have
I
done
thee
?
Have
I
not
born
thee
from
the
Womb
,
and
carried
thee
all
the
dayes
of
old
?
Look
back
to
the
Red
Sea
,
and
to
the
Wilderness
,
who
cared
for
thee
there
?
Call
to
mind
the
Manna
,
and
the
Rock
,
the
Bread
and
Water
on
the
Way
;
I
suffered
none
to
do
thee
harm
,
I
delivered
thee
out
of
the
hands
of
all
thy
Enemies
,
and
plagued
them
that
injured
thee
:
Thus
have
I
been
thy
help
from
thy
Youth
up
,
and
why
sayest
thou
then
,
my
way
is
hid
from
the
Lord
?
O
Jacob
,
thou
dost
ill
to
censure
me
so
severely
;
Is
this
the
requital
of
all
my
love
and
kindness
to
thee
hitherto
?
Repent
of
these
injurious
apprehensions
,
and
put
more
favourable
constructions
on
my
wayes
;
Gracious
Souls
have
no
reason
to
prejudge
the
Heart
of
Christ
,
and
censure
him
of
unkindness
and
negligence
:
for
't
is
impossible
he
should
forget
his
People
,
Isa.
49.
15.
He
hath
paid
too
dear
for
them
to
do
so
:
They
have
cost
his
Blood
,
Eternal
Counsels
,
many
Troubles
,
many
Wonders
,
and
will
he
reject
them
after
all
?
O
no.
He
hath
engraven
them
on
the
Palms
of
his
hands
,
where
he
cannot
but
see
,
and
must
secure
their
names
,
Isa.
49.
16.
I
cannot
look
upon
my
hands
,
but
I
must
remember
thee
:
I
should
forget
my self
,
should
I
forget
thee
:
thou
art
set
as
a
Seal
upon
my
Heart
,
and
thy
Walls
are
continually
before
me
:
that
is
,
though
thy
Protection
be
gone
for
a
time
,
and
I
have
left
thee
to
the
Will
of
thine
Enemies
,
yet
I
will
redeem
and
secure
thee
,
I
will
raise
up
thy
Walls
,
and
re-establish
thy
State
,
for
thy
Walls
are
before
me
,
though
thou
seest
them
not
,
I
can
and
will
preserve
them
;
thou
art
Weak
,
but
I
am
strong
,
I
faint
not
though
thou
faintest
,
I
am
never
weary
though
thou
art
tyred
,
and
as
sure
as
I
have
Strength
,
I
will
give
it
thee
;
they
that
wait
on
the
Lord
shall
renew
their
Strength
,
Isa.
40.
28.
Again
,
you
cannot
see
the
way
to
get
out
of
your
Troubles
,
your
Wisdom
is
non-plust
,
but
mine
is
not
so
;
There
is
no
searching
of
my
Vnderstanding
:
O
then
do
not
give
up
thy
Hopes
O
Jacob
,
or
conclude
I
have
forgotten
thee
:
He
hath
promised
he
will
not
cast
off
his
People
,
nor
leave
them
comfortless
,
1
Sam.
12.
22.
Joh.
14.
18.
And
he
is
not
as
a
man
that
he
should
lye
,
&c.
Numb.
23.
19.
He
hath
given
them
his
Seal
to
it
,
2
Cor.
1.
22.
Eph.
4.
30.
Nothing
can
separate
his
love
from
them
,
Rom.
8.
35.
38
,
39.
Object
.
But
I
am
afraid
I
am
none
of
Christs
,
nor
have
the
Spirit
,
because
of
the
Filthiness
,
Obdurateness
,
and
Irregularity
of
my
Heart
.
Answer
,
If
ever
thou
hadst
the
Spirit
,
thou
hast
it
still
,
John
4.
14.
Isa.
59.
21.
Gracious
Souls
may
sometimes
seem
to
themselves
to
be
carnal
,
and
sold
under
Sin
,
Rom.
7.
14.
They
may
not
see
any
good
thing
dwell
in
them
,
ver.
18.
but
be
like
to
the
slain
that
lye
in
the
Grave
,
Psal.
88.
5.
So
Heman
thought
himself
one
free
among
the
dead
,
whom
the
Lord
would
remember
no
more
:
in
the
Winter
there
's
little
visible
difference
between
the
living
and
the
dead
Tree
;
neither
is
there
betwixt
a
Saint
and
a
Sinner
in
time
of
Desertion
and
Temptation
:
God's
Children
may
be
led
captive
by
Sin
,
and
brought
into
Bondage
by
their
Lusts
,
Rom.
7.
23.
and
then
't
is
hard
to
say
,
how
unlike
they
are
to
them
that
never
knew
God
;
and
therefore
Christian
judge
not
thy self
by
thy
changeable
Frames
,
if
thou
dost
not
repent
of
thy
Change
,
thy
leaving
thy
old
Courses
and
chusing
God
and
Grace
,
a
Corinth.
7.
10.
If
thou
dost
not
approve
of
any
Sin
,
or
secretly
love
thy
filthy
ways
,
Romans
7.
15.
20.
If
thy
Heart
be
discontented
with
thy
state
of
back-sliding
,
and
longeth
after
a
return
to
thy
resting
place
,
then
thou
art
gracious
,
Jer.
31.
18.
Psal.
14.
7.
If
thou
dost
find
a
War
betwixt
thy
Members
and
thy
Mind
,
the
Law
of
the
Spirit
of
Life
warring
against
the
Law
of
Sin
and
Death
,
thy
state
is
good
,
Rom.
7.
21
,
22
23.
Gal.
5.
17.
The
Plesh
lusteth
against
the
Spirit
,
and
the
Spirit
against
the
Flesh
,
and
these
are
contrary
one
to
the
other
.
(
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
)
The
word
notes
a
vehement
and
continued
Desire
,
a
Desire
which
is
still
in
Action
,
and
working
till
we
have
it
accomplisht
,
not
a
sudden
Motion
or
momentary
Passion
.
Look
how
Corruption
and
Lust
works
against
Grace
,
so
doth
Grace
against
Corruption
,
for
these
two
are
contrary
,
(
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
)
the
one
lays
Seige
against
the
other
,
as
a
Souldier
in
a
Trench
against
a
Fort.
Now
if
it
be
so
with
thy
Soul
,
that
thou
findest
in
it
two
parties
,
as
Twins
in
the
Womb
opposing
each
other
,
and
dost
experience
something
in
thy
Will
against
Sin
,
as
well
as
for
it
,
and
something
in
thy
Affections
,
an
Enemy
to
thy
Corruptions
as
well
as
a
Friend
;
if
thou
longest
as
much
for
Freedom
from
Sin
as
from
Hell
,
and
thy
Heart
cannot
be
at
peace
whilst
the
Body
of
Sin
remains
in
thee
,
then
lift
up
thy
head
,
O
Soul
,
Judgment
shall
be
brought
forth
to
Victory
,
and
the
top
stone
shall
in
due
time
be
laid
with
shouting
,
Grace
,
Grace
!
to
it
.
Fourthly
,
Then
you
that
are
Christ's
,
take
heed
you
abuse
not
his
Love
,
Rom.
6.
15.
What
then
?
Shall
we
sin
because
we
are
not
under
the
Law
but
under
Grace
?
God
forbid
.
That
is
,
shall
we
yield
our
Souls
to
the
Service
of
Sin
,
as
vers.
16.
or
give
a
willing
Consent
to
the
Commission
of
it
?
God
forbid
;
That
is
,
far
be
it
from
us
,
noting
it
to
be
a
vile
and
abominable
thing
,
to
Sin
under
Grace
,
and
against
Grace
;
this
is
a
most
disingenuous
thing
to
abuse
love
,
and
requite
Evil
for
Good
:
it
is
most
unjust
to
injure
him
that
loveth
you
,
't
is
a
costly
Sin
,
and
will
have
a
bitter
reckoning
at
last
,
't
is
a
Spot
notoriously
like
the
Spot
of
Reprobation
,
Jude
,
v.
4.
But
if
it
may
consist
with
Grace
,
yet
it
will
break
your
Bones
,
and
scourge
you
soundly
e're
God
hath
done
;
what
did
David
,
Solomon
,
and
Peter
,
get
by
abusing
divine
Love
?
Fifthly
,
Admire
Christ's
love
,
his
love
is
admirable
passing
Knowledge
,
you
use
to
admire
things
that
are
strange
,
and
beyond
your
reach
,
but
what
more
miraculous
and
unparellel'd
than
this
,
That
the
Lord
of
Glory
who
hath
Angels
at
his
Service
,
should
set
his
Affections
on
poor
polluted
Dust
and
Ashes
,
on
Fleas
and
Worms
,
as
Abraham
and
David
acknowledged
themselves
to
be
,
that
so
illustrious
a
person
as
the
Lord
Jesus
should
fall
in
love
with
so
deformed
a
piece
as
man
,
in
whom
was
neither
Beauty
nor
Riches
,
Vertue
nor
Honour
,
and
be
enamoured
of
him
so
greatly
,
as
to
take
him
into
his
Bosom
,
and
a
conjugal
Relation
with
himself
;
't
is
so
stupendious
a
Miracle
,
that
't
is
said
,
he
shall
be
admired
of
all
that
believe
when
he
comes
,
2
Thes.
1.
10.
O
Christians
gather
in
all
your
Valuations
from
Creatures
,
for
your
Creator
and
Redeemer
,
Isa.
63.
1.
Sixthly
,
Adventure
on
the
Love
of
Christ
,
swim
on
these
deep
Waters
,
roll
your selves
on
these
divine
Depths
,
and
confide
in
his
new
Covenant
love
,
for
't
is
unchangeable
love
to
the
end
;
many
waters
cannot
quench
it
,
Cant.
8.
7.
Trust
his
Love
(
I
say
)
in
the
way
of
Obedience
,
Joh.
14.
21.
23.
If
his
love
be
free
,
then
't
is
not
for
your
sake
,
Deut.
7.
17.
Not
for
your
Beauty
or
Holiness
,
but
for
his
own
good
Pleasure
,
Of
his
own
Will
begat
he
us
,
Jam.
1.
18.
He
loves
you
Believers
,
because
you
are
his
own
,
Joh.
13.
1.
And
because
it
hath
pleased
him
to
make
you
his
people
,
1
Sam.
12.
22.
If
he
loves
those
that
love
him
,
then
surely
he
will
kindly
resent
the
Ardency
of
thy
Affections
to
him
;
O
adventure
on
this
Love
.
Seaventhly
,
love
him
who
hath
so
loved
you
,
1
Joh.
4.
19.
Psal.
31.
23.
O
love
the
Lord
all
ye
his
Saints
.
The
Reason
is
laid
down
from
the
19.
verse
to
this
,
O
how
great
is
thy
Goodness
which
thou
hast
laid
up
for
them
that
fear
thee
,
&c.
The
greatness
and
Excellency
of
Christ's
Love
deserves
yours
;
O
love
him
at
all
times
,
and
in
all
things
,
with
a
free
,
supream
,
steady
,
rational
,
and
expressed
love
.
Lastly
,
Be
full
of
love
to
others
for
Christ's
sake
,
Eph.
5.
2.
Walk
in
Love
as
Christ
also
hath
loved
you
,
1
Joh.
4.
11.
Love
all
men
,
such
a
love
is
in
God
,
he
lov'd
the
World
,
Joh.
3.
16.
and
every
Creature
in
it
;
such
a
Philanthropy
is
in
Christ
,
he
would
have
all
men
come
to
the
Knowledge
of
the
Truth
,
that
they
might
be
saved
,
1
Tim.
2
,
4.
Love
your
Enemies
,
Mat.
5.
44.
so
did
Christ
:
he
prayed
,
Father
forgive
them
,
Luke
23.
34.
love
his
Friends
,
1
Joh.
5.
1.
Eph.
6.
24.
CHAP.
XI
.
The
glorious
Excellency
of
Christ's
tender
Pity
opened
and
displayed
in
the
several
Acts
of
it
,
both
to
Saints
and
Sinners
.
ANother
Discovery
of
the
Sweetness
of
Christ's
Disposition
is
,
Thirdly
,
His
Pity
,
this
is
lookt
upon
as
an
excellent
Qualification
,
and
that
which
renders
a
person
lovely
among
men
,
Rom.
5.
7.
For
scarcely
for
a
righteous
man
will
one
dye
,
yet
peradventure
for
a
good
man
some
would
even
dare
to
dye
:
for
a
just
man
,
one
that
is
strict
and
rigid
in
his
Life
and
matters
of
Justice
,
none
will
dye
;
but
for
a
good
man
,
that
is
,
for
a
bountiful
,
liberal
man
,
for
a
Benefactor
(
saith
Beza
)
for
a
Friend
(
saith
another
)
some
would
even
dare
to
dye
;
Kindness
and
Compassion
renders
men
lovely
and
amiable
in
the
Sight
of
Heathens
:
hence
one
calls
a
merciful
man
a
precious
thing
,
and
another
makes
him
equal
to
God
,
God
himself
prefers
Mercy
above
Sacrifice
,
Mat.
9.
13.
This
the
Lord
opened
to
Moses
as
part
of
his
Glory
,
Exod.
34.
6.
The
Lord
God
merciful
and
gracious
,
&c.
And
this
mercifulness
is
placed
in
the
Nature
of
Christ
,
as
Mediator
,
and
therefore
must
needs
render
him
glorious
,
and
be
part
of
his
unsearchable
Riches
:
now
that
the
Lord
Jesus
is
so
full
of
Pity
and
Mercy
in
his
very
Nature
,
the
Scripture
is
clear
.
This
was
one
Qualification
necessary
to
his
Priest-hood
,
Heb.
2.
17.
This
was
a
special
Requisite
to
the
Priest
under
the
Law
,
that
he
should
be
one
who
might
have
Compassion
on
the
Ignorant
,
and
them
that
are
out
of
the
way
,
Heb.
5.
2.
Therefore
the
high-priest
must
be
a
Man
,
not
an
Angel
,
that
so
he
being
subject
to
Infirmities
,
to
Sins
,
and
Weaknesses
himself
,
he
might
the
better
have
Compassion
upon
others
in
the
like
ease
.
The
same
Argument
the
Lord
useth
to
Israel
,
Deut.
10.
19.
Love
ye
therefore
the
Stranger
,
for
ye
were
Strangers
in
the
Land
of
Aegypt
.
Experience
of
Affliction
fits
a
person
for
pity
to
others
,
and
therefore
,
our
Lord
took
our
Nature
upon
him
,
that
being
compast
with
the
same
Infirmities
(
Sin
only
excepted
)
he
might
be
able
to
have
Compassion
on
others
:
this
is
necessary
in
that
Office
,
for
a
person
will
never
be
active
in
such
laborious
work
for
Sinners
,
as
offering
of
Gifts
and
Sacrifices
for
Sin
,
if
he
have
not
tender
Bowels
towards
persons
in
Misery
:
and
therefore
Jesus
Christ
must
needs
be
such
a
one
,
who
can
have
Compassion
,
&c.
The
word
is
significant
,
't
is
in
the
Original
(
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
)
to
have
Compassion
on
others
according
to
the
Measure
and
Proportion
of
their
Misery
:
Paraeus
renders
it
,
to
have
Compassion
as
much
as
is
needful
;
Beza
,
to
be
affected
according
to
the
greatness
of
anothers
Misery
,
and
such
is
the
Compassion
of
Christ
,
't
is
suted
to
the
Condition
of
his
People
:
were
Christ's
Pity
but
one
Grain
short
of
the
Misery
and
Condition
of
Sinners
,
he
could
never
save
them
to
the
utmost
;
for
if
he
will
save
to
the
uttermost
,
he
must
ever
live
to
make
Intercession
;
there
's
no
one
moment
of
time
,
in
which
they
don't
want
help
,
and
must
have
Gifts
offer'd
for
them
:
But
this
Christ
will
not
do
,
if
he
wants
Compassion
,
Jam.
5.
11.
The
Lord
is
said
to
be
pitiful
,
and
of
tender
mercies
(
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
)
of
many
Bowels
;
or
,
as
Piscator
,
multum
visc●ralis
;
much
bowelful
,
all
pitiful
,
from
inward
deep
Bowels
(
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
)
The
word
is
to
pity
with
the
Bowels
of
a
Mother
,
to
be
prone
to
compassion
:
So
Aestius
;
He
is
rich
in
mercy
,
Eph.
2.
4.
Great
in
Quantity
,
and
Choice
in
Quality
,
great
Mercy
,
and
choice
Mercy
,
Psal.
5.
1.
According
to
the
multitude
of
thy
tender
mercies
.
The
word
Rab
,
multitude
,
signifies
Quality
as
well
as
Quantity
:
many
Mercies
,
or
weighty
Mercies
:
Mercies
;
Rachamim
:
'T
is
such
love
and
pity
as
Mothers
bear
to
the
fruit
of
their
Womb
,
which
is
fervent
and
flaming
.
The
word
hath
no
singular
number
,
because
there
are
many
works
of
Mercy
,
saith
Piscator
.
Now
this
Compassion
of
Christ
lies
in
these
two
things
.
-
1.
In
his
sympathizing
with
his
Creatures
.
-
2.
In
supplying
and
supporting
them
.
First
,
Pity
hath
sympathy
in
it
:
an
inward
Heart-affecting
sense
of
another's
Evils
,
Psal.
103.
13.
Like
as
a
Father
pitieth
his
children
,
so
the
Lord
pitietb
them
that
fear
him
,
Judg.
10.
16.
His
Soul
was
grieved
for
the
Children
of
Israel
.
The
word
signifieth
,
His
Soul
was
short'ned
,
or
contracted
in
him
,
by
reason
of
grief
.
'T
is
spoken
by
an
Anthropopathy
,
according
to
the
apprehensions
of
men
:
As
a
man
is
filled
with
grief
,
his
Breast
is
straitned
,
that
he
can
scarcely
breathe
;
It
denotes
how
much
the
Lord
Jesus
is
affected
with
the
miseries
of
his
People
,
Heb.
4.
15.
He
is
said
to
be
touched
with
the
Fellow-feeling
of
our
Infirmities
,
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
,
suffering
with
us
.
Christ
,
in
Heaven
,
hath
such
a
fellow-feeling
of
the
Evils
of
his
People
,
as
that
he
resents
their
troubles
as
his
own
.
He
is
tender-hearted
,
and
every
misery
of
theirs
reacheth
his
Soul
.
But
this
hath
been
somewhat
treated
of
before
.
Secondly
,
Readiness
to
supply
,
and
support
others
in
their
Misery
;
and
this
is
eminently
manifested
in
the
Lord
Jesus
,
Isa.
38.
20.
The
Lord
was
ready
to
save
me
.
Men
sometimes
have
a
hand
,
but
no
heart
;
they
may
help
,
but
will
not
;
they
only
say
,
Go
and
be
fed
,
and
be
cloath'd
,
&c.
Others
have
a
heart
,
but
no
hand
;
they
have
not
to
supply
the
needs
of
others
;
their
Cruse
of
Oyl
,
and
Barrel
of
Meal
will
reach
but
a
little
way
:
besides
,
there
may
be
some
Cases
in
which
Men
or
Angels
cannot
help
,
Psal.
142.
4.
I
looked
on
my
right
hand
,
and
behold
,
there
was
no
man
would
know
me
,
&c.
But
there
can
be
no
Condition
in
which
Omnipotency
fails
to
help
,
Heb.
7.
25.
Jer.
32.
27.
And
Christ
is
as
really
willing
as
able
to
save
:
He
is
an
inexhausted
Fountain
of
all
good
.
Sufficit
omnibus
(
saith
Paraeus
)
nec
sufficit
tantum
,
sed
dat
liberalissime
.
Dives
est
(
saith
the
same
Author
)
sufficientia
&
affectu
:
He
is
good
,
and
doth
good
:
He
feeds
,
gathers
,
carries
,
leads
,
his
poor
infirm
Flocks
,
when
they
most
stand
in
need
of
him
,
Isa.
40.
11.
When
they
are
ready
to
faint
for
want
,
he
opens
a
Well
,
and
fills
their
Bottles
:
when
they
wander
from
their
resting-place
,
he
sends
his
Dogs
,
and
gathers
them
to
his
Fold
;
when
they
are
weary
,
and
can
go
no
further
,
he
takes
them
into
his
Arms
and
carries
them
:
when
they
are
hungry
,
he
feeds
them
,
when
they
are
naked
,
he
cloaths
them
:
when
they
are
sick
,
he
visits
them
,
when
they
are
in
Prison
,
he
comes
to
them
:
He
giveth
to
his
People
richly
all
things
to
enjoy
,
1
Tim.
6.
17.
He
exhibits
,
or
yields
out
,
all
things
,
(
not
some
things
only
)
and
that
richly
too
:
plentifully
,
not
in
Title
only
,
but
in
Fruition
also
,
Heb.
4.
16.
He
giveth
Grace
to
help
in
time
of
need
:
He
sends
them
seasonable
help
,
help
in
fit
time
:
(
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
)
This
word
signifies
,
to
run
at
ones
call
,
to
help
him
assoon
as
he
cries
for
help
;
to
run
in
to
his
Succour
;
so
doth
Christ
.
He
is
a
present
help
in
time
of
need
,
Psal.
46.
1.
When
they
can
hold
out
no
longer
,
he
will
relieve
their
Siege
;
when
they
are
ready
to
perish
,
he
will
step
in
betwixt
them
and
destruction
,
1
Cor.
10.
13.
And
this
he
doth
too
from
a
tender
heart
,
that
feels
,
and
shares
in
their
Dangers
.
Poor
Believer
!
let
thy
Condition
be
never
so
bad
,
the
Lord
Jesus
hath
an
open
heart
and
hand
for
thy
help
.
It
may
be
,
men
may
harden
their
hearts
against
thee
,
good
men
may
take
little
notice
of
thee
,
Priest
and
Levite
pass
thee
by
,
and
will
not
know
thy
Soul
in
adversity
;
but
yet
comfort
thy
heart
,
thou
hast
a
Friend
in
Heaven
,
that
grieves
with
,
and
for
thee
,
and
will
open
Treasures
to
supply
thee
.
Now
this
pitiful
Nature
of
Christ
appears
in
divers
particulars
,
both
to
Saints
and
Sinners
.
To
Saints
.
First
,
In
looking
after
their
Concerns
,
Exod.
2.
22.
'T
is
said
,
that
God
looked
upon
the
Children
of
Israel
;
and
had
respect
unto
them
.
This
is
an
act
of
pity
to
look
after
the
welfare
of
another
.
Merciful
Jesse
,
when
his
Sons
were
in
danger
,
sent
David
to
look
after
them
,
1
Sam.
17.
18.
So
is
the
heart
of
Christ
concern'd
in
the
welfare
of
his
People
,
1
Pet.
3.
12.
The
eyes
of
the
Lord
are
over
the
righteous
,
and
his
Ears
are
open
to
their
Prayer
:
He
knows
their
Souls
in
Adversity
,
considers
their
Troubles
,
and
looks
after
their
Matters
,
Psal.
31.
7.
1
Pet.
5.
7.
The
want
of
this
looking
after
a
Persons
welfare
,
is
an
evidence
of
the
want
of
pity
,
Jer.
15.
5.
Who
shall
have
pity
upon
thee
,
O
Jerusalem
,
&
c
?
O
,
what
comfort
is
this
to
poor
afflicted
Souls
,
that
though
men
look
not
after
them
,
Friends
matter
not
what
become
of
them
,
yet
the
Lord
careth
for
them
.
Secondl●
,
In
labouring
to
prevent
their
Evils
.
This
is
another
act
of
pity
,
as
we
may
see
in
Mordecai
and
Esther
.
A
dreadful
Danger
was
near
to
Israel
;
a
Decree
passed
by
the
King
to
cut
them
all
off
in
one
day
▪
When
Mordecai
heard
of
this
,
how
industriously
doth
he
labour
with
Esther
,
to
improve
all
her
Interest
in
the
King
to
prevent
it
,
Esth.
4.
8
,
13
,
14.
Christ
cannot
foresee
any
Dangers
impending
on
his
People
,
but
his
Bowels
stir
him
up
to
employ
his
Omnipotency
to
remove
them
.
And
this
he
doth
,
First
,
By
warning
them
of
their
Danger
.
He
sends
them
alarms
,
and
gives
them
notice
,
as
a
Watchman
,
when
their
Enemies
are
near
,
Ezek.
3.
18.
Heb.
11.
7.
Noah
being
warned
of
God
,
&c.
So
Joseph
,
Matth.
2.
13.
was
warned
of
God
in
a
dream
to
flee
into
Egypt
,
wh●●
Christ
was
in
danger
of
Herod's
bloody
butcheries
.
Ezek.
33.
11.
Turn
you
,
turn
you
from
your
wicked
wayes
,
for
why
will
you
dye
,
O
house
of
Israel
?
Secondly
,
By
keeping
their
hearts
from
closing
with
Temptations
,
when
they
are
like
to
prove
dangerous
:
So
he
dealt
with
Joseph
,
Gen.
39.
9.
Perhaps
he
may
permit
their
falling
into
some
lesser
Evils
,
to
try
,
and
humble
them
;
but
when
the
Sin
will
probably
occasion
a
great
dishonour
to
God
,
and
endanger
the
final
estate
of
their
Souls
,
then
usually
he
will
give
forth
preventing
Grace
to
direct
their
hearts
from
closing
with
it
.
Thirdly
,
By
plucking
them
back
,
when
on
the
borders
of
destruction
.
Thus
David's
feet
had
well
nigh
slipt
,
and
he
was
almost
gone
;
and
then
He
opens
a
passage
for
him
into
the
Sanctuary
,
and
graciously
reconciles
to
him
his
seemingly
contradictory
Providences
,
1
Sam.
24.
4
,
5
,
6.
Psal.
73.
2
,
3
,
17.
And
L●●
,
when
by
lingring
in
Sodom
,
he
had
almost
expos'd
himself
a
prey
to
devouring
Flames
,
the
Angels
suddenly
pluckt
him
out
,
and
kept
him
from
that
impending
ruine
,
Gen.
19.
10
,
16.
Fourthly
,
By
sore
Afflictions
,
smarting
rods
,
and
cross
Providences
,
he
sometimes
prevents
their
sins
,
and
so
their
destruction
,
Psal.
119.
67.
Before
I
was
afflicted
I
went
astray
,
but
now
I
have
kept
thy
word
.
Thus
the
Waters
of
Marah
have
sometimes
led
to
the
Waters
of
the
Sanctuary
;
and
grievous
Distempers
on
the
Body
have
proved
the
health
of
the
Soul
.
I
have
read
of
one
,
that
by
breaking
●is
Leg
saved
his
Life
.
Fifthly
,
By
breaking
the
Snare
when
they
are
in
it
,
and
so
making
a
way
for
their
escape
,
Psal.
124.
7.
The
snare
is
broken
,
and
we
are
escaped
.
When
David
was
compass'd
round
by
Saul
,
and
no
possible
way
was
left
him
to
avoid
the
Jaws
of
ruine
,
then
the
Lord
sent
in
the
Philistims
to
call
off
Saul
,
1
Sam.
23.
24
,
25
,
26
,
27.
So
,
when
the
Protestants
in
France
were
almost
starv'd
with
Famine
,
and
reduc'd
to
that
extremity
that
all
hopes
of
Safety
,
in
man's
judgment
failed
them
,
then
was
God's
time
to
come
in
to
their
rescue
,
by
sending
in
Ambassadours
to
call
off
the
Duke
of
Anjou
to
be
King
of
Poland
,
by
which
means
the
Siege
was
remov'd
,
and
upon
the
mediation
of
these
Ambassadours
,
the
Protestants
obtained
Liberty
.
Thus
he
saved
Isaac
also
,
when
Abraham's
Knife
was
at
his
Throat
,
Gen.
22.
10
,
11
,
12
,
13.
Lastly
,
By
giving
them
a
Vomit
,
when
the
Poyson
is
taken
in
,
that
so
it
may
be
timely
ejected
,
before
the
danger
be
unremoveable
.
This
way
God
prevented
David's
ruine
,
in
the
matter
of
Bathsheba
,
after
he
had
fallen
into
the
sin
,
by
giving
him
Repentance
to
Salvation
,
Psal.
51.
Thirdly
,
Another
act
of
his
pity
is
,
His
being
soon
affected
with
the
Evils
of
his
People
,
Zach.
2.
8
,
9.
He
that
toucheth
you
,
toucheth
the
Apple
of
mine
eye
.
His
Soul
was
grieved
for
the
misery
of
Israel
,
Judg.
10.
6.
He
pitied
the
poor
Leper
in
distress
,
Mark
,
1.
41.
and
was
mov'd
with
compassion
because
the
Jews
were
as
sheep
without
a
shepherd
,
Mark
6.
34.
Fourthly
,
His
visiting
them
in
their
distresses
:
this
is
an
act
of
love
and
pity
,
Matth.
25.
36.
I
have
been
sick
,
and
ye
visited
me
,
Joh.
14.
18.
Joh.
20.
19.
Exod.
3.
8.
A
merciful
nature
will
shew
it self
in
visiting
such
as
are
afflicted
;
If
others
be
sick
they
will
go
see
them
,
and
condole
with
them
:
they
will
go
rather
to
the
house
of
mourning
,
than
to
the
house
of
feasting
,
Eecles.
7.
2.
They
are
companions
of
the
distressed
:
and
such
is
the
tenderness
of
Christ's
heart
,
that
he
chuseth
the
company
of
the
miserable
:
If
his
People
be
in
the
Water
,
and
in
the
Fire
,
he
will
be
with
them
,
Isa.
43.
2.
If
they
be
cast
out
of
the
Synagogues
,
persecuted
,
and
deserted
for
his
sake
,
he
will
find
them
out
,
and
keep
them
company
,
Joh.
9.
35.
If
they
be
cast
on
sick
beds
,
he
will
sit
by
them
;
if
they
cannot
sleep
through
trouble
,
he
will
sit
up
with
them
;
when
they
are
solitary
and
dejected
,
he
will
come
and
see
them
.
Fifthly
,
His
comforting
them
in
their
Troubles
:
He
is
the
Father
of
Mercies
,
and
God
of
all
Comfort
,
who
comforteth
us
in
all
our
Tribulations
.
Consolating
is
an
act
of
pity
to
those
that
are
in
trouble
,
1
Thes.
3.
2.
So
Job's
Friends
,
when
they
had
heard
of
all
the
Evil
that
was
come
upon
him
,
they
came
every
one
from
his
place
to
mourn
with
him
,
and
to
comfort
him
.
Herein
lies
much
of
Christ's
pity
to
his
People
,
he
would
not
have
them
swallowed
up
of
overmuch
grief
,
2
Cor.
2.
7.
When
they
are
cast
down
,
he
charges
his
Messengers
to
speak
comfortably
to
them
,
Isa.
40.
2.
When
he
brings
his
People
into
the
Wilderness
,
he
will
speak
comfortably
to
them
,
Hos.
2.
14.
Isa.
66.
13.
chap.
57.
18.
This
is
part
of
Christ's
Intercession
in
Heaven
,
that
the
Father
would
send
the
Comforter
to
them
,
Joh.
14.
16.
And
part
of
his
last
counsel
that
he
left
with
them
,
was
,
That
they
would
be
of
good
cheer
,
Joh.
16.
33.
Joh.
14.
1.
He
began
his
Sermon
with
a
Use
of
Comfort
,
Let
not
your
hearts
be
troubled
,
&c.
and
here
he
closeth
the
same
with
a
word
of
Comfort
.
And
indeed
,
the
whole
of
Christ's
Fare-wel
Sermon
,
was
Consolation
to
his
People
:
He
would
not
have
them
be
in
Heaviness
longer
than
need
did
require
,
1
Pet.
1.
6.
but
commands
them
to
rejoyce
evermore
,
1
Thes.
5.
16.
Sixthly
,
His
counselling
them
in
all
cases
,
wherein
they
stand
in
need
of
his
Advice
:
Hence
they
have
Line
upon
line
,
and
Precept
upon
Precept
,
that
they
might
be
wise
to
Salvation
;
and
therefore
he
is
called
the
wonderful
Counsellor
,
Isa.
9.
6.
Psal.
16.
7.
I
bless
the
Lord
,
who
hath
given
me
counsel
.
Counsel
(
saith
Ainsworth
)
about
my
Sufferings
,
and
the
Glory
that
shall
follow
,
Job
36.
8
,
9
,
10.
Adversity
sometimes
is
God's
University
;
and
,
Schola
Crucis
(
saith
Luther
)
is
Schola
Lucis
:
Mysterious
Truths
many
times
spring
out
of
Affliction-depths
.
Seventhly
,
His
giving
to
them
,
and
forgiving
of
them
.
Pity
hath
open
hands
,
and
stretcht
out
arms
.
Christ
hath
left
a
large
witness
of
his
liberality
,
1
Tim.
6.
17.
Who
giveth
richly
all
things
to
enjoy
.
Men
give
sparingly
,
but
Christ
bountifully
;
they
with
straitned
hearts
,
but
he
with
open
bowels
;
they
sometimes
in
Reversion
,
but
he
in
possession
.
And
he
doth
not
only
give
,
but
forgive
,
Mic.
7.
18.
Who
is
a
God
like
unto
thee
,
that
pardons
iniquities
,
&
c
?
Exod.
34.
6.
Psal.
86.
5.
Thou
Lord
art
good
,
and
ready
to
forgive
,
Numb.
14.
20.
1
Joh.
2.
1.
They
run
into
debt
,
and
he
dischargeth
them
:
They
do
,
as
it
were
,
write
down
their
Iniquities
,
and
he
blots
them
out
.
Now
,
Are
not
these
admirable
demonstrations
of
his
Pity
,
and
affectionate
compassions
of
his
tender
Bowels
towards
his
People
?
Secondly
,
He
hath
infinite
Pity
for
his
Enemies
;
Mercy
and
good
will
for
Sinners
,
Luke
6.
35.
This
appears
,
First
,
In
his
bearing
with
them
,
and
forbearing
of
them
,
Rom.
9.
22.
Endured
with
much
long-suffering
the
vessels
of
wrath
fitted
for
destruction
:
How
doth
the
Lord
suffer
the
vilest
of
men
to
live
,
and
that
very
long
?
Lo
,
I
have
come
these
three
years
looking
for
fruit
,
Luke
13.
17.
These
forty
years
have
I
been
grieved
with
this
People
,
Psal.
95.
10.
An
hundred
and
twenty
years
did
he
bear
with
that
high
and
uncurable
wickedness
of
the
first
World
,
and
that
after
it
was
come
to
the
full
,
Gen.
6.
3.
Four
hundred
years
did
God
bear
with
the
sins
of
the
Amorites
,
even
after
he
had
given
Abraham
their
Land
,
Gen.
15.
13
,
16.
How
long
did
the
Lord
bear
with
the
Ten
Tribes
after
their
Apostasie
from
his
pure
Service
?
even
the
space
of
two
hundred
and
fifty
years
;
in
which
time
there
were
Nineteen
Kings
,
and
all
wicked
men
,
walking
in
the
steps
of
Jeroboam
.
O!
the
slowness
of
God
to
Anger
,
even
against
his
Enemies
,
that
dare
him
to
his
very
Face
,
yea
,
that
trample
his
Glory
under
foot
,
and
that
every
day
,
yea
hour
;
and
yet
God
spares
them
to
old
Age
many
times
.
Alas
!
how
soon
are
we
angry
at
our
Enemies
,
and
if
but
slighted
a
little
,
ready
with
the
Disciples
to
call
for
Fire
from
Heaven
,
to
consume
those
that
receive
us
not
,
Luke
,
9.
54.
But
the
Lord
Jesus
is
not
so
,
he
waiteth
that
he
may
be
gracious
,
and
his
long-suffering
leadeth
to
Salvation
.
Secondly
,
His
maintaining
of
them
,
and
that
sometimes
at
the
highest
rate
,
giving
them
Honour
and
Riches
,
Prosperity
and
Favour
.
Pharoah
must
have
a
Kingdom
,
and
yet
an
Enemy
to
his
People
:
Nebuchadnezzar
,
an
Empire
;
Ahasuerus
an
hundred
twenty
and
seven
Provinces
;
Croesus
vast
riches
,
and
Sardanapalus
delicate
Pleasures
.
All
the
Creatures
are
pressed
at
their
Service
;
the
Air
,
Earth
,
and
Sea
are
ransack't
to
satiate
their
Lusts
,
Hos.
11.
2
,
3
,
4.
He
feeds
and
cloaths
,
helps
and
prospers
his
greatest
Enemies
,
and
all
to
heap
up
Coals
of
Fire
upon
their
heads
.
Thirdly
,
His
affectionate
seeking
their
Salvation
.
This
was
his
Errand
into
the
World
,
he
came
to
save
Sinners
,
1
Tim.
1.
15.
Lost
Sinners
,
Matth.
18.
11.
Bloody
Sinners
,
Ezek.
16.
6.
Blind
Idolaters
,
Acts
17.
23.
Cruel
Persecutors
,
Acts
,
9.
4.
Wicked
Sorcerers
,
Acts
,
8.
9.
These
the
Lord
Jesus
seeks
to
save
;
he
sends
his
Gospel
,
to
invite
them
to
come
unto
him
,
Matth.
11.
28.
Yea
,
beseeches
them
,
2
Cor.
5.
20.
Makes
large
promises
to
them
,
if
they
will
return
,
Isa.
55.
7.
Act.
3.
19.
Yea
,
how
doth
the
Spirit
strive
with
Sinners
,
that
they
may
be
saved
;
Reasons
with
them
,
Why
will
you
dye
?
Come
,
let
us
reason
together
,
Isa.
1.
18.
Why
wilt
thou
not
suffer
me
to
save
thy
Soul
,
and
to
make
thee
happy
to
all
Eternity
?
Poor
Sinner
!
I
have
a
real
mind
to
do
thee
good
,
an
affectionate
kindness
for
thee
;
I
came
from
Heaven
to
save
such
as
thee
.
Behold
my
hands
and
my
feet
,
see
how
my
heart
bleeds
for
thee
:
Behold
,
how
ready
my
purchase
is
;
yonder
is
thy
fair
Estate
,
if
thou
wilt
be
mine
.
Lift
up
thine
eyes
to
those
Mansions
,
Crowns
and
Thrones
;
all
these
shall
then
be
thine
:
See
those
beautiful
Garments
,
consent
to
me
,
and
thou
shalt
wear
thy
filthy
Rags
,
or
lye
in
those
pinching
straits
no
longer
;
thou
shalt
lodge
no
more
in
those
stinking
Kennels
of
thy
Lusts
:
O
poor
Sinner
!
why
wilt
thou
stand
in
thy
own
light
,
and
slight
this
offer
,
which
thou
mayest
never
have
made
thee
more
?
Lo
,
how
my
Bowels
move
towards
thee
,
see
how
my
Arms
are
open'd
to
thee
;
Be
mine
,
and
I
will
be
thine
;
My
Kingdom
shall
be
thine
,
my
Friends
will
be
thine
,
my
Servants
shall
be
thine
:
My
Angels
shall
protect
thee
,
yea
,
attend
thee
;
my
Creatures
shall
maintain
thee
,
my
Wisdom
shall
guide
thee
,
my
Faithfulness
shall
keep
thee
,
my
Power
shall
be
laid
out
for
thee
,
my
Love
shall
delight
thee
,
my
Honour
shall
adorn
thee
,
and
my
Treasure
shall
enrich
thee
:
I
will
be
a
loving
Husband
to
thee
,
I
will
provide
all
good
things
for
thee
;
I
will
rejoyce
over
thee
,
I
will
forget
the
wrongs
thou
hast
done
me
;
I
will
requite
thy
Vnkindness
with
Kindness
,
and
draw
thee
with
cords
of
Love
:
with
cords
(
saith
one
)
woven
and
spun
out
of
my
very
Heart
and
Bowels
.
O
miserable
Caitiff
!
embrace
my
Counsels
,
listen
thine
Ears
to
Heaven
gate
,
and
hear
the
melodious
Musick
that
is
there
made
by
refined
Spirits
;
why
,
wilt
thou
rather
lye
with
damned
howling
Devils
,
than
sing
Hallelujah's
,
and
the
Song
of
the
Lamb
with
saved
Souls
?
Accept
of
me
,
and
unchangeable
Glory
,
unspeakable
Priviledges
,
and
Rivers
of
Pleasures
shall
be
thine
.
Thus
doth
the
Lord
Jesus
woo
poor
perishing
Souls
to
be
happy
:
and
is
not
this
Pity
indeed
?
Fourthly
,
His
readiness
to
receive
them
when
they
come
to
him
:
No
sooner
do
they
open
the
door
but
he
comes
in
,
Rev.
3.
20.
If
any
man
open
the
door
,
I
will
come
in
unto
him
.
No
sooner
doth
the
Prodigal
return
,
but
his
Father
meets
him
;
yea
,
runs
to
meet
him
,
as
if
he
could
never
come
soon
enough
at
him
,
Luke
15
,
20.
Mercy
is
upon
the
wing
,
when
it
comes
to
receive
returning
Sinners
.
No
sooner
did
Ephraim
repent
,
but
God
repented
too
;
As
soon
as
he
said
,
Turn
thou
me
,
God
said
,
He
shall
be
turned
;
when
he
cries
,
Thou
art
the
Lord
my
God
,
presently
God
Answers
,
Is
he
not
a
pleasant
Child
?
So
willing
is
Christ
to
receive
returning
Sinners
,
as
that
he
promiseth
he
will
in
no
wise
cast
them
out
,
Joh.
6.
37.
Yea
,
if
they
cannot
come
unto
him
,
he
will
go
and
fetch
them
,
and
if
they
cannot
go
,
he
will
draw
them
,
Joh.
6.
44.
Fifthly
,
His
great
Joy
when
he
hath
obtain'd
them
;
The
Father
of
the
Prodigal
keeps
a
Feast
,
and
makes
merry
when
his
lost
Child
is
found
,
Luke
15.
23
,
24.
Psal.
104.
31.
The
Lord
shall
rejoyce
in
his
Works
,
and
this
he
doth
when
he
hath
finished
them
,
Heb.
4.
4.
But
there
is
nothing
the
Lord
Jesus
Christ
takes
more
pleasure
in
,
than
in
the
Redemption
of
Souls
,
Prov.
8.
31.
He
delighted
in
the
habitable
parts
of
the
Earth
.
This
you
will
find
further
amplified
in
the
Parables
of
the
lost
sheep
,
and
lost
piece
of
Silver
,
Luke
15.
from
vers.
4.
to
11.
CHAP.
XII
.
The
Improvement
of
the
Pity
of
Christ
,
by
way
of
Terrour
,
Encouragement
,
and
Advice
.
ARE
there
such
deep
,
and
large
Bowels
of
Pity
in
Jesus
Christ
,
not
only
towards
his
Friends
,
but
his
very
Enemies
?
Then
here
is
,
First
,
Terrour
to
Impenitent
Sinners
.
Ah
,
Souls
!
how
fearfully
great
is
your
Sin
,
being
a
plain
defiance
to
the
Mercy
and
pity
of
Christ
:
Every
Transgression
of
yours
is
a
kicking
the
very
Bowels
of
Mercy
,
and
a
stab
at
the
Heart
of
Divine
Pity
:
O!
how
vile
are
your
Iniquities
,
whilst
without
Christ
!
They
are
no
less
than
a
despising
of
the
Riches
of
the
Mercy
and
Goodness
of
God
,
which
would
have
led
you
to
Repentance
,
and
a
treasuring
up
of
Wrath
against
the
day
of
Wrath
,
Rom.
2.
4
,
5.
O
Sinners
!
you
run
on
score
in
abusing
of
the
highest
Mercy
that
ever
was
,
you
provoke
your
best
Friend
against
you
:
Alas
!
Who
can
help
you
if
Mercy
it self
becomes
your
Enemy
?
The
Bowels
of
Christ
are
your
last
Asylum
,
if
this
door
be
shut
against
you
,
Farewel
Souls
;
and
can
you
hope
that
Mercy
will
plead
for
you
,
when
rejected
by
you
,
or
will
not
God
hear
the
Complaint
of
despised
Mercy
think
you
?
Sinners
,
the
Compassion
of
Christ
shall
come
forth
at
the
last
day
,
and
say
,
I
would
have
saved
that
Soul
,
but
it
would
not
,
how
often
would
I
have
gathered
it
,
but
it
resisted
?
Mat.
23.
37.
I
offered
to
pay
it's
Debts
,
and
to
get
him
an
Acquittance
in
the
Court
of
Heaven
,
but
he
refused
it
;
I
would
have
ransom'd
him
from
Death
to
Life
,
and
adopted
him
to
an
Inheritance
in
Glory
,
but
he
would
not
;
I
would
have
stamp'd
the
divine
Nature
on
him
,
and
brought
him
into
the
Likeness
of
the
Lord
of
Glory
,
but
he
would
not
;
I
would
have
put
down
his
Name
in
the
book
of
Life
,
and
secur'd
his
Title
to
Heaven
,
but
he
would
not
;
I
called
,
he
would
not
answer
;
I
perswaded
,
he
refused
;
I
beseeched
,
he
despised
,
I
strived
,
he
resisted
;
and
now
Justice
,
into
thy
hands
do
I
deliver
these
rebellious
Souls
,
to
be
dealt
with
according
to
the
Threatnings
of
the
Gospel
and
Severity
of
the
Law
,
that
my
Wrongs
may
be
avenged
.
O!
what
a
terrible
Complaint
will
this
be
?
Sinners
,
tremble
then
at
the
Thoughts
of
your
abusing
divine
M●rcy
.
Vse
2.
Of
Encouragement
to
dejected
Souls
.
If
there
be
such
tender
pity
in
the
Lord
Jesus
,
O
then
take
Courage
hence
to
hope
for
Mercy
;
these
Mercies
of
Christ
are
infinite
,
boundless
and
bottomless
;
O
what
a
stock
of
Mercy
is
in
him
,
for
troubled
Souls
to
trade
upon
,
what
unfathomed
Deeps
are
there
in
divine
Compassions
,
enough
to
serve
all
thy
Turns
and
Necessities
;
have
thy
Sins
been
many
?
The
free
Gift
is
of
many
Offences
to
Justification
,
Rom.
5.
6.
Of
the
Offences
of
many
persons
,
be
they
never
so
many
,
or
the
many
Offences
of
one
person
,
there
is
vertue
enough
in
this
free
Gift
of
the
Blood
of
Christ
for
the
pardoning
them
all
,
if
such
return
:
he
(
saith
one
)
that
had
love
enough
to
give
us
Christ
,
hath
Bowels
enough
to
give
us
pardon
:
believing
Souls
shall
never
dye
for
Debt
,
if
the
Bowels
of
Christ
hath
wherewithal
to
pay
it
;
O!
what
Shifts
will
tender
Parents
make
to
keep
their
indebted
Children
out
of
Prison
?
They
will
beg
and
borrow
of
others
,
pinch
themselves
,
and
spare
what
they
can
,
rather
than
their
Children
shall
be
undone
:
and
surely
the
Mercy
of
Christ
must
needs
make
the
most
of
his
Blood
and
Obedience
,
of
his
Intercession
and
Satisfaction
,
for
the
Pardon
of
his
People
.
And
therefore
Daniel
joyns
Mercies
and
Forgiveness
together
,
Dan.
9.
9.
Is
thy
Unworthiness
great
,
and
deservest
thou
nothing
but
Wrath
from
God
,
O
bear
up
thy
Sinking
Spirit
on
the
Arm
of
Mercy
,
Mercy
is
in
vain
,
and
signifies
nothing
,
if
Justice
only
must
take
place
:
hast
thou
abused
Mercy
and
sinn'd
away
the
Favour
of
thy
God
?
Thou
hast
lost
his
Gift
,
but
he
hath
not
lost
his
giving
,
the
Child
spils
his
Water
and
goes
to
the
Well
to
fill
his
Pitcher
again
:
there
is
more
Mercy
(
O
troubled
Soul
)
in
the
deep
Wells
of
Salvation
,
for
those
that
seek
it
.
Obj.
But
I
have
provoked
God
to
withhold
Mercy
.
Ans.
Let
me
tell
thee
,
O
distressed
Believer
,
there
are
Forgivings
as
well
as
Givings
in
the
Bowels
of
Christ
,
and
I
know
not
which
are
greater
:
Are
thy
Wants
many
?
Be
of
good
chear
,
Mercy
hath
enough
to
supply
them
all
,
and
is
as
free
to
give
as
able
,
and
take
this
for
they
Encouragement
:
Mercy
never
gives
where
there
are
Deservings
.
Are
thy
Griefs
,
Labours
,
Fears
,
Troubles
,
and
Burdens
great
?
Yet
comfort
thy self
,
Misery
and
Mercy
are
a
Kin
,
Mercy
lives
in
the
●lymate
of
Misery
,
and
never
thrives
better
than
in
Misery's
Ground
;
to
do
good
to
miserable
Creatures
,
is
Meat
and
Drink
to
Mercy
,
John
4.
32.
I
have
Meat
to
eat
that
you
know
not
of
.
Vse
3.
Of
Exhortation
.
First
,
to
perishing
Sinners
;
make
use
of
the
Mercy
of
Christ
whilst
you
have
it
;
now
is
the
acceptable
time
,
the
day
of
Grace
,
the
Season
of
Visitation
;
now
the
Sun
shines
not
only
in
Sion
but
on
Sodom
;
nay
it
hath
stood
still
on
your
Gibeon
for
a
Season
,
Josh.
10.
12.
13.
O
let
not
Mercy
go
,
and
leave
you
in
your
blood
,
and
let
you
lye
in
your
Graves
;
let
not
the
Sun
of
the
Gospel
set
on
you
,
and
leave
you
in
inner
Darkness
,
lest
outer
Darkness
shortly
seize
upon
you
:
believe
it
,
Mercy
seems
to
be
near
a
Departure
,
it
looks
as
it
were
,
about
to
change
Houses
,
to
go
from
Gentiles
to
Jews
,
from
West
to
East
,
it
seems
near
setting
in
England
,
in
these
Western
parts
of
the
World
.
Who
knows
how
soon
it
may
arise
in
the
East
?
O
Sinners
,
don't
you
lye
a
bed
in
your
Security
,
and
let
Mercy
give
you
the
slip
.
O
then
you
that
are
yet
in
your
blood
,
under
Wrath
,
in
Danger
of
Judgment
;
be
advised
to
strike
in
with
Mercy
,
while
't
is
to
be
had
,
Isa.
55.
6.
while
divine
Bowels
yearn
towards
you
,
weep
over
you
,
and
wait
for
you
,
O
turn
in
,
and
close
with
Mercy
,
whiles
it's
face
is
unveil'd
to
you
,
it's
Arms
open'd
to
you
,
and
before
it
hath
breath'd
it's
last
Breath
to
you
;
believe
the
Warnings
and
Treatnings
of
Mercy
,
bow
and
stoop
to
the
Convictions
of
Mercy
,
receive
the
Tenders
thereof
,
obey
it's
Counsel
,
and
persevere
it
it's
way
;
be
perswaded
Sinners
this
day
,
it
may
be
the
last
time
,
I
may
beseech
you
for
Mercies
sake
,
to
turn
and
live
:
and
Oh!
how
doleful
will
it
be
to
out-live
the
day
of
Mercy
,
and
possibility
of
obtaining
Salvation
,
when
the
Angel
of
the
Lord
shall
proclaim
,
Time
shall
be
no
more
,
Time
was
,
but
now
is
past
.
Secondly
,
to
all
Souls
,
both
changed
and
unchanged
,
if
the
Lord
Jesus
be
so
pityful
to
you
,
O
then
be
not
cruel
to
your
own
Souls
,
do
not
rob
,
cheat
,
and
cozen
your
own
Souls
,
deprive
them
not
of
your
own
Mercies
,
Jonah
.
2.
8.
Don't
consent
to
those
ways
that
will
rob
you
of
all
the
Possibilities
and
Hopes
of
Salvation
;
O!
the
sweet
Comforts
and
Pleasures
that
now
you
loose
for
a
few
dirty
Delights
,
Prov.
3.
17.
Think
on
the
Substance
,
the
tryed
Gold
,
the
rich
Attire
that
you
deprive
your
Souls
of
by
refusing
to
hearken
to
the
Counsel
of
Christ
,
Rev.
3.
18.
Don't
starve
your
Souls
by
feeding
on
Husks
,
while
the
bread
of
Life
lies
before
you
,
this
is
Cruelty
to
them
indeed
,
Luke
15.
16.
17.
Do
not
wound
,
rend
,
and
tare
your
Souls
by
cruel
Lusts
:
he
that
sins
hateth
his
own
Soul
,
Prov.
15.
32.
chap.
29.
24.
Math.
16.
26.
O
the
sad
Bruises
that
Sin
gives
,
and
the
desperate
Gashes
it
makes
in
the
Sinners
own
Soul
;
Isa.
1.
6.
Prov.
8.
36.
Every
Sin
of
thine
(
O
carnal
wretch
)
is
a
deadly
blow
on
thy
own
Soul
:
all
thy
carnal
Pleasures
,
thy
merry
jesting
Words
,
thy
Swearing
,
Lying
,
Cheating
,
Oppressing
,
and
Covetousness
gives
new
Stabs
to
thy
Heart
;
it
would
be
a
barbarous
sight
to
behold
one
unmercifully
wounding
another
,
much
more
to
see
a
person
torturing
his
own
Soul
;
do
not
sell
thy
immortal
Soul
for
a
Lie
,
for
that
which
is
not
,
which
will
not
profit
in
the
day
of
Wrath
,
Rom.
6.
21.
Jer.
16.
19.
Thus
Elijah
told
Ahab
,
1
Kings
21.
20.
That
he
sold
himself
to
work
Wickedness
,
that
is
,
he
gave
himself
wholly
to
the
Service
of
Sin
,
as
a
Servant
that
binds
himself
over
to
anothers
Business
,
Rom.
6.
16.
Thirdly
,
To
the
Children
of
Mercy
,
whom
the
Lord
Jesus
hath
loved
and
washed
in
his
own
Blood
:
you
that
are
chosen
,
called
,
justified
,
sanctified
and
adopted
unto
Glory
,
be
exhorted
.
First
,
be
not
hard-hearted
to
Christ
,
requite
not
his
Pity
with
Cruelty
,
grieve
not
his
Spirit
,
sadden
not
his
Heart
with
your
sinful
and
unsutable
Walkings
before
him
:
no
Sins
make
greater
Wounds
on
the
Heart
of
Christ
,
than
the
Sins
of
his
own
Children
,
Eph.
4.
30.
O
be
not
cruel
to
him
who
is
so
tender
of
you
,
do
not
feed
him
with
Wormwood
and
Gall
who
hath
feasted
you
with
Joy
and
Gladness
,
yea
with
his
own
Heart
blood
.
Secondly
,
Put
on
Bowels
of
Pity
towards
others
,
Col.
3.
12.
They
that
are
cruel
to
others
,
shall
find
God
cruel
to
them
,
Jam.
2.
13.
Thirdly
,
Adventure
for
God
in
the
way
of
Duty
,
Psal.
5.
7.
Psal.
23.
6.
Psal.
25.
10.
Fourthly
,
Then
let
the
Consideration
of
Christ's
Mercy
comfort
you
under
the
World's
Cruelty
,
and
your
greatest
Sufferings
for
Christ
,
Psal.
57.
3.
Psal.
32.
7.
10.
Psal.
59.
17.
CHAP.
XIII
.
Wherein
is
opened
the
transcendent
Humility
of
Christ
.
ANother
part
of
this
total
Sum
of
Christ's
personal
Treasure
,
consisting
in
the
Sweetness
of
his
Disposition
,
is
,
Fourthly
,
His
Humility
and
Lowliness
of
mind
,
This
is
an
excellent
Vertue
,
and
that
which
the
very
Heathens
have
esteemed
at
a
high
Rate
:
't
is
a
rare
thing
(
saith
Aretius
)
and
rare
things
are
excellent
:
Chrysostom
calls
it
the
chiefest
Vertue
,
the
Salt
that
seasons
all
other
Excellencies
,
and
the
Beginning
of
all
Good
.
If
any
(
saith
Austin
)
should
ask
me
what
is
the
chiefest
Vertue
?
I
should
say
,
Humility
;
what
is
the
next
?
Humility
,
what
is
the
next
?
Humility
.
The
humble
Soul
(
saith
Manton
)
is
God's
second
Heaven
,
Isa.
57.
15
▪
Of
so
great
a
worth
is
all
true
Humility
in
any
,
especially
in
Persons
of
Height
and
Grandure
:
for
these
to
come
down
,
and
humble
themselves
is
exceeding
high
and
noble
.
O
then
what
is
Humility
in
the
high
and
lofty
one
,
in
the
Lord
of
Glory
and
King
of
Kings
,
and
Lord
of
Lords
;
yet
this
is
part
of
Christ's
Treasure
,
Mat.
11.
29.
Learn
of
me
,
for
I
am
meak
and
lowly
:
He
who
best
knew
himself
,
who
is
Truth
it self
and
cannot
lye
,
hath
declared
that
he
is
lowly
,
and
that
not
in
Carriage
,
and
external
Shew
only
,
but
in
Heart
also
:
O
what
stupendious
wonder
is
this
,
that
so
glorious
a
person
as
the
only
begotten
Son
of
God
should
be
lowly
in
Heart
?
I
speak
not
here
of
his
divine
Nature
as
God
,
though
in
that
respect
he
is
lowly
too
,
Isa.
57.
15.
Though
he
inhabiteth
the
highest
Heaven
,
yet
he
dwelleth
also
in
the
lowest
Heart
;
yea
't
is
wonderful
Condescension
in
God
to
behold
the
things
that
are
in
Heaven
and
Earth
,
Psal.
113.
5
,
6.
But
I
treat
here
of
Christ
as
Mediator
,
God-man
,
and
so
he
is
humble
and
lowly
in
Heart
,
which
will
appear
,
if
we
consider
these
particulars
,
First
,
His
Humility
whilst
he
was
on
Earth
.
Secondly
,
His
Humility
now
he
is
in
Heaven
.
His
Humility
on
Earth
consists
,
first
,
in
his
Willingness
(
being
God
over
all
and
Maker
of
all
)
to
become
man
his
Creature
;
this
is
strange
,
that
the
Son
of
God
should
be
willing
to
be
accounted
,
yea
to
become
the
Son
of
man
,
Heb.
2.
16.
He
did
not
take
the
Nature
of
Angels
upon
him
,
but
he
took
on
him
the
Seed
of
Abraham
;
so
vers.
14.
Forasmuch
then
as
the
Children
were
Partakers
of
Flesh
and
Blood
,
he
likewise
also
himself
,
took
part
of
the
same
.
(
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
)
He
did
freely
receive
their
Communion-nature
,
or
did
freely
communicate
with
them
in
the
same
Nature
:
He
took
on
him
the
Seed
of
Abraham
,
(
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
)
he
consented
to
take
their
Nature
,
and
therein
to
be
their
Avenger
and
Redeemer
,
as
the
word
imports
:
O
Humility
!
That
this
glorious
Jehovah
should
condescend
to
so
near
a
Union
with
man
,
a
Creature
so
low
and
of
so
small
Account
,
Isa.
2.
22.
Psal.
8.
4.
A
Creature
so
poor
,
destitute
of
all
Good
,
and
deprived
of
its
Beauty
,
Strength
,
Riches
,
and
Glory
,
Psal.
140.
12.
Rev.
3.
17.
A
Creature
so
filthy
and
vile
,
that
it
drinketh
up
Iniquity
as
water
,
Job
.
15.
16.
And
a
Creature
so
guilty
before
God
,
of
Rebellion
and
high
Treason
,
one
that
hath
forfeited
all
his
Mercies
,
and
stands
bound
over
to
the
just
Sentence
of
Death
and
Condemnation
.
Secondly
,
in
his
Birth
,
He
was
born
of
mean
and
obscure
Parents
;
Joseph
his
Father
was
a
Carpenter
,
he
descended
not
from
persons
of
the
highest
Dignity
,
but
of
low
Estate
,
as
Mary
her self
acknowledgeth
,
Luke
1.
48.
He
was
born
in
a
Stable
,
and
laid
in
a
Manger
,
Luke
2.
7.
A
contemptible
place
where
bruit
Beasts
use
to
lodge
and
feed
;
he
was
worshipped
by
the
wise
men
of
the
East
,
acknowledged
to
be
King
of
the
Jews
,
and
proclaimed
to
be
Saviour
of
the
World
by
an
Herauldry
of
Angels
,
and
yet
hath
no
b●tter
Cradle
than
a
Manger
.
O
unparellel'd
Condescension
!
Thirdly
,
In
his
voluntary
making
himself
of
no
Reputation
,
and
taking
on
him
the
Form
of
a
Servant
,
Phil.
2.
7.
He
did
,
as
it
were
,
evacuate
himself
,
and
spoil
himself
of
all
his
Glory
as
the
word
signifies
;
not
that
he
ceased
to
be
God
,
or
to
be
equal
with
the
Father
,
but
he
concealed
all
this
Glory
,
and
as
it
were
,
depriv'd
himself
of
all
the
Manifestations
of
it
,
by
uniting
to
himself
the
form
of
a
Servant
,
that
is
,
the
humane
nature
in
a
servile
State
:
he
took
upon
him
the
Form
of
a
Servant
,
Non
dimittendo
quod
erat
,
sed
assumendo
quod
non
erat
(
says
Zanchy
)
As
God
he
was
omnipotent
,
but
this
Omnipotency
was
hid
under
the
weakness
of
his
humane
Nature
,
his
Omniscience
veiled
under
a
limitted
Knowledge
,
his
Glory
clouded
under
Shame
,
his
Riches
concealed
under
Poverty
,
his
Majesty
obscured
under
Contempt
,
and
his
Immortality
cloathed
with
Mortality
.
Quest.
What
Servant
did
Christ
take
on
him
the
Form
of
?
Ans.
Why
:
1.
Of
the
Servant
of
God
,
Isa.
42.
1.
Behold
my
Servant
whom
I
uphold
.
Some
take
it
passively
,
on
whom
I
will
lean
,
and
in
whom
I
will
trust
,
and
commit
my
whole
Work
unto
:
others
actively
,
whom
I
will
raise
up
and
strengthen
,
and
carry
through
my
Work
.
Again
,
2.
He
became
the
Servant
of
man
also
,
Matth.
20.
28.
The
Son
of
man
came
not
to
be
ministred
unto
,
but
to
minister
.
Fourthly
,
In
his
being
made
under
the
Law
,
Gal.
4.
4.
When
the
Fulness
of
time
was
come
God
sent
forth
his
Son
made
under
the
Law
,
and
therefore
't
is
said
,
he
was
a
Minister
of
the
Circumcision
:
O!
What
Humility
was
this
?
That
the
Son
of
God
should
stoop
to
the
Paedagoge
of
the
Law
,
and
enter
on
this
low
and
legal
Obedience
.
Fifthly
,
In
his
Obedience
to
his
Parents
,
and
Submission
to
their
low
and
mean
Condition
,
both
for
Food
and
Apparel
,
Luke
2.
51.
And
he
went
down
with
them
,
and
came
to
Nazareth
,
and
was
subject
to
them
.
Sixthly
,
In
his
Employment
,
and
Calling
he
was
pleased
to
use
,
till
he
entred
upon
his
Ministry
:
He
continued
with
his
Father
,
and
(
as
one
of
the
Fathers
hath
it
)
wrought
at
his
Father's
Trade
,
and
therefore
was
called
the
Carpenter
,
Mark
,
6.
3.
Joseph
(
says
Mr.
Lightfoot
)
taught
Christ
his
own
Trade
:
And
Justin
Martyr
(
an
ancient
Writer
)
sayes
,
That
Jesus
Christ
,
before
he
entred
upon
his
Ministry
,
made
Plows
and
Yokes
.
Seventhly
,
In
his
Company
:
He
did
not
chuse
the
Society
of
Great
and
Noble
,
but
of
mean
and
obscure
Persons
:
He
set
apart
Fishermen
and
Publicans
to
be
his
Disciples
,
and
accompanied
Publicans
and
Sinners
,
which
caused
the
Senate
of
Rome
to
vote
him
down
from
being
a
God
,
because
all
his
Disciples
and
followers
were
inconsiderable
and
beggarly
,
Joh.
7.
48.
Eightly
,
In
his
contentment
with
mean
things
:
He
had
not
a
house
where
to
lay
his
head
,
Matth.
8.
20.
And
't
is
said
,
he
was
willing
to
be
poor
,
For
being
rich
he
made
himself
poor
,
that
we
,
through
his
poverty
,
might
become
rich
,
2
Cor.
8
,
9.
He
was
content
with
any
fare
,
Barly
Bread
and
Fishes
;
a
broyled
Fish
,
and
an
honey-comb
,
Luke
24.
42.
He
was
not
as
proud
Persons
are
,
nice
,
and
choice
of
his
D●et
,
but
was
pleased
with
any
food
,
Joh.
21.
5.
Children
,
have
you
any
meat
?
Ninthly
,
In
his
submissive
carriages
towards
God
and
men
;
when
the
Lord
bruis'd
him
,
and
made
his
Soul
an
Offering
for
Sin
,
we
find
not
one
hasty
or
undue
Expression
:
But
,
't
is
said
,
He
was
led
as
a
Sheep
dumb
before
her
Shearer
,
Isa.
53.
4
,
6
,
7.
All
that
he
said
,
was
this
humble
complaint
,
O
God
,
my
God
,
why
hast
thou
forsaken
me
?
He
was
rejected
and
despised
of
men
,
and
yet
maintain'd
an
humble
deportment
,
ver.
3.
He
was
lowly
to
all
Persons
,
not
only
to
the
high
and
noble
,
but
to
the
poor
and
despicable
;
not
only
to
Friends
but
to
Enemies
;
not
only
abroad
but
at
home
;
not
only
among
the
meek
and
humble
,
but
among
the
proud
and
peevish
;
not
when
it
was
admired
,
but
when
despised
.
Tenthly
,
In
his
doing
the
meanest
Services
:
He
condescended
to
the
lowest
,
and
most
contemptible
actions
,
if
he
might
administer
good
,
Matth.
20.
28.
He
girded
himself
with
a
Towel
,
as
a
Servant
,
and
washed
his
Disciples
feet
,
Joh.
13.
4
,
5.
Lastly
,
In
his
patient
bearing
others
Sins
,
and
Sufferings
.
Proud
men
cannot
endure
to
bear
another's
Fault
,
but
Christ
was
willing
to
be
numbred
amongst
Transgressors
,
to
be
reckoned
an
Offender
,
and
to
bear
the
Sins
of
many
,
even
of
all
that
come
unto
him
,
1
Pet.
2.
24.
He
humbled
himself
to
the
Death
,
Phil.
2.
8.
To
a
shameful
Death
;
the
Death
of
the
greatest
Malefactors
;
and
to
the
cursed
Death
of
the
Cross
.
Secondly
,
The
Lord
Jesus
was
not
only
humble
whilst
on
Earth
,
when
he
pass'd
through
his
state
of
Humiliation
;
but
even
now
,
when
he
is
in
Heaven
,
and
hath
entred
into
his
Glory
,
he
detains
this
lowliness
of
heart
.
This
will
be
perspicuous
,
if
you
consider
,
First
,
His
Condescention
to
behold
the
things
on
Earth
,
Psal.
113.
5
,
6.
One
would
have
thought
it
beneath
the
Dignity
of
Christ
,
now
advanc'd
above
all
Glory
,
to
take
any
notice
of
Sublunar
Affairs
:
but
if
he
delighted
in
the
habital
Parts
of
the
Earth
,
before
he
came
down
to
redeem
them
,
then
much
more
now
he
hath
the
possession
of
the
fruit
of
his
Blood
among
them
.
Secondly
,
His
Converses
with
the
meanest
,
and
most
despicable
Persons
on
Earth
,
by
his
Spirit
,
Isa.
57.
17.
Joh.
14.
19.
21
,
23.
Be
they
never
so
low
and
poor
,
yet
,
if
holy
,
he
takes
up
his
abode
with
them
,
and
keeps
his
Court
amongst
them
.
Thirdly
,
His
bowing
down
of
his
Ear
to
hear
the
cryes
of
his
poor
,
and
despised
People
,
Psal.
10.
17.
Lord
,
thou
hast
heard
the
desire
of
the
humble
,
Psal.
31.
2.
Bow
down
thine
Ear
to
hear
me
.
Fourthly
,
His
gentle
and
kind
reception
of
their
poor
,
pitiful
Offerings
and
Services
,
Psal.
51.
17.
The
Sacrifices
of
God
are
a
broken
Spirit
,
a
broken
and
a
contrite
Heart
,
O
God
,
thou
wilt
not
despise
.
Fifthly
,
His
owning
them
in
the
face
of
the
World
,
before
Kings
and
Rulers
,
1
Chro.
16.
21.
22.
He
is
not
asham'd
to
call
them
Brethren
,
Heb.
2.
11.
Sixthly
,
His
appearing
for
them
in
Heaven
,
and
confessing
them
before
his
Father's
Face
in
Glory
,
Matth.
10.
32.
Heb.
9.
24.
Seventhly
,
His
looking
after
their
meanest
Concerns
,
and
numbring
the
very
hairs
of
their
head
,
Matth.
10.
30.
Lastly
,
His
slowness
to
Anger
.
But
this
properly
pertains
to
another
excellent
Disposition
of
the
Lord
Jesus
Christ
,
namely
his
Meekness
,
where
you
may
find
it
fully
handled
.
Is
Jesus
Christ
of
such
an
humble
,
submissive
Disposition
?
then
,
First
,
Admire
the
greatness
of
Divine
Love
,
in
giving
such
a
Saviour
,
of
so
humble
and
lowly
a
Spirit
:
Had
not
the
Son
of
God
been
of
a
condescending
Nature
,
he
would
never
have
become
man
;
and
what
then
would
have
been
the
state
of
Sinners
?
Had
he
not
been
of
a
lowly
mind
,
he
would
never
have
consented
to
have
come
into
the
World
in
the
form
of
a
Servant
;
and
then
enthralled
Sinners
could
never
have
been
made
free
:
Had
he
not
been
humble
,
he
would
never
have
been
willing
to
be
made
under
the
Law
;
and
then
the
righteousness
of
the
Law
had
never
been
fulfilled
:
Had
he
not
been
lowly
,
he
would
never
have
borne
our
Fault
and
Punishment
;
and
then
our
Sins
must
have
been
charged
upon
our
own
heads
.
Secondly
,
This
will
serve
to
shame
the
proud
hearts
of
men
,
especially
those
that
profess
Christ
:
O
,
see
the
vileness
of
your
Pride
in
the
glass
of
Christ's
Humility
!
Thirdly
,
Labour
to
be
like
to
Christ
,
and
to
be
enriched
with
this
excellent
adorning
Grace
of
Humility
.
Fourthly
,
Here
's
Encouragement
to
humbled
Sinners
,
from
the
Lowliness
of
Christ
:
You
that
see
your
Iniquities
to
be
heavier
than
you
can
bear
,
and
are
afraid
because
of
the
Terrours
of
the
Almighty
;
yet
be
encouraged
to
come
to
Christ
,
because
he
is
humble
,
Isa.
57.
15.
You
that
see
no
Worthiness
in
your selves
to
come
before
him
,
but
are
fearful
to
approach
into
his
Presence
,
because
of
your
Poverty
and
low
Estate
;
be
encouraged
to
draw
nigh
to
him
,
because
he
is
humble
,
Isa.
41.
17.
You
that
see
an
Infinite
distance
betwixt
God
and
you
,
and
so
dare
not
approach
him
;
let
his
Humility
encourage
you
,
he
will
not
despise
the
Prayer
of
the
destitute
,
Psal.
102.
17.
You
that
think
your
Souls
beneath
the
thoughts
and
care
of
such
a
God
,
and
that
he
will
take
no
notice
of
you
;
O
,
consider
his
Humility
for
your
Hope
,
Psal.
113.
6.
Cherish
expectations
from
Christ's
Humility
,
for
the
mortification
of
your
Pride
;
because
't
is
God's
Ordinance
and
appointment
unto
this
end
,
Matth.
11.
29.
CHAP.
XIV
.
Wherein
is
shewn
,
the
transcendent
Meekness
and
Gentleness
of
Christ
;
To
his
Enemies
,
and
to
his
People
.
ANother
Branch
of
the
sweetness
of
Christ's
Disposition
and
Nature
,
is
,
Fifthly
,
His
Meekness
:
He
is
meek
and
lowly
,
Matth.
11.
29.
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
,
that
is
,
facil
and
easie
,
(
as
Criticks
derive
it
)
because
they
that
have
this
Meekness
,
are
of
a
gentle
,
pleasing
,
and
affable
Spirit
to
others
:
The
Latines
express
it
by
Mansuetus
,
one
used
to
the
hand
,
alluding
to
those
wild
Beasts
that
are
thus
tamed
;
They
are
gentle
,
and
brought
to
the
hand
;
they
are
sociable
and
familiar
,
not
strange
and
harsh
:
And
such
is
the
Lord
Jesus
;
he
is
meek
,
of
a
sweet
and
gentle
Spirit
and
carriage
towards
all
,
when
he
opens
himself
as
a
Saviour
to
them
,
but
especially
he
is
so
towards
his
People
.
Meekness
especially
relates
to
Anger
,
as
allaying
,
and
moderating
of
it
;
So
Arist.
defines
it
to
be
the
sweetning
of
ones
Spirit
,
removing
its
roughness
,
harshness
,
and
Passion
,
and
rendring
it
gentle
,
pleasing
,
and
affable
,
even
to
them
that
provoke
it
.
Now
this
is
an
excellent
Spirit
,
1
Pet.
3.
4.
'T
is
spoken
of
Moses
,
as
one
of
his
chiefest
Excellencies
,
Numb.
12.
3.
Now
the
man
Moses
was
very
meek
.
And
the
Lord
Jesus
sets
forth
this
to
be
the
greatest
Excellency
that
he
presents
in
himself
for
the
Imitation
of
his
People
,
Matth.
11.
29.
When
the
Prophet
Zachary
would
delineate
the
stately
Majesty
of
Christ
,
in
his
Kingly
progress
to
his
People
,
he
displayes
him
in
the
Glory
of
his
meekness
,
Zach.
9.
9.
Thy
King
cometh
to
thee
meek
,
&c.
So
Psal.
45.
4.
The
Glory
of
Christ
in
his
triumphant
March
in
the
World
,
is
held
forth
in
his
Meekness
and
Truth
;
this
is
part
of
Christ's
excellent
Glory
,
as
Mediator
,
2
Cor.
10.
1.
I
beseech
you
by
the
Meekness
of
Christ
,
Now
the
Lord
Jesus
is
replenished
with
Meekness
.
First
,
To
his
Enemies
,
This
he
manifested
whilst
on
Earth
,
to
such
as
hated
him
,
abused
him
,
and
sought
to
take
away
his
Life
;
't
is
of
such
the
Prophet
speaks
,
Zach.
9.
9.
compar'd
with
Math.
21.
5.
Now
this
Meekness
of
Christ
to
his
Enemies
appears
.
First
,
In
his
Slowness
to
Anger
,
Psal.
103.
8.
The
Lord
is
slow
to
Anger
.
He
was
not
easily
provoked
whilst
on
Earth
,
under
all
the
Provocations
and
Abuses
cast
upon
him
,
Matth.
12.
19.
He
shall
not
strive
nor
cry
,
neither
shall
any
man
hear
his
Voice
in
the
Streets
.
Passionate
persons
will
strive
to
have
their
Will
when
crost
,
to
defend
their
Names
,
to
oppose
their
Adversaries
,
and
to
revile
them
that
reproach
them
;
but
Christ
was
not
so
,
he
strove
not
in
a
contentious
,
quarrelling
way
,
but
being
reviled
,
reviled
not
again
,
1
Pet.
2.
23.
Under
all
his
Sufferings
,
such
as
were
able
to
make
the
meekest
man
on
Earth
to
cry
out
,
and
to
stir
up
his
Spirit
against
them
,
yet
Christ
was
silent
,
Isa.
53.
7.
He
was
oppressed
,
he
was
afflicted
,
and
yet
opened
not
his
Mouth
,
he
is
brought
as
a
Lamb
to
the
Slaughter
,
and
as
a
Sheep
before
his
Shearer
is
dumb
,
so
he
opened
not
his
Mouth
.
You
shall
not
find
one
froward
Word
from
Christ
in
all
his
Sufferings
,
by
Jews
or
Gentiles
;
look
over
the
Jeers
and
Reproaches
that
were
cast
upon
him
in
his
Life
,
and
at
his
Death
;
Is
not
this
the
Carpenter's
Son
,
Matth.
13.
55.
Is
not
this
the
Carpenter
,
the
Son
of
Mary
,
Mark
6.
3.
They
call'd
him
a
Wine
bibber
,
a
Friend
of
Publicanes
and
Sinners
,
and
yet
we
find
him
as
a
Sheep
,
dumb
before
the
Shearers
:
The
Pharisees
charg'd
him
to
be
on●
that
had
Correspondence
with
Devils
,
Matth.
9.
34.
but
he
was
silent
:
another
time
they
call
him
a
blasphemer
,
Matth.
9.
3.
but
see
how
mildly
Christ
answers
them
,
vers.
4.
Why
think
ye
Evil
in
your
Hearts
?
Another
time
we
find
him
sleighted
by
the
Samaritanes
;
he
was
coming
to
a
Village
in
Samaria
,
and
sent
Messengers
to
provide
for
him
,
but
they
refused
to
entertain
him
,
and
take
him
in
,
because
his
Face
was
as
though
he
would
go
to
Jerusalem
,
Luke
9.
51.
&c.
because
he
seemed
to
be
of
another
way
of
Religion
:
they
could
not
endure
him
,
because
he
was
for
instituted
Worship
,
and
seem'd
to
profess
a
stricter
way
than
the
Samaritanes
:
He
look'd
like
a
Puritan
(
saith
Mr.
Burroughs
)
and
therefore
they
shut
him
out
of
their
Houses
:
now
this
was
no
small
abuse
,
an
ordinary
Spirit
would
not
bear
to
have
a
door
shut
against
him
;
and
hereupon
,
some
of
the
Disciples
,
James
and
John
,
pleaded
for
Revenge
,
and
would
have
had
Fire
from
Heaven
to
destroy
them
,
ver.
54.
Yet
see
the
Meekness
of
Christ's
Spirit
under
this
Affront
,
ver.
55.
He
turned
and
rebuked
them
,
and
said
,
ye
know
not
what
manner
of
Spirit
ye
are
of
,
for
the
Son
of
man
is
not
come
to
destroy
mens
Lives
,
but
to
save
them
.
Secondly
,
In
his
mild
Answers
to
them
;
how
mildly
did
he
answer
the
Jews
,
who
said
,
he
was
a
Samaritan
,
and
had
a
Devil
,
John
8.
48.
49.
All
his
Answer
was
,
I
have
not
a
Devil
,
but
I
honour
my
Father
,
and
ye
dishonour
me
;
see
in
that
Chapter
,
how
contradictorily
and
crossly
they
behav'd
themselves
to
him
,
yet
with
what
wonderful
Gentleness
he
answers
them
:
when
Judas
came
to
betray
him
,
Matt:
26.
49.
with
what
Calmness
doth
he
treat
him
,
verse
50
,
Friend
wherefore
art
thou
come
?
Who
could
have
given
so
gentle
words
to
so
vile
a
Traytor
,
but
the
Mirror
of
Meekness
?
Luke
hath
it
thus
,
Judas
betrayest
thou
the
Son
of
man
with
a
kiss
?
Luke
.
22.
48.
what
thou
Judas
my
Disciple
,
who
hast
been
so
long
with
me
,
known
my
Kindness
,
and
eat
and
drunk
at
my
table
?
what
thou
betray
the
Son
of
man
,
and
combine
to
take
away
thy
Master's
life
?
canst
thou
find
in
thy
heart
to
deal
so
treacherously
with
thy
Lord
?
How
did
he
reprove
Peter
for
smiting
the
High-priest's
Servant
that
came
to
take
him
,
Matth.
26.
51.
to
55.
How
scornfully
did
they
treat
him
?
Matth.
26.
61.
This
Fellow
saith
I
am
able
to
destroy
the
Temple
of
God
,
and
to
build
it
in
three
days
;
but
he
held
his
Peace
,
v.
63.
The
Jews
mocked
him
,
blind-folded
,
and
smote
him
,
Luke
26.
63.
Herod
with
his
men
of
War
set
him
at
nought
,
chap.
23.
11.
The
Rulers
derided
him
,
saying
,
others
he
saved
,
let
him
save
himself
if
he
be
the
Christ
the
chosen
of
God
,
ver.
35.
But
lo
how
gently
this
patient
Lamb
revenges
these
high
Indignities
,
ver.
34.
Father
forgive
them
,
for
they
know
not
what
they
do
.
Thirdly
,
In
the
Offices
of
Love
,
he
shews
them
;
he
went
about
doing
Good
to
his
very
Enemies
,
heaping
Coals
of
Fire
on
their
Heads
,
healing
their
sick
,
feeding
their
hungry
,
and
preaching
the
Gospel
to
their
poor
,
Matth.
14.
14.
chap.
11.
5.
His
pitying
them
shews
his
Meekness
,
Luke
19.
41.
He
beheld
the
City
,
and
wept
over
it
:
now
this
Meekness
of
Christ
as
it
is
excellent
in
it self
,
so
't
is
eminent
in
degree
;
't
is
large
,
and
abundant
Meekness
;
weigh
but
these
following
Considerations
,
and
you
will
say
the
same
.
First
,
The
Greatness
of
those
Provocations
he
hath
received
from
them
;
Sinners
under
the
Gospel
make
light
of
Christ
,
Matth.
22.
5.
They
despise
him
,
Acts
13.
4.
They
reject
him
,
Joh.
12.
48.
They
rebel
against
him
,
Isa.
1.
20.
They
crucifie
him
.
Joh.
19.
15.
They
blaspheme
his
Name
,
they
belye
his
Truth
,
abuse
his
Love
,
undervalue
his
Blood
,
trampling
it
under
Foot
,
deny
his
Right
,
defraud
,
and
injure
his
Interest
,
rob
him
of
his
Glory
,
hate
his
People
,
and
seek
to
hinder
his
Kingdom
,
and
yet
he
mildly
puts
up
these
high
Indignities
;
Oppression
will
●ake
a
wise
man
mad
,
but
cannot
render
Christ
ungentle
.
Secondly
,
The
Continuance
of
these
Provocations
;
All
the
day
long
have
I
stretched
out
my
hand
to
a
gain-saying
people
,
Isa.
65.
2.
every
day
,
Isa.
52.
5.
Three
years
,
Luke
13.
7.
Forty
years
,
Heb.
3.
9.
Continually
,
Gen.
6.
5.
And
it
is
no
small
Provocation
to
have
a
Tryal
lye
on
a
persons
back
,
yet
see
the
Lothness
of
Christ
to
destroy
his
very
Enemies
;
he
waits
that
he
may
be
gracious
,
and
beseeches
them
to
turn
and
live
,
Joh.
5.
40.
Thirdly
,
The
greatness
of
his
Person
,
he
is
the
Majesty
on
high
,
King
of
Kings
,
and
Lord
of
Lords
,
Rev.
19.
16.
He
hath
Right
to
Service
and
Worship
from
all
his
Creatures
,
To
him
every
Knee
must
bow
,
and
Tongue
confess
,
Phil.
2.
9.
and
yet
that
he
should
bear
so
meekly
,
the
Abuses
,
Scorns
,
and
Contempts
of
the
vilest
men
,
is
wonderful
:
great
men
are
soon
incensed
when
their
Honour
and
Interest
are
invaded
;
but
the
Lord
Jesus
is
great
,
and
yet
meek
,
a
King
,
and
yet
lowly
,
Psal.
45.
3
,
4.
Zach.
9.
9.
Fourthly
,
The
Despicableness
of
the
Persons
that
abuse
him
;
they
are
his
Creatures
,
made
,
and
mainrain'd
by
him
,
inferiour
Worms
whom
he
can
crush
every
Moment
,
and
strike
dead
with
his
Look
,
Isaiah
1.
2.
chap.
45.
9.
Fifthly
,
The
great
Kindness
he
hath
for
them
,
he
comes
in
their
Errand
to
save
their
Souls
,
he
sheds
his
blood
,
that
they
might
live
,
underwent
the
Law
,
and
bore
his
Fathers
Wrath
,
that
they
might
enjoy
his
Favour
,
and
be
sav'd
to
the
uttermost
if
they
believe
:
and
is
not
this
a
wonderful
Discovery
of
his
Meekness
?
Secondly
,
His
Meekness
to
his
People
is
exceeding
great
,
as
I
shall
illustrate
in
a
few
particulars
.
First
,
In
his
bearing
with
them
,
he
did
not
only
bear
their
Sins
for
them
when
on
the
Tree
,
but
many
Provocations
and
Abuses
from
them
now
in
Heaven
;
so
he
bore
with
the
Israelites
,
Isa.
3.
8.
Though
their
Tongue
and
their
Doings
was
against
the
Lord
to
provoke
the
Eyes
of
his
Glory
;
this
was
not
the
Carriage
of
Heathens
,
but
of
his
own
People
;
their
Provocations
was
not
a
single
Act
from
one
part
of
them
,
but
the
whole
Body
combine
against
him
in
Word
and
Deed
:
these
were
not
supposed
Injuries
,
but
real
;
not
intermitted
,
but
continued
;
not
seldom
but
frequent
.
How
oft
did
they
provoke
him
in
the
Wilderness
,
and
griev'd
him
in
the
Desart
,
they
tempted
him
,
limitted
him
,
and
murmured
against
him
for
Water
,
for
Bread
and
for
Flesh
:
they
rebell'd
against
him
,
against
his
Institutions
,
in
Moses
and
Aaron
,
against
his
Command
about
gathering
Manna
,
sanctifying
the
Sabbath
,
and
going
against
their
Enemies
.
They
continually
provok'd
him
to
Anger
,
even
to
his
very
Face
,
Isaiah
65.
3.
vexed
and
grieved
his
holy
Spirit
,
and
yet
he
bears
it
in
the
Wilderness
for
forty
years
,
in
the
Land
of
Canaan
,
eight
hundred
and
sixty
years
before
the
Captivity
;
after
this
,
five
hundred
,
ninety
,
and
six
years
before
he
cast
them
off
.
O
the
admirable
length
of
the
Patience
and
Meekness
of
Christ
towards
that
People
,
in
bearing
with
them
,
considering
the
Kind
and
Length
of
their
Provocations
:
so
under
the
Gospel
,
he
hath
a
people
redeemed
by
his
Blood
,
such
as
avouch
him
for
their
Lord
,
and
tread
in
his
Courts
;
now
to
these
also
he
exerciseth
much
Long-suffering
and
Patience
if
you
weigh
,
First
,
the
Multitude
of
their
Sins
,
they
are
more
than
can
be
numbred
,
more
than
the
hairs
of
their
head
,
Psal.
40.
12.
Sins
of
Thoughts
,
Words
,
and
Deeds
;
Sins
against
Law
and
Gospel
,
the
first
and
second
Table
;
Sins
in
Duty
and
out
of
Duty
;
Sins
every
day
,
every
moment
,
Gen.
6.
5.
Sins
to
the
last
hour
of
their
Lives
,
till
their
Tabernacle
be
pull'd
down
,
and
the
body
of
Death
destroyed
;
and
this
is
not
only
the
Condition
of
one
,
or
of
a
few
Souls
,
but
of
all
the
Elect
,
every
man
that
liveth
,
1
Kings
8.
46.
There
is
none
that
sinneth
not
.
Secondly
,
The
Aggravation
of
their
Sins
taken
,
First
,
From
the
persons
sinning
,
The
redeemed
of
God
,
such
as
have
been
bought
with
a
great
price
,
1
Cor.
6.
20.
1
Pet.
1.
18.
The
pardon
of
whose
former
Sins
cost
so
dear
,
the
Sons
and
Daughters
of
God
,
Deut.
32.
19.
Souls
loved
and
chosen
out
of
all
the
World
,
to
be
his
;
yea
they
only
elected
,
and
all
others
left
,
Amos
3.
2.
Adopted
to
a
glorious
state
,
to
be
Kings
and
Priests
unto
God
,
to
be
Heirs
and
Co-heirs
with
Christ
,
to
be
a
name
and
a
Glory
to
him
;
and
yet
for
these
to
be
always
grieving
,
always
provoking
,
always
reproaching
of
him
,
is
hard
indeed
,
but
not
too
hard
for
Christ
to
bear
.
Secondly
,
From
the
person
against
whom
they
sin
,
they
sin
against
their
Father
who
loved
them
with
an
everlasting
Love
,
drew
them
with
the
Cords
of
Love
,
and
led
them
in
the
paths
of
Love
,
who
hath
given
his
Son
for
them
,
and
to
them
,
and
fixed
his
unchangeable
Love
upon
them
,
imparted
the
royal
Priviledges
of
Sons
to
them
,
and
yet
to
Sin
against
him
who
is
the
Father
of
Christ
,
and
their
Father
,
whose
Glory
was
dearer
to
him
than
his
own
Blood
,
is
an
aggravated
Sin
indeed
.
They
sin
against
God
the
Son
,
who
gave
himself
for
them
,
and
bought
them
with
a
great
price
.
They
sin
against
the
holy
Ghost
,
who
visited
them
in
their
low
Estate
,
and
brought
them
the
good
News
of
Salvation
;
who
broke
open
their
Prison-doors
,
and
let
them
forth
into
a
glorious
State
of
Liberty
;
who
quickned
,
enlightned
,
comforted
,
and
helped
them
in
all
their
Soul-straits
;
now
to
sin
against
this
God
the
Father
,
Son
,
and
Spirit
,
cannot
but
exceedingly
provoke
the
Soul
of
Christ
.
Thirdly
,
the
State
in
which
they
sin
;
O!
how
inconsistent
is
this
with
such
an
high
and
glorious
Condition
,
Rom.
6.
14.
.
Sin
shall
have
no
more
Dominion
over
you
,
because
you
are
not
under
the
Law
,
but
under
Grace
.
The
Sins
of
such
are
the
works
of
Darkness
in
the
day
time
,
Acts
of
Enmity
in
a
state
of
Reconciliation
,
and
grievous
Bondage
in
times
of
Liberty
.
Fourthly
,
The
dangerous
Effects
of
their
Sinning
;
'T
is
a
corrupt
Tree
that
brings
forth
sad
Fruit
,
even
the
Grapes
of
Sodom
,
and
the
Wine
of
Gomorrah
;
their
Sins
rob
God
of
his
Glory
,
and
bring
a
greater
Dishonour
to
him
than
all
the
Sins
of
the
World
besides
,
Rom.
2.
23.
They
grieve
the
Spirit
of
Christ
whereby
they
are
seal'd
up
to
the
day
of
Redemption
,
Eph.
4.
30.
They
depress
and
load
,
yea
break
the
Heart
of
God
,
Amos
2.
13.
They
endeavour
to
frustrate
divine
grace
,
and
render
the
Death
of
Christ
in
vain
,
Gal.
5.
4.
They
do
(
as
it
were
)
reduce
the
Lord
to
a
great
strait
,
what
to
do
to
save
their
Souls
,
H●s
.
6.
4.
they
Shipwrack
all
their
Duties
,
and
put
a
Vanity
upon
all
their
Profession
,
Labours
,
and
Sufferings
;
such
run
in
vain
,
Gal.
2.
2.
They
sadden
the
Hearts
,
and
weaken
the
hands
of
the
Godly
,
and
become
stumbling
blocks
in
their
way
,
Psal.
119.
158.
And
they
do
a
great
deal
of
mischief
to
the
wicked
in
prejudicing
them
against
the
Lord
Jesus
,
and
his
holy
ways
,
in
hindring
their
Reception
of
the
Gospel
,
and
depriving
them
of
the
Fruits
and
Labours
of
Christ
towards
their
Conversion
,
in
justifying
them
in
their
wayes
,
encouraging
them
in
their
Sins
,
and
in
causing
them
to
blaspheme
the
holy
Name
of
God
.
Fifthly
,
The
blessed
Advantages
they
have
enjoy'd
against
their
Sins
;
they
have
many
Obligations
against
it
,
and
many
Experiences
of
the
Evil
of
it
,
and
yet
still
continue
in
it
:
O
,
this
doth
make
the
burden
of
the
Sins
of
the
Godly
exceeding
heavy
to
Christ
,
and
yet
that
he
should
bear
them
so
patiently
,
and
not
consume
them
:
That
,
though
provoked
daily
by
the
Brambles
,
and
scratching
Abominations
of
his
People
,
yet
his
Fury
should
not
be
kindled
into
a
terrible
Flame
to
burn
them
up
,
doth
manifestly
demonstrate
his
meekness
to
be
exceeding
great
.
Secondly
,
Christ's
forbearing
of
his
People
,
is
another
Evidence
of
his
Slowness
to
Anger
:
He
is
not
easily
provoked
,
Neh.
9.
17.
How
long
doth
he
forbear
before
he
strikes
?
he
first
threatens
,
and
then
waits
,
calls
and
exhorts
,
shakes
the
rod
,
and
then
strikes
gently
,
Isa.
30.
18.
Therefore
will
the
Lord
wait
that
he
may
be
gracious
.
Thirdly
,
His
readiness
to
be
reconciled
to
them
,
when
angry
,
Psal.
86.
5.
Thou
,
Lord
,
art
good
,
and
ready
to
forgive
.
O
,
consider
his
perswading
them
to
Repentance
;
how
doth
he
labour
to
convince
them
of
their
Sin
,
and
invite
them
to
return
;
he
entreats
,
reasons
,
and
beseecheth
them
to
be
reconciled
,
2
Cor.
5.
19
,
20.
Lo
,
how
affectionately
doth
he
receive
them
when
they
return
!
how
willingly
doth
he
listen
his
Ear
to
their
confession
of
Sin
,
and
bemoaning
of
their
condition
?
Jer.
31.
18.
Fourthly
,
The
moderation
of
his
Anger
,
when
raised
,
shews
his
meekness
,
Isa.
27.
7
,
8.
In
measure
when
it
shooteth
forth
,
thou
wilt
debate
with
it
.
He
stayeth
his
rough
wind
in
the
day
of
his
East-wind
,
Job
.
11.
6.
Lastly
,
His
actual
forgiving
all
their
Iniquities
,
Psal.
103.
3.
Who
forgiveth
all
thine
Iniquities
,
Luke
7.
47.
Isa.
44.
22.
Vse
.
Now
,
if
the
Lord
Jesus
Christ
be
so
full
of
meekness
to
his
very
Enemies
,
so
rich
in
gentleness
,
sweetness
of
Nature
,
and
Patience
to
his
People
,
then
learn
this
needful
Lesson
of
him
;
to
be
of
a
meek
and
patient
Spirit
.
Behold
,
how
quietly
he
took
up
his
Cross
,
and
bore
reproaches
and
Indignities
from
the
worst
of
men
:
yea
,
how
still
he
was
under
the
infinite
weight
of
his
Father's
wrath
.
Learn
meekness
from
his
Gentleness
,
as
the
Elephant
doth
from
the
Lamb
;
when
the
Elephant
is
in
his
greatest
Fury
,
set
but
a
Lamb
before
him
,
and
his
wrath
will
presently
be
allay'd
:
Learn
of
Christ
to
bear
Injuries
,
to
restrain
your
Anger
,
not
to
be
angry
,
but
when
Duty
,
and
the
Cause
of
God
calls
you
to
it
:
'T
is
onely
Sin
should
be
the
Object
of
a
Christian's
Anger
.
Moses
was
calm
at
his
own
Reproaches
,
but
could
not
be
still
when
God
was
dishonoured
.
Learn
from
Christ
to
moderate
the
measure
of
your
Anger
;
he
corrects
in
measure
:
Let
not
your
Anger
exceed
the
desert
of
the
Provocation
;
Learn
from
him
to
time
your
Anger
.
As
a
word
fitly
spoken
,
so
Anger
seasonably
exerted
is
beautiful
:
and
learn
from
him
to
remove
it
when
the
Cause
is
gone
.
Anger
should
be
as
Physick
,
laid
aside
when
there
is
no
need
of
it
:
True
meekness
may
easily
be
discerned
by
its
ends
and
grounds
,
it
must
not
proceed
from
a
willingness
to
be
aveng'd
on
others
,
but
to
amend
and
reform
them
.
CHAP.
XV.
Wherein
is
demonstrated
the
infinite
Bounty
of
Christ
to
all
his
Creatures
,
with
the
manner
of
his
giving
.
THE
next
thing
which
discovers
the
sweetness
of
Christ's
Disposition
,
and
greatness
of
his
Personal
Treasure
,
is
,
Sixthly
,
His
Liberality
:
He
is
of
a
bountiful
Disposition
;
and
this
,
you
know
,
is
of
an
endearing
Nature
,
Rom.
5.
7.
Scarcely
for
a
righteous
man
will
one
die
,
yet
peradventure
for
a
good
man
some
would
even
dare
to
dye
.
Psal.
13.
6.
I
will
sing
unto
the
Lord
,
because
he
hath
dealt
bountifully
with
me
.
Now
this
Liberality
of
Christ
appears
,
First
,
To
all
his
Creatures
,
Psal.
145.
9.
The
Lord
is
good
to
all
,
and
his
tender
mercies
are
over
all
his
works
,
Psal.
136.
25.
Psal.
145.
15.
Whose
heart
is
so
large
,
whose
hand
so
wide
as
Christ's
?
ver.
16.
He
upholdeth
all
things
by
the
word
of
his
Power
,
Heb.
1.
3.
And
by
him
all
things
consist
,
Col.
1.
17.
There
is
never
a
moment
but
he
is
laying
out
upon
his
Creatures
,
and
that
must
needs
be
a
large
Treasure
that
maintains
the
whole
World
.
Secondly
,
To
his
Enemies
:
He
doth
good
to
those
that
hate
him
:
He
gives
large
portions
of
this
World's
goods
to
Esau's
:
And
uncharitable
Dives's
do
many
times
fare
deliciously
,
and
are
cloathed
gorgeously
,
by
his
Bounty
,
The
wicked
prosper
,
Jer.
5.
28.
Nay
,
he
doth
not
only
give
them
the
fat
things
of
this
Life
,
but
the
great
things
of
his
Kingdome
.
O
,
the
Privileges
and
Favours
that
Hypocrites
enjoy
as
well
as
Saints
!
He
sends
his
Gospel
to
every
Creature
,
and
causeth
the
very
Dews
of
Sion
to
fall
upon
his
Adversaris
.
Thirdly
,
Especially
to
his
Children
;
for
to
these
he
gives
,
First
,
Good
things
:
Whatever
they
have
of
him
shall
be
good
,
Jer.
32.
40.
I
will
not
turn
away
from
them
to
do
them
good
.
Their
very
Afflictions
are
for
good
:
their
Wormwood
and
Gall
is
good
:
Rebukes
of
God
upon
them
,
stripping
and
humbling
Providences
;
nay
,
their
very
Corruptions
,
by
this
Bounty
,
prove
to
their
advantage
.
Secondly
,
All
good
things
.
He
gives
Grace
and
Glory
,
and
no
good
thing
will
he
withhold
from
them
that
walk
uprightly
,
Psal.
84.
11.
Psal.
34.
10.
All
the
good
God
sees
fit
for
them
,
and
they
are
capable
to
receive
,
shall
be
distributed
to
them
.
Thirdly
,
Great
things
:
Not
Common
,
but
choice
Mercies
,
passing
Knowledge
,
Mysteries
,
not
onely
to
the
World
,
but
to
themselves
:
Things
unsearchable
,
and
things
unutterable
;
Things
that
cannot
be
known
as
they
are
,
nor
valued
as
they
deserve
.
What
one
Nation
(
saith
David
to
God
)
is
like
thy
People
,
whom
God
went
to
redeem
for
a
People
to
himself
,
to
make
him
a
Name
,
and
to
do
for
them
great
things
and
terrible
,
2
Sam.
7.
23.
Redemption-work
brings
forth
great
and
terrible
things
,
for
redeemed
Souls
.
O
,
the
great
things
that
God
doth
,
and
Christ
gives
to
every
ransom'd
Soul
,
Job
,
37.
5.
Things
which
we
cannot
comprehend
,
as
you
will
see
,
if
you
give
but
a
general
Survey
on
the
Inventory
of
Christ's
Gifts
.
I
shall
instance
in
some
of
the
most
remarkable
.
First
,
That
unvaluable
Gift
of
Light
.
He
is
the
Light
of
the
World
,
Joh.
8.
12.
How
deformed
is
Darkness
,
how
beautiful
is
Light
,
Eccles.
11.
7.
He
is
a
Light
to
lighten
the
Gentiles
,
and
the
Glory
,
&c.
Luke
2.
32.
He
is
the
bright
Morning
Star
:
the
Sun
of
Righteousness
from
whom
the
light
of
Life
and
all
true
Wisdom
comes
;
now
this
is
a
great
and
excellent
thing
,
Eccles.
2.
13.
Wisdom
excelleth
Folly
,
as
far
as
Light
excelleth
Darkness
,
and
this
you
know
is
very
far
:
Wisdom
is
preferred
before
Rubies
,
and
the
most
excellent
things
,
Prov.
8.
from
ver.
10.
to
20.
That
must
needs
be
great
which
all
the
World
cannot
purchase
,
but
this
is
Wisdom
:
now
all
true
Wisdom
comes
by
Jesus
Christ
,
he
is
the
Wisdom
of
God
,
1
Cor.
1.
30.
So
,
who
hath
brought
to
light
the
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
,
the
hidden
things
of
God
,
and
that
could
by
no
ways
be
known
but
by
Revelation
:
No
man
hath
known
the
Father
,
but
the
Son
,
and
he
to
whom
the
Son
shall
reveal
him
,
Matth.
11.
27.
He
giveth
Knowledge
and
Wisdom
to
whom
he
pleaseth
,
that
special
Wisdom
which
none
of
the
Princes
of
this
World
can
attain
unto
,
1
Cor.
2.
7.
8.
Secondly
,
Life
;
He
hath
brought
Life
to
Light
by
the
Gospel
,
2
Tim.
1.
10.
and
is
not
this
a
great
gift
?
All
that
a
man
hath
will
he
give
for
his
Life
,
Job
.
2.
4.
O!
then
what
is
Life
from
the
dead
to
his
people
,
Eph.
2.
1.
He
is
our
Life
,
Col.
3.
3.
I
am
come
that
they
may
have
Life
,
and
have
it
more
abundantly
,
Joh.
10.
10.
Thirdly
,
His
Love
;
all
the
World
and
Houses
full
of
Treasures
cannot
be
compar'd
to
Love
,
Cant.
8.
7.
Should
Christ
give
all
the
World
and
withhold
his
Heart
,
it
were
but
a
mean
gift
:
Favours
are
valuable
by
the
love
whence
they
come
,
Isa.
63.
9.
In
his
Love
and
in
his
Pity
he
redeemed
them
,
Psal.
63.
3.
Deut.
33.
3.
All
Believers
are
set
as
a
Seal
upon
his
Heart
,
Cant.
8.
6.
He
hath
loved
them
with
an
everlasting
Love
;
they
have
his
Heart
,
and
none
else
.
Fourthly
,
Himself
;
There
being
nothing
greater
than
himself
,
to
demonstrate
the
Largeness
of
his
Heart
to
his
people
;
he
gave
himself
,
Eph.
5.
25.
Who
loved
the
Church
,
and
gave
himself
for
it
;
that
is
,
sold
himself
to
purchase
them
,
gave
himself
to
divine
Justice
to
satisfie
the
Law
,
and
to
taste
of
Death
for
them
,
all
that
he
had
as
Mediator
he
parted
with
for
them
:
and
hath
given
himself
to
them
also
,
Heb.
8.
10.
And
I
will
be
to
them
a
God
,
and
they
shall
be
to
me
a
People
.
They
have
his
person
,
Hos.
3.
3.
Thou
shalt
not
be
for
another
,
so
will
I
also
be
for
thee
.
All
his
Beauties
and
personal
Perfections
,
as
described
,
Cant.
5.
ver.
9.
to
the
end
:
all
Believers
have
a
Marriage
right
unto
him
by
way
of
Gift
;
again
,
he
hath
given
them
his
Purchase
,
all
that
he
hath
bought
with
his
Blood
,
Math.
26.
28.
This
is
my
Blood
of
the
New
Testament
,
shed
for
you
.
Fifthly
,
His
Laws
and
Scepter
to
guide
them
through
the
World
,
and
to
steer
out
their
Course
of
Duty
and
Safety
,
and
this
is
a
great
thing
,
Hos.
8.
12.
I
have
written
to
him
the
great
things
of
my
Law
(
Rabab
)
the
excellent
or
honourable
things
of
my
Law
:
for
this
word
notes
Quality
as
well
as
Quantity
;
and
if
the
things
of
God's
Law
are
so
great
,
what
are
the
Truths
of
the
Gospel
,
called
so
great
Salvation
?
Deut.
4.
8.
And
what
Nation
is
so
great
that
hath
Statutes
and
Judgments
so
righteous
?
Psal.
147.
19.
Sixthly
,
His
Spirit
;
This
he
gives
to
all
his
People
,
Rom.
8.
9.
If
any
man
hath
not
the
Spirit
of
Christ
he
is
none
of
his
,
1
Cor.
12.
13
,
We
are
all
by
one
Spirit
baptized
into
one
body
:
This
is
promised
by
the
Lord
Jesus
,
Joh.
16.
7.
Seaventhly
,
His
Promises
;
For
in
him
are
all
the
Promises
of
God
,
yea
,
and
Amen
,
2
Cor.
1.
20.
That
is
,
they
are
sure
and
certain
in
Christ
,
2
Pet.
1.
4.
Whereby
are
given
unto
us
,
exceeding
great
and
precious
Promises
,
Gal.
3.
22.
Lastly
,
His
Kingdom
;
Col.
1.
13.
And
hath
translated
us
into
the
Kingdom
of
his
dear
Son
.
A
blessed
Change
indeed
,
from
Sin
to
Grace
,
from
Darkness
to
Light
,
from
the
Kingdom
of
Satan
,
to
the
Kingdom
of
Christ
,
2
Pet.
1.
11.
So
an
Entrance
shall
be
administred
to
you
abundantly
into
the
Kingdom
of
our
Lord
and
Saviour
Jesus
Christ
.
All
Believers
are
invested
with
the
glorious
Priviledges
of
this
Kingdom
,
they
all
become
Kings
and
Priests
unto
God
,
Rev.
1.
6.
Nay
a
Kingdom
of
Priests
,
Exod.
19.
6.
They
are
entitled
to
all
the
royal
Endowments
,
Investments
,
and
Favours
that
belong
to
the
Children
of
a
King
;
they
all
wear
his
royal
Robes
of
Glory
,
they
have
noble
Entertainment
,
most
delicious
Food
,
the
highest
Honours
and
Thrones
to
sit
on
;
Christ
gives
them
the
Inheritance
,
purchased
Possessions
and
Mansions
of
Glory
.
Fourthly
,
The
Liberality
of
Christ
appears
in
the
manner
of
his
giving
,
now
this
may
come
under
a
six-fold
Consideration
.
First
,
He
gives
readily
and
propensly
:
many
give
,
but
by
Constraint
,
as
the
unjust
Judge
,
Luke
18.
or
from
fear
of
Shame
or
Reproach
;
men
usually
give
with
Reluctancy
,
but
Christ
readily
,
as
Paul
speaks
of
the
Church
of
Macedonia
,
2
Cor.
8.
3.
that
they
were
prone
to
Charity
beyond
their
power
;
and
of
Titus
,
ver.
17.
that
being
more
forward
of
his
own
accord
he
went
unto
them
;
so
it
may
be
more
truly
said
of
Christ
,
that
he
wants
no
external
Motives
or
Perswasions
to
exert
his
Bounty
.
For
,
First
,
Christ's
Gifts
are
his
peoples
due
,
they
have
Right
to
all
his
Fullness
;
Christ
is
the
Believers
and
all
that
is
his
,
John
3.
16.
Cant.
6.
3.
I
am
my
beloved's
and
my
beloved
is
mine
,
1
Cor.
3.
21.
For
all
things
are
yours
,
they
are
purchas'd
for
them
,
and
given
to
them
.
Secondly
,
Christ's
Office
and
publick
Designation
to
this
Work
shews
it
,
he
is
set
apart
for
this
end
,
that
he
might
be
the
Author
of
eternal
Life
,
the
Giver
of
all
that
good
that
his
people
need
,
Joh.
17.
2.
As
thou
hast
given
him
Power
over
all
Flesh
,
that
he
should
give
eternal
Life
,
&c.
Joh.
6.
27.
Him
hath
God
the
Father
sealed
;
that
is
,
deputed
to
this
Office
and
Trust
,
to
be
the
Lord
keeper
of
his
House
,
and
Dispenser
of
his
Fathers
Goods
.
All
that
Christ
hath
as
Mediator
,
is
to
be
distributed
to
his
:
he
hath
nothing
but
must
be
employed
for
the
Salvation
of
the
Elect
,
for
such
is
the
Agreement
betwixt
the
Father
and
him
,
Joh.
17.
10.
All
mine
are
thine
,
and
thine
are
mine
,
and
I
am
glorified
in
them
.
Thirdly
,
He
hath
never
the
less
for
giving
,
and
therefore
never
weary
of
giving
;
what
's
that
makes
men
soon
tyred
with
Acts
of
Bounty
,
why
because
the
more
they
give
the
less
they
have
,
and
so
fail
at
last
in
their
Ability
;
but
't
is
not
so
with
Christ
,
he
is
Fullness
still
,
notwithstanding
all
the
vast
Distributions
that
go
out
of
his
Treasury
every
day
,
to
fill
up
Heaven
and
Earth
,
Men
and
Angels
.
(
I
remember
a
notable
saying
of
a
worthy
Divine
,
Should
all
the
World
(
says
he
)
set
themselves
to
drink
free
Grace
,
Mercy
,
and
Pardon
,
dry
,
drawing
Water
continually
from
the
Wells
of
Salvation
,
nay
if
they
should
set
themselves
to
draw
from
one
single
Promise
,
an
Angel
standing
by
and
crying
,
drink
O
my
Friends
,
drink
abundantly
,
take
so
much
Grace
and
Pardon
as
shall
be
abundantly
sufficient
for
the
world
of
Sins
which
is
in
every
one
of
you
,
they
would
not
be
able
to
sink
the
Grace
of
the
Promise
,
one
Hairs
breath
.
)
When
Beggers
come
to
our
doors
,
they
many
times
promise
us
,
upon
the
Reception
of
an
Alms
,
they
will
trouble
us
no
more
,
but
this
would
be
an
improper
Expression
to
Christ
,
whose
Heart
is
so
propense
to
give
,
and
whose
Treasures
are
inexhaustible
,
Col.
2.
9.
For
in
him
dwells
all
the
Fullness
of
the
God-head
bodily
,
Col.
1.
19.
Forthly
,
He
gets
by
giving
;
Advantage
is
a
sure
Agreement
,
all
men
seek
their
own
,
every
man
his
gain
from
his
Quarter
:
now
if
giving
appears
to
be
Christ's
Advantage
,
you
may
be
sure
he
will
be
willing
to
give
;
men
lavish
out
their
Gold
for
Idolatry
,
carnal
persons
pour
out
their
whole
Wealth
upon
their
Lusts
,
the
Merchant
adventures
all
he
hath
for
Gain
,
and
can
you
think
that
Christ
only
will
be
close
handed
?
Psal.
68.
18.
Here
't
is
said
,
he
receives
Gifts
,
Eph.
4.
8.
'T
is
said
,
he
gave
gifts
:
what
Christ
receiv'd
was
not
for
himself
,
but
to
give
unto
Sinners
,
and
that
in
order
to
his
Dwelling
amongst
them
;
Christ's
Gifts
are
to
further
his
Service
,
1
Pet.
4.
10.
and
his
Peoples
Profit
,
1
Cor.
12.
7.
Fifthly
,
He
is
never
more
pleased
,
than
when
he
gives
;
This
appears
in
his
earnest
inviting
Souls
to
ask
of
him
,
Joh.
16.
24.
Hitherto
you
have
asked
nothing
in
my
Name
,
ask
that
your
Joy
may
be
full
.
Had
not
the
Lord
Jesus
a
great
Delight
to
dispense
freely
to
his
People
,
he
would
not
have
us'd
such
Arguments
to
perswade
them
to
beg
;
't
is
said
of
Titus
Vespasian
,
that
he
never
denyed
any
thing
to
those
that
asked
him
,
but
would
call
upon
them
,
to
ask
something
of
him
.
Lastly
,
This
doth
wonderfully
greaten
his
Glory
,
Joh.
14.
13.
Whatever
ye
ask
in
my
Name
,
that
will
I
do
,
that
the
Father
may
be
glorified
in
the
Son
.
This
verse
shews
the
Reason
why
the
Saints
shall
do
greater
works
than
those
that
Christ
did
,
because
they
shall
have
the
Power
of
Christ
to
help
them
;
he
will
do
for
them
what
they
ask
,
and
give
them
what
they
seek
;
and
the
reason
is
,
because
hereby
the
divine
Glory
is
more
manifested
,
the
Fathers
Glory
in
the
Sons
Glory
;
for
the
Father
and
he
are
one
,
and
the
Fathers
Glory
is
his
Glory
,
the
more
he
gives
,
the
more
the
Father
is
glorified
,
and
the
more
the
Father
is
glorified
,
the
more
is
the
Son
also
.
Secondly
,
He
gives
feeely
without
any
respect
to
Merit
or
Compensation
,
Rev.
21.
6.
To
him
that
is
a
thirst
,
will
I
give
to
drink
of
the
Water
of
Life
freely
.
(
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
)
That
is
,
without
any
antecedent
Cause
,
Worth
or
Merit
,
Rom.
3.
24.
Being
justified
freely
by
his
Grace
.
As
Justification
comes
freely
without
any
Worth
or
Righteousness
in
man
,
so
do
all
the
gifts
of
God
,
Rom.
8.
32.
How
can
he
but
with
him
freely
give
us
all
things
?
1
Cor.
2.
12.
Christ
doth
not
sell
but
give
his
Favours
freely
,
according
to
the
pleasure
of
his
own
Will
,
Isa.
55.
1.
This
is
a
Truth
hard
to
be
receiv'd
,
because
't
is
beyond
the
reason
of
men
,
how
Grace
should
move
without
any
Motives
and
Attractives
besides
it self
,
but
yet
this
bounty
of
Christ
hath
no
respect
of
Persons
,
2
Chron.
19.
7.
Thirdly
,
He
gives
presently
Mercies
in
hand
,
he
doth
not
say
as
the
unjust
and
covetous
man
,
go
,
and
come
again
to
morrow
,
and
I
will
give
it
thee
,
when
't
is
by
him
;
he
doth
not
delay
to
bestow
Mercies
on
his
poor
Creatures
,
one
Jot
beyond
the
due
time
,
Psal.
145.
15.
Gal.
6.
9.
Christ
is
never
at
a
loss
to
give
,
he
only
stays
for
a
fit
time
;
he
had
many
things
to
say
to
his
Disciples
,
but
he
wanted
a
convenient
opportunity
;
they
were
not
able
to
bear
them
,
Joh.
16.
12.
Fourthly
,
He
gives
heartily
;
Jer.
32.
41.
I
will
rejoyce
over
them
to
do
them
good
,
with
my
whole
Heart
,
and
with
my
whole
Soul
.
He
doth
not
pretend
Kindness
,
and
yet
begrudge
it
in
his
Heart
,
all
his
Promises
are
the
Intents
of
his
Heart
,
Jer.
30.
24.
Psal.
51.
18.
Do
Good
in
thy
good
Pleasure
to
Sion
.
Fifthly
,
He
gives
liberally
,
Jam.
1.
5.
If
any
man
lack
Wisdom
,
let
him
ask
it
of
God
who
giveth
liberally
.
(
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
)
Simply
,
purely
,
with
a
candid
Mind
and
full
Intent
to
do
good
:
't
is
rendred
bountifully
,
as
Liberality
comes
from
a
simple
and
pure
Heart
,
he
gives
many
times
more
than
we
ask
,
as
the
sick
man
of
the
Palsie
came
for
Health
,
and
Christ
gave
him
Pardon
to
boot
;
Solomon
asked
Wisdom
,
and
God
gave
him
more
than
he
begged
,
Riches
and
Honour
too
,
1
Kin.
3.
12.
13.
He
gives
richly
to
his
People
of
all
good
things
to
enjoy
,
1
Tim.
6.
17.
Sutable
to
his
Treasures
,
Phil.
4.
10.
According
to
his
Riches
in
Glory
by
Christ
,
above
what
we
can
ask
or
think
,
Eph.
3.
20.
He
gives
a
Kingdom
,
Luke
12.
22.
and
therefore
bids
us
open
our
Mouths
wide
,
and
he
will
fill
them
,
Psal.
81.
10.
Lastly
,
He
gives
constantly
every
day
and
every
moment
,
he
is
never
weary
of
well-doing
,
Isa.
40.
28.
The
Lord
fainteth
not
,
neither
is
weary
;
men
are
soon
tyred
with
Acts
of
Bounty
,
to
which
the
Apostle
alludes
,
Gal.
6.
9.
But
the
Lord
Jesus
is
a
Fountain
that
never
ceaseth
running
,
he
is
always
doing
,
there
is
never
a
moment
but
he
is
opening
his
Treasures
and
filling
the
hungry
Soul
,
Psal.
73.
26.
God
is
my
Portion
for
ever
.
The
Saints
are
always
living
on
God
,
and
are
ever
receiving
from
him
,
His
Mercies
are
new
every
Morning
,
Lam.
3.
23.
Yea
though
through
Carelesness
they
have
lost
their
Mercies
,
as
the
Spouse
lost
the
presence
of
Christ
,
Cant.
5.
and
the
Tastes
of
his
Love
,
vers.
2.
6.
And
though
by
Sin
they
have
forfeited
their
Mercies
,
and
have
given
the
Lord
cause
to
withhold
them
,
yet
he
is
never
weary
of
doing
them
good
,
but
always
communicating
something
or
other
to
them
.
Vse
1.
Is
Christ
so
bountiful
?
Then
this
may
serve
to
convince
all
Christless
Souls
under
the
Gospel
of
the
greatness
of
their
Sin
in
sleighting
and
contemning
Christ
,
because
it
is
utterly
opposite
to
the
Streams
of
his
Bounty
towards
them
;
this
,
Sinner
,
will
gall
thy
Conscience
another
day
,
when
Christ
shall
say
,
what
Iniquity
hast
thou
found
in
me
,
that
thy
Heart
is
set
against
me
?
have
not
I
born
thee
all
thy
days
,
maintain'd
thee
ever
since
thou
wast
born
,
and
fed
thee
with
Food
convenient
?
and
yet
thou
wilt
have
none
of
me
,
but
liftest
up
thy
heel
against
me
,
and
crucifyest
me
with
thy
Sins
every
day
;
so
did
the
Lord
plead
with
Israel
,
Hos.
11.
23.
4.
Vse
2.
This
will
serve
to
humble
the
people
of
Christ
.
First
,
For
their
great
Unthankfulness
to
Christ
;
O
how
great
are
the
Obligations
of
Believers
to
Christ
,
both
for
upper
and
nether
Springs
,
thy
daily
Bread
comes
out
of
his
Cupboard
,
all
thy
Comforts
and
Preservations
are
received
from
him
,
but
especially
thy
Souls
Mercies
are
the
Products
of
his
Bounty
,
thy
Enlightnings
,
Awakenings
,
Drawings
and
Begettings
to
God
,
thy
Pardon
,
Peace
,
and
hope
of
glory
are
all
from
him
,
and
yet
who
renders
to
Christ
for
all
the
Benefits
done
to
him
,
who
returns
to
give
Glory
to
God
;
this
is
a
grievous
Sin
,
2
Tim.
3.
2.
Secondly
,
For
their
hard
Thoughts
of
Christ
;
hath
the
Lord
Jesus
laid
out
so
much
upon
thee
,
and
hath
yet
such
Riches
in
Store
for
thee
,
and
art
thou
always
distructing
of
him
,
and
on
every
occasion
jealous
and
suspicious
of
his
bounty
?
Ps.
77.
7
,
8
,
9.
Ps.
78.
22.
32.
Thirdly
,
For
their
little
Improvement
of
Christ's
bounty
;
see
this
in
Joash
,
2
Kin.
13.
from
ver.
17.
to
20.
Fourthly
,
For
looking
to
Creatures
for
their
Supplies
more
than
to
Christ
,
Jer.
2.
13.
This
is
a
heathenish
Sin
,
Rom.
1.
25.
They
loved
and
served
the
Creature
more
than
the
Creator
Isa.
55.
2.
CHAP.
XVI
.
Wherein
the
Faithfulness
of
Christ
is
opened
,
in
accomplishing
all
his
Prophesies
,
fulfilling
his
Promises
to
all
the
Trust
committed
to
him
,
and
in
all
the
Relations
he
stands
to
his
People
.
THE
Sweetness
and
Excellency
of
Christ's
Disposition
consists
also
.
Lastly
,
In
his
Justice
and
Fidelity
;
he
is
righteous
,
true
,
and
faithful
in
all
he
doth
and
undertakes
,
and
this
argues
an
excellent
Spirit
;
this
was
part
of
that
Glory
,
the
Spirit
of
God
puts
on
Moses
,
Numb.
12.
7.
But
my
Servant
Moses
is
not
so
,
who
is
faithful
in
all
my
House
,
with
him
will
I
speak
Mouth
to
Mouth
:
even
apparently
,
God
puts
a
singular
Value
on
Moses
,
hath
a
peculiar
kindness
for
him
,
and
affords
him
more
intimacy
with
himself
than
others
have
,
because
of
his
Faithfulness
:
So
Daniel
,
It
was
his
great
Honour
that
his
very
Enemies
could
not
spot
him
,
or
find
any
Error
in
him
,
on
the
account
of
his
Unfaithfulness
,
Dan.
6.
4.
'T
was
this
brought
Judah
into
so
high
an
Estimation
with
God
,
as
't
is
said
,
Hos.
11.
12.
Judah
ruled
with
God
,
and
was
faithful
with
the
Saints
.
Nay
a
faithful
person
is
a
Jewel
so
rare
,
that
he
can
scarcely
be
found
,
Prov.
20.
6.
Every
man
will
proclaim
his
own
Goodness
,
but
a
faithful
man
,
who
can
find
?
That
is
,
as
some
render
it
,
'T
is
a
common
thing
for
men
to
talk
of
their
Goodness
,
Bounty
and
Mercy
,
but
't
is
a
rare
thing
for
them
to
be
so
indeed
,
to
be
so
good
as
they
seem
to
be
.
Others
comment
on
it
thus
,
'T
is
an
easie
thing
for
men
to
promise
fair
,
and
to
speak
of
great
things
they
will
do
,
but
few
are
found
that
perform
their
word
,
and
are
what
they
promise
to
be
.
Take
it
in
either
Sense
,
a
faithful
man
is
a
rare
thing
,
who
can
find
it
,
as
seldom
seen
almost
,
as
a
black
Swan
,
or
a
rich
Jewel
.
Now
the
Lord
Jesus
is
thus
excellent
,
he
is
true
,
though
every
man
be
a
Lyer
,
called
the
faithful
Witness
,
Rev.
1.
5.
His
Name
as
well
as
Nature
is
faithful
,
Rev.
19.
11.
The
Lord
Jesus
gives
a
faithful
Testimony
of
the
love
that
God
bears
to
Sinners
,
he
lay
in
the
Fathers
bosom
,
and
hath
given
a
true
Revelation
of
him
,
Rev.
1.
5.
Isa.
11.
5.
Faithfulness
is
the
Girdle
of
his
Reins
.
The
Prophet
alludes
to
those
Ornaments
,
Kings
did
use
to
wear
;
they
wore
a
Girdle
as
an
Ensign
of
Honour
and
Power
,
Job
12.
18.
He
looseth
the
bonds
of
Kings
,
that
is
,
their
Girdle
,
by
which
he
means
their
Power
and
Authority
,
which
he
removes
:
now
instead
of
this
Ensign
of
Honour
which
Kings
did
wear
,
Christ
shall
be
cloathed
with
Faithfulness
and
Righteousness
,
this
shall
be
his
Ornament
and
Glory
,
Heb.
2.
17.
He
is
the
faithful
high-priest
.
First
,
He
is
faithful
and
just
to
all
men
,
even
to
his
very
Enemies
,
he
will
not
wrong
them
in
the
least
;
he
renders
to
every
one
his
due
,
Rom.
2.
6.
The
very
Hypocrites
shall
have
their
Reward
,
Matth.
6.
2.
The
Lord
Jesus
will
not
give
cause
to
any
to
say
at
the
last
day
,
that
he
is
their
Debtor
,
or
doth
them
Wrong
▪
Matth.
20.
13.
The
wicked
shall
have
their
Portion
in
this
Life
,
all
that
is
coming
to
them
,
as
much
as
they
can
in
Justice
demand
.
If
Ahab
repent
he
shall
have
Reprieve
from
his
Punishment
;
eternal
Repentance
shall
obtain
eternal
Deliverance
.
If
Esau
pray
for
the
Blessings
of
this
life
with
Tears
,
God
will
give
them
to
him
,
he
cannot
be
a
Debtor
to
any
;
his
very
Enemies
shall
have
their
due
,
as
much
as
their
outward
Duties
or
servile
Labours
amount
to
;
for
the
holy
one
of
Israel
cannot
lye
,
what
Promise
soever
God
makes
to
any
outward
Action
or
Vertue
,
it
shall
certainly
be
fulfilled
,
he
cannot
defraud
any
;
the
Pharisees
shall
have
their
Honour
,
Judas
his
bag
;
Demas
the
World
,
and
Dives
his
Pleasures
:
he
that
commands
his
People
to
render
every
one
their
due
,
cannot
possibly
wrong
any
.
Secondly
,
He
is
faithful
to
his
People
,
1
Pet.
4.
19.
Let
them
that
suffer
according
to
the
Will
of
God
commit
the
keeping
of
their
Souls
to
him
in
well-doing
as
unto
a
faithful
Creator
:
That
is
,
Christ
is
able
to
keep
you
in
Sufferings
because
he
made
you
of
nothing
,
and
he
that
gave
you
a
being
when
you
were
nothing
,
he
can
keep
you
now
,
though
all
the
World
be
set
against
you
:
He
can
do
it
because
he
created
you
of
nothing
,
and
he
will
do
it
,
because
he
is
faithful
,
and
hath
promised
;
now
this
Faithfulness
of
Christ
to
his
people
lies
.
First
,
In
his
exact
Accomplishment
of
all
his
Prophesies
,
All
things
written
concerning
him
,
are
fulfilled
in
him
,
Luke
18.
31.
A
tittle
of
God's
word
shall
not
fall
to
the
ground
,
all
the
Types
and
legal
Figures
as
they
shadowed
out
Christ
to
come
,
namely
,
the
High-priest
,
the
Altar
,
the
scape
Goat
,
&c.
were
perfectly
accomplisht
in
him
,
they
were
the
Shadows
,
he
the
Substance
;
all
Scripture
Prophesies
concerning
divine
Providence
,
the
Resurrection
of
Sion
,
and
the
Destruction
of
Babylon
,
shall
be
fulfilled
to
one
Iota
,
Luke
21.
22.
Secondly
in
performing
his
Promises
,
never
an
Engagement
made
by
the
Father
to
the
Son
,
or
by
him
to
his
people
,
but
he
will
see
it
assuredly
made
good
,
Rom.
15.
8.
1
Kings
8.
28.
2
Pet.
3.
9.
The
Lord
is
not
slack
concerning
his
Promises
,
Tit.
1.
2.
2
Cor.
1.
20.
All
the
Promises
are
in
him
,
yea
,
and
Amen
.
Object
.
Christ's
Faithfulness
in
fulfilling
his
Promises
pertains
only
to
the
Heirs
of
the
Promises
:
but
I
cannot
call
the
Promises
mine
,
because
of
my
unfaithfulness
to
God
.
Answ.
The
Promises
of
God
are
not
made
to
the
Doers
of
the
Law
or
Go●pel
,
but
to
Believers
:
nor
are
they
made
for
doing
,
but
upon
believing
:
'T
is
true
,
by
Faithfulness
and
Obedience
comes
the
thing
promised
,
but
a
Title
to
the
Promises
is
procured
by
believing
;
pray
put
a
distinction
between
the
Promises
,
and
the
thing
promised
,
Gal.
3.
22.
That
the
promise
by
Faith
of
Jesus
Christ
,
might
be
given
to
them
that
believe
,
Heb.
6.
17
,
18.
The
promise
of
Grace
,
Healing
,
and
Salvation
,
depends
not
upon
the
fidelity
of
the
saved
Soul
,
but
upon
the
faithfulness
of
God
,
in
Christ
.
Obj.
But
I
do
not
find
the
Promises
made
good
to
me
;
God
hath
said
,
He
will
never
leave
nor
forsake
his
People
,
but
,
I
doubt
,
he
hath
forsaken
me
;
for
I
cannot
see
his
out-goings
in
the
Sanctuary
:
He
hath
promised
to
hear
the
Prayers
made
in
his
Name
;
to
dispence
Grace
,
to
give
out
his
Spirit
,
and
to
create
a
new
heart
;
but
I
find
not
the
performance
of
these
things
in
me
.
Answ.
First
,
If
the
Lord
Jesus
doth
not
fulfill
his
Promises
,
't
is
because
thou
art
not
fit
for
them
:
God
would
have
brought
Israel
into
Canaan
,
near
forty
years
before
he
did
,
but
they
were
not
fit
for
that
mercy
:
They
were
carnal
,
lusting
,
murmuring
,
rebelling
,
so
that
God
sent
them
back
again
into
the
Wilderness
.
Christ
would
have
taught
his
People
many
glorious
Truths
,
but
they
were
not
able
to
bear
them
,
Joh.
16.
12.
Food
,
yea
,
the
choicest
Dainties
,
upon
a
distempered
Stomach
,
are
cast
away
,
they
feed
nothing
but
the
Disease
:
If
God
accomplish
not
his
Word
to
thee
,
't
is
because
thou
art
uncapable
for
it
:
Thy
Iniquities
,
it
may
be
,
withhold
good
things
from
thee
,
Isa.
59.
1.
Secondly
,
Christ
may
be
performing
his
Promises
though
thou
dost
not
see
it
:
For
,
First
,
Christ
doth
fulfill
his
Promise
,
though
he
doth
not
give
the
same
thing
he
seems
to
promise
:
If
he
give
thee
that
which
is
equivalent
in
the
room
of
it
:
So
,
if
the
Lord
doth
not
give
his
People
the
Comforts
of
this
Life
,
yet
if
he
gives
them
Contentment
without
them
,
he
fulfills
his
Promise
;
So
he
dealt
with
Paul
,
Phil.
4.
11.
I
have
learned
in
every
state
to
be
contented
;
and
with
David
,
Psal.
16.
6.
The
Disciples
had
nothing
,
yet
in
the
want
of
all
,
they
had
all
things
,
2
Cor.
6.
10.
If
in
the
want
of
Bread
,
God
gives
Strength
and
Satisfaction
,
he
fulfills
his
Word
.
The
wicked
in
their
Fulness
are
in
Straits
,
Joh
,
20.
22.
But
the
Godly
in
their
Straits
have
a
Fulness
.
Secondly
,
Christ
doth
fulfill
his
Promise
,
though
he
gives
not
the
same
thing
,
if
he
gives
a
better
thing
:
If
Christ
withholds
Earthly
things
,
and
gives
Spiritual
;
As
Saul
found
not
his
Asses
,
but
in
the
room
of
them
met
with
a
Kingdom
:
The
Disciples
lost
their
Nets
and
Boats
,
and
found
a
Treasure
in
Christ
:
They
lost
their
taking
of
Fish
,
and
became
Fishers
of
men
:
Paul
suffer'd
a
Shipwrack
of
all
his
own
Excellencies
,
and
found
the
Excellencies
of
Christ
.
Thirdly
,
Christ
fulfills
his
Promises
,
though
he
do
not
give
the
same
things
his
People
would
have
,
yet
,
if
he
gives
them
sutable
things
,
such
as
he
sees
best
sutes
and
fits
their
present
state
:
So
the
Disciples
expected
a
Temporal
Kingdom
,
but
Christ
gave
them
a
Spiritual
Kingdom
.
It
may
be
a
little
Mercy
is
more
sutable
for
thee
than
a
great
deal
;
Children
must
have
their
meat
suted
to
their
Health
,
not
their
Stomach
:
Paul
could
not
bear
much
Vision
of
God
,
and
therefore
must
have
a
Thorn
in
the
Flesh
,
2
Cor.
12.
7.
Fourthly
,
Christ
doth
fulfill
his
Promise
,
though
he
doth
not
give
thee
what
thou
thinkest
thou
dost
want
,
if
he
give
thee
what
he
knows
thou
wantest
,
Rom.
8.
26.
Thou
supposest
thou
wantest
Comforts
,
he
withholds
them
,
and
gives
thee
humblings
.
Fifthly
,
Christ
fulfills
his
Promise
,
though
he
doth
not
deliver
thee
out
of
thy
present
Evils
,
if
he
thereby
preserves
thee
from
a
greater
Evil
:
As
Paul
had
a
thorn
in
the
Flesh
,
the
Messenger
of
Satan
to
buffet
him
;
lest
,
through
the
abundance
of
Revelations
,
he
should
be
puffed
up
,
and
his
Soul
in
danger
of
Ruine
.
Lastly
,
Christ
doth
fulfill
his
Promise
,
if
he
doth
it
in
his
own
time
,
though
he
doth
it
not
in
our
time
.
So
in
Abraham
;
God
promised
him
a
Son
,
he
expected
it
many
years
sooner
,
but
God
kept
it
till
the
most
convenient
season
.
Every
thing
is
beautiful
in
its
season
,
Eccles.
3.
11.
1
Pet.
5.
6.
Mercies
are
Afflictions
,
when
out
of
due
time
:
Now
,
't
is
he
that
gives
the
Mercy
,
can
best
tell
when
to
give
it
,
Jer.
49.
19.
Who
will
appoint
me
the
time
,
Lev.
26.
4.
The
Faithfulness
of
Christ
is
firm
and
unalterable
,
whatever
Objections
Unbelief
makes
against
it
.
He
will
perform
all
his
Promises
,
Gen.
28.
15.
And
behold
,
I
am
with
thee
,
and
will
keep
thee
in
all
places
whither
thou
goest
,
and
will
bring
thee
again
into
this
Land
,
for
I
will
not
leave
thee
,
until
I
have
done
that
which
I
have
spoken
to
thee
of
.
O
what
a
blessed
word
is
this
!
'T
is
a
promise
made
to
Jacob
,
when
he
was
to
undertake
a
difficult
Journey
;
and
what
things
are
written
,
are
written
for
our
Instruction
;
Promises
made
to
particular
Saints
,
are
applicable
to
all
the
Saints
in
the
same
condition
;
as
we
find
that
of
Joshua
,
1.
5.
I
will
not
leave
thee
nor
forsake
thee
.
The
Apostle
makes
Use
of
it
,
Heb.
13.
5.
Now
I
shall
give
a
few
Reasons
to
prove
that
Christ
cannot
fail
of
fulfilling
his
Promise
.
For
,
First
,
He
is
Truth
it self
,
and
cannot
lye
,
Rev.
3.
14.
He
is
called
,
The
Amen
,
the
faithful
and
true
Witness
:
The
Holy
one
of
Israel
,
who
cannot
lye
:
For
,
God
is
not
as
man
that
he
should
lye
,
or
as
the
Son
of
man
,
that
he
should
repent
;
hath
he
said
,
and
shall
he
not
do
it
,
hath
be
spoken
,
and
shall
he
not
make
it
good
?
Numb.
23.
19.
Secondly
,
He
came
to
fulfill
all
Righteousness
,
Matth.
3.
15.
It
becometh
us
to
fulfil
all
Righteousness
:
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
,
It
behoveth
us
,
I
ought
to
do
it
,
by
the
Appointment
and
Will
of
my
Father
,
as
Chemnitius
renders
it
:
Christ
came
into
the
World
to
fulfill
all
Righteousness
;
Now
,
to
perform
and
make
good
the
Promises
of
God
,
is
part
of
this
Righteousness
:
't
is
a
debt
God
is
engag'd
in
,
and
Christ
came
not
only
to
pay
Sinners
debts
to
the
Father
,
but
to
make
good
the
Father's
Engagements
unto
them
.
Thirdly
,
Did
not
Christ
fulfill
all
the
Promises
of
God
to
Believers
,
then
the
New
Covenant
would
be
an
imperfect
and
faulty
Covenant
;
were
the
Promises
of
the
new
Covenant
unfulfilled
,
then
it
would
be
a
Covenant
of
Works
▪
and
so
imperfect
:
But
the
New
Covenant
is
establisht
on
better
Promises
,
Heh.
8.
6
,
7
,
&c.
Now
new
Covenant-promises
are
better
than
the
old
,
not
only
as
to
the
Matter
of
them
,
but
as
to
the
certainty
of
their
performance
.
The
first
Covenant-promises
were
liable
to
be
broken
,
Jer.
31.
31
,
32.
But
these
New
Covenant-promises
are
sure
to
all
the
Seed
.
This
was
the
principal
thing
undertaken
in
the
New
Covenant
,
for
Believers
,
that
the
Promises
should
be
certainly
fulfilled
,
and
therefore
't
is
called
a
better
Covenant
than
the
Old
.
Fourthly
,
Christ
must
needs
fulfill
the
Promises
,
or
he
would
die
in
vain
,
and
shed
his
Blood
to
no
purpose
:
for
the
Blood
of
Christ
is
the
Blood
of
the
Covenant
,
Matth.
26.
28.
and
it
was
shed
on
purpose
to
confirm
the
truth
of
the
Promise
to
all
that
believe
,
Heb.
9.
15.
For
this
end
he
came
into
the
World
,
and
became
a
Mediator
,
Rom.
15.
8
,
9.
Fifthly
,
That
he
might
finish
the
Work
the
Father
gave
him
to
do
,
and
so
give
up
his
Account
with
joy
.
This
is
the
Work
God
sent
Christ
into
the
World
for
,
that
he
might
be
the
Mediator
of
the
New
Covenant
,
and
make
good
the
Will
of
God
to
all
the
Federates
thereof
,
Joh.
6.
38.
to
41.
and
this
Christ
cannot
fail
to
perform
,
Joh.
17.
4.
His
Spirit
shall
not
fail
,
till
he
hath
set
Judgment
on
the
Earth
,
Isa.
42.
4.
Sixthly
,
That
he
may
stop
the
mouth
of
Devils
,
and
prove
Satan
a
Lyar.
The
great
work
of
Satan
is
to
belye
God
,
and
represent
him
to
Sinners
Unfaithful
and
untrue
.
Now
Christ
is
to
fight
against
the
Devil
,
and
destroy
his
Works
,
1
Joh.
3.
8.
and
prove
the
Truth
of
God
against
all
opposers
,
Rom.
3.
4.
Seventhly
,
He
is
fully
able
to
do
it
;
He
hath
all
Power
in
his
hand
,
both
in
Heaven
and
in
Earth
,
Matth.
28.
18.
He
is
a
merciful
God
,
and
so
nothing
is
too
hard
for
him
:
He
will
work
,
and
none
shall
let
it
;
besides
,
he
hath
all
that
Grace
and
Goodness
that
poor
Souls
need
,
in
his
own
hand
;
He
hath
received
the
Spirit
without
measure
,
Joh.
3.
34.
All
Fulness
dwells
in
him
;
Name
any
thing
which
thou
standest
in
need
of
,
which
is
not
in
Christ
to
give
thee
.
Dost
thou
want
Pardon
,
Peace
of
Conscience
,
Grace
,
Holiness
,
Power
over
thy
Corruptions
,
Victory
over
thy
Temptations
,
Comfort
under
thy
Troubles
,
satisfaction
of
thy
Doubts
,
quieting
of
thy
Fears
,
and
remove
of
thy
Burdens
.
Dost
thou
want
quicknings
,
softnings
for
the
hardness
of
thy
Heart
:
strengthnings
under
thy
weakness
,
fitness
for
thy
Mercies
and
Duties
,
Patience
under
thy
Sufferings
,
and
Humility
under
thy
Priviledges
?
Dost
thou
want
thankfulness
for
thy
Mercies
,
clearing
up
of
thy
Evidences
,
Tasts
of
God's
Love
,
and
readiness
for
Death
,
Judgment
,
and
Eternity
?
Why
,
all
this
Christ
hath
in
his
own
hand
already
;
He
is
not
to
seek
for
these
things
when
thou
criest
after
them
.
Again
,
As
he
hath
Power
to
help
thee
,
and
fulfill
all
the
Promises
of
God
to
thee
,
so
he
hath
Right
and
Authority
too
:
He
is
the
Angel
of
the
Covenant
,
Mal.
3.
1.
He
is
sent
,
deputed
,
and
sealed
of
God
,
to
this
very
Work
,
Joh.
6.
27.
All
the
Promises
upon
that
Redemption-agreement
betwixt
the
Father
and
the
Son
,
are
made
over
to
him
,
and
put
into
his
hand
,
2
Cor.
1.
30.
Now
all
that
Christ
can
do
for
the
making
good
of
his
Father's
Word
,
and
benefitting
his
People
,
he
will
certainly
perform
,
for
he
ever
liveth
to
make
Intercession
,
Heb.
7.
25.
and
is
entred
into
Heaven
,
to
appear
as
their
Advocate
and
Agent
,
Heb.
9.
24.
Lastly
,
Christ
must
needs
fulfill
his
Promises
,
or
else
he
would
weaken
the
Encouragement
of
Souls
to
believe
in
him
,
and
so
overthrow
all
his
own
Design
in
,
and
by
the
Gospel
,
which
is
,
to
bring
Souls
to
believe
in
him
,
Joh.
20.
31.
These
are
▪
written
that
you
may
believe
,
Joh
,
17.
21.
That
the
World
may
believe
that
thou
hast
sent
me
,
Joh.
10.
38.
Now
,
if
Christ
fails
of
his
Promise
,
how
would
this
discourage
Souls
from
believing
in
him
?
who
would
trust
Christ
,
should
he
not
be
faithful
?
and
the
Devil
would
be
sure
to
make
the
most
of
this
Advantage
,
to
prevent
believing
.
Christ
will
make
good
his
Word
in
his
own
time
,
way
,
and
measure
,
Matth.
5.
18.
Heaven
and
Earth
shall
pass
away
,
but
not
one
jot
or
tittle
of
the
Law
,
till
all
be
fulfilled
.
All
shall
be
fulfilled
for
Believers
,
and
in
them
:
and
if
Christ
cannot
permit
one
Jot
of
the
Law
to
fall
to
the
ground
,
surely
,
he
will
not
suffer
so
choice
a
part
of
the
Gospel
as
the
Promises
are
,
to
be
unaccomplished
.
Again
,
as
Christ
will
perform
all
the
Promises
,
so
especially
those
great
ones
,
that
concern
the
Grace
and
Glory
of
all
that
believe
,
Psal.
84.
11.
He
will
give
grac●
and
glory
,
&c.
If
the
Lord
Jesus
upbraided
the
Pharisees
for
tything
Mint
and
Cummin
,
and
omitting
th●
weightier
matters
of
the
Law
,
surely
he
cannot
neglect
the
greatest
of
his
Gospel
▪
promises
to
his
people
.
Thirdly
,
the
Lord
Jesus
is
faithful
to
the
Trust
committed
to
him
;
thus
was
Moses
,
He
was
faithful
in
all
God's
House
,
Numb.
12.
7.
that
is
,
as
a
Steward
,
he
was
just
and
honest
in
the
discharge
of
that
Trust
committed
to
him
,
concerning
the
Work
and
Interest
of
God
;
so
't
is
taken
,
Math.
25.
21.
Well
done
,
thou
good
and
faithful
Servant
;
Thou
hast
been
faithful
in
thy
Stewardship
in
the
use
of
those
things
committed
to
thee
;
in
this
Sense
is
Christ
faithful
also
;
in
a
perfect
Discharge
of
that
Trust
reposed
in
him
,
and
that
both
with
respect
to
God
his
Father
,
and
with
respect
to
his
People
.
First
,
In
respect
of
that
Trust
committed
to
him
by
the
Father
,
God
the
Father
hath
entrusted
him
with
the
great
Concerns
of
Redemption
,
Grace
,
and
Glory
,
with
that
glorious
Contrivance
of
saving
fallen
man
,
and
bringing
about
the
Recovery
of
lost
Sinners
:
and
therefore
he
calls
him
his
Servant
,
Isa.
49.
5.
And
now
saith
the
Lord
that
formed
me
from
the
Womb
to
be
his
Servant
,
to
bring
Jacob
again
to
him
.
It
sets
forth
Christ's
Designation
by
the
Father
,
to
his
mediatorly
Office
,
wherein
God
the
Father
calls
him
to
great
work
,
commits
vast
Concerns
to
him
,
about
the
gathering
in
of
lost
Souls
,
and
undertaking
their
Attonement
,
Sanctification
,
and
Salvation
;
for
the
accomplishment
of
which
,
the
Father
commits
all
to
the
Fidelity
of
Christ
,
both
as
to
Suffering
and
interceding
work
,
and
in
all
this
the
Lord
Jesus
is
faithful
:
so
the
Spirit
of
God
calls
him
a
faithful
High-priest
in
things
pertaining
unto
God
,
in
making
Reconciliation
for
the
Sins
of
the
People
.
This
the
Lord
Jesus
undertook
to
the
Father
,
that
he
would
satisfie
his
Wrath
,
and
remove
his
Displeasure
from
his
People
,
by
bearing
their
Sins
for
and
from
them
,
that
God
might
again
take
them
into
his
Favour
,
as
if
they
had
never
sinned
;
and
in
this
he
was
and
is
faithful
,
nay
in
all
things
that
God
hath
charged
him
with
,
about
the
saving
of
Souls
,
Heb.
3.
2.
Who
was
faithful
to
him
that
appointed
him
,
as
also
Moses
was
faithful
in
all
his
house
.
So
that
whatever
the
Father
laid
on
Christ
in
the
behalf
of
his
people
to
make
Reconciliation
for
them
,
and
present
them
spotless
in
his
Presence
,
this
he
hath
fully
and
faithfully
discharged
,
as
I
have
already
shewn
on
this
Subject
.
Secondly
,
The
Lord
Jesus
hath
a
Trust
committed
to
him
from
his
People
:
They
commit
the
keeping
of
their
Souls
to
him
as
to
a
faithful
Redeemer
,
1
Pet.
4.
19.
Every
believing
Soul
when
he
comes
over
to
Christ
first
,
doth
depute
,
accept
of
,
chuse
and
entrust
the
Lord
Jesus
to
be
his
Redeemer
,
and
he
undertakes
the
preserving
of
him
unto
Glory
;
he
that
comes
to
Christ
aright
,
takes
him
for
his
Wisdom
,
Righteousness
,
Sanctification
and
Redemption
,
1
Cor.
1.
30.
For
so
is
Christ
given
and
tendred
by
the
Father
,
and
so
do
Believers
receive
him
,
and
entrust
him
with
their
Souls
,
that
they
may
be
made
righteous
before
God
,
have
their
Sins
remov'd
,
and
be
presented
before
the
Father
,
without
Spot
or
Wrinkle
,
Eph.
5.
25
,
26.
They
trust
Christ
for
Sanctification
,
to
be
made
truly
,
and
in
his
time
perfectly
holy
,
as
holy
as
God
is
holy
,
and
as
holy
as
God
requires
.
They
trust
Christ
for
Wisdom
,
to
be
made
Partakers
of
divine
Light
,
to
be
made
wise
unto
Salvation
,
to
know
all
that
God
would
have
them
,
and
that
their
Natures
are
capable
to
understand
,
and
to
have
the
Image
of
God
perfected
in
them
,
which
consists
in
Knowledge
as
well
as
Righteousness
.
They
commit
themselves
to
Christ
to
be
redeemed
from
every
Evil
,
Sin
,
or
Danger
,
or
whatever
hinders
their
compleat
Salvation
:
thus
do
Believers
,
take
Christ
,
and
surrender
themselves
up
to
him
on
these
great
and
glorious
ends
,
and
thus
did
he
undertake
,
when
he
gave
himself
by
his
Spirit
to
them
,
and
therefore
is
called
the
Surety
of
the
Covenant
,
as
hath
been
already
shewn
,
Heb.
7.
22.
therefore
't
is
said
,
Eph.
5.
25.
to
28.
That
Christ
gave
himself
for
the
Church
,
that
he
might
wash
it
and
cleanse
it
,
sanctifie
it
and
present
it
to
the
Father
without
Spot
or
Wrinkle
or
any
such
thing
.
This
he
undertook
when
he
became
a
Mediator
between
God
and
them
,
1
Tim.
2.
5.
Now
he
is
faithful
in
this
also
to
all
his
Seed
,
Heb.
10.
23.
He
is
faithful
who
hath
promised
,
1
Joh.
1.
9.
He
is
faithful
and
just
to
forgive
them
,
2
Tim.
1.
12.
I
know
whom
I
have
believed
,
and
that
he
is
able
to
keep
that
good
thing
I
have
committed
to
him
against
that
day
,
1
Thes.
5.
24.
1
Cor.
10.
13.
O
Souls
,
you
that
have
committed
your selves
to
Christ
in
Truth
,
know
that
he
is
faithful
,
and
will
not
fail
you
,
but
will
certainly
accomplish
and
make
good
all
your
regular
Hopes
and
Expectations
,
he
can
loose
nothing
of
all
that
the
Father
hath
given
him
,
Joh.
17.
12.
Be
sure
,
what
Bargain
soever
he
hath
made
with
you
,
what
Mercies
soever
he
hath
promised
you
,
he
will
assuredly
fulfil
and
keep
touch
to
a
tittle
;
he
is
the
faithful
Steward
,
and
Advocate
for
his
People
.
Fourthly
,
The
Lord
Jesus
is
faithful
to
all
the
Relations
he
stands
in
to
his
people
;
Herein
Fidelity
appears
in
holding
forth
,
and
living
up
to
those
Duties
of
Relation
in
which
a
person
stands
to
others
;
so
Sylvanus
is
called
a
faithful
Brother
,
1
Pet.
5.
12.
and
Tychicus
a
faithful
Minister
,
Eph.
6.
21.
In
this
that
they
were
true
and
just
,
in
holding
forth
all
the
Duties
of
their
Relation
,
Defectiveness
,
in
which
discovers
Falseness
and
Treachery
:
but
the
Lord
Jesus
is
faithful
in
all
Relations
to
Believers
;
he
fills
them
up
,
and
answers
the
end
of
them
,
now
the
Scripture
sets
forth
the
Union
of
Christ
to
Believers
,
by
several
Relations
.
First
,
He
is
their
Friend
,
Isa.
41.
8.
The
seed
of
Abraham
my
Friend
,
Joh.
15.
14.
15.
Ye
are
my
Friends
,
I
have
called
you
Friends
,
Joh.
11.
11.
Our
Friend
Lazarus
sleepeth
.
Now
Christ
is
a
faithful
Friend
to
his
people
in
holding
forth
all
the
Offices
of
true
Friendship
to
them
.
As
,
First
,
Love
,
Prov.
17.
17.
A
friend
loveth
at
all
times
,
such
a
Friend
is
Christ
to
all
his
,
many
Waters
cannot
quench
it
,
he
loves
his
People
when
he
hides
his
Face
from
them
,
when
he
speaks
sharply
to
them
,
and
severely
rebukes
them
.
Secondly
,
To
own
his
Friend
in
all
places
,
times
,
and
conditions
,
so
Jonathan
owned
David
in
his
greatest
Dangers
,
when
his
Father
sought
his
Life
,
when
it
was
dangerous
to
appear
for
him
,
1
Sam.
20.
28.
32.
so
Christ
is
not
asham'd
to
own
his
People
before
God
;
men
,
Matth.
10.
32.
Whosoever
shall
confess
me
before
men
him
will
I
confess
before
my
Father's
Face
,
1
Cor.
16.
21.
He
reproved
Kings
for
their
sake
,
saying
,
touch
not
mine
anointed
,
&c.
Thirdly
,
Pity
;
Job
.
6.
14.
Pity
should
be
shewn
from
a
Friend
.
And
in
this
is
Christ
faithful
,
he
hath
compassion
on
the
ignorant
,
and
those
that
are
out
of
the
way
,
Heb.
5.
2.
He
cannot
hide
his
Eyes
from
his
own
Flesh
;
he
is
that
good
Samaritane
,
Luke
10.
33.
Fourthly
,
Counsel
;
Prov.
27.
9.
Oyntment
and
Perfume
rejoyce
the
Heart
,
so
doth
the
Sweetness
of
a
man's
Friend
by
hearty
Counsel
:
Christ
is
called
the
Counsellor
,
Isaiah
9.
6.
He
will
guide
his
People
with
his
Eye
,
and
instruct
them
in
the
way
they
should
go
,
Psal.
32.
8.
Thou
gavest
thy
good
Spirit
to
instruct
them
,
Neh.
9.
20.
Fifthly
,
Adherence
;
Prov.
18.
24.
There
is
a
Friend
,
that
sticketh
closer
than
a
Brother
,
2
Sam.
16.
17.
So
the
Lord
Jesus
he
stands
by
his
People
in
time
of
need
,
Ps.
50.
15.
Ps.
91.
15.
Ps.
44.
3.
Sixthly
,
Comfort
;
So
Joh's
Friends
,
Job
.
2.
11.
Came
to
mourn
with
him
,
and
to
comfort
him
,
the
Lord
Jesus
is
faithful
in
this
also
,
Joh.
14
,
18.
I
will
not
leave
you
comfortless
,
Isa.
61.
2.
To
comfort
all
that
mou●●
.
Seventhly
,
Communication
of
Secrets
;
Judg.
16.
15.
How
canst
thou
say
thou
lovest
me
,
when
thy
Heart
is
not
with
me
?
Now
the
Lord
Jesus
Christ
is
such
a
Friend
,
he
will
open
the
very
Secrets
of
his
heart
to
his
People
,
Joh.
15.
15.
I
have
called
you
Friends
for
all
that
I
have
heard
of
my
Father
I
have
made
known
unto
you
,
Psal.
25.
14.
O
the
secret
Mysteries
of
the
Gospel
,
he
discloseth
to
his
faithful
People
,
that
walk
much
with
him
,
Joh.
14.
2
,
3.
Lastly
,
Supply
of
wants
,
Prov.
17.
17.
A
Friend
is
born
for
Adversity
,
So
Paul
tells
the
Thessalonians
of
his
friendly
respects
to
them
,
1
Thes.
2.
8.
A
true
friend
is
ready
to
impart
any
thing
for
his
Friend
;
so
Jonathan
stript
himself
to
his
Girdle
,
and
Bow
,
and
Sword
,
for
David
,
1
Sam.
18.
4.
Christ
is
such
a
Friend
as
will
supply
,
all
the
Necessities
of
his
people
,
Phil.
4.
19.
My
God
shall
supply
all
your
need
:
Such
a
Friend
he
was
to
Jacob
,
Gen.
48.
15.
The
God
which
fed
me
all
my
Life
long
.
Secondly
,
He
is
faithful
as
a
Brother
,
for
in
this
Relation
also
doth
he
stand
to
his
people
,
Joh.
20.
17.
Go
to
my
Brethren
,
and
say
to
them
,
that
I
ascend
to
my
Father
,
and
your
Father
,
to
my
God
and
your
God
.
Christ
and
Believers
have
all
one
Father
,
though
in
a
different
way
,
Christ
the
natural
,
Believers
the
adopted
Children
of
God
.
Now
as
he
stands
to
them
in
the
Capacity
and
State
of
a
Brother
,
an
elder
Brother
,
so
his
Fidelity
consists
in
a
faithful
Discharge
of
the
Duties
of
such
a
relation
.
As
,
First
,
One
Duty
is
Love
;
All
the
Saints
stand
in
the
relation
of
Brethren
one
to
another
,
and
so
are
obliged
to
mutual
Love
,
1
Joh.
3.
10.
Christ
fulfills
this
duty
to
his
people
,
he
loves
them
as
himself
,
Eph.
5.
25.
perfectly
with
the
same
love
with
which
the
Father
loves
him
,
Joh.
15.
9.
Secondly
;
Another
brotherly
duty
is
Pity
;
1
P●t.
3.
8.
Having
Compassion
one
of
another
,
love
as
Brethren
,
be
pityful
:
So
Christ
can
truly
say
as
Esther
did
of
her
Kindred
,
Esther
8.
6.
Now
can
I
endure
to
see
the
Evil
that
shall
come
unto
my
People
,
or
how
can
I
endure
to
see
the
Destruction
of
my
Kindred
?
Thirdly
,
Unity
is
the
duty
of
Brethren
,
Psal.
133.
1.
Behold
how
good
and
pleasant
is
it
for
Brethren
to
dwell
together
in
Vnity
,
so
is
the
Lord
Jesus
one
with
his
people
;
This
he
dyed
for
,
Joh.
11.
52.
This
he
prays
for
,
Joh.
17.
21.
Fourthly
,
Another
brotherly
duty
is
Peace
,
Gen.
13.
18.
Let
there
be
no
strife
betwixt
me
and
thee
,
and
betwixt
my
Herdsmen
and
thy
Herdsmen
,
for
we
be
Brethren
.
So
Christ
labours
after
peace
for
his
people
,
and
with
them
,
Jo.
16.
33.
Fifthly
,
Acknowledgment
is
another
duty
of
Brethren
,
So
Christ
,
Heb.
2.
11.
He
is
not
asham'd
to
call
them
brethren
.
Lastly
,
visiting
one
another
,
and
taking
hold
of
Opportunities
to
enquire
the
welfare
of
each
other
,
and
communicate
Refreshments
.
Thus
did
Moses
,
Acts
7.
23.
He
visited
his
Brethren
,
and
so
doth
Christ
his
People
,
he
gives
them
special
Accesses
by
his
Spirit
,
he
leaves
them
not
comfortless
,
but
will
come
unto
them
,
Joh.
14.
18.
Thirdly
,
As
a
husband
to
his
Spouse
,
is
Christ
faithful
to
his
People
,
Isa.
54.
5.
Thy
Maker
is
thy
Husband
,
2
Cor.
11.
2.
I
have
espoused
you
to
one
Husband
,
Hos.
2.
19.
20.
I
will
betroth
thee
unto
me
in
Righteousness
,
loving
Kindness
,
and
Faithfulness
.
Now
Christ
performs
all
the
Offices
of
a
tender
Husband
to
them
.
First
,
In
loving
them
as
himself
,
Eph.
5.
25.
Husbands
love
your
Wives
,
as
Christ
also
loved
the
Church
,
and
gave
himself
for
it
.
Now
I
shall
give
you
eight
Proofs
of
Christ's
great
love
,
as
a
husband
to
his
People
.
First
,
His
high
Valuation
of
them
,
he
esteems
them
beyond
all
the
World
besides
,
nay
above
Heaven
it self
;
he
could
leave
the
Heaven
of
Heavens
to
seek
after
,
and
to
save
them
,
and
Mansions
of
Glory
to
come
down
,
and
betroath
them
:
he
despised
all
the
offer'd
Pleasures
and
Grandure
of
the
world
,
when
proposed
to
divert
his
Love
from
them
,
Matth.
4.
He
sets
forth
their
excellencies
by
terms
of
greatest
worth
,
he
calls
them
his
Treasure
,
Exod.
19.
15.
A
Kingdom
of
Priests
,
vers.
6.
His
Jewels
,
Mal.
3.
17.
Cant.
1.
10.
Thy
Cheeks
are
comely
with
Rows
of
Jewels
,
thy
Neck
with
Chains
of
Gold
.
Cant.
2.
2.
As
the
Lilly
among
Thorns
,
so
is
my
Love
among
the
Daughters
:
He
terms
them
,
a
Fountain
of
Gardens
,
an
Orchyard
of
Pomegranates
,
Cant.
4.
The
only
one
of
her
Mother
,
the
choice
one
of
her
that
bare
her
.
These
high
Characters
the
Lord
Jesus
gives
his
Spouse
,
shews
the
wonderful
account
he
makes
of
her
.
Secondly
,
His
costly
purchase
of
them
,
he
sold
himself
to
redeem
them
,
Eph.
5.
25.
1
Pet.
1.
18
,
19.
He
parted
with
all
his
Glory
,
Treasures
,
Peace
,
Pleasures
,
Strength
and
Life
to
procure
a
people
to
himself
;
had
not
his
love
been
infinitely
great
to
all
his
Seed
,
he
would
never
have
bought
them
at
so
dear
a
rate
,
1
Cor.
6.
20.
Thirdly
,
His
great
Endurings
for
them
;
Jacob
tells
us
of
some
Hardships
he
underwent
to
gain
Rachel
,
Gen.
31.
40.
41.
But
these
are
nothing
to
Christ's
Endurings
for
his
Spouse
:
he
bore
infinite
Torments
for
her
,
all
the
Wrath
and
Vengeance
of
a
consuming
Fire
,
which
all
the
Sins
of
Believers
did
merit
;
he
bore
temporal
Troubles
,
Wants
,
Weariness
,
Pains
,
Shame
,
Death
it self
,
with
whatever
the
damned
in
Hell
bear
to
all
Eternity
,
that
did
he
endure
,
to
get
a
Spouse
among
the
condemned
Sons
and
Daughters
of
men
.
Fourthly
,
His
amorous
Treatments
of
them
,
and
endearing
Converses
with
them
;
see
the
Exuberancy
of
his
Affection
,
breathing
out
at
his
Lips
to
them
,
Cant.
4.
1.
to
vers.
6.
Behold
thou
art
fair
my
Love
,
behold
thou
art
fair
,
thou
hast
Doves
Eyes
,
&c.
ver.
7.
Thou
art
all
fair
my
Love
,
there
is
no
spot
in
thee
.
Cant.
2.
10.
Rise
up
my
Love
my
fair
one
,
and
come
away
.
chap.
4.
8.
Come
with
me
from
Lebanon
,
My
Spouse
,
from
Lebanon
.
vers.
10.
How
fair
is
thy
Love
,
my
Sister
,
my
Spouse
,
how
much
better
is
thy
love
than
Wine
,
chap.
6.
4.
5.
Thou
art
beautiful
my
Love
as
Tirzah
;
turn
away
t●ine
Eyes
from
me
,
for
they
have
overcome
me
.
Fifthly
,
His
large
Gifts
and
dowry
to
them
;
he
gives
himself
,
his
Spirit
,
his
Purchase
,
his
Laws
,
his
Promises
,
his
Love
,
Life
,
Light
,
and
his
Kingdom
,
as
I
have
already
shewed
,
and
this
doth
discover
his
large
Affection
to
them
.
Sixthly
,
His
impatient
longing
after
them
,
shews
the
Greatness
of
his
conjugal
love
to
them
;
Cant.
2.
14.
O
my
Dove
that
art
in
the
Clifts
of
the
Rock
,
in
secret
places
of
the
Stairs
,
let
me
see
thy
Countenance
and
hear
thy
Voice
,
Jer.
3.
14
,
Turn
O
back-sliding
Children
,
for
I
am
marryed
to
you
:
He
stands
at
the
door
,
knocking
with
the
dew
of
the
night
on
his
locks
,
saying
,
Open
to
me
my
Sister
,
my
Spouse
,
my
Love
,
my
Dove
,
my
Vndefiled
,
Cant.
5.
2.
He
is
troubled
when
he
cannot
see
them
,
and
they
will
not
come
unto
him
,
that
he
might
give
them
life
.
Seventhly
,
His
wonderful
Complacency
in
,
and
rejoycing
over
them
,
he
is
well
pleased
with
;
he
rests
in
his
love
over
them
,
Zeph.
3.
17.
He
takes
them
for
his
only
Portion
,
Seed
,
and
Travel
of
his
Soul
,
wherein
he
is
satisfied
:
And
as
a
Bridegroom
rejoyceth
over
his
Bride
,
so
shall
thy
God
rejoyce
over
thee
,
Isa.
62.
5.
For
the
Lord
delighteth
in
thee
,
and
thy
Land
shall
be
marryed
,
ver.
4.
Lastly
,
His
utter
Inability
to
part
with
them
,
proves
his
great
love
to
them
,
Hos.
11.
8.
How
shall
I
give
th●e
up
O
Ephraim
?
Isa.
49.
16.
Behold
I
have
graven
thee
upon
the
Palms
of
my
hands
,
and
vers.
15.
A
Woman
may
forget
her
sucking
Child
,
but
I
cannot
forget
thee
.
Nay
he
sets
them
as
a
Seal
upon
his
Heart
,
Cant.
8.
6.
You
must
pluck
out
his
Heart
before
you
can
make
him
consent
to
let
his
Spouse
go
,
Joh.
10.
28.
None
shall
pluck
them
out
of
my
Hands
.
That
's
the
first
Testimony
of
his
conjugal
Faithfulness
,
his
Love
to
all
his
people
;
't
is
a
constant
Love
,
Joh.
13.
1.
Having
loved
his
own
that
were
in
the
World
,
he
loved
them
to
the
end
.
Secondly
,
His
Cohabitation
with
them
;
this
is
another
part
of
the
Husbands
duty
to
his
Spouse
,
1
Pet.
3.
7.
Ye
Husbands
dwell
with
them
according
to
Knowledge
,
such
is
the
Fidelity
of
Christ
to
his
,
that
he
takes
up
his
abode
with
them
▪
Joh.
14.
23.
and
walks
with
,
and
dwells
among
them
,
2
Cor
,
6.
16.
He
doth
not
give
them
a
transient
Visit
,
and
look
upon
them
now
and
then
;
however
he
may
sometimes
appear
a
stranger
,
and
draw
a
Curtain
over
the
light
of
his
Countenance
;
yet
he
doth
not
change
his
Habitation
,
but
takes
up
his
rest
in
Sion
,
and
dwells
there
,
Psal.
132.
13
,
14.
Heb.
13.
5.
He
will
never
leave
them
nor
forsake
them
.
Thirdly
,
his
affectionate
and
intimate
Converses
with
them
,
proves
his
conjugal
Fidelity
;
he
keeps
up
Intercourse
with
them
;
Christ
in
Heaven
maintains
correspondence
with
his
people
on
Earth
,
Exod.
25.
22.
The●e
will
I
meet
with
thee
,
and
commune
with
thee
,
above
the
Mercy
Seat
:
that
is
,
In
my
Ordinances
and
Appointments
,
I
will
open
my
heart
to
thee
,
tell
thee
my
Love
,
and
impart
to
thee
my
Secrets
,
1
Joh.
1.
3.
Our
Fellowship
is
with
the
Father
,
and
his
Son
Christ
Jesus
,
and
this
Communion
is
maintained
by
the
Spirit
,
Joh.
16.
13.
14.
When
the
Spirit
of
Truth
is
come
,
he
will
guide
you
into
all
Truth
,
&c.
For
he
will
receive
of
mine
,
and
shew
it
unto
you
.
'T
is
a
notable
Scripture
,
and
as
much
as
if
Christ
had
said
,
I
go
to
Heaven
,
my
personal
Presence
shall
be
in
Mansions
of
Glory
,
but
I
will
send
my
Spirit
and
he
shall
reveal
the
deep
things
of
God
,
co●municate
my
mind
unto
you
,
and
concerning
you
.
Fourthly
,
His
tender
Sympathy
with
them
;
In
all
their
Afflictions
he
is
afflicted
,
Isaiah
63.
9.
He
soon
feels
their
Troubles
,
he
that
toucheth
them
,
toucheth
the
Apple
of
his
●ye
;
Saul
,
Saul
,
why
persecutest
thou
me
,
Act.
9.
4.
and
therefore
the
Sufferings
of
the
Saints
are
called
the
(
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
)
the
after
Sufferings
of
Christ
,
Col.
1.
24.
What
is
done
to
them
he
reckons
as
done
to
himself
.
And
he
doth
not
only
feel
their
Afflictions
,
but
bear
their
Burdens
for
them
,
Psal.
55.
22.
Cast
thy
burden
on
the
Lord
,
he
will
sustain
thee
;
yea
he
helps
and
relieves
them
under
all
their
Afflictions
,
Psal.
50.
15.
Fifthly
,
His
patience
towards
them
,
shews
his
Fidelity
as
a
husband
;
't
is
riches
of
patience
and
long-suffering
that
the
Lord
doth
exercise
towards
his
every
day
,
Rom.
2.
4.
Sixthly
,
His
gracious
Indulgence
towards
them
,
covering
their
Imperfections
,
and
pardoning
their
Offences
is
another
thing
his
conjugal
Relation
to
his
People
,
obliges
him
to
,
and
this
he
is
faithful
in
;
he
puts
Honour
upon
the
uncomely
parts
and
carriages
of
his
People
,
by
cloathing
them
with
the
covering
of
his
Righteousness
,
Rev.
3.
18.
He
calls
upon
his
people
to
put
on
their
white
Rayment
,
that
the
shame
of
their
Nakedness
do
not
appear
:
He
puts
up
many
a
wrong
for
them
,
and
passeth
by
many
a
weakness
in
them
,
concealing
their
Imperfections
from
the
view
of
others
,
and
all
because
he
loves
them
,
and
they
are
his
Hephzibah's
.
Seaventhly
,
His
Care
of
them
demonstrates
his
conjugal
Fidelity
to
them
,
1
Pet.
5.
7.
His
Eyes
are
always
upon
them
,
from
one
end
of
the
year
to
the
other
,
Deut.
11.
12.
Commit
thy
way
to
the
Lord
,
trust
also
in
him
,
and
he
shall
bring
it
to
pass
,
Psal.
37.
5.
Upon
him
is
the
care
of
all
the
Churches
,
and
of
every
Saint
,
yea
of
all
their
Concerns
,
even
their
very
hairs
.
He
cares
for
their
Bodies
,
their
Souls
,
their
Families
,
their
names
,
their
Comfort
,
and
their
Profit
:
he
will
not
leave
them
comfortless
,
nor
suffer
them
to
be
tempted
above
what
they
are
able
,
he
will
provide
all
things
they
stand
in
need
of
,
Isa.
46.
3.
4.
Psal.
65.
9.
and
if
he
withholds
these
lower
things
from
them
here
,
he
prepares
some
better
thing
for
them
,
both
here
and
hereafter
.
Eighthly
,
Protection
of
them
from
their
Evils
and
Dangers
;
this
is
a
Husbands
duty
to
be
a
covering
for
his
Spouse
,
and
a
Screen
to
her
from
Injury
,
Gen.
20.
16.
So
Christ
he
carries
his
as
on
Eagles
Wings
out
of
the
reach
of
their
destroying
Adversaries
,
Deut.
32.
11.
Exod.
19.
4.
Deu●
▪
33.
27.
The
eternal
God
is
thy
Refuge
,
and
underneath
are
everlasting
Arms.
He
will
keep
the
Feet
of
his
Saints
,
1
Sam.
2.
9.
And
be
a
little
Sanctuary
to
them
in
all
places
.
Lastly
,
His
cleaving
to
them
for
ever
,
and
being
one
Felsh
with
them
,
1
Sam.
12.
22.
For
the
Lord
will
not
forsake
his
people
;
he
is
a
present
help
to
them
;
in
time
of
Trouble
always
with
them
,
never
unmindful
of
them
and
their
guide
unto
death
,
Psal.
48.
14.
Yea
in
Death
and
to
all
Eternity
,
he
will
be
their
Life
and
Salvation
;
here
death
determines
the
Capacity
of
the
most
faithful
husband
,
but
Christ
will
accompany
his
Spouse
,
and
be
a
Salvation
in
and
beyond
the
Grave
.
Fourthly
,
As
a
head
is
the
Lord
Jesus
Christ
faithful
to
his
people
;
That
is
,
another
Relation
in
which
Christ
stands
to
believers
,
Col.
1.
18.
He
is
the
head
of
the
Body
,
the
Church
,
&c.
He
is
compleatly
furnished
with
all
Excellencies
and
Fullness
for
that
end
,
to
be
the
head
of
his
Body
the
Church
,
both
as
to
natural
and
purchased
grace
;
As
God
he
is
eternal
,
and
so
hath
all
sufficiency
in
him
;
Before
all
things
,
and
is
their
Maker
and
Preserver
,
and
as
man
,
he
is
the
first-born
from
the
dead
,
and
by
his
death
hath
purchased
a
Mediatorly
Sufficiency
to
be
the
head
of
,
and
to
preside
his
Body
,
and
perform
all
the
Offices
of
Headship
to
it
,
as
to
Honour
,
Government
,
and
Influence
:
And
he
hath
not
only
a
Fitness
to
be
a
head
to
his
Church
,
but
a
Right
too
;
for
the
Father
hath
given
him
to
be
the
Head
over
all
things
to
his
Church
,
Eph.
1.
22.
Gave
,
(
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
)
constituit
,
saith
Zanchy
,
he
appointed
him
and
parted
actually
with
him
,
and
made
him
over
to
the
Church
,
to
the
whole
body
of
Believers
,
and
to
every
single
person
,
to
their
use
,
intent
,
and
purpose
,
that
he
should
be
a
Head
to
them
,
a
true
head
,
a
perfect
head
,
an
only
head
,
and
an
eternal
head
:
Now
in
this
Relation
is
Christ
faithful
also
,
answering
the
ends
,
filling
up
the
pl●ce
,
and
discharging
the
Offices
of
it
.
Now
in
this
headship
of
Christ
are
six
things
wrapt
up
.
First
,
Counsel
and
Wisdom
;
In
him
are
all
the
Treasures
of
Wisdom
,
Col.
2.
3.
All
that
Light
and
Knowledge
which
is
needful
to
make
his
people
wise
to
Salvation
;
all
that
Wisdom
which
is
requisite
to
repair
the
lost
Image
of
man
,
and
all
that
Wisdom
which
may
render
him
exceeding
excellent
,
and
glorious
;
for
in
him
is
the
excellency
of
Knowledge
,
Phil.
3.
8.
And
all
this
Counsel
he
stands
engag'd
to
impart
to
his
people
,
as
they
are
able
to
bear
it
,
Eph.
1.
8
,
9.
Wherein
he
hath
abounded
towards
us
in
all
Wisdom
and
Prudence
.
Wherein
,
that
is
,
Qua
gratia
;
By
which
Grace
,
saith
Zanchy
,
He
hath
abounded
towards
us
;
that
is
,
hath
made
us
to
abound
in
.
So
the
Scholiast
and
Erasmus
,
He
hath
plentifully
imparted
to
us
;
hence
't
is
ensured
to
all
that
truly
seek
it
of
God
,
Jam.
1.
5.
He
will
tell
them
what
to
do
in
all
cases
,
as
Christ
did
to
Cornelius
by
Peter
,
Acts
10.
6.
He
hath
all
Wisdom
in
him
,
the
stone
on
which
is
seaven
Eyes
,
Zach.
3.
9.
and
will
be
in
every
Difficulty
and
Danger
with
them
.
As
Moses
said
to
Hobab
,
we
are
to
encamp
in
the
Wilderness
,
but
thou
mayest
be
unto
us
instead
of
Eyes
,
Numb.
10.
23.
So
he
hath
engaged
to
guide
them
continually
,
Isa.
58.
11.
Deut.
1.
33.
He
is
as
Eyes
to
them
,
where
they
are
in
a
Land
of
Pits
and
Desarts
,
to
guide
them
in
the
Wilderness
Journeys
,
while
they
are
searching
out
the
Land
of
Glory
.
Secondly
,
Care
;
His
Eyes
and
his
Heart
are
on
them
continually
,
2
Chro.
7.
16.
He
is
measuring
Jerusalem
,
to
see
what
is
the
Length
thereof
,
and
what
is
the
breadth
thereof
,
that
she
may
be
built
,
Zach.
2.
2.
Thirdly
,
Conduct
is
the
Office
of
a
Head
;
It
ought
to
lead
and
dispose
of
the
body
and
all
it's
Members
to
their
several
Offices
.
So
the
Lord
Jesus
is
given
to
his
Church
,
for
their
Leader
as
well
as
Commander
,
Isa.
55.
4.
chap.
48.
17.
I
am
the
Lord
thy
God
,
which
teacheth
thee
to
profit
,
which
leadeth
thee
by
the
way
thou
should'st
go
.
'T
is
in
the
Original
,
making
or
causing
thee
to
walk
;
he
doth
not
only
shew
them
the
way
,
but
leads
them
by
the
hand
,
and
helps
them
to
go
,
as
,
Hos.
11.
3.
Deut.
32.
12.
So
the
Lord
alone
did
lead
them
.
Christ
undertakes
to
conduct
his
people
thorough
the
World
unto
Glory
.
Fourthly
,
Government
is
another
act
of
Headship
,
Mic.
2.
13.
Their
King
shall
pass
before
them
,
and
the
Lord
on
the
head
of
them
:
that
is
,
The
Lord
shall
be
their
Governour
and
General
,
Isa.
9.
6
,
7.
The
Government
is
upon
his
Shoulders
,
Heb.
3.
16.
He
is
the
Son
over
his
house
,
to
rule
and
govern
it
,
and
this
he
doth
,
by
making
righteous
and
perfect
Laws
,
and
Rules
,
thereby
to
govern
his
Church
,
Matth.
28.
20.
Acts
1.
2.
Heb.
3.
1
,
2
,
3.
And
by
governing
and
subduing
the
Hearts
and
Wills
of
his
people
unto
them
,
Psal.
110.
3.
2
Cor.
10.
5.
Fifthly
,
Influence
;
This
comes
from
the
Head
;
all
animal
Influence
for
Subsistence
,
Motion
,
guiding
and
action
come
from
thence
;
in
the
Head
are
all
the
Senses
and
Intellectuals
exerted
for
the
use
and
Service
of
the
Body
,
so
is
the
Lord
Jesus
the
head
of
all
vital
Influences
,
to
the
whole
Church
and
every
part
of
it
,
Psal.
87.
7.
All
my
Springs
are
in
thee
,
Joh.
15.
4.
As
the
Branch
cannot
beare
Fruit
,
except
it
abide
in
the
Vine
,
no
more
can
ye
,
except
ye
abide
in
me
,
Col.
3.
3
,
4.
chap.
2.
19.
Believers
can
no
longer
live
,
than
Christ
becomes
a
quickning
Spirit
to
them
;
he
alone
animates
their
Souls
to
every
good
work
,
anoints
their
Eyes
,
and
causeth
them
to
see
,
regulates
their
Palate
,
and
maketh
them
to
tast
the
Sweetness
of
spiritual
things
,
open
their
Ears
to
discipline
,
causeth
them
to
feel
the
Weightiness
of
Sin
,
and
to
smell
a
sweet
savour
in
his
precious
Oyntments
.
Lastly
,
Ornament
;
The
head
is
the
beauty
of
the
Body
,
if
that
be
removed
,
the
Body
is
but
a
deformed
lump
;
Christ
is
the
Believers
Excellency
and
Glory
,
he
hath
the
preheminence
in
all
things
,
Col.
1.
18.
And
his
glory
is
the
Glory
of
the
body
,
1
Cor.
12.
24.
All
the
Saints
Excellencies
are
in
and
from
him
,
Psal.
68.
34.
Psal.
89.
17.
For
thou
art
the
Glory
of
their
Strength
,
't
is
through
his
Comeliness
they
are
perfect
,
Ezek.
16.
ver.
10.
to
14.
Fifthly
,
Christ
is
faithful
in
the
acts
of
distributive
Justice
,
and
renders
to
every
one
their
Due
,
Psalm
62.
1●
.
Thou
renderest
to
ev●ry
man
according
to
his
Work
.
There
is
a
legal
and
evangelical
Debt
;
legally
,
There
is
nothing
due
to
the
Children
of
men
,
but
Wrath
and
Tribulation
,
Rom.
2.
9.
But
Evangelically
all
the
Believers
Rights
are
due
on
the
account
of
Christ
.
So
that
all
what
Christ
hath
purchased
,
or
the
Father
promised
to
Christ
,
is
due
to
his
Seed
;
so
that
Mercy
,
Grace
,
and
Glory
is
as
much
the
Believers
due
,
as
Death
and
Vengeance
is
the
Sinners
,
on
the
score
of
his
Sin
,
2
Thes.
1.
6.
7.
Therefore
the
Justice
of
Christ
is
laid
to
pawn
for
the
pardon
of
Believers
Sins
,
upon
their
penitential
Confession
,
1
John
1.
9.
This
is
the
great
Error
of
troubled
Souls
,
that
they
make
their
Worthyness
or
Unworthyness
the
Standard
and
Measure
of
all
their
Expectations
;
this
is
the
Impotency
the
violated
Law
of
God
hath
left
on
fallen
man
,
that
they
cannot
get
over
Mount
Sinai
,
nor
see
the
Righteousness
of
Christ
,
and
the
Equity
of
Salvation
upon
his
account
;
for
their
Sins
and
Unrighteousnesses
do
so
hang
in
their
Eye
,
that
they
cannot
see
themselves
righteous
in
the
Righteousness
of
another
;
This
Tang
of
a
legal
Spirit
is
a
malady-Grace
,
is
long
a
curing
in
Saints
themselves
;
the
want
of
which
robs
Christ
of
the
Glory
of
his
Grace
and
Righteousness
:
But
know
O
Believers
,
the
Lord
Jesus
would
be
unfaithful
if
he
render
not
to
those
that
live
on
him
for
Sanctification
and
Salvation
all
that
he
hath
promised
in
the
Gospel
,
and
hath
dyed
to
purchase
for
them
;
but
this
cannot
be
as
you
have
heard
abundantly
,
that
the
Lord
Jesus
is
faithful
in
acts
of
Remuneration
;
he
cannot
keep
back
anothers
due
,
who
would
have
all
men
to
render
to
others
their
due
:
But
all
that
God
hath
made
over
in
the
new
Covenant
to
Believers
,
is
their
due
,
and
therefore
will
Christ
render
it
in
it's
season
.
And
thus
have
I
opened
and
proved
this
glorious
Excellency
of
the
Lord
Jesus
,
even
his
Faithfulness
;
it
remains
now
,
that
we
make
some
Improvement
of
it
.
Vse
1.
How
great
then
is
the
Sin
of
all
those
that
will
not
credit
the
Faithfulness
of
Christ
;
there
are
none
that
perish
under
the
Ministery
of
the
Gospel
,
but
stumble
at
this
stumbling
block
;
they
do
not
judge
God
faithful
,
nor
believe
the
report
given
of
Christ
,
Isaiah
53.
1.
Though
Christ
be
manifestly
held
forth
to
be
a
perfect
Saviour
,
yet
few
will
believe
in
him
;
not
one
of
a
hundred
(
says
Calvin
)
that
hear
Christ
dayly
will
yet
believe
in
him
:
you
know
it
Sinners
,
you
may
safely
adventure
your
Souls
on
Christ
,
he
cannot
lye
or
fail
you
:
you
have
the
whole
word
of
God
for
your
Assurance
,
all
the
Scriptures
testifie
of
him
,
John
5.
39.
Acts
18.
28.
You
have
the
Evidences
of
Christ's
Faithfulness
in
his
state
of
Humiliation
,
he
did
and
suffer'd
all
things
written
of
him
,
Luke
18.
31.
He
fulfill'd
all
Righteousness
,
Matth.
3.
15.
His
Death
,
Resurrection
,
and
Ascension
,
prove
him
faithful
in
all
things
tending
to
purchase
Salvation
.
You
have
the
Testimony
of
others
,
who
have
found
Christ
faithful
,
1
John
1.
1
,
2.
All
the
Saints
on
record
are
witnesses
of
Christ's
Fidelity
.
Nay
,
you
your selves
have
found
him
faithful
hitherto
;
how
often
hath
he
made
good
his
Promises
to
you
,
when
you
have
called
upon
him
,
and
trusted
in
him
for
outward
Mercies
.
You
trust
other
things
that
are
unfaithful
,
and
yet
will
not
believe
in
Christ
:
You
trust
your
own
Hearts
,
and
they
are
deceitful
,
Jer.
17.
9.
You
trust
in
men
,
and
yet
they
are
a
lye
,
Rom.
3.
4.
You
trust
in
Creatures
,
and
yet
they
are
vanity
,
Eccles.
1.
2.
You
know
,
without
Faith
you
must
perish
to
all
Eternity
,
and
yet
will
not
believe
in
him
.
Vse
2.
Then
this
reproves
the
People
of
Christ
for
their
injurious
Thoughts
of
him
,
Joh.
1.
11.
He
came
unto
his
own
,
and
his
own
received
him
not
.
This
is
an
aggravation
indeed
,
that
Christ's
own
People
,
such
as
have
professed
him
,
chosen
him
,
commended
him
,
and
born
witness
of
him
,
and
yet
will
not
adventure
their
All
upon
him
.
O
,
this
secret
Jealousie
of
Christ
is
a
fearful
Sin
.
This
was
that
our
Lord
reproved
in
Thomas
,
Joh.
20.
5.
So
Ioh.
14.
11.
Believe
me
,
that
I
am
in
the
Father
,
and
the
Father
in
me
,
or
else
believe
me
for
the
Works
sake
.
O
the
Questions
and
Doubts
that
Souls
have
about
the
fulfilling
of
Promises
!
how
loth
they
are
to
trust
Christ
further
than
they
see
him
.
Vse
3.
This
should
humble
Christians
,
for
their
great
unfaithfulness
.
Alas
!
how
few
are
found
faithful
amongst
the
Saints
this
day
!
How
may
we
complain
with
the
Psalmist
,
Psal.
12.
1.
The
godly
man
ceaseth
,
and
the
faithful
fail
from
among
the
children
of
men
:
and
Christ
seems
to
Quere
,
where
he
may
find
a
faithful
Steward
,
Luk.
12.
42.
And
Paul
says
,
I
know
no
man
like
minded
to
Timothy
,
who
so
faithfully
and
naturally
careth
for
your
state
.
O
the
falsness
of
Professors
,
to
the
Lord
Jesus
,
and
one
another
!
How
rare
is
it
to
find
one
that
makes
Conscience
of
Promises
and
Profession
?
one
that
is
faithful
to
his
Trust
,
to
his
Word
,
to
his
Relation-duties
,
and
in
distributive
Justice
.
O
,
Christians
,
Mourn
over
your
great
unfaithfulness
to
God
,
and
men
;
to
those
Souls
you
are
concern'd
in
:
Your
unfaithfulness
to
your
Children
,
Servants
,
and
Neighbours
;
how
little
have
you
done
for
these
to
this
day
?
Some
of
you
are
Parents
;
and
Masters
,
but
where
hath
been
your
Industry
in
your
Families
,
in
teaching
,
reproving
,
and
labouring
to
save
the
Souls
of
those
committed
to
you
?
The
Lord
lay
not
the
neglect
of
this
to
your
Charge
,
nor
being
in
the
Blood
of
your
ignorant
,
prophane
,
perishing
Families
,
Children
or
Servants
,
on
your
head
.
I
must
tell
you
,
Friends
,
it
will
be
dreadfully
heavy
to
bear
the
blood
of
Souls
,
at
the
Judgment-se●t
of
Christ
:
and
yet
,
I
fear
,
without
Repentance
,
is
like
to
be
the
case
of
some
that
now
hear
me
,
who
have
been
unfaithful
to
the
Souls
of
their
Relations
,
Husband
,
Wife
,
Children
,
and
Servants
;
who
have
been
too
furious
in
reproving
their
Faults
towards
them
,
but
scarce
ever
reproved
their
Sin
against
God
.
Who
can
hear
their
Children
and
Servants
swear
,
take
God's
Reverend
Name
in
vain
,
and
see
them
prophane
Sabbaths
,
and
spend
Sacred
time
in
Debauchery
and
Idleness
,
and
scarce
ever
check
them
;
that
can
suffer
them
to
lye
in
Ignorance
,
and
ready
to
perish
for
want
of
Knowledge
,
and
never
labour
to
catechize
and
instruct
them
in
the
knowledge
of
Salvation
:
This
is
a
lamentable
case
,
and
will
appear
so
,
when
these
Parents
and
Masters
shall
appear
before
God
,
with
their
garments
all
gor'd
and
stain'd
with
the
blood
of
their
Families
.
O
cruel
Masters
,
and
Parents
,
that
will
be
tender
of
a
Horse
or
a
Dog
,
to
feed
them
,
and
secure
them
from
want
,
but
can
endure
to
see
your
children
and
Servants
perish
for
want
of
knowledge
.
Vse
4.
Here
's
Comfort
to
Believers
:
Is
the
Lord
Jesus
Faithful
,
then
be
of
good
cheer
.
For
,
First
,
All
the
Promises
of
God
shall
be
made
good
to
you
in
due
season
:
He
will
not
suffer
a
word
to
fall
to
the
ground
of
all
that
good
he
hath
spoken
concerning
you
,
1
Sam.
3.
19.
Isa.
55.
11.
2
Cor.
1.
20.
Numb.
23.
19.
Then
you
cannot
do
too
much
for
God
,
you
can't
be
undone
for
him
;
your
Souls
are
safe
,
your
best
Interests
are
secur'd
,
and
all
that
God
sees
fit
for
you
,
is
beyond
the
reach
of
Men
and
Devils
.
Secondly
,
All
the
trust
committed
to
Christ
for
you
,
shall
be
made
good
:
He
will
perform
it
to
a
tittle
:
The
Father
hath
intrusted
your
Souls
,
your
Graces
,
your
Comforts
,
your
Names
,
your
Supplies
,
your
Strength
,
your
Interest
,
your
Peace
,
your
Welfare
,
and
your
Glory
,
with
him
,
who
is
faithful
,
and
cannot
wrong
you
.
O
Believers
,
if
he
will
not
suffer
men
or
Devils
to
do
you
harm
,
surely
he
himself
will
not
wrong
you
,
Psal.
105.
14.
Thirdly
,
All
your
Relation-Rights
shall
be
made
good
to
you
:
Look
what
is
due
to
you
from
the
Lord
Jesus
,
as
your
Friend
,
as
your
Brother
,
as
your
Husband
,
and
as
your
Head
,
shall
be
made
good
to
you
.
Fourthly
,
All
that
is
due
to
you
upon
the
strictest
terms
of
the
Gospel
,
shall
be
communicated
to
you
;
All
that
Christ
hath
purchased
,
or
God
hath
promis'd
,
you
shall
have
in
due
time
;
Christ
can
defraud
no
man
,
Luk.
12.
42.
Fifthly
,
Here
's
Comfort
to
you
under
all
the
wrongs
you
meet
with
on
Earth
,
that
you
have
a
faithful
Friend
in
Heaven
:
Here
the
best
of
men
are
a
Lye
,
they
are
not
what
you
conceive
them
to
be
,
they
don't
answer
the
expectation
you
have
from
them
:
But
Christ
will
never
fail
you
of
that
Trust
you
have
reposed
in
him
;
he
will
be
infinitely
better
but
cannot
be
worse
than
your
expectations
.
Vse
5.
Let
this
exhort
,
first
,
Sinners
:
If
Christ
be
so
faithful
,
O
then
chuse
him
for
your
Friend
:
The
fidelity
of
your
present
Friends
cannot
be
compared
with
Christ
.
Secondly
,
Believers
,
Trust
in
Christ
;
Commit
your
Souls
,
and
all
your
Concerns
to
him
;
Learn
faithfulness
from
him
;
and
labour
to
be
like
him
in
your
fidelity
to
God
and
Men.
So
much
of
the
first
Branch
,
concerning
Christ's
Personal
Riches
.
CHAP.
XVII
.
Shewing
that
Christ
is
become
a
Purchaser
in
the
behalf
of
Believers
;
How
he
hath
made
this
Purchase
,
and
what
he
hath
purchased
.
I
Now
come
to
the
Second
Branch
of
Christs
Unsearchable
Treasure
,
which
is
his
purchas'd
Riches
:
Those
Treasures
which
he
hath
as
Mediatour
procured
for
all
that
come
unto
him
.
And
in
the
prosecution
of
this
,
I
shall
shew
,
1.
That
the
Lord
Jesus
became
a
Purchaser
in
the
behalf
of
his
People
.
2.
How
and
by
what
means
he
made
this
Purchase
.
3.
What
he
hath
procured
by
this
Purchase
.
And
in
this
I
shall
use
what
brevity
I
may
,
having
spent
a
greater
time
already
on
this
Subject
than
I
intended
.
First
,
The
Scriptures
do
hold
forth
the
Lord
Jesus
to
be
a
Purchaser
:
One
that
hath
bought
and
procured
great
and
glorious
things
by
a
Price
.
Acts.
20.
28.
Feed
the
Flock
of
God
which
he
hath
Purchased
with
his
own
blood
:
(
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
)
that
is
,
which
he
hath
acquired
or
gotten
to
himself
to
be
a
peculiar
People
,
by
the
blood
or
cruel
bloody
death
of
his
Son
.
So
Grotius
.
So
Heaven
is
called
the
purchased
Possession
,
Eph.
1.
14.
Vntil
the
Redemption
of
the
purchased
possession
:
(
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
)
'T
is
exceeding
significant
in
the
Originall
,
both
words
being
near
of
a
signification
,
until
or
to
the
purchasing
of
the
purchas'd
,
so
't
is
in
the
words
;
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
signifies
a
Buying
or
ransoming
by
a
price
,
yea
a
full
sum
,
so
much
as
the
worth
of
the
thing
requires
:
As
prisoners
are
redeemed
by
a
full
price
:
So
Erasmus
and
Aretius
.
It
signifies
also
a
full
and
compleat
Redemption
,
as
the
Preposition
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
implies
,
being
added
to
the
Primitive
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
:
&
(
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
)
as
I
have
shewn
is
an
obtaining
by
purchase
,
or
an
asserting
or
vindicating
a
thing
to
be
ones
Propriety
by
right
and
purchase
,
which
fully
proves
Christ
to
be
a
Purchaser
,
so
1.
Thes.
5.
9.
To
obtain
Salvation
by
our
Lord
Jesus
Christ
(
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
)
to
the
getting
or
purchasing
of
Salvation
by
Christ
.
So
1.
Cor.
6.
20.
Ye
are
bought
with
a
Price
.
(
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
.
)
The
word
is
a
buying
in
the
Market
or
publick
place
,
by
paying
the
price
demanded
.
So
that
these
expressions
fully
Prove
Christ
to
be
a
Purchaser
,
one
that
hath
procured
great
things
by
buying
them
at
a
Price
.
Secondly
;
How
and
by
what
means
hath
Christ
procured
and
purchased
these
great
things
.
First
;
By
giving
himself
in
the
room
and
stead
of
fallen
Man
,
to
procure
their
Atonement
and
Salvation
.
Eph.
5.
25.
As
Christ
loved
the
Church
,
and
gave
himself
for
it
:
(
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
)
He
delivered
over
himself
freely
,
and
knowingly
.
To
what
?
See
Ver.
2.
For
an
Offering
and
Sacrifice
to
God
for
a
sweet
smelling
savour
,
(
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
.
)
The
first
word
signifies
any
Sacrifice
,
the
second
a
bloody
Sacrifice
,
saies
Zanchy
:
So
Christ
made
over
and
delivered
up
himself
to
this
end
to
become
a
bloody
Sacrifice
for
his
People
,
and
to
fulfil
the
Fathers
Terms
for
the
saving
of
all
that
come
to
him
.
This
he
did
considerately
and
willingly
:
Heb.
10.
7.
This
was
according
to
the
agreement
betwixt
the
Father
and
the
Son
.
Isa.
49.
ver.
2.
to
10.
Secondly
;
By
a
perfect
and
perpetual
Obedience
of
all
those
Laws
that
were
or
are
required
of
us
in
order
to
our
holinesse
and
Salvation
,
and
by
a
subjection
to
,
and
Obedience
of
the
special
Law
of
a
Mediatour
:
This
hath
two
parts
.
First
;
His
Obedience
of
what
was
required
of
Man
by
any
Law
:
By
the
Law
of
Nature
,
or
by
any
Instituted
Law
,
either
Moral
,
Ceremonial
,
or
Judicial
:
All
this
did
Christ
submit
to
and
perfectly
obey
as
in
the
stead
of
all
Believers
;
Mat.
3.
15.
It
became
him
to
fulfill
all
Righteousnesse
.
Whatever
holinesse
or
Obedience
was
required
of
Man
in
the
state
of
Innocency
,
or
since
his
fall
.
And
therefore
't
is
said
,
Gal.
4.
4.
He
was
made
under
the
Law
,
as
a
Man
or
Minister
,
bound
by
his
own
consent
to
the
full
Obedience
of
it
.
Secondly
;
His
obeying
all
those
things
that
were
required
of
him
as
Mediatour
,
Phil.
2.
7.
That
he
should
make
himself
poor
,
and
of
no
reputation
,
and
take
upon
him
the
form
of
a
Servant
(
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
)
He
emptyed
himself
of
his
Glory
:
He
stript
himself
of
all
his
royal
robes
,
and
made
himself
of
no
account
.
This
was
not
required
by
any
Law
natural
or
positive
,
but
by
the
Law
of
a
Mediatour
.
Again
he
humbled
himself
to
the
death
,
Phil.
2.
8.
He
had
power
or
liberty
,
absolutely
considered
,
to
lay
down
his
life
or
not
to
do
it
;
but
with
respect
to
his
Mediatorship
he
had
a
Commandement
to
lay
it
down
,
Joh.
10.
18.
Further
,
'T
was
by
this
Law
Christ
was
bound
to
do
all
that
he
did
for
his
People
.
Joh.
17.
19.
Only
for
their
sakes
sanctifie
I
my self
.
So
ver.
9.
I
pray
for
them
,
I
pray
not
for
the
World
.
So
he
was
not
to
strive
or
open
his
mouth
,
but
patiently
to
bear
whatever
was
laid
upon
him
.
Isa.
42.
2.
Isa.
53.
7.
Mat.
12.
19.
And
by
this
Obedience
of
Christ
are
believers
made
righteous
,
Rom.
5.
18
,
19.
For
this
is
necessary
to
Salvation
,
that
the
Commandements
be
kept
,
Math.
19.
17.
And
the
Law
fulfilled
,
Math.
5.
17.
Thirdly
;
By
his
suffering
all
things
we
were
liable
to
by
the
first
transgression
,
or
any
actual
Sins
flowing
from
it
,
Phil.
2.
8.
This
he
did
in
all
the
sufferings
of
his
Life
;
and
at
his
death
,
he
bore
the
sins
of
believers
for
them
,
1.
Pet
2.
24.
He
was
wounded
for
our
Transgressions
.
Isa.
53.
5.
2
Cor.
5.
21.
And
became
a
Sacrifice
to
God
for
Sin
.
Isa
53.
10.
Heb.
9.
26.
The
end
of
which
was
atonement
,
Heb.
2.
17.
He
also
paid
the
price
that
God
demanded
for
their
deliverance
.
1
Cor.
7.
23.
Ye
are
bought
with
a
price
.
1
Pet.
1.
17
,
18.
Math.
20.
28.
He
gave
himself
a
ransom
for
us
.
Lastly
,
By
his
Intercession
Christ
compleats
his
Purchase
,
and
carries
on
the
salvation
of
his
people
.
Rom.
8.
34.
Who
is
he
that
condemneth
?
it
is
Christ
that
dyed
,
yea
rather
is
risen
again
,
who
is
also
at
the
right
hand
of
God
and
maketh
Intercession
for
us
.
Though
by
this
he
doth
not
purchase
for
his
people
,
yet
he
doth
procure
and
apply
mercy
to
them
:
As
I
have
largely
shewn
already
,
therefore
shall
wave
it
now
.
Thirdly
,
What
are
those
great
and
glorious
things
which
J●sus
Christ
hath
procured
by
his
blood
?
First
,
He
hath
purchased
Believers
themselves
unto
God
.
Acts
20.
28.
Feed
the
Flock
of
God
which
he
hath
purchased
with
his
blood
.
Rev.
5.
9.
For
thou
wast
slain
,
and
hast
redeemed
us
unto
God
by
thy
blood
.
Every
saved
soul
is
part
of
Christs
purchase
:
They
are
set
apart
for
God
.
Psa.
4.
3.
A
peculiar
People
to
God
.
1
Pet.
2.
9.
Though
the
Father
hath
ordained
them
to
life
,
yet
they
are
not
actually
his
till
purchas'd
by
Christ
.
Hence
it
is
that
Believers
Conversion
,
is
not
casual
or
dependent
upon
Men
or
means
,
but
is
the
effect
and
fruit
of
Christ's
blood
purely
designed
,
and
unavoidably
perfected
by
Redemption-grace
:
And
hence
also
their
Salvation
is
sure
,
being
founded
on
the
purchase
of
Christ
.
As
sure
as
Christs
blood
cannot
be
spilt
in
vain
,
so
sure
shall
every
Believer
have
his
Salvation
perfected
,
because
it
depends
upon
the
Obedience
,
Merit
,
and
Suffering
of
Christ
.
Hence
also
all
the
Means
of
Salvation
and
the
Efficacy
of
them
are
certain
to
believers
,
Eph.
4.
8.
Secondly
;
He
hath
Purchased
pardon
of
Sin
,
and
peace
with
God
.
Col.
1.
20.
Having
made
peace
by
the
blood
of
his
Crosse
:
Chap.
2.
13.
Heb.
8.
12.
Rom.
5.
1.
There
is
a
full
Pardon
of
Sin
,
of
all
the
sins
of
believers
,
and
of
every
believers
,
purchased
by
the
blood
of
Christ
.
Here
are
four
things
I
shall
speak
to
.
First
;
That
there
is
a
full
Pardon
of
sin
procured
;
The
Scripture
sets
this
forth
by
clear
and
pregnant
arguments
,
and
by
several
terms
that
leave
no
room
for
the
least
Suspition
to
the
believing
Soul
.
'T
is
called
sometimes
Remission
of
Sin
,
Luke
24.
47.
And
that
Repentance
and
remission
of
sins
should
be
preached
in
his
Name
:
(
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
)
it
signifies
Dismission
or
Releasing
.
All
unchanged
Souls
are
in
Debt
to
God
,
bound
over
to
wrath
,
and
laid
up
in
Prison
,
but
by
Jesus
Christ
there
is
a
discharge
of
this
Debt
procured
,
the
bond
Cancell'd
,
the
Prison
opened
,
and
the
Sinners
set
free
,
Isa.
61.
1.
Sometimes
't
is
call'd
not
imputing
sin
,
not
laying
it
to
the
sinners
charge
,
Psa.
32.
1
,
2.
imputeth
not
iniquity
;
that
is
,
doth
not
charge
,
and
reckon
it
,
and
lay
it
on
his
account
:
As
a
Merchant
that
sends
his
Bill
to
his
Debtour
,
and
charges
several
sums
upon
him
:
'T
is
true
every
Believer
is
a
Debtor
in
himself
,
but
God
chargeth
the
Debt
on
another
,
and
not
on
them
.
Sometimes
't
is
termed
a
covering
or
hiding
of
sin
,
not
from
the
sinners
,
but
from
Gods
judicial
Eye
;
Psal.
85.
2.
Thou
hast
forgiven
the
iniquity
of
thy
people
,
thou
hast
covered
all
their
sin
.
Psal.
78.
38.
He
being
full
of
compassion
forgave
their
iniquity
.
[
Caphar
]
to
cover
or
conceal
;
from
this
Root
is
derived
Caphoreth
,
the
covering
of
the
Ark
or
Mercy-seat
,
in
which
was
the
Law
or
knowledge
of
sin
,
but
by
the
blood
of
Christ
was
covered
or
purged
away
.
Sometimes
't
is
expressed
by
not
remembring
sin
any
more
;
Jer.
31.
34.
I
will
remember
their
sin
no
more
:
I
will
be
propitiously
merciful
,
or
pacifiedly
favourable
to
their
sins
,
and
their
sinful
errours
and
unrighteousness
will
I
remember
no
more
;
or
I
will
not
remember
them
again
:
Here
are
two
Negatives
which
make
the
denyal
the
more
vehement
.
'T
is
an
allusion
to
men
that
forgive
and
forget
,
and
it
signifies
that
God
will
not
upbraid
or
reproach
them
with
them
any
more
:
hence
Paul
challengeth
all
the
world
to
lay
any
thing
to
the
charge
of
Gods
Elect
,
Rom.
8.
33.
Further
,
't
is
set
forth
by
a
taking
away
of
sin
;
Exod.
34.
7.
Forgiving
iniquity
,
transgression
and
sin
.
The
word
in
the
Original
is
,
lifting
up
or
taking
away
all
sorts
of
sins
and
iniquities
.
Again
,
't
is
signified
by
blotting
out
of
sin
,
so
that
it
shall
never
be
seen
more
;
Isa.
43.
25.
I
even
I
am
he
that
blotteth
out
thy
transgressions
:
Like
the
Merchant
when
the
debt
is
paid
crosseth
the
Book
,
throws
Ink
on
it
,
blots
it
out
,
that
it
may
not
be
read
any
more
;
so
God
the
Father
casts
the
blood
of
Christ
on
a
Believer's
sin
,
and
blots
it
out
,
so
that
Justice
can
lay
no
more
to
their
charge
.
Again
,
't
is
called
a
casting
of
sin
behind
his
back
,
Isa.
38.
17.
He
doth
remove
them
out
of
his
sight
as
far
as
the
East
is
from
the
West
,
Ps.
103.
12.
He
will
cast
all
their
sins
into
the
depth
of
the
Sea
,
Mic.
7.
18
,
19.
O
the
latitude
of
Believers
pardon
,
and
the
full
discharge
of
all
their
sin
!
Sometimes
God
seems
to
be
throwing
off
his
people
,
and
giving
them
a
final
farewel
;
but
,
oh
!
he
returns
again
,
and
casteth
their
sins
,
(
not
them
,
)
into
the
depth
of
the
Sea
,
where
they
shall
be
certainly
drowned
as
the
Egyptian●
were
,
never
to
be
seen
more
.
Thus
you
see
there
's
a
full
pardon
procured
for
God's
people
,
not
the
least
ground
for
a
Question
left
to
them
.
Secondly
,
There
is
not
only
a
full
pardon
procured
,
but
a
pardon
of
every
sin
.
All
the
sins
of
Gods
people
are
forgiven
:
Col.
2.
13.
14.
Having
forgiven
you
all
trespasses
,
blotting
out
the
handwriting
:
that
not
one
debt
may
be
seen
;
as
a
Book
or
Bill
that
is
blotted
out
can
be
never
more
sued
against
one
:
1
Joh.
1.
7.
The
blood
of
Christ
cleanseth
us
from
all
sin
.
Jer.
50.
20.
The
iniquity
of
Israel
shall
be
sought
for
,
and
there
shall
be
nove
;
and
the
sins
of
Judah
,
and
they
shall
not
be
found
,
for
I
will
pardon
them
whom
I
reserve
:
The
most
cruel
Enemy
upon
the
strictest
search
shall
not
find
one
;
they
shall
be
all
forgiven
:
And
indeed
if
Grace
be
free
,
there
is
the
same
reason
why
all
shall
be
pardoned
as
well
as
one
:
And
if
the
grace
of
God
bring
salvation
then
all
must
be
forgiven
or
none
:
And
the
same
blood
of
Christ
can
as
well
pardon
all
as
one
.
For
if
the
blood
of
Christ
be
the
blood
of
God
,
then
't
is
of
an
infinite
value
,
and
can
as
easily
blot
out
every
sin
as
one
sin
;
and
as
well
discharge
Talents
as
Pence
.
Ezek.
18.
22.
Larga
Dei
pietas
veniam
non
dimidiabit
.
Aut
nihil
aut
totum
dabit
.
Thirdly
,
This
pardon
of
sin
is
procured
for
repenting
Believers
,
and
for
all
of
them
:
Acts
10.
43.
To
him
give
all
the
Prophets
witness
,
that
through
his
name
whosoever
believeth
in
him
shall
receive
remission
of
sins
:
Acts
13.
38.
chap.
26.
18.
Faith
is
necessary
to
pardon
,
because
it
takes
off
all
self-righteousness
,
and
all
pretences
of
merit
.
Faith
carries
the
soul
off
to
a
dependance
on
another
for
righte●●sness
and
salvation
.
Faith
is
a
self-denying
Grace
,
and
expects
all
upon
the
account
of
the
Promise
.
Believers
,
and
every
Believer
,
have
their
sins
pardoned
,
and
shall
not
perish
,
Joh.
3.
16.
Now
lest
some
should
pretend
to
believe
,
who
indeed
do
not
,
the
Seripture
qualifies
this
Faith
by
certain
Characters
.
'T
is
also
to
repenting
souls
that
pardon
is
assured
,
and
therefore
remission
of
sin
is
joined
with
repentance
,
Acts
5.
31.
Luke
24.
46
,
47.
Ezek.
18.
30.
But
what
is
this
repentance
?
Doth
it
consist
only
in
an
external
sorrow
for
sin
,
and
an
audible
begging
of
mercy
?
No
,
no
,
Judas
and
Cain
were
thus
troubled
for
sin
,
and
yet
never
arrived
to
sound
repentance
:
'T
is
the
mourning
and
returning
believer
to
whom
this
Promise
is
made
:
and
to
such
,
and
to
every
one
of
these
is
a
full
pardon
procured
.
Fourthly
,
This
pardon
is
procured
by
the
blood
of
Christ
,
and
that
satisfaction
made
to
the
Father
by
his
suffering
.
It
is
an
Opinion
sprung
up
of
men
of
corrupt
minds
,
that
pardon
of
Sin
is
the
procurement
of
Inherent
grace
,
and
external
Righteousness
,
but
not
the
product
of
Christ's
blood
,
suffering
and
satisfaction
,
which
I
shall
now
endeavour
to
disprove
,
Math.
20.
28.
To
give
his
Life
a
Ransome
for
many
.
Heb.
9.
26.
But
now
once
in
the
end
of
the
World
hath
he
appeared
to
put
away
sin
by
the
Sacrifice
of
himself
,
chap.
9.
12.
Col.
1.
14.
Thus
you
see
't
is
the
blood
of
Christ
offer'd
up
to
God
,
that
procureth
peace
,
and
removeth
the
guilt
of
sin
:
and
indeed
pardon
of
sin
with
respect
to
Gods
Justice
could
be
no
otherway
obtain'd
.
For
,
First
,
God
had
past
an
irrevocable
sentence
,
that
the
Soul
that
sinneth
should
dye
,
Gen.
2.
17.
Now
if
this
penalty
was
not
inflicted
upon
Transgressing
Adam
;
how
would
there
be
a
fulfilling
of
this
threatning
.
But
some
may
enquire
,
How
comes
Adams
sin
to
be
charg'd
on
his
Posterity
?
Answ.
Adams
Transgression
,
by
the
strict
union
there
was
betwixt
him
and
all
mankind
,
(
he
being
their
Head
,
Root
,
and
Representee
)
was
most
justly
devolv'd
on
his
Off-spring
,
Rom.
5.
14
,
19.
And
therefore
God
would
not
have
been
true
to
his
word
,
had
not
this
penalty
been
inflicted
on
the
Debtor
,
or
his
Surety
:
But
let
God
be
true
,
and
every
Man
a
lyar
.
Secondly
,
Fallen
Man
could
not
pay
this
debt
,
and
make
this
satisfaction
for
sin
:
For
the
sin
being
of
an
infinite
Guilt
,
and
the
punishment
being
Death
Eternal
,
Rom.
6.
23.
Man
could
never
pay
his
ransom
,
and
set
himself
at
liberty
,
and
therefore
some
other
way
must
be
found
out
,
which
was
only
by
the
Lord
Jesus
,
God-Man
,
whose
God-head
was
able
to
support
his
humane
Nature
under
suffering
,
and
render
his
endurings
of
an
Infinite
value
,
Heb.
9.
14.
Acts
20.
28.
This
is
the
second
Fruit
of
Christ's
Purchase
;
the
forgiveness
of
all
the
sins
of
penitent
believers
,
even
past
,
present
,
and
to
come
,
that
nothing
shall
be
laid
to
their
charge
,
Rom.
8.
1.
Thirdly
,
Acceptation
of
their
Persons
is
another
Fruit
of
Christ's
purchase
,
Eph.
1.
6.
Where
in
he
hath
made
us
accepted
in
the
beloved
:
'T
is
not
enough
to
the
compleating
of
Christs
design
in
saving
Souls
,
that
their
sins
be
forgiven
,
and
the
guilt
and
penalty
removed
,
and
a
discharge
of
all
the
Obligations
to
wrath
by
reason
of
sin
procured
.
All
this
a
person
may
have
,
and
yet
no
interest
in
the
full
favour
of
God
,
nor
right
to
any
saving
blessing
from
him
;
for
't
is
not
sufficient
to
give
a
Man
a
Title
to
Glory
,
that
he
be
innocent
,
or
free
from
offending
,
but
he
must
come
up
to
the
terms
of
the
first
Covenant
,
and
do
all
things
required
of
him
;
and
have
a
Positive
as
well
as
a
Negative
Righteousness
:
There
must
be
in
order
to
an
acceptance
with
God
,
not
only
a
not
imputing
of
sin
,
but
a
reckoning
of
Righteousness
(
saith
Dr.
Owen
)
;
he
must
be
reputed
fully
Obedient
also
.
The
Law
requires
a
perfect
and
perpetual
Obedience
,
Gal.
3.
10.
Should
thy
Soul
be
set
free
from
all
the
charge
of
past
sins
,
yet
thy
defect
of
Righteousness
would
undo
thee
for
ever
.
They
must
be
righteous
that
enter
into
Life
Eternal
,
Math.
25.
47.
Even
as
Righteous
as
God
is
Righteous
:
But
this
is
impossible
to
be
attain'd
by
lapsed
man
,
In
many
things
we
offend
all
,
Jam.
3.
2.
There
is
none
Righteous
,
no
not
one
,
Rom.
3.
10.
And
therefore
there
must
be
a
Righteousness
procured
for
,
and
imputed
to
Believers
,
and
that
is
the
Righteousness
of
Christ
:
The
Commutation
of
his
Obedience
for
our
Disobedience
,
Rom.
5.
19.
By
the
Obedience
of
one
shall
many
be
made
Righteous
.
This
Righteousness
is
called
a
white
Robe
,
and
fine
Linnen
,
Rev.
7.
9.
Chap.
19.
8.
The
sweet
smelling
Garment
of
our
Elder
Brother
wherein
God
takes
infinite
delight
and
pleasure
,
Math.
3.
17.
Isa.
42.
1.
The
ground
of
all
that
pleasure
that
God
taketh
in
his
people
,
is
the
Righteousness
of
his
Son
:
not
any
of
their
Services
and
duties
:
And
look
what
pleasure
the
Father
takes
in
his
Son
as
Mediatour
,
the
same
he
takes
in
every
Soul
that
truly
comes
unto
him
,
John
17.
26.
That
the
same
love
wherewith
thou
hast
loved
me
may
be
in
them
,
and
I
in
them
.
VSE
.
If
Believers
are
pardoned
and
accepted
with
God
,
then
hence
it
follows
,
First
,
That
God
never
punishes
them
in
wrath
and
displeasure
.
All
the
stroaks
of
God
on
Believers
are
but
fatherly
chastisements
:
Not
Judicial
acts
,
Heb.
12.
6.
He
takes
vengeance
on
their
inventions
,
but
never
on
their
persons
▪
Punishment
always
bears
some
proportion
to
the
offence
,
but
the
sufferings
of
Gods
people
are
infinitely
less
then
their
deserts
,
and
therefore
are
the
Fruit
of
Divine
Faithfulness
,
and
Covenant
Love
,
Psal.
119.
75.
Psal.
78.
30
,
to
34.
Secondly
,
God
will
accept
of
all
their
sincere
desires
and
services
,
though
never
so
mean
,
through
Christ
.
Isa.
38.
14.
Isa.
63.
8.
Exek.
20.
40
,
41.
Psal.
51.
17.
Thirdly
,
They
have
access
to
God
with
boldness
at
all
times
,
Eph.
3.
12.
chap.
2.
8.
Fourthly
,
They
are
entred
into
rest
,
and
have
peace
with
God
,
and
with
their
own
Consciences
.
Math.
11.
28.
Heb.
4.
9.
Rom.
5.
1.
2
Thes.
1.
6
,
7.
Psal.
116.
7.
H●b.
4.
3.
Fifthly
,
Sin
shall
never
more
have
dominion
over
them
.
Rom.
6.
14.
Sixthly
,
God
will
withhold
no
good
thing
from
them
,
Rom.
8.
32.
No
temporal
blessing
,
Math.
6.
33.
No
spiritual
blessing
,
1
Tim.
4.
8.
No
instruction
,
Jer.
31.
33.
Isa.
54.
13.
Joh.
14.
26.
No
sanctified
correction
,
Heb.
10.
10
,
11.
Rom.
5.
3
,
to
5.
No
consolation
,
Isa.
51.
3.
2
Cor.
1.
4.
No
edification
and
increase
in
Grace
,
Eph.
4.
12
,
16.
Nay
all
things
shall
work
together
for
good
to
them
that
love
God
,
Rom.
8.
28.
Lastly
,
They
can
never
forfeit
their
state
of
Grace
,
and
interest
in
the
Favour
of
God
,
Joh.
13.
1.
2
Cor.
7.
10.
They
shall
be
sure
to
be
kept
by
the
mighty
power
of
God
unto
Salvation
,
1
Pet.
1.
5.
There
is
not
the
least
room
left
for
a
falling
off
from
Grace
:
Because
,
First
,
Salvation
is
purchased
for
them
;
and
if
the
end
be
purchased
,
then
all
the
means
to
the
end
;
and
God
in
Justice
is
bound
to
make
good
Christs
purchase
,
and
to
deliver
what
he
bought
and
paid
for
,
2
Tim.
4.
8.
Secondly
,
Preservation
in
grace
is
ingaged
to
them
.
Jer.
32.
40.
1
Thes.
5.
23
,
24.
The
very
God
of
peace
sanctifie
you
wholly
;
and
I
pray
God
your
whole
Spirit
,
Soul
,
and
Body
be
preserved
blamelesse
unto
the
coming
of
our
Lord
Jesus
Christ
:
Faithful
is
he
that
calleth
you
,
who
also
will
do
it
Here
we
may
see
both
Sanctification
and
Salvation
is
secured
to
all
that
are
savingly
called
of
God
.
Salvation
is
the
End
,
and
sanctification
is
the
Means
,
and
both
are
sounded
not
on
the
will
of
Man
,
or
on
his
care
and
fidelity
,
but
as
depending
on
the
act
and
faithfulnesse
of
God
;
not
only
the
first
Act
of
Sanctification
,
but
Preservation
;
continuance
,
and
growth
in
Grace
is
the
work
of
God
,
and
it's
perseverance
is
laid
upon
divine
preservation
;
to
which
God
hath
bound
himself
by
promise
to
every
Soul
that
is
truly
sanctified
,
and
his
Faithfulness
is
engag'd
to
make
it
good
.
Thirdly
,
They
are
put
into
the
Hands
of
Christ
on
purpose
to
be
secured
in
Grace
to
Glory
,
Joh.
10.
28
,
29.
They
shall
never
perish
,
neither
shall
any
pluck
them
out
of
my
hand
:
They
are
engraven
on
the
palms
of
his
hands
;
their
walls
are
continually
before
him
,
Isa.
49.
16.
Their
Walls
,
that
is
their
safety
:
This
was
spoken
in
a
time
when
the
Walls
of
Jerusalem
were
broken
down
:
Yet
at
that
time
God
had
Walls
about
them
to
secure
them
,
which
they
saw
not
.
Both
Believers
themselves
,
their
Graces
,
and
all
the
Promises
are
put
into
the
hands
of
Christ
,
hence
they
cannot
fall
away
.
Fourthly
,
True
Grace
is
of
an
abiding
nature
,
1
Joh.
3.
9.
Whosoever
is
born
of
God
doth
not
commit
sin
,
for
his
seed
abideth
in
him
,
and
he
cannot
sin
,
because
he
is
born
of
God
.
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
not
at
constantiam
&
penitissimam
inhaesionem
,
(
saith
one
)
'T
is
an
abiding
,
and
constant
inhesion
of
Grace
.
Some
to
evade
the
evidence
of
this
Truth
,
would
pervert
the
sense
of
it
,
taking
it
for
the
new
Creature
which
is
born
of
God
;
whereas
the
Original
is
clear
against
it
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
,
in
the
Masculine
Gender
,
which
notes
a
person
,
not
a
thing
.
Again
,
it
would
be
a
Tautologie
to
add
a
reason
why
such
a
one
cannot
sin
,
because
he
is
born
of
God
,
and
his
seed
remaineth
in
him
,
whereas
the
new
Creature
,
and
the
seed
of
God
are
all
one
,
but
here
they
note
two
things
;
First
,
A
Person
;
Secondly
,
The
Regenerate
part
of
the
Person
;
which
is
fully
explain'd
in
the
following
ver.
where
he
that
is
born
of
God
,
or
the
Child
of
God
,
is
opposed
to
the
Child
of
the
Devil
,
which
is
meant
of
a
distinct
Person
,
not
a
different
Nature
in
the
same
Person
;
and
this
seed
of
God
is
of
an
abiding
nature
wherever
it
comes
,
it
comes
never
wholly
to
depart
more
,
Isa.
59.
21.
Fifthly
,
Because
their
Life
is
hid
in
Christ
,
and
therefore
cannot
be
lost
and
perish
at
their
pleasure
,
Col.
3.
3
,
4.
The
Believers
Grace
is
sure
in
the
Root
,
however
it
be
in
the
Branch
,
and
therefore
Christ
engages
to
his
people
,
that
they
shall
live
because
he
lives
,
Joh.
14.
19.
Lastly
,
They
have
an
Inseparable
union
with
the
Spirit
of
Grace
that
dwells
in
them
,
Rom.
8.
11.
He
that
raised
up
Jesus
from
the
dead
shall
also
quicken
your
mortal
Bodies
by
his
Spirit
that
dwelleth
in
you
.
Where
the
Article
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
as
one
observes
,
ever
notes
the
Person
of
the
Holy
Ghost
,
not
his
Graces
;
so
that
the
Saints
have
an
abiding
union
with
the
Spirit
of
God
the
third
Person
,
and
so
cannot
perish
for
want
of
Grace
,
but
are
kept
by
the
power
of
God
through
Faith
unto
Salvation
.
He
can
never
want
Water
that
may
have
access
to
the
Fountain
or
Ocean
;
nor
can
any
Soul
be
destitute
of
Grace
that
is
united
to
the
Spirit
of
Grace
.
The
Graces
of
Saints
are
sure
;
their
Faith
,
their
Preservation
is
sure
:
O
what
a
glorious
priviledge
is
this
that
flows
to
Believers
,
from
this
purchase
of
Christ
,
that
their
Salvation
is
sure
,
and
they
may
know
it
to
be
so
.
CHAP.
XVIII
.
Sanctification
and
Holiness
is
purchas'd
for
Believers
,
by
the
Death
and
Sufferings
of
Jesus
Christ
.
ANother
part
of
Christs
purchased
Treasure
for
Believers
,
is
,
Fourthly
,
The
Sanctification
of
their
Natures
and
Persons
.
Here
I
shall
shew
,
-
1.
That
the
Lord
Jesus
hath
Purchased
Grace
and
Holiness
.
-
2.
For
whom
this
Holiness
is
purchased
.
-
3.
What
this
Holiness
is
he
hath
purchased
.
-
4.
That
this
is
part
of
Christs
Treasure
.
First
,
That
the
Lord
Jesus
hath
purchased
the
sanctification
of
the
Natures
and
Persons
of
his
people
.
This
I
shall
prove
by
several
Arguments
.
First
,
All
the
Types
under
the
Law
do
imply
so
much
,
and
darkly
open
this
great
truth
to
Believers
.
We
find
that
Christ
in
the
non-age
and
Infant
state
of
his
Church
and
People
dealt
with
them
in
Figures
and
Shadows
:
So
the
Laver
,
and
Sacrifices
,
the
Priests
pure
and
white
Robes
and
Vestments
,
and
the
washing
of
their
Garments
,
when
they
were
to
approach
the
Divine
Majesty
,
were
Typical
of
this
Holiness
,
which
he
was
to
procure
for
his
people
in
the
fullness
of
time
,
so
much
the
Apostle
imports
,
Col.
2.
17.
Which
are
a
shadow
of
things
to
come
,
but
the
Body
is
of
Christ
.
The
shadow
goes
before
,
and
the
body
follows
:
These
Types
are
precedaneous
to
the
coming
of
Christ
,
and
his
full
accomplishment
of
the
things
intended
,
and
signified
by
them
,
thus
Christ
is
the
Altar
that
sanctifies
the
gift
;
In
him
we
have
those
true
and
solid
good
things
which
were
shadowed
out
in
those
Ceremonies
under
the
Law
,
(
saies
Daven
.
on
the
place
)
Secondly
;
The
Names
and
Titles
given
to
Christ
import
so
much
:
He
is
called
Jesus
,
because
he
shall
save
his
People
from
their
sins
:
Mat.
1.
21.
He
is
called
a
Redeemer
to
deliver
them
from
their
Bondages
and
hard
Service
:
He
is
termed
the
Sanctifier
:
For
he
that
Sanctifieth
,
and
they
that
are
Sanctifyed
are
all
of
one
.
Heb.
2.
11.
Thirdly
;
For
this
end
,
he
was
actually
designed
of
God
,
and
made
over
to
his
People
in
the
Everlasting
Covenant
,
decrees
,
purposes
,
and
determinations
of
God
.
1.
Cor.
1.
30.
He
is
made
of
God
unto
us
Wisdom
,
Righteousness
,
Sanctification
,
and
Redemption
.
He
is
made
of
God
:
Non
in
creatione
,
sed
in
ordinatione
(
saith
Paraeus
)
.
Not
created
so
according
to
his
Divine
Essence
,
as
some
Hereticks
assert
,
but
ordained
and
given
of
God
to
this
end
to
be
Sanctification
,
that
is
the
Author
of
Sanctification
,
and
therefore
he
is
said
to
save
to
the
uttermost
,
Heb.
7.
25.
which
can
never
be
accomplish'd
without
Holinesse
;
For
without
holinesse
no
man
can
see
the
Lord
,
Heb.
12.
14.
Fourthly
,
For
this
work
was
the
Lord
Jesus
promised
by
the
Father
to
come
unto
Sion
,
and
turn
away
ungodliness
from
Jacob.
Rom.
11.
26.
This
Scripture
is
quoted
out
of
Isa.
50.
10.
from
which
the
Apostle
varies
,
following
the
Septuagint
Translation
(
then
in
great
use
)
rather
than
the
Hebr.
seeing
it
retaines
t●e
sense
,
though
different
in
words
:
In
Isa.
't
is
The
Redeemer
shall
come
to
Sion
,
and
unto
them
that
turn
from
Transgression
:
The
Apostle
saies
,
He
shall
come
out
of
Sion
,
and
turn
away
ungodlinesse
from
Jacob
:
To
reconcile
which
,
Peter
Martyr
thinks
the
Septuagint
might
mistake
(
Lashub
)
To
turn
,
for
(
Leshabe
)
To
them
that
turn
:
But
this
is
not
likely
that
those
Learned
Doctors
could
be
so
mistaken
in
the
Original
,
and
therefore
't
is
a
far
better
answer
that
Beza
and
Grynaeus
do
give
,
That
the
Prophet
speaketh
of
the
Effect
of
Christs
coming
;
which
is
a
turning
away
from
Sin
:
And
that
the
Apostle
speaks
of
the
Cause
of
their
turning
from
Sin
;
which
is
Christs
taking
away
of
Sin
,
for
none
can
turn
from
sin
,
till
Christ
do
remove
Sin
:
And
this
is
the
end
of
his
coming
into
the
World
:
To
this
end
he
is
promised
:
Mal.
3.
2
,
3.
He
shall
sit
as
refiners
fire
,
and
purify
the
Sons
of
Levi.
The
Sons
of
Levi
are
,
Firstly
meant
of
the
Apostles
:
Secondly
,
I
suppose
,
of
all
the
Saints
:
But
so
much
is
clear
,
that
the
Lord
Jesus
is
promised
to
be
a
refiner
to
his
People
in
Gospel
times
and
to
purge
away
their
filth
and
dross
,
and
to
make
them
Holy
.
Fifthly
;
For
this
end
it
was
the
Lord
Jesus
Christ
gave
himself
up
to
Redemption-work
.
Eph.
5.
25
,
26
,
27.
As
Christ
also
loved
the
Church
,
and
gave
himself
for
it
;
that
he
might
Sanctify
and
cleanse
it
with
the
washing
of
Water
by
the
word
:
Here
we
have
;
1.
One
great
end
of
Christs
Obedience
and
Suffering
;
't
is
to
make
his
People
Holy
.
2.
Here
's
the
efficient
Cause
of
this
Holinesse
,
that
is
,
By
the
Spirit
of
Christ
;
The
blood
of
Christ
purges
away
the
guilt
of
sin
Meritoriously
,
and
the
Spirit
of
Christ
purifies
the
filth
of
sin
Efficiently
;
signifyed
by
Water
,
as
't
is
often
us'd
in
Scripture
.
Joh.
4.
10.
14.
Chap.
7.
38
,
39.
3.
Here
's
the
instrumental
cause
of
this
Holinesse
,
the
means
by
which
it
is
wrought
and
carryed
on
,
and
that
is
by
the
word
,
the
immortal
seed
of
the
Soul
:
This
he
undertook
,
and
was
intended
to
do
in
the
Covenant
of
Redemption
betwixt
the
Father
and
him
.
Isa.
42.
1
,
2
,
3
,
4.
He
shall
not
fail
till
he
hath
set
Judgment
in
the
Earth
,
that
is
Holiness
;
for
so
't
is
taken
,
Joh.
16.
8.
And
this
work
is
the
Lord
Jesus
here
engag'd
to
do
.
Some
take
the
word
(
Ethmoch
)
I
uphold
,
passively
for
the
Fathers
dependence
,
and
Christs
Faithfulnesse
:
He
leans
or
stays
upon
his
undertaking
this
work
,
and
trusts
to
his
performance
of
what
he
undertook
to
do
:
Others
take
it
actively
for
the
Fathers
upholding
and
carrying
Christ
through
this
great
work
of
Redemption
,
and
Sanctification
.
In
both
senses
't
is
true
,
The
Lord
Jesus
stands
engaged
to
carry
on
Redemption-work
,
and
is
throughly
furnished
with
grace
to
accomplish
it
,
Heb.
10.
7.
Christ
readily
consents
to
the
fulfilling
of
the
Fathers
will
;
and
what
that
was
you
have
Isa.
42.
7.
To
open
the
blind
eyes
,
and
to
bring
out
the
Prisoners
out
of
the
Prison
,
which
is
meant
of
the
work
of
Redemption
,
and
Regeneration
;
and
it
was
the
will
of
God
the
Father
that
Christ
should
do
this
,
1.
Thes.
4.
3.
This
is
the
will
of
God
even
your
Sanctification
:
And
this
he
stood
bound
to
do
,
to
promote
and
perfect
the
power
of
Holinesse
in
all
his
Children
.
Now
what
Christ
did
undertake
he
finished
Meritoriously
,
whiles
on
Earth
.
Joh.
17.
4.
I
have
finished
the
work
thou
hast
given
me
to
do
:
And
for
the
application
of
it
,
he
is
in
Heaven
to
see
it
perform'd
;
and
this
is
the
work
of
his
Intercession
,
Joh.
17.
17.
Sanctify
them
through
thy
truth
,
thy
word
is
truth
.
This
Christ
Intercedes
for
in
Heaven
,
and
therefore
't
is
the
fruit
of
his
Purchase
;
for
he
Intercedes
for
no
more
in
Heaven
than
what
he
dyed
for
on
Earth
.
Sixthly
;
His
Authoritative
sending
the
Spirit
of
Holinesse
to
his
people
,
shews
his
right
to
it
by
his
Purchase
.
Joh.
16.
7.
I
will
send
him
to
you
.
That
is
after
the
finishing
of
his
work
,
and
re-instalment
in
Glory
,
Joh.
7.
39.
For
the
Holy
Ghost
was
not
yet
given
,
because
Christ
was
not
yet
glorifyed
.
Lastly
;
Were
not
holinesse
purchased
for
saved
Souls
,
Christs
Redemption-work
would
be
imperfect
,
neither
could
Souls
ever
answer
the
ends
for
which
he
dyed
.
Without
Holinesse
were
procured
and
compleated
by
Christ
,
there
could
be
no
Salvation
.
For
,
First
;
Man
cannot
Sanctify
himself
;
We
are
all
as
an
unclean
thing
and
our
Righteousnesse
as
filthy
rags
,
Isa.
64.
6.
And
who
can
bring
a
clean
thing
out
of
an
unclean
?
no
not
one
,
Job
14.
4.
Indeed
the
Scripture
sometimes
speaks
after
this
manner
,
Make
you
a
clean
heart
,
Ezek.
18.
31.
Make
you
a
new
heart
.
So
Isa.
1.
16.
Wash
ye
,
make
ye
celan
:
But
there
is
Mans
Duty
not
his
power
:
It
shews
the
subject
,
not
the
Author
or
this
holinesse
;
and
where
you
find
such
Exhortations
,
they
are
to
lead
men
to
Christ
for
the
getting
of
this
Holiness
wrought
in
them
;
as
,
1
Pet.
2.
4.
To
whom
come
,
as
as
to
a
living
stone
,
&c.
Secondly
,
Without
this
holiness
be
wrought
in
Believers
they
can
never
be
capable
of
answering
the
ends
of
Redemption
;
which
are
,
First
,
To
enjoy
Union
and
Fellowship
with
God
,
Joh.
11.
52.
1
Joh.
1.
3.
Heb.
8.
10.
Now
without
Holiness
no
Fellowship
with
God
,
2
Cor.
6.
14
,
15.
1
Pet.
1.
15
,
16.
For
his
Person
is
Holy
;
and
his
offerings
and
services
are
Holy
.
Secondly
,
To
reconcile
together
in
one
all
things
in
Heaven
and
Earth
,
Col.
1.
20.
But
no
Fellowship
with
Angels
or
Saints
in
Heaven
without
holiness
for
they
are
holy
Creatures
.
Thirdly
,
To
be
brought
into
the
nearest
Union
,
and
Conformity
to
himself
,
Rom.
6.
4
,
5.
But
without
Holiness
this
cannot
be
.
Fourthly
,
To
be
a
Name
and
a
praise
unto
God
,
Eph.
1.
12.
But
without
Holiness
no
glorifying
of
God
.
Fifthly
,
To
bring
Souls
to
the
possession
of
the
purchased
Inheritance
in
Glory
,
Eph.
1.
14.
But
nothing
that
defileth
shall
enter
within
the
Gate
of
the
new
Jerusalem
,
Rev.
21.
27.
So
much
for
the
first
Head
,
That
Jesus
Christ
hath
Purchased
Holinesse
.
We
shall
now
enquire
,
Secondly
,
For
whom
hath
the
Lord
Jesus
Purchased
Holinesse
?
Answ.
For
all
his
seed
;
for
every
Soul
the
Father
hath
given
him
,
Joh.
17.
9.
Christs
Purchase
,
death
,
and
Intercession
is
only
for
those
the
Father
hath
given
him
,
and
every
one
of
them
,
for
all
his
seed
that
belong
to
him
as
the
second
Adam
.
And
in
this
sense
is
that
Scripture
to
be
taken
:
Rom.
5.
18.
As
by
the
offence
of
one
Judgment
came
upon
all
Men
to
Condemnation
,
even
so
by
the
Righteousnesse
of
one
the
free
gift
came
upon
all
Men
to
Justification
of
life
.
That
is
;
As
death
came
by
Adams
fall
to
all
his
seed
,
so
life
comes
by
Christ
to
all
his
seed
;
neither
can
it
be
stretched
further
,
as
the
Apostle
affirms
,
1
Joh.
5.
12.
He
that
hath
the
Son
hath
life
,
but
he
that
hath
not
the
Son
hath
not
life
.
Neither
will
any
affirm
,
that
all
Men
are
justified
unto
life
,
nor
any
but
those
that
believe
in
Christ
,
which
are
his
seed
:
The
Lord
Jesus
tells
us
,
Joh.
17.
20
;
'T
is
for
all
them
that
believe
on
him
through
his
word
.
Gal.
3.
22.
That
the
Promise
by
Faith
of
Jesus
Christ
might
be
given
to
them
that
believe
:
The
Apostle
speaks
here
of
a
double
Promise
made
to
Abraham
,
and
through
him
to
Believing
Gentiles
.
1.
The
Promise
of
Righteousnesse
in
Justification
,
ver.
18
,
19.
2.
The
Promise
of
the
Spirit
in
Sanctification
,
ver.
14.
That
we
might
receive
the
Promise
of
the
Spirit
through
Faith
,
and
both
these
are
made
over
to
Believers
.
You
that
come
to
Christ
in
truth
,
and
receive
him
into
your
hearts
by
faith
,
and
take
his
Yoke
on
your
shoulders
,
obey
his
Laws
,
sincerely
give
up
your
all
to
him
,
and
are
no
more
your
own
,
but
though
you
see
your
want
of
Holinesse
,
yet
are
really
willing
to
be
Holy
as
God
is
Holy
,
submitting
to
all
the
appointments
of
Christ
,
in
order
to
it
;
you
are
the
seed
of
Christ
,
the
people
to
whom
the
Promise
of
Holinesse
doth
belong
.
Thirdly
,
What
is
the
Holinesse
Christ
hath
Purchas'd
for
his
People
?
Answ
,
First
;
The
truth
of
Grace
,
in
opposition
to
Hypocrisie
:
The
Lord
Jesus
never
shed
his
blood
for
counterfeit
grace
.
His
purchas'd
Treasure
consists
not
of
Counters
,
but
tryed
Gold
,
Rev.
3.
17.
What
he
offers
to
Sinners
,
that
he
purchased
and
dyed
for
;
but
Christ
offers
tryed
gold
to
invited
Souls
.
Any
thing
short
of
saving
grace
is
not
worth
the
shedding
of
the
blood
of
the
Son
of
God
.
That
which
Christ
Promiseth
to
his
people
is
the
same
with
that
he
hath
purchased
;
but
he
promiseth
true
grace
,
Ezek.
36.
26
,
27.
He
Promiseth
a
new
heart
,
and
a
new
heart
is
a
truly
sanctified
heart
:
'T
is
his
Spirit
he
will
put
within
them
;
and
his
Spirit
is
a
Spirit
of
truth
,
Joh.
14.
17.
There
is
never
a
Soul
whose
heart
is
made
willing
to
be
the
Lords
;
but
Jesus
Christ
hath
purchased
sincerity
for
him
;
Christ
never
dyed
for
Lies
and
Untruths
,
but
seeming
grace
is
a
lye
and
not
of
the
truth
.
This
is
wonderful
comfort
to
poor
troubled
Souls
that
are
always
doubting
of
the
truth
of
their
graces
,
and
would
give
a
thousand
Worlds
to
be
sure
that
their
gold
is
tryed
gold
,
and
their
graces
true
graces
.
Now
if
ever
thy
Soul
were
brought
to
desire
Christ
in
truth
,
and
to
receive
him
with
a
lively
Faith
,
thou
mayest
be
sure
thy
graces
are
true
,
because
the
Lord
Jesus
hath
purchas'd
this
for
all
Believers
.
Now
this
truth
of
Grace
consists
in
a
through
change
of
the
Soul
,
even
of
the
whole
Man
;
which
may
be
distinguished
into
these
two
parts
.
1.
The
taking
away
of
Sin
.
2.
The
giving
of
Grace
,
the
delivering
the
Soul
from
the
power
of
Satan
,
and
the
reducing
it
under
the
power
of
God
,
and
into
his
Kingdom
:
The
purging
the
Soul
from
Lust
,
and
possessing
it
with
Grace
:
the
destroying
the
works
of
the
Devil
,
and
creating
it
the
workmanship
of
God
:
In
freeing
the
Soul
from
the
Ruling
Power
of
sin
in
every
part
,
and
implanting
the
Nature
and
Image
of
God
on
every
Power
and
Faculty
of
it
.
Acts
26.
18.
1
Cor.
6.
11.
Tit.
2.
14
Rom.
6.
14.
Secondly
;
Perseverance
in
Grace
;
Their
continuance
in
a
state
of
grace
:
And
the
abiding
of
the
seed
of
God
in
them
:
1
Joh.
3.
9.
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
't
is
the
same
word
that
signifies
the
Spirits
abiding
with
Believers
,
which
Christ
saith
shall
be
for
ever
,
Joh.
14.
16.
1
Joh.
2.
27.
This
he
hath
Promised
in
the
new
Covenant
,
and
therefore
this
he
hath
purchased
,
Jer.
32.
40.
And
therefore
the
sanctified
are
called
the
preserved
in
Jesus
Christ
,
Jude
ver
.
1.
And
the
Saints
are
said
to
be
kept
by
the
Power
of
God
through
faith
unto
Salvation
,
1
Pet.
1.
5.
This
Christ
stands
engaged
to
the
Father
to
do
,
Joh.
17.
12.
If
Jesus
Christ
hath
not
purchased
perseverance
in
Grace
to
the
end
for
all
his
people
,
but
leaves
their
continuance
in
the
truth
to
their
free-will
,
then
he
leaves
them
in
the
same
state
in
which
they
were
under
the
first
Covenant
:
For
the
standing
of
Adam
in
the
first
Covenant
was
upon
his
own
choice
and
will
;
but
this
cannot
be
,
because
Christ
hath
taken
away
the
first
Covenant
from
Believers
,
and
Established
the
second
which
makes
the
Commers
thereunto
perfect
,
Heb.
8.
6.
to
11.
Chap.
10.
9
,
10.
Thirdly
;
Growth
in
Grace
:
What
he
calls
them
to
that
he
hath
purchased
for
them
;
for
Christ
cannot
invite
his
people
to
uncertainties
or
disappointments
;
what
he
exhorts
them
to
,
he
promiseth
to
work
them
to
,
Phil.
2.
12
,
13.
Work
out
your
Salvation
with
fear
and
trembling
;
For
't
is
God
that
worketh
in
you
both
to
will
and
to
do
.
Now
he
bids
them
to
grow
in
Grace
,
2
Pet.
3.
18.
And
this
he
Promiseth
also
,
Hos.
14.
5.
7.
I
will
be
as
a
dew
unto
Israel
,
and
he
shall
grow
as
the
Lilly
,
and
cast
forth
his
roots
as
Lebanon
,
they
that
dwell
under
his
shaddow
shall
revive
as
the
Corn
,
and
grow
as
the
Vine
.
Psa.
92.
12.
The
Righteous
shall
flourish
as
the
Palm-Tree
and
grow
as
the
Cedars
in
Lebanon
.
What
God
Promised
under
the
new
Covenant
Christ
hath
dyed
for
;
for
this
Covenant
is
wholly
Confirmed
by
blood
,
by
the
death
of
the
Testator
,
Heb.
9.
14
,
17.
Quest:
Then
what
is
the
reason
Gods
People
grow
no
more
in
Grace
this
day
?
Answ.
First
;
All
are
not
Israel
that
are
of
Israel
;
Many
passe
for
Saints
in
the
Judgment
of
Men
which
were
never
sanctified
in
Christ
Jesus
,
nor
will
appear
to
be
so
in
the
approbation
of
God
;
and
therefore
some
in
whom
you
see
no
growth
,
are
no
contradiction
to
this
truth
at
all
,
they
being
none
of
the
seed
of
Christ
.
Secondly
;
The
Lords
Trees
as
well
as
the
Trees
of
the
Wood
have
their
growing
times
:
The
Winter
is
no
time
to
grow
;
no
nor
the
Winter
of
Temptation
or
divine
desertion
.
Bodies
have
their
growing
times
,
so
have
Souls
.
Believer
thy
growing
time
may
be
yet
to
come
if
thou
art
Christs
.
Thirdly
;
Souls
may
grow
,
though
slowly
,
and
invisibly
to
themselves
and
others
;
Believers
have
sometimes
a
vail
on
their
Eyes
,
and
cannot
discern
their
flourishing
,
and
sometimes
the
smalnesse
of
Grace
renders
it
indiscernable
to
others
.
There
may
be
a
growing
downward
in
Faith
,
and
Humility
,
those
radical
Graces
that
strengthen
the
Souls
adherence
to
Christ
,
though
there
be
no
growing
upwards
in
fruitfulnesse
for
Christ
.
There
is
a
growing
in
internal
longings
and
secret
desires
after
more
of
God
,
and
in
higher
valuations
of
Jesus
Christ
,
though
not
in
such
sensible
enjoyments
of
him
.
As
the
truth
of
Grace
lies
beyond
the
view
of
Men
,
so
doth
many
times
the
growth
of
grace
to
a
Mans
self
,
and
to
others
.
Fourthly
;
The
People
of
God
shall
at
last
have
their
growth
in
grace
further'd
by
their
present
decays
in
Grace
.
As
the
sicknesse
of
Children
,
though
it
makes
them
languish
for
a
time
,
yet
it
helps
on
their
growth
when
't
is
over
;
so
the
Winter
season
promotes
the
growth
of
Trees
and
herbs
when
the
Summer
comes
.
Fourthly
;
The
Lord
Jesus
hath
Purchased
for
his
people
Perfection
in
Grace
also
:
This
is
intended
by
his
death
,
that
they
may
be
made
perfect
in
one
,
Joh.
17.
23.
This
he
presseth
them
to
Mat.
5.
48.
Be
ye
perfect
as
your
Father
which
is
in
Heaven
is
perfect
.
And
what
he
exhorts
them
to
he
prepares
and
hath
redeem'd
them
to
.
For
this
end
he
gives
them
Ordinances
,
that
they
may
come
to
a
perfect
Man
,
to
the
fulnesse
of
the
measure
of
the
stature
of
Jesus
Christ
,
Eph.
4.
12
,
13.
Heb.
10.
14.
This
perfection
of
grace
is
nothing
else
but
glory
.
1
Cor.
13.
10.
When
that
which
is
perfect
is
come
,
then
that
which
is
in
part
shall
be
done
away
:
And
this
Christ
hath
purchas'd
for
Believers
,
Joh.
10.
28.
Quest:
If
Christ
hath
Purchased
perfection
in
Holinesse
;
Then
what
's
the
reason
the
professing
people
of
Christ
are
so
imperfectly
Holy
,
never
a
day
since
the
Gospel
,
of
more
light
,
and
lesse
life
;
of
more
profession
,
and
less
Power
of
Holiness
;
Whence
comes
this
so
?
Answ.
First
;
These
are
the
last
daies
,
yea
the
latter
part
of
the
last
daies
,
and
the
Iast
daies
are
daies
of
great
unholinesse
,
and
little
grace
.
O
the
Catalogue
of
sins
the
Scripture
gives
us
that
will
abound
at
that
time
,
2
Tim.
3.
1.
In
the
last
daies
Perillous
times
shall
come
,
for
Men
shall
be
lovers
of
themselves
—
Having
a
form
of
Godlinesse
but
denying
the
Power
thereof
.
Christ
himself
shews
us
the
complexion
of
the
last
times
:
Mat.
24.
12.
Then
Iniquity
shall
abound
,
and
the
love
of
many
wax
cold
.
The
daies
before
the
Coming
of
Christ
to
avenge
his
Elect
are
daies
of
little
Grace
:
When
the
Son
of
Man
comes
shall
he
find
Faith
on
the
Earth
?
Luke
18.
8.
Secondly
;
Because
of
the
abundance
of
Hypocrites
that
get
under
a
profession
,
and
crowd
in
amongst
Saints
:
In
the
last
times
the
greatest
number
of
Men
are
formalists
,
as
you
have
heard
,
2.
Tim.
3.
5.
Half
at
least
of
Virgin
Professors
will
at
the
coming
of
Christ
be
found
foolish
,
and
abundance
of
tares
among
the
Wheat
,
and
Goats
among
the
Sheep
,
will
be
discovered
when
Christ
comes
to
Judgment
;
and
this
hinders
the
holinesse
of
professours
,
when
a
great
number
among
them
are
rotten
,
and
Carnal
;
unsound
Persons
amongst
the
sincere
hinder
their
thriving
in
Grace
,
by
their
Examples
and
ensnaring
Company
;
these
,
as
Gangreens
,
do
eat
away
all
holiness
;
and
as
dead
bodies
become
contagious
;
if
the
living
touch
the
dead
,
they
are
unclean
,
Hag.
2.
13.
Can
a
man
touch
Pitch
,
and
not
be
defiled
?
Thirdly
,
Because
't
is
the
hour
,
and
power
of
darkness
,
Luke
22.
53.
't
is
a
time
of
great
temptation
to
Gods
people
:
Satan
is
come
down
with
great
wrath
,
Rev.
12.
12.
This
Chap.
is
contemporary
with
the
Seals
and
Trumpets
,
and
gives
us
a
repetition
of
the
Churches
State
under
the
first
and
second
Persecution
;
this
ver.
holds
forth
the
second
persecution
under
Antichrist
,
when
Satan
is
cast
out
of
the
true
Church
,
and
Believers
,
and
comes
down
among
rotten
professours
,
to
stir
them
up
to
persecution
,
and
then
the
Devil
hath
great
wrath
,
especially
in
the
latter
part
of
his
Reign
,
when
he
hath
but
a
little
time
;
then
by
temptation
as
well
as
persecution
,
he
labours
to
destroy
the
Saints
holiness
.
Fourthly
,
Gods
leaving
his
people
as
a
punishment
of
former
sins
under
present
Corruptions
;
for
their
humbling
,
and
driving
them
nearer
to
himself
.
These
may
be
some
Reasons
why
there
is
so
little
holiness
;
but
however
,
the
time
will
come
when
Christ
will
make
up
his
Jewels
,
and
set
holiness
in
the
Earth
.
Fourthly
,
This
sanctification
of
Believers
is
part
,
yea
,
the
choicest
part
of
Christs
purchased
Treasure
.
I
have
shewn
before
that
Riches
import
two
things
.
1.
Some
things
that
were
of
worth
and
value
,
men
never
seek
great
heaps
of
dus●
or
straw
,
as
part
of
their
Riches
;
but
Silver
,
Gold
,
and
Jewels
,
are
things
of
account
.
2.
Abundance
and
large
measures
of
these
excellent
things
.
Now
sanctification
is
a
thing
of
wonderful
value
,
and
an
unknown
excellency
in
its
nature
;
holiness
must
needs
be
excellent
because
it
is
a
sparkle
of
Divine
Glory
;
't
is
part
of
the
Nature
and
Image
of
God
himself
,
2
Pet.
1.
4.
'T
is
the
Glory
of
God
,
Hab.
3.
3.
When
the
Prophet
would
set
forth
God
in
his
Glory
,
he
gives
him
the
name
of
the
holy
one
,
God
came
from
Teman
,
and
the
holy
one
from
Mount
Paran
,
his
Glory
covered
the
Heavens
.
The
Prophet
here
speaks
and
Prophesies
of
the
calling
of
the
Jews
by
the
Gospel
,
after
the
Ascension
of
Christ
,
in
an
allusion
to
his
former
giving
the
Law
on
Mount
Sinai
,
and
making
them
his
people
by
that
Covenant
:
So
Teman
is
a
place
in
Idumea
,
Paran
in
Arabia
,
between
Sinai
and
Seir
,
from
whence
God
gives
out
his
Law
,
and
shews
out
his
Glory
,
as
you
may
see
,
Deut.
33.
3.
Some
take
Teman
for
Jerusalem
,
and
then
the
meaning
is
thus
;
As
God
did
formerly
manifest
his
Glory
,
by
giving
out
his
Law
from
Mount
Sinai
;
and
his
Holiness
in
keeping
and
leading
his
people
through
the
Wilderness
to
Canaan
and
Jerusalem
:
So
will
he
in
Gospel-times
,
manifest
his
Glory
,
in
giving
the
Gospel
,
and
calling
a
People
to
himself
;
and
this
Glory
of
his
will
most
eminently
appear
in
the
manifestation
of
his
Holiness
.
So
that
Holiness
is
the
Glory
of
God
,
and
therefore
must
needs
be
most
excellent
.
Nay
,
Sanctification
is
the
honour
of
the
Creature
,
Rev.
21.
10
,
11.
The
Glory
of
the
latter
Church
is
set
forth
by
its
Holiness
:
So
Sanctification
and
Honour
are
joyned
together
,
1
Thess.
4.
4.
Holiness
is
the
greatest
Treasure
;
for
't
is
laid
up
in
the
choicest
Treasury
;
in
Heaven
,
the
place
of
Gods
Holiness
,
and
the
Habitation
of
the
Holy
Saints
and
Angels
,
Isa.
63.
15.
Treasures
are
not
the
Possession
of
every
one
,
they
are
given
usually
but
to
a
few
:
So
is
Holiness
the
priviledge
of
the
fewest
and
least
number
of
men
;
few
there
be
that
find
it
,
Mat.
7.
13.
Riches
can
procure
the
greatest
things
procurable
,
as
one
saith
;
Money
answereth
all
things
;
that
is
all
things
that
are
saleable
among
men
;
so
Holiness
,
though
it
cannot
purchase
Mercy
,
yet
it
fits
persons
for
the
greatest
Mercies
,
and
highest
Services
.
None
more
advanced
than
holy
Souls
;
they
dwell
in
the
presence
of
God
,
Psal.
140.
13.
They
are
through
Christ
very
potent
with
God
;
they
are
fit
for
the
highest
work
.
When
Persons
come
to
dye
,
they
see
the
excellency
of
holiness
,
and
would
purchase
it
with
a
world
:
This
proves
that
Sanctification
is
a
rare
Treasure
.
Again
,
The
purchas'd
Holiness
of
Christ
hath
not
only
excellent
worth
,
but
large
quantity
;
he
hath
purchas'd
fullness
of
Grace
;
Grace
for
Grace
.
O
Believer
,
though
thy
heart
be
empty
of
grace
,
yet
Christ's
Treasure
is
full
,
he
hath
as
much
as
ever
thou
canst
need
or
crave
,
to
make
thee
as
Holy
as
thou
wouldest
be
,
and
that
to
all
Eternity
.
VSE
.
If
Holiness
be
the
Purchase
of
Christ
,
then
't
is
not
the
Creatures
procurement
,
or
by
any
ways
or
means
obtained
short
of
the
merit
of
Christ
.
what
the
Apostle
says
of
Righteousness
is
true
of
Sanctification
,
Gal.
2.
21.
If
Righteousness
come
by
the
Law
,
then
Christ
is
dead
in
vain
.
So
if
holiness
be
the
Fruit
of
Mens
Purposes
,
Labours
and
Duties
,
then
Christ
died
in
vain
.
'T
is
too
common
an
errour
in
many
,
to
charge
Christ
with
too
much
in
some
things
,
and
too
little
in
other
things
.
In
justification
some
lay
too
much
on
Christ
;
I
mean
by
charging
their
sins
on
him
for
pardon
,
which
they
were
never
throughly
convinc'd
or
repented
of
;
and
in
sanctification
charge
him
with
too
little
,
expecting
their
holiness
and
meetness
from
their
purposes
,
duties
,
and
improvements
:
As
if
holiness
were
to
grow
out
of
the
Sepulchres
of
their
Services
,
and
not
out
of
the
grave
of
Christ
:
'T
is
true
indeed
the
Lord
Jesus
hath
appointed
means
for
the
promoting
of
Holiness
,
and
given
promises
and
Ordinances
for
the
conveying
and
perfecting
of
it
,
but
the
vertue
of
all
depends
upon
his
blessing
,
1
Cor.
3.
6
,
7.
Rom.
9.
16.
Secondly
;
Then
how
unexcusable
are
perishing
Sinners
under
the
Gospel
,
that
will
not
come
to
Christ
to
be
made
holy
.
You
that
lye
in
your
blood
,
and
from
the
Crown
of
your
head
to
the
sole
of
your
feet
are
full
of
filthy
Ulcers
,
and
putrifying
sores
;
whose
Consciences
cannot
but
condemn
you
sometimes
for
uncleannesse
;
and
never
being
cleansed
by
the
blood
of
Christ
;
how
will
you
appear
before
the
Holy
God
,
a
Consuming
fire
,
in
your
unpurged
sins
?
How
unjustifiable
is
your
filthynesse
who
might
have
been
cleansed
,
but
would
not
!
What
will
you
answer
in
the
day
of
Indignation
,
when
all
this
tender'd
,
but
refused
Grace
shall
come
against
you
?
when
you
would
willingly
part
with
the
whole
World
if
you
had
it
to
get
a
clean
heart
and
a
purged
Conscience
?
How
dreadful
will
that
word
be
in
the
day
of
Inquisition
;
Ezek.
22.
24.
Thou
art
a
Land
,
Thou
art
a
Soul
that
art
not
cleansed
?
How
cutting
will
the
memory
be
of
rejected
Grace
,
when
God
shall
say
,
I
would
have
healed
you
,
but
you
are
not
healed
?
Jer.
51.
9.
You
might
have
had
your
natures
changed
,
your
Consciences
cleansed
,
and
your
hearts
sanctified
,
but
you
would
not
:
Now
away
thou
prophane
hard-hearted
wretch
:
Be
gone
thou
secret
Drunkard
,
Swearer
,
Thief
,
Lyer
,
take
him
Devil
,
go
and
be
filthy
still
,
wallow
in
thy
blood
;
there
lye
cursing
in
torment
to
all
Eternity
;
as
long
as
I
am
God
,
thy
blood
shall
lye
upon
thee
.
Thirdly
;
Then
the
Holinesse
of
Believers
is
and
shall
be
sure
,
being
grounded
on
the
Purchase
of
Christ
.
'T
is
bought
,
and
paid
for
(
O
Believer
)
for
thee
:
purchas'd
Sanctification
is
assuredly
thine
as
thou
art
not
thine
own
;
The
truth
,
continuance
,
growth
,
and
perfection
of
Grace
is
procured
for
thee
by
a
price
:
A
price
agreed
on
betwixt
the
Father
and
the
Son
.
First
,
God
will
not
deny
it
,
Justice
it self
cannot
with-hold
thy
purchas'd
due
.
As
sure
as
Christ
with-holds
not
one
drop
of
his
blood
,
or
penny
of
the
price
,
so
sure
will
not
God
with-hold
any
part
of
this
Purchase
.
Rom.
3.
26.
That
he
may
be
just
,
and
the
justifier
of
them
that
believe
in
Jesus
:
And
if
the
justifier
,
then
sure
the
sanctifier
.
Poor
doubting
Believer
,
when
thou
seest
nothing
but
unworthiness
in
thy self
of
the
least
Grace
,
and
peace
from
God
,
then
think
,
't
was
Christ
,
not
I
,
that
made
this
purchase
;
he
who
did
not
,
can
not
make
a
forfeit
of
his
right
;
and
whose
blood
must
perish
,
whose
Honour
and
Interest
must
suffer
,
if
one
of
those
for
whom
Christ
dyed
should
dye
and
perish
for
want
of
Holinesse
:
O
no!
this
cannot
be
;
The
Judge
of
all
the
Earth
must
do
right
.
Gen.
18.
23.
Secondly
,
Jesus
Christ
the
believers
Advocate
cannot
suffer
to
see
his
poor
and
needy
deprived
of
their
right
:
He
is
the
Mediatour
betwixt
God
and
his
people
;
The
days-Man
and
Umpire
to
see
truth
Established
in
the
Earth
,
and
every
one
to
receive
his
due
:
He
will
give
wicked
Men
their
due
,
much
more
his
Children
;
And
all
Power
in
Heaven
and
Earth
are
in
his
hands
,
Math.
28.
20.
He
is
the
Faithful
Witnesse
,
Holy
,
and
Just
one
,
and
therefore
will
cause
that
believers
shall
have
the
distributions
of
the
due
Measures
of
his
Purchas'd
Grace
.
Thirdly
,
there
is
nothing
in
thee
or
without
thee
that
can
hinder
the
accomplishment
of
it
,
Isa.
43.
13.
I
will
work
,
and
who
shall
let
:
Let
Earth
and
Hell
,
Sin
and
self
,
combine
together
,
they
shall
not
keep
back
the
Communications
of
grace
one
day
beyond
God's
time
,
Math.
12.
20.
'T
is
not
the
strength
of
thy
lusts
can
prevail
against
the
arm
of
God
,
and
forces
of
his
eternal
Spirit
,
who
is
commissioned
to
bring
down
all
thy
Enemies
,
and
set
thee
free
indeed
.
Christ
will
Reign
till
he
brings
down
all
his
Enemies
under
his
feet
,
1
Cor.
15.
25.
The
greatest
part
of
which
is
the
Corruptions
of
his
people
.
CHAP.
XIX
.
Adoption-Grace
prov'd
to
be
the
Fruit
of
Christ's
Purchase
:
The
excellency
of
this
state
opened
in
several
particulars
.
I
Come
now
to
a
fifth
Fruit
of
Christs
Purchase
,
and
discovery
of
that
glorious
Redemption-Treasure
procur'd
by
his
death
;
that
is
a
state
of
Adoption
,
those
whom
he
sanctifies
he
adopts
,
and
brings
into
a
new
Relation
to
himself
;
to
God
the
Father
,
Son
,
and
Spirit
:
The
work
of
Sanctification
doth
change
their
Nature
,
Adoption
changeth
their
state
;
they
are
really
alter'd
by
Sanctifying
Grace
,
and
relatively
by
Adoption-love
.
God
now
becomes
their
Father
,
and
they
are
his
Sons
and
Daughters
,
2
Cor.
6.
17
,
18.
Come
out
from
amongst
them
,
and
touch
not
the
unclean
thing
:
Here
's
a
change
in
their
Nature
and
Life
:
And
I
will
be
your
God
,
and
you
shall
be
my
Sons
and
Daughters
:
there
's
a
change
in
their
state
:
Adoption
is
the
taking
of
persons
that
are
strangers
,
and
undeserving
in
themselves
,
into
a
state
and
Relation
of
Sons
and
Heirs
;
bringing
them
into
a
new
Family
and
Condition
:
And
such
is
the
Adoption
of
the
Sons
of
God
,
't
is
a
Translation
of
called
and
sanctified
Souls
out
of
the
Family
of
Satan
into
the
Family
of
God
,
Col.
1.
13.
Who
hath
delivered
us
from
the
power
of
darkness
,
and
translated
us
into
the
Kingdom
of
his
dear
Son
,
Joh.
1.
12.
To
as
many
as
received
him
,
to
them
gave
he
power
to
become
the
Sons
of
God
,
1
Joh.
3.
2.
Now
are
we
the
Sons
of
God
:
And
this
Adoption-Priviledge
is
the
Fruit
of
the
Death
of
Christ
,
Gal.
4.
4
,
5.
When
the
fullness
of
time
was
come
God
sent
forth
his
Son
made
of
a
Woman
,
made
under
the
Law
;
to
redeem
them
that
were
under
the
Law
,
that
we
might
receive
the
Adoption
of
Sons
:
For
though
this
Adoption
be
an
act
of
Grace
in
God
,
to
take
Souls
into
Sonship
with
him
;
yet
't
is
by
Jesus
Christ
,
Eph.
1.
5.
Having
predestinated
us
unto
the
Adoption
of
Children
,
by
Jesus
Christ
:
That
is
,
To
be
redeemed
,
and
made
fit
for
it
by
Jesus
Christ
.
Now
in
the
Adoption
of
Sanctified
Souls
into
the
Family
of
God
there
are
these
five
things
.
A
change
,
1.
of
Relation
.
2.
Of
Obligation
.
3.
Of
Disposition
.
4.
Of
Condition
.
5.
Of
Duty
.
First
,
There
's
a
change
of
Relation
;
they
were
the
Children
of
the
Devil
,
Joh.
8.
44.
Heirs
of
Hell
,
and
under
the
Power
of
the
God
of
this
World
,
Eph.
2.
2.
Who
rules
in
the
Children
of
Disobedience
.
They
were
of
the
kindred
of
Hell
,
of
that
Family
whose
Head
and
Ruler
is
Satan
.
This
was
their
state
,
when
Redemption-grace
found
them
.
Now
Adoption
alters
this
relation
,
and
being
taken
out
of
this
Family
by
effectual
calling
,
they
are
by
Adoption
entred
into
a
new
Relation
,
and
made
the
Sons
and
Daughters
of
God
,
Gal.
4.
4.
Now
they
can
call
God
their
Father
,
Christ
their
Husband
;
the
Saints
their
Brethren
,
verse
.
5.
Eph.
2.
19.
Ye
are
no
more
Strangers
,
and
Forreigners
,
but
Fellow
Citizens
with
the
Saints
,
and
of
the
Houshold
of
God
.
Secondly
,
A
change
of
Obligation
;
they
were
bound
to
the
Law
of
Satan
,
under
the
Law
of
Sin
,
and
Slavery
of
the
World
,
led
Captive
by
Satan
at
his
Will
,
Col.
1.
13.
But
when
Adoption-grace
comes
,
it
delivers
them
from
this
Obligation
,
and
they
are
brought
under
the
power
of
God
,
and
Scepter
of
his
Kingdom
,
Acts
26.
18.
Rom.
6.
14
,
17
,
18.
Heb.
1.
8.
Thirdly
,
a
change
of
Disposition
;
they
have
the
Nature
and
Spirit
of
Children
,
Gal.
4.
6.
Because
ye
are
Sons
,
God
hath
sent
forth
the
Spirit
of
his
Son
into
your
Hearts
,
&c.
They
were
by
Nature
Enemies
,
but
now
are
Children
;
they
have
a
disposition
to
love
God
,
to
honour
and
obey
him
,
't
is
their
Meat
and
Drink
to
do
his
will
,
Joh.
4.
34.
Mal.
1.
6.
To
serve
Christ
before
was
burdensome
,
but
now
delightful
:
The
Love
of
Christ
constrains
them
:
'T
is
as
natural
for
them
now
to
obey
Christ
,
as
ever
it
was
to
rebel
against
him
;
they
are
never
satisfi'd
but
when
God
is
well
pleas'd
.
Fourthly
,
A
change
in
their
State
and
Condition
;
they
are
brought
into
a
state
of
Glorious
Priviledges
,
in
respect
of
,
1.
Liberty
,
2.
Rights
and
Interests
.
3.
Boldness
.
4.
Instruction
.
5.
Correction
.
6.
Provision
.
7.
Protection
.
8.
Inheritance
:
And
by
these
the
state
of
an
Adopted
Soul
appears
to
be
a
glorious
state
.
First
,
They
are
brought
into
a
state
of
Freedom
,
Joh.
8.
36.
If
the
Son
shall
make
you
free
then
are
you
free
indeed
(
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
)
The
word
Imports
that
Freedom
that
is
opposed
to
Servitude
,
as
it
appears
also
by
the
word
,
ver.
33.
Christ
tells
them
,
ver.
32.
The
truth
shall
make
them
free
;
And
they
answered
him
;
We
be
Abrahams
seed
,
and
were
never
in
bondage
to
any
Man
:
So
that
by
freedom
here
,
Christ
intends
a
delivering
of
them
from
that
bondage
they
were
in
by
reason
of
sin
and
Satan
:
and
he
tells
them
that
this
is
that
freedom
that
comes
by
him
;
all
that
are
the
Children
of
God
are
free
Men
and
Women
.
1
Cor.
7.
22.
2
Cor.
3.
17.
Where
the
Spirit
of
the
Lord
is
there
is
liberty
:
The
Apostle
tells
them
,
ver.
8.
That
the
Ministration
of
the
Spirit
is
much
more
glorious
than
that
of
the
Law
,
or
letter
;
that
is
,
the
Ministry
of
the
Gospel
is
far
more
Excellent
than
that
of
the
Law
,
which
he
proves
by
several
arguments
:
And
here
he
tells
us
that
the
Lord
is
that
Spirit
,
that
is
,
the
Lord
Jesus
is
the
Author
of
that
Spirit
,
or
Spritual
Ministration
,
under
the
Gospel
,
and
where
that
Spirit
or
Administration
is
,
or
where
the
Soul
is
brought
into
this
Gospel-state
,
there
is
liberty
,
Rom.
8.
21.
Now
this
liberty
that
all
the
Children
of
God
are
brought
into
is
a
two-fold
liberty
.
1.
A
liberty
from
Servitude
.
2.
A
liberty
to
service
.
Or
as
a
Reverend
writer
expresseth
it
:
A
liberty
from
the
Family
of
Satan
,
and
liberty
in
the
Family
of
God
.
There
are
some
things
which
all
Adopted
Souls
have
a
liberty
from
,
and
some
things
they
have
a
liberty
in
or
to
.
First
,
All
that
are
Adopted
in
Christ
are
set
free
from
that
slavery
they
were
in
under
the
Law
Sin
,
Satan
,
and
the
World
.
They
are
freed
from
Bondage
under
the
Law
,
from
Bondage-work
,
and
Bondage-wrath
:
All
that
are
under
the
Law
of
Moses
,
as
all
are
who
are
out
of
Christ
,
are
oblig'd
to
Bondage-work
,
to
the
work
of
slaves
,
not
of
free
Men.
First
,
they
are
bound
to
do
work
that
is
above
their
strength
,
which
they
can
never
perform
,
Rom.
8.
3.
The
Law
was
weak
through
the
flesh
,
that
is
,
there
was
an
impotency
in
fallen
Man
ever
to
fulfil
the
Law
,
or
attain
life
by
it
:
The
Law
required
perfect
,
and
perpetual
Obedience
;
but
this
could
never
be
performed
by
sinful
Man
,
and
therefore
legal-work
,
was
hard
work
,
work
never
to
be
done
by
fallen
Man
,
and
this
is
bondage-work
.
Secondly
;
Legal-work
is
mercenary
work
;
Do
this
and
live
.
Gal.
3.
12.
The
Man
that
doth
them
shall
live
in
them
:
Like
a
Servant
,
if
he
doth
his
work
he
shall
have
his
wages
,
if
not
he
must
expect
nothing
;
and
this
is
hard
indeed
,
that
the
poor
weak
Creature
that
is
utterly
destitute
of
all
strength
,
worth
,
and
ability
,
must
have
no
more
than
can
deserve
.
Thirdly
;
'T
is
rigorous
work
,
prest
by
arguments
of
severity
,
threatnings
of
death
and
Hell
to
all
the
Transgressours
of
it
.
Gal.
3.
10.
Cursed
is
every
one
that
continueth
not
in
all
things
written
in
the
book
of
the
Law
to
do
them
.
Fourthly
;
'T
is
fruitless
work
,
works
that
cannot
make
the
comers
thereunto
perfect
.
Heb.
9.
9.
'T
is
Labour
in
vain
.
Heb.
10.
1.
Fifthly
;
'T
is
work
without
Wages
,
no
reward
at
all
could
ever
be
received
from
it
.
Gal.
3.
21
,
22.
For
had
there
been
a
Law
which
could
have
given
Life
,
verily
Righteousness
had
been
by
the
Law
.
But
the
Scripture
hath
concluded
all
under
sin
.
&c.
There
is
no
Life
,
no
Crown
,
no
Kingdom
at
all
is
the
reward
of
all
such
labours
.
Sixthly
,
'T
is
work
that
will
surely
end
in
death
:
Let
men
work
never
so
hard
yet
they
must
dye
,
and
be
damn'd
at
last
for
falling
short
,
and
this
is
bondage-work
indeed
;
but
the
Children
of
God
are
freed
from
this
work
,
Rom.
7.
6.
But
now
we
are
delivered
from
the
Law
,
that
being
dead
wherein
we
are
held
,
that
we
should
serve
in
newness
of
Spirit
,
and
not
in
oldness
of
the
letter
.
Again
,
As
they
are
freed
from
bondage-work
,
so
are
they
freed
from
bondage-wrath
:
The
wrath
of
God
is
upon
all
the
Children
of
disobedience
;
all
Christless
Souls
are
Children
of
wrath
,
bound
over
to
an
Inheritance
of
wrath
,
Eph.
5.
6.
Chap.
2.
3.
Because
the
Law
worketh
wrath
,
Rom.
4.
15.
It
brings
all
its
Servants
under
wrath
,
under
the
curse
,
and
under
death
.
Rom.
6.
23.
But
from
this
also
are
all
the
Sons
of
God
freed
,
Heb.
2.
14.
And
destroyed
him
that
had
the
power
of
death
,
that
is
the
Devil
.
And
not
only
from
the
Devil
,
but
from
the
works
of
the
Devil
.
1
Joh.
3.
8.
Rom.
6.
14.
Chap.
8.
2.
Gal.
3.
13.
Again
they
are
free
from
all
yokes
of
bondage
laid
on
their
Consciences
by
Men.
Gal.
5.
1.
1
Cor.
7.
23.
Ye
are
bought
with
a
price
,
be
not
ye
the
Servants
of
Men
:
Do
not
give
up
your
Faith
and
Conscience
to
their
Commands
,
obey
not
them
contrary
to
the
Command
of
Christ
.
Gal.
1.
10
,
11.
if
I
yet
pleased
men
I
should
not
be
the
Servant
of
Christ
.
This
is
the
first
part
of
liberty
the
Children
of
God
are
brought
into
,
even
a
liberty
from
Servitude
.
Secondly
,
They
have
a
liberty
to
service
in
the
Worship
of
God
:
Their
service
of
God
is
free
and
ingenuous
Service
;
their
offerings
are
free-will
Offerings
.
Psa.
119.
108.
Accept
the
free-will
offerings
of
my
mouth
.
That
is
,
those
offerings
or
vows
which
my
mouth
hath
freely
offered
.
The
Children
of
God
are
a
willing
people
,
Psa.
110.
3.
They
serve
the
Lord
freely
from
the
heart
,
Rom.
6.
17.
They
obey
from
the
heart
that
form
of
Doctrine
deliver'd
to
them
;
They
delight
in
the
Law
of
God
after
the
inner
Man
,
Rom.
7.
22.
The
strictest
Service
of
God
is
to
them
the
most
desired
liberty
,
the
Commands
of
God
are
no
wayes
grievous
to
them
;
that
is
,
to
their
inner
Man
,
indeed
so
far
as
flesh
and
Corruption
get
head
,
they
drag
heavily
to
duty
,
when
the
spring
of
their
motions
,
even
their
child-like
love
to
God
is
abated
,
and
all
the
Indispositions
of
a
child
of
God
flow
from
decaies
of
love
to
God
,
and
some
abatement
of
the
Adoption-Spirit
in
him
:
The
Children
of
God
are
never
in
their
Element
,
or
as
they
would
be
,
but
when
their
hearts
slow
out
after
God
,
and
they
can
run
the
paths
of
his
Commandements
,
this
they
pray
and
labour
for
,
Psa.
119.
32.
I
will
run
the
way
of
thy
Commandements
when
thou
shalt
enlarge
my
heart
.
So
ver.
69.
I
will
keep
thy
precepts
with
my
whole
heart
.
Their
hearts
move
naturally
after
God
when
in
their
right
temper
:
As
the
Waters
run
towards
the
Sea
,
and
the
Sun
runs
his
race
:
Their
service
of
God
comes
from
a
new
Principle
,
even
from
Faith
that
works
by
love
,
and
is
directed
to
new
and
higher
ends
,
than
all
the
services
of
Hypocrites
:
The
sense
of
divine
love
constrains
them
to
duty
,
that
they
cannot
but
chuse
the
things
that
please
God
,
further
than
they
are
bound
back
by
Corruption
,
and
Temptation
;
their
works
are
wrought
in
God
from
a
Principle
of
life
,
raised
and
revived
by
grace
;
They
have
no
mercenary
aimes
in
their
Duties
to
attain
any
carnal
selfish
end
below
God
,
but
their
Motives
are
high
and
heavenly
,
pure
and
spiritual
,
as
the
Love
of
God
,
and
care
they
have
to
please
him
:
They
see
a
beauty
in
Holiness
,
and
a
pleasantness
in
the
ways
of
God
,
and
find
a
sutableness
in
their
hearts
,
to
love
these
though
under
never
s●
great
discouragements
,
and
disadvantages
a●
to
flesh
and
blood
;
hence
't
is
a
Child
of
God
cannot
cast
off
God
and
his
Worship
,
though
he
see
nothing
of
good
or
comfort
coming
in
by
them
,
nor
be
perswaded
to
consent
to
any
thing
that
is
sinful
,
though
to
save
his
purse
,
person
,
yea
life
it self
:
All
the
threatnings
of
Men
,
or
visible
dangers
in
his
way
,
can't
bring
his
heart
to
comply
with
ungodliness
,
or
speak
or
do
any
thing
against
God
,
his
people
,
or
wayes
,
2
Cor.
13.
8.
We
can
do
nothing
against
the
truth
.
None
but
a
Judas
can
come
with
a
Band
of
men
and
Officers
against
Christ
to
apprehend
him
,
or
his
people
for
owning
him
:
Micaiah
would
speak
nothing
against
the
truth
,
though
to
please
a
King
.
1
Kings
22.
17.
Nor
Jacobs
Soul
enter
into
the
secret
of
the
wicked
in
their
sinful
enterprise
:
A
fearful
Peter
may
forsake
the
professing
of
Christ
for
a
time
,
but
he
will
not
be
seen
on
the
side
of
those
that
do
oppose
him
;
no
,
this
is
far
from
the
true
Spirit
of
Gods
Children
:
We
read
of
the
Christians
in
the
primitive
times
,
that
left
their
preferments
,
rather
than
they
would
be
seen
against
Christ
people
;
and
the
whole
Legion
chose
rather
to
lay
down
their
lives
,
than
to
oppose
their
fellow
Christians
:
Such
shufflings
and
Compliances
are
opposed
to
the
Spirit
of
the
true
Children
of
God
;
they
can
run
after
God
in
a
Wilderness
,
but
cannot
be
drawn
against
God
by
all
the
World
.
Secondly
,
They
have
new
Rights
and
Interests
:
Believers
being
once
entred
into
the
Family
of
God
by
Christ
,
are
presently
invested
with
new
and
Glorious
Rights
whic●
they
never
had
before
,
nor
any
besides
the
Chil●ren
of
God
have
or
can
ever
have
;
which
will
appear
in
these
fix
things
.
First
,
They
have
a
right
to
the
special
and
blessed
presence
of
God
the
Father
,
Son
,
and
Spirit
.
Psa.
140.
13.
The
upright
shall
dwell
in
thy
presence
.
The
upright
,
that
is
,
the
faithful
,
the
Children
of
God
,
these
shall
dwell
in
thy
presence
,
in
thy
special
presence
,
for
all
Men
and
Devils
are
in
the
general
presence
of
God
,
but
the
Saints
shall
be
in
Gods
special
presence
;
and
not
step
into
it
only
as
strangers
may
,
but
continue
for
ever
as
Sons
.
Joh.
8.
35.
The
servant
abideth
not
in
the
house
for
ever
,
but
the
Son
abideth
ever
,
Psa.
26.
6.
Secondly
.
They
have
a
right
to
the
purchase
of
Christ
,
to
all
the
fruit
of
his
Obedience
,
and
sufferings
:
His
blood
is
theirs
,
with
all
the
procurements
of
it
.
Isa.
53.
5.
He
was
wounded
for
our
Transgressions
,
he
was
bruised
for
our
Iniquities
,
the
chastisement
of
our
peace
was
upon
him
,
and
by
his
stripes
we
are
healed
:
whatever
Christ
dyed
for
according
to
the
agreement
betwixt
the
Father
and
him
,
is
the
Right
of
his
Children
,
Joh.
17.
9.
Thirdly
,
They
have
right
to
the
Promises
,
2
Pet.
1.
4.
Whereby
are
given
to
us
exceeding
great
and
precious
promises
.
Whereby
,
that
is
,
by
the
knowledge
of
him
,
as
ver.
3.
Or
through
Faith
in
him
,
that
is
,
by
Jesus
Christ
we
come
to
have
right
to
the
promises
,
for
all
the
promises
are
in
him
Yea
and
Amen
,
2
Cor.
1.
20.
The
promises
of
this
Life
and
of
that
which
is
to
come
,
all
are
theirs
,
1
Tim.
4.
8.
Fourthly
,
They
have
Right
to
Communion
with
,
and
to
the
blessing
of
the
whole
Family
of
Christ
:
Being
entred
into
Gods
Family
,
they
have
a
Right
to
fellowship
with
all
his
people
,
1
Cor.
12.
13.
For
by
one
Spirit
are
we
baptised
into
one
Body
,
whether
we
be
Jews
or
Gentiles
,
Bond
or
Free
,
and
have
been
all
made
to
drink
into
one
Spirit
.
The
great
design
of
the
Apostle
in
this
chap.
is
to
shew
that
all
Believers
are
brought
into
nearest
Union
with
Christ
,
and
each
other
,
even
into
one
body
;
this
he
proves
in
this
ver.
by
the
end
of
the
Ordinances
of
Baptism
,
and
the
Supper
,
both
which
do
signifie
and
seal
up
Believers
into
the
nearest
Union
and
Communion
,
by
reason
of
which
they
have
equal
right
to
one
another
,
and
the
whole
body
,
they
have
right
to
Communion
with
Angels
and
Saints
:
All
the
Sons
and
Daughters
of
God
,
have
right
to
his
House
;
to
his
Church
,
and
all
the
priviledges
of
it
,
Isa.
56.
5.
Ordinances
and
Ministers
are
theirs
,
1
Cor.
3.
22
,
23.
Yea
,
they
have
right
to
the
blessings
of
God
on
all
:
Psalm
.
3.
8.
Thy
blessing
is
upon
thy
People
,
Eph.
1.
3.
Fifthly
,
They
have
a
right
to
all
the
good
things
of
this
Life
,
Rev.
21.
7.
He
that
overcometh
shall
inherit
all
things
:
Even
the
good
things
of
this
Life
,
Ps.
37.
9.
They
that
wait
on
the
Lord
shall
inherit
the
Earth
.
They
are
Heirs
with
Christ
,
who
is
Heir
of
all
things
,
Heb.
1.
2.
They
have
through
Christ
a
Right
to
all
the
good
things
of
this
world
,
so
far
as
God
sees
it
best
for
them
;
they
have
their
right
in
the
Second
Adam
,
who
is
Lord
of
all
;
this
is
a
New-Covenant-Right
;
not
over
other
mens
rights
to
invade
or
break
the
civil
properties
of
any
,
but
to
those
Creatures
God
gives
them
,
and
to
the
good
of
all
things
,
even
wants
and
enjoyments
,
and
have
a
sanctified
use
of
them
,
which
none
but
the
Children
of
God
have
,
Tit.
1.
15.
Sixthly
,
They
have
Right
to
the
inheritance
of
Glory
,
Tit.
3.
7.
1
Pet.
1.
3
,
4.
Heaven
is
the
Country
,
Home
,
and
Inheritance
of
all
Saints
:
Their
Title
is
founded
on
the
Purchase
of
Christ
,
and
Adoption
of
Grace
:
not
upon
their
Merit
or
Holiness
;
and
therefore
't
is
called
on
the
account
of
Christ
,
the
purchased
possession
,
Eph.
1.
14.
Which
is
the
earnest
of
our
inheritance
,
until
the
Redemption
of
the
purchased
Possession
.
That
is
until
we
are
actually
redeemed
from
Corruption
,
and
put
into
the
possession
of
purchased
Glory
;
yea
their
Reversion
in
Heaven
is
so
freely
procured
for
them
,
without
any
of
their
money
or
price
,
duties
or
obedience
,
further
than
't
is
the
way
to
walk
in
to
Glory
;
that
Eternal
Life
is
said
to
be
the
gift
of
God
,
Rom.
6.
23.
Death
comes
by
Man's
merit
,
but
not
Life
and
Salvation
:
and
is
not
this
a
glorious
state
,
and
blessed
condition
,
to
be
made
Heirs
,
and
Coheirs
with
Christ
?
Rom.
8.
17.
And
if
Children
,
then
heirs
,
and
Joynt-heirs
with
Christ
:
partakers
of
the
same
Rights
with
him
,
Heirs
of
the
Righteousness
of
Faith
,
Heb.
11.
7.
So
was
Abraham
,
and
so
are
are
all
Believers
;
they
have
a
right
to
Justification
,
by
believing
;
and
a
right
to
the
Kingdom
of
Glory
,
Jam.
2.
5.
Heirs
of
the
Kingdom
:
They
have
as
good
a
Title
to
this
by
Grace
,
and
through
the
purchase
of
Christ
,
as
any
man
to
an
Inheritance
here
on
Earth
,
yea
,
and
far
more
sure
of
it
;
for
men
may
be
turn'd
out
of
their
Rights
and
Properties
here
;
but
Believers
cannot
be
deprived
of
their
Title
,
and
Inheritance
through
Christ
.
Seventhly
,
They
have
an
interest
in
Gods
love
,
they
are
upon
his
Heart
at
all
times
,
Joh.
16.
27.
For
the
Father
himself
loveth
you
:
He
loves
with
an
infinite
Love
,
a
Love
passing
knowledge
,
and
transcending
the
love
of
all
Creatures
,
Isa.
49.
15.
A
Mother
may
forget
her
Child
,
but
God
cannot
forget
his
:
He
loves
at
all
times
;
Eternally
,
and
unchangeably
:
He
loves
his
Children
ardently
,
when
they
have
but
little
love
to
him
:
He
loves
them
notwithstanding
their
unkindnesses
and
provocations
,
Psal.
89.
31
,
32
,
33.
He
loves
them
when
he
seems
to
be
angry
with
them
,
and
is
forced
to
correct
them
,
Heb.
12.
6.
He
always
thinketh
on
them
for
good
,
Jer.
29.
11.
I
know
the
thoughts
I
think
towards
you
,
saith
the
Lord
,
thoughts
of
Peace
,
and
not
of
Evil.
He
is
very
tender
of
them
,
and
hath
the
bowels
of
a
Compassionate
Father
towards
them
,
Psal.
103.
8
,
13.
Mal.
3.
17.
And
I
will
spare
them
as
a
man
spareth
his
Son
that
serv●th
him
.
Eighthly
,
They
have
a
right
to
the
Spirit
of
Grace
,
the
Spirit
is
put
into
their
Hearts
,
Gal.
4.
6.
Not
the
spirit
of
Bondage
,
but
of
Adoption
,
Rom.
8.
15
,
16.
They
have
union
with
the
Spirit
never
to
be
seperated
more
,
v.
11.
they
have
the
Spirit
of
Grace
and
Supplication
,
Zach.
12.
10.
To
quicken
,
teach
,
influence
,
assist
in
Duty
,
and
make
intercession
for
them
,
Rom.
8.
26.
O
what
a
blessed
priviledge
is
this
to
have
the
Spirit
of
the
Son
,
whereby
they
can
go
to
God
as
a
Father
,
and
to
have
the
Spirit
working
in
them
the
disposition
,
and
working
for
them
the
actions
of
Sons
.
Thirdly
,
They
have
holy
and
reverential
boldness
to
come
into
the
presence
of
God
through
his
Son
,
Ps.
26.
6.
I
will
wash
my
ha●ds
in
innocency
,
and
so
will
I
compass
thine
Alter
,
Eph.
2.
18.
For
through
him
we
both
have
access
by
one
Spirit
unto
the
Father
.
They
can
come
to
God
at
all
times
,
and
behold
his
Face
in
Righteousness
,
unless
their
sins
do
cause
him
to
hide
himself
for
a
time
,
Eph.
3.
12.
And
plead
their
cause
through
Christ
with
boldness
,
Heb
10.
19
,
20.
And
they
are
not
only
free
to
come
,
but
sure
to
speed
,
Joh.
16.
23
,
24.
1
Joh.
5.
14
,
15.
Fourthly
,
Instruction
is
another
Priviledge
of
Sons
,
They
shall
be
taught
of
God
,
Isa.
54.
1●
.
He
will
teach
,
instruct
,
and
shew
them
things
they
know
not
:
He
will
lead
th●m
into
all
truth
,
Joh.
16.
16.
The
Spirit
searcheth
the
deep
things
of
God
,
and
revealeth
them
to
the
Saints
,
1
Cor.
2.
20.
He
wll
teach
them
all
things
which
they
are
able
to
bear
:
They
shall
have
the
openings
of
Christs
mind
,
to
steer
their
course
whiles
in
this
Wilderness
of
the
World
,
and
shall
receive
the
revelation
of
all
truths
necessary
to
Salvation
.
Fifthly
,
They
have
choice
and
delicate
provisions
,
and
rich
maintenance
;
this
is
the
duty
of
Parents
to
provide
for
their
Obedient
and
indigent
Children
,
1
Tim.
5.
8.
But
if
any
man
provide
not
for
his
own
House
he
hath
denyed
the
Faith
:
He
cares
for
his
Children
,
Mat.
6.
31
,
32.
1
Pet.
5.
7.
He
that
gives
his
Son
,
how
can
he
but
with
him
freely
give
us
all
things
,
Rom.
8.
32.
Phil.
4.
19.
My
God
shall
supply
all
your
wants
:
He
that
gives
a
Kingdom
at
the
Journeys
end
,
will
not
deny
Bread
and
Water
in
the
way
:
He
will
provide
for
their
Bodies
and
Souls
,
for
their
Persons
and
Families
.
Sixthly
,
Correction
is
theirs
,
Psal.
89.
32.
Heb.
12.
8.
Correction
is
the
Saints
Priviledge
,
and
great
advantage
;
they
have
need
of
it
,
1
Pet.
1.
6.
Though
for
a
season
,
if
need
be
,
you
are
in
heaviness
,
&c.
And
they
have
advantage
by
it
,
Psa.
119.
71.
It
is
good
for
me
that
I
have
been
afflicted
,
Heb.
12.
10.
But
he
for
our
profit
.
Seventhly
,
Protection
is
another
priviledge
of
Children
:
He
will
keep
them
as
the
Apple
of
his
Eye
,
Psa.
17.
8.
He
will
hide
them
in
the
secret
of
his
Tabernacle
,
Ps.
31.
20.
He
will
keep
them
Day
and
Night
,
Isa.
27.
3.
He
gives
his
Angels
charge
concerning
them
,
Psa.
91.
11
,
12.
Heb.
1.
14.
Lastly
,
The
Kingdom
is
theirs
:
O
think
what
rest
,
what
joy
,
what
holiness
,
what
perfection
,
what
immutability
,
and
Eternity
of
Glory
is
in
Heaven
!
and
say
,
all
this
is
my
Estate
by
Adoption
;
I
shall
one
day
be
possessed
of
it
;
here
I
am
poor
,
but
there
I
shall
be
rich
,
here
I
am
empty
and
hungry
,
there
I
shall
be
full
:
here
I
am
despised
,
there
I
shall
be
honoured
;
here
I
have
not
a
house
▪
lay
my
head
in
,
there
I
shall
have
a
Mansion
to
all
Eternity
;
here
one
and
another
says
,
come
sit
at
my
Foot
,
there
shall
I
sit
on
a
Throne
,
and
be
a
Crowned
King
for
ever
:
Here
my
Comforts
go
,
and
my
troubles
stay
;
worms
breed
in
all
my
enjoyments
,
but
thereis
no
Rust
,
nor
Moth
;
no
Decay
,
nor
Death
.
O
blessed
state
indeed
that
Believers
are
Adopted
to
in
Christ
!
Fifthly
,
The
last
considerable
thing
in
Adoption
is
,
the
Duties
that
flow
from
such
a
state
,
and
this
is
part
of
their
priviledge
also
,
as
being
the
Fruit
of
an
Adoption-state
,
and
that
which
they
are
purchas'd
as
well
as
oblig'd
unto
by
the
blood
of
Christ
;
all
the
filial
duties
of
Believers
are
the
fruits
of
Adoption-Grace
,
Gal.
4.
6.
Because
ye
are
Sons
,
God
hath
sent
forth
the
Spirit
of
his
Son
into
your
Hearts
.
The
Spirit
of
his
Son
to
make
you
really
such
,
and
to
form
in
you
the
Nature
,
and
work
you
to
the
duty
of
Sons
.
So
that
Adopted
Souls
are
not
only
chosen
of
God
to
be
heirs
with
Christ
,
but
are
also
begotten
of
God
into
the
Nature
and
Image
of
Christ
,
Rom.
8
:
29.
Whom
he
did
foreknow
,
them
he
did
predestinate
to
be
conformed
to
the
Image
of
his
Son
;
that
as
Christ
carryed
himself
as
a
Son
,
so
should
the
Children
of
God
in
their
measure
,
and
time
and
that
by
the
same
Spirit
.
Now
these
duties
which
Gods
Children
are
spirited
and
engaged
to
,
are
,
First
,
To
love
God
as
their
Father
,
even
from
a
sense
of
his
Fatherly
love
,
1
Joh.
4.
19.
We
love
him
because
he
first
loved
us
.
Deut.
6.
5.
Thou
shalt
love
the
Lord
thy
God
with
all
thy
heart
,
with
all
thy
Soul
,
and
with
all
thy
might
:
The
Lord
thy
God
,
because
he
hath
pleased
to
make
thee
his
Son
,
and
to
place
thee
in
so
near
and
high
relation
to
himself
,
Psa.
31.
23.
O
love
the
Lord
all
ye
his
Saints
:
You
that
are
set
apart
for
him
,
and
Sanctified
by
him
;
O
you
of
all
Persons
from
the
sense
of
this
relation
should
love
him
.
This
is
a
filial
duty
,
and
so
essential
to
Sons
,
as
that
't
is
put
for
the
ground
of
all
their
Obedience
.
Joh.
14.
13.
If
a
man
love
me
,
he
will
keep
my
word
,
and
my
Father
will
love
him
;
that
is
,
manifest
his
love
to
him
as
a
Father
.
This
is
not
a
forced
but
a
natural
love
to
God
arising
from
that
new
Nature
and
Spirit
of
Adoption
in
them
;
so
that
a
Child
of
God
may
as
well
cease
to
be
a
Child
,
as
cease
to
have
a
disposition
to
love
him
:
Indeed
a
gracious
Soul
may
not
alwayes
actually
love
God
,
but
he
hath
a
disposition
to
love
him
,
and
can
appeal
to
God
that
he
knows
he
would
love
him
,
and
there
is
nothing
in
all
the
World
he
can
value
like
him
.
Secondly
,
To
obey
him
,
1
Pet.
1.
14.
As
obedient
Children
,
not
fashioning
your selves
according
to
former
Lusts
.
'T
is
a
great
duty
of
Children
to
obey
their
Parents
in
all
things
lawful
,
and
so
they
that
are
Gods
Children
are
much
more
oblig'd
to
obey
God
,
whose
relation
much
more
binds
them
,
being
so
far
above
all
other
relations
,
whose
love
constrains
them
,
2
Cor.
5.
14.
whose
Laws
invite
them
,
they
being
holy
,
just
,
and
good
,
Rom.
7.
12.
Whose
rewards
also
encourageth
them
,
there
is
a
reward
in
keeping
them
,
Psa.
19.
11.
and
a
reward
upon
those
that
keep
them
,
Rev.
2.
10.
Now
this
Child-like
obedience
differs
from
all
other
obedience
;
in
that
,
1.
'T
is
the
fruit
of
faith
,
Joh.
8.
47.
He
that
is
of
God
heareth
Gods
word
,
that
is
obeyeth
Gods
word
;
but
what
an
Obedience
is
this
,
see
the
former
ver.
It
is
an
Obedience
from
faith
,
ver.
46.
If
I
say
the
truth
why
do
ye
not
believe
me
?
2.
'T
is
the
labour
of
love
,
1
Thes.
1.
3.
Remembring
without
ceasing
your
work
of
Faith
and
labour
of
love
.
3.
'T
is
delightful
Obedience
,
Rom.
7.
22.
I
delight
in
the
Law
of
God
after
the
inner
Man
.
Thirdly
,
A
fear
of
offending
him
,
Hos.
3.
5.
And
shall
fear
the
Lord
and
his
goodness
in
the
latter
daies
.
This
is
a
filial
fear
arising
from
their
relation
to
God
as
their
Father
,
1
Pet.
1.
17.
And
if
you
call
on
the
Father
,
&c.
pass
the
time
of
your
sojourning
here
in
fear
.
This
is
a
fear
springing
from
and
consisting
with
love
;
there
is
a
fear
that
love
casteth
out
,
1
Joh.
4.
18.
perfect
love
casteth
out
fear
,
that
is
slavish
fear
:
'T
is
such
a
fear
as
keeps
the
Soul
close
to
God
,
and
not
drive
him
from
him
,
Jer.
34.
40.
O
how
fearful
is
such
a
Soul
of
offending
God
,
Job
34.
31.
He
will
do
all
he
can
to
prevent
sin
,
Psa.
119.
11.
Thy
word
have
I
hid
in
my
heart
that
I
may
not
sin
against
thee
.
Fourthly
,
A
zeal
for
Gods
glory
,
Psa.
69.
9.
The
zeal
of
thine
house
hath
eaten
me
up
:
That
is
,
the
zeal
which
I
have
for
thy
house
or
for
thy
pure
Worship
,
against
them
that
would
corrupt
it
,
hath
like
fire
consumed
me
.
Zeal
is
the
burning
fire
of
love
which
will
not
bear
any
thing
that
dishonours
God
:
So
Phinehas
could
not
endure
to
see
God
dishonoured
by
the
whoredomes
of
his
People
,
but
in
his
zeal
executes
the
Law
upon
one
of
the
highest
offenders
,
Numb.
25.
11.
The
want
of
the
zeal
made
Laodicea
in
danger
of
being
spued
out
of
Gods
mouth
,
Rev.
3.
16.
and
therefore
God
calls
her
to
Repentance
,
and
to
this
zealous
Spirit
in
his
Worship
,
ver.
19.
Be
zealous
and
Repent
.
This
zeal
was
that
Child-like
temper
that
God
commended
in
Ephesus
,
Rev.
2.
2.
Thou
canst
not
bear
them
that
are
evil
:
A
zealous
Soul
cannot
suffer
any
reproach
on
Gods
Name
,
Psa.
69.
20.
Reproach
hath
broken
my
heart
.
This
Child-like
zeal
in
Craesus
dumb
Son
open'd
his
mouth
when
his
Father
was
in
danger
to
be
slain
.
Fifthly
,
A
fiducial
dependence
on
his
care
and
faithfulness
,
Psa.
23.
1.
The
Lord
is
my
shepheard
,
I
shall
not
want
:
Rom.
8.
32.
1
Pet.
5.
7.
Casting
all
your
care
upon
him
,
for
he
careth
for
you
:
This
was
the
Child-like
confidence
of
Job
in
his
God
,
Job
13.
15.
Though
he
slay
me
yet
will
I
trust
in
him
:
This
dependence
on
the
Fathers
care
quieted
Musculus
,
when
he
was
forc'd
to
labour
in
the
Town
Ditch
for
his
Maintenance
.
Est
deus
in
Coelis
qui
providus
omnia
curat
,
Credentes
nunquam
deseruisse
potest
.
Mat.
6.
32.
Your
Heavenly
Father
knows
you
have
need
of
all
these
things
.
Sixthly
,
Humble
Submission
to
him
;
Heb.
12.
9.
Shall
we
not
much
rather
be
in
subjection
to
the
Father
of
Spirits
and
live
,
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
,
The
word
notes
an
orderly
subjection
,
according
to
that
order
and
place
in
which
God
hath
set
a
Man
,
that
subjection
that
is
in
an
Inferiour
to
a
Superiour
:
The
same
word
is
used
of
Christ
,
Luke
2.
51.
And
he
went
down
with
them
to
Nazareth
,
and
was
subject
to
them
,
that
is
,
submitted
himself
to
that
place
duty
he
owed
to
them
as
his
Parents
.
Seventhly
,
A
carefulness
to
please
him
,
Isa.
56.
4.
That
chuse
the
things
that
please
me
,
to
them
will
I
give
within
my
house
,
a
place
and
a
Name
better
than
of
Sons
and
Daughters
.
That
is
,
such
will
I
own
for
my
Family
,
my
Sons
and
Daughters
,
that
chuse
the
things
that
please
me
.
So
did
the
Lord
Jesus
evidence
his
filial
duty
to
his
Father
,
Joh.
8.
29.
I
do
alway
the
things
that
please
him
,
1
Joh.
3.
22.
Eighthly
,
An
endeavour
in
all
things
imitable
to
resemble
him
,
1
Pet.
1.
15.
As
he
that
called
you
is
holy
,
so
be
ye
holy
in
all
manner
of
Conversation
.
Luke
6.
36.
Be
ye
merciful
as
your
Father
in
Heaven
is
merciful
.
Mat.
5.
48.
Be
ye
perfect
as
your
Father
in
Heaven
is
perfect
;
that
is
,
In
the
grace
of
love
to
Enemies
.
Eph.
5.
1.
Be
ye
followers
of
of
God
as
dear
Children
.
Ninthly
,
A
labouring
to
walk
worthy
of
so
high
relation
,
and
nearness
unto
God
.
1
Thes.
2.
12.
That
you
walk
would
worthy
of
God
who
hath
called
you
to
his
Kingdom
and
Glory
:
Worthy
of
so
high
a
Calling
,
like
the
Children
of
a
King
;
like
Gideons
Brethren
,
who
all
resembled
the
Children
of
a
King
;
Judges
8.
18.
Your
duty
is
to
live
above
the
Children
of
this
World
,
who
only
are
wise
in
their
generation
,
Luke
16.
8.
But
be
ye
wise
in
the
things
of
God
,
evidenc●
your
highest
wisdom
to
be
in
keeping
●he
Law
of
the
Lord
,
Deut.
4.
6.
Live
like
them
that
are
Adopted
Heirs
of
a
Kingdom
,
even
the
Heavenly
Kingdom
,
that
fadeth
not
away
:
O
live
above
the
snares
and
fears
of
this
world
.
Lastly
,
A
maintaining
a
real
Love
to
your
Brethren
,
and
an
endeavour
to
live
peaceably
with
them
,
1
Pet.
3.
8.
Love
as
Brethren
,
be
pitiful
,
be
courteous
,
&c.
1
Joh.
5.
1.
Every
one
also
that
loves
him
that
begetteth
,
loveth
him
also
that
is
begotten
,
1
Joh.
3.
11.
Gen.
13.
8.
Let
there
be
no
strife
,
I
pray
thee
,
between
me
and
thee
,
between
my
Herdsmen
,
and
thy
Herdsmen
,
for
we
be
Brethren
,
Chap.
45.
24.
See
that
you
fall
not
out
by
the
way
,
2
Cor.
13.
11.
VSE
.
Thus
you
see
what
a
glorious
Treasure
Adoption-grace
is
;
view
over
this
Inventory
(
Believer
)
and
tell
me
what
thou
thinkest
of
it
:
Is
it
not
a
Treasure
indeed
,
which
all
the
Gold
of
Ophi●
cannot
equallize
?
Nor
all
the
glory
of
the
World
worthy
to
be
compared
with
?
And
see
all
this
procured
by
the
Sweat
and
Blood
,
the
Obedience
and
Death
of
the
Son
of
God
;
and
then
say
,
whether
Christ
be
not
precious
indeed
:
Look
upon
the
Children
of
this
World
in
all
their
Glory
;
view
their
priviledges
in
their
utmost
latitude
and
extent
;
and
answer
me
whether
a
Believer
in
rags
doth
not
far
surpass
them
.
Christ
speaks
of
Solomon
,
that
he
in
all
his
Glory
,
was
not
to
be
compared
to
one
Lilly
in
the
Field
.
So
one
Saint
,
and
Child
of
God
infinitely
excels
the
Great
men
of
this
World
,
in
all
their
Grandure
,
and
Advancements
.
O
then
admire
the
Lord
Jesus
on
this
account
also
,
for
procuring
Adoption-grace
.
1.
Quest.
But
how
may
I
know
whether
I
have
obtained
this
Adoption-grace
?
Answ.
This
is
a
point
worth
the
enquiring
into
,
and
satisfaction
in
so
fundamental
a
point
is
very
necessary
:
But
't
is
the
Office
of
Gods
Spirit
to
seal
us
up
to
the
day
of
Redemption
,
and
bear
witness
with
our
Spirits
that
we
are
the
Children
of
God
,
Rom.
8.
16.
Men
may
lay
down
marks
,
but
't
is
God
must
determine
the
Quest.
yet
notwithstanding
for
thy
resolution
,
(
Believer
)
consider
,
First
,
Such
are
partakers
of
the
Divine
Nature
,
and
are
really
Sons
,
as
well
as
Relatively
,
2
Pet.
1.
4.
They
have
the
Image
of
God
instampt
upon
their
Souls
:
They
have
the
seed
of
Holiness
,
Faith
,
Love
,
Hope
,
Patience
,
and
Humility
in
them
,
1
Joh.
3.
9.
Rom.
8.
29.
And
they
have
received
of
his
fulness
,
Grace
for
Grace
,
Joh.
1.
16.
Secondly
,
Such
prize
nothing
in
all
the
world
like
to
Relation
to
God
,
Ps.
73.
25.
1
Joh.
3.
1.
Behold
what
manner
of
Love
the
Father
hath
bestowed
on
us
,
that
we
should
be
called
the
Sons
of
God
.
Thirdly
,
Christ
is
exceeding
precious
to
such
in
whom
they
are
chosen
,
and
by
whom
this
Grace
comes
,
1
Pet.
2.
7.
To
you
that
believe
he
is
precious
.
None
in
Heaven
or
Earth
that
they
value
like
to
Christ
,
they
account
all
things
but
dross
and
dung
,
in
comparison
of
Christs
excellency
,
Phil.
3.
8.
Fourthly
,
Such
will
employ
their
greatest
care
to
imitate
God
,
Eph.
5.
1.
1
Joh.
3.
22.
Fifthly
,
such
have
a
Spirit
of
prayer
and
supplication
,
Rom.
8.
15
,
16.
Gal.
4.
6.
Because
ye
are
Sons
,
God
hath
sent
forth
the
Spirit
of
his
Son
into
your
hearts
,
crying
Abba
Father
:
Not
Parts
,
not
Light
,
not
the
gifts
of
Prayer
only
,
but
such
a
Soul
hath
the
Spirit
of
Prayer
,
very
strong
strains
of
Faith
and
Love
run
through
all
his
Duties
:
He
hath
a
Spirit
of
boldness
whereby
he
comes
to
God
as
to
a
Father
.
O
how
earnest
and
unwearied
are
his
breathings
after
God
;
what
wrestlings
with
God
in
secret
hath
he
,
what
pourings
out
of
strong
cries
to
him
as
Christ
did
in
the
days
of
his
Flesh
,
Heb.
5.
7.
O
the
struglings
!
O
the
wrestlings
!
O
the
ardent
breathings
of
such
for
the
pardon
of
their
sins
,
for
the
mortifying
of
their
lusts
,
and
for
the
reviving
of
their
graces
:
Now
where
the
Spirit
of
Adoption
is
,
there
is
the
state
.
Sixthly
,
Such
are
enabled
to
bear
,
and
profit
by
affliction
,
Heb.
12.
7.
If
you
endure
chastening
God
dealeth
with
you
as
with
Sons
.
Lastly
,
Such
have
endeared
affections
to
the
people
of
God
,
1
Joh.
3.
14.
We
know
we
have
passed
from
Death
to
Life
,
because
we
love
the
Brethren
.
2.
Quest.
What
must
we
do
to
obtain
this
Adoption-grace
.
Answ.
This
is
an
act
of
Sovereign
pleasure
,
and
Free-grace
,
Rom.
9.
15
,
16
,
18.
It
cannot
be
purchased
by
any
thing
in
,
or
done
by
the
Creature
.
You
cannot
with
Simon
Magus
buy
this
Relation
,
Act.
8.
18
,
19.
yet
there
are
some
ways
in
which
Adoption
grace
may
be
obtained
;
as
,
-
First
,
Get
your
Souls
separated
from
sin
,
2
Cor.
6.
17.
-
Secondly
,
Get
justifying
Faith
,
Eph.
2.
13
,
19.
-
Thirdly
,
Beg
the
Spirit
of
Adoption
,
Gal.
4.
6.
-
Lastly
,
Open
the
door
of
thy
heart
to
the
Spirit
,
Psa.
24.
7.
Rev
3.
20.
CHAP.
XX.
The
Confirmation
of
the
new
Covenant
is
the
Fruit
of
Christ's
purchase
,
prov'd
by
several
Arguments
.
ANother
glorious
Fruit
of
Christs
blood
,
and
purchased
Treasure
for
saved
Souls
,
is
,
the
establishment
of
the
new
Covenant
,
to
Believers
,
and
Believers
in
the
Covenant
.
This
is
the
certain
effect
of
Christ's
death
,
the
making
sure
the
Covenant
to
all
his
seed
:
That
there
is
no
more
possibility
of
making
it
void
to
the
Heirs
of
promise
.
This
is
the
great
thing
undertaken
in
the
new
Covenant
,
that
it
shall
be
sure
to
all
the
seed
,
Rom.
4.
16.
There
are
Eight
things
which
secure
this
to
Believers
.
First
,
This
new
Covenant
must
needs
be
firm
and
unalterable
,
because
the
reason
why
God
●●und
fault
with
the
old
Covenant
;
was
,
because
it
was
weak
,
and
could
not
secure
those
that
were
within
it
,
Heb.
8.
8
,
9.
Which
Covenant
they
brake
;
though
I
was
an
Husband
to
them
,
saith
the
Lord
,
Jer.
31.
32.
Now
if
this
were
the
reason
why
God
did
alter
the
first
Covenant
;
then
the
new
Covenant
he
makes
in
the
room
of
it
,
must
n●eds
be
free
from
this
Imperfection
and
mutability
,
or
else
it
would
abundantly
reflect
on
the
infinite
wisdom
of
God
to
make
a
new
Covenant
guilty
of
the
same
errour
.
Secondly
,
This
was
Gods
design
in
making
a
new
Covenant
,
that
it
might
be
ordered
in
all
things
,
and
sure
,
2
Sam.
23.
5.
That
it
might
be
firm
,
and
established
upon
better
promises
,
Heb.
8.
6.
Why
are
they
called
better
promises
?
Are
there
better
promises
than
the
promises
of
Heaven
and
Glory
?
They
are
called
better
,
because
more
pure
and
absolute
promises
,
and
because
it
was
Gods
design
to
make
them
sure
,
Rom.
4.
16.
Thirdly
,
It
is
confirmed
by
the
blood
of
Christ
,
and
therefore
the
blood
of
Christ
is
called
the
blood
of
the
Covenant
,
Mat.
26.
28.
This
is
my
blood
of
the
new
Testament
:
'T
is
the
blood
of
the
new
Testament
,
in
that
it
seals
to
the
fulfilling
of
this
Covenant
.
The
death
of
the
Testatour
makes
the
Testament
to
be
in
full
force
,
Heb.
9.
17.
That
now
all
the
Promises
and
Legacies
are
certain
,
and
cannot
be
disappointed
to
the
Legatees
and
Heirs
of
Salvation
.
Again
,
this
blood
of
Christ
is
the
blood
of
the
Covenant
,
and
confirms
it
,
in
that
it
makes
good
all
the
conditions
of
it
,
that
whatever
is
required
to
make
this
Covenant
good
,
is
undertaken
by
Christ
,
in
the
behalf
of
all
his
seed
,
and
therefore
he
is
called
the
surety
of
the
new
Covenant
,
Heb.
7.
22.
By
death
he
hath
fulfill'd
the
Condition
of
the
first
,
and
undertaken
for
the
fulfilling
of
this
new
Covenant
,
in
and
by
Believers
:
Yea
,
his
obedience
is
for
them
,
to
present
them
compleat
to
the
Father
,
notwithstanding
all
their
failings
.
Fourthly
,
This
new
Covenant
is
sure
to
Believers
,
because
the
Administation
of
it
is
in
the
hands
of
Christ
,
Heb.
8.
6.
But
now
he
hath
obtain'd
a
more
excellent
Ministery
,
by
how
much
he
is
the
Mediatour
of
a
better
Covenant
.
The
whole
trust
about
the
Administration
of
new-Covenant-blessings
,
is
devolved
on
Jesus
Christ
;
and
therefore
he
is
called
the
Mediator
,
and
Minister
of
the
Covenant
:
So
that
the
Covenant
must
needs
be
sure
,
seeing
the
dispose
thereof
is
by
compact
betwixt
the
Father
and
Christ
,
deliver'd
into
his
hand
upon
the
account
of
his
death
:
Now
he
that
is
the
Believers
Friend
,
Head
,
and
Husband
,
hath
all
power
in
Heaven
and
Earth
,
to
make
good
the
Covanent
to
them
,
Mat.
28.
18.
So
that
the
promises
of
the
Covenant
cannot
be
forfeited
by
Believers
,
being
made
over
to
Christ
as
to
a
Trustee
for
them
,
and
their
Covenant
state
also
being
so
surely
confirm'd
,
that
they
cannot
fall
from
it
.
Fifthly
,
Christ's
sufficiency
to
see
new-Covenant-promises
made
good
,
and
new-Covenantends
accomplished
to
them
,
is
security
enough
for
their
safety
.
He
is
an
alsufficient
Saviour
,
able
to
save
to
the
utmost
,
all
that
come
to
God
by
him
,
Heb.
7.
25.
He
is
able
to
see
Gods
part
fulfilled
,
having
all
the
promises
in
his
hand
,
and
all
the
things
promised
at
his
dispose
;
and
he
is
able
to
see
the
Believers
part
fulfilled
also
,
for
he
hath
all
that
in
him
which
is
needful
for
the
making
of
the
Condition
good
on
their
part
:
For
,
First
,
He
hath
all
Wisdom
in
him
,
to
make
them
wise
to
Salvation
,
Col.
2.
3.
He
is
made
of
God
to
his
people
Wisdom
,
1
Cor.
1.
30.
Appointed
of
God
to
receive
Wisdom
for
them
,
whatever
they
need
to
guide
them
in
the
way
,
and
fit
them
for
Salvation
:
Knowledge
is
necessary
to
Eternal
Life
,
Joh.
17.
3.
The
Image
of
God
consists
partly
in
it
,
Col.
3.
11.
Without
it
the
heart
is
not
good
,
Prov.
19.
2.
No
Faith
without
Knowledge
,
2
Cor.
4.
4.
No
Obedience
without
Knowledge
,
Psa.
18.
44.
This
is
needful
to
discern
the
wiles
of
Satan
,
2
Cor.
2.
11.
The
sinfulness
of
sin
,
Rom.
7.
13.
The
preciousness
of
Christ
,
1
Pet.
2.
7.
The
beauty
of
holiness
,
Ps.
110.
3.
The
love
of
Christ
,
that
passeth
knowledge
,
Eph.
3.
19.
The
hope
of
your
calling
,
and
the
things
freely
given
of
God
,
1
Cor.
2.
12.
And
for
this
end
all
Wisdom
is
laid
up
in
Christ
to
be
given
out
to
his
people
by
his
Spirit
through
his
word
;
hence
't
is
said
,
that
Believers
have
an
Unction
from
the
holy
one
,
to
teach
them
all
things
,
1
Joh.
2.
20
,
27.
And
the
promise
of
the
Spirit
is
made
to
them
,
to
lead
them
into
all
truth
,
Joh.
16.
13.
So
that
whatever
is
needful
for
Saints
to
fit
them
for
Covenant-Duties
and
Mercies
,
all
this
is
in
Christ
for
them
,
and
so
he
is
able
to
make
the
Covenant
good
to
them
.
Secondly
,
He
hath
all
Grace
in
him
that
tends
to
the
fulfilling
of
this
Covenant
in
Believers
and
for
them
:
He
hath
received
the
Spirit
without
measure
;
Joh.
3.
34.
And
why
is
this
?
But
that
from
his
fullness
Believers
may
receive
Grace
for
Grace
,
Joh.
1.
16.
He
is
the
fullness
that
filleth
all
in
all
,
Eph.
1.
23.
And
therefore
hath
promised
Grace
sufficient
to
his
people
in
all
their
temptations
,
2
Cor.
12.
9.
1
Cor.
10.
13.
under
all
their
burdens
,
Psa.
55.
22.
For
all
duties
and
undertakings
,
Phil.
2.
12
,
13.
Chap.
4.
13.
I
can
do
all
things
through
Christ
that
strengtheneth
me
.
Thirdly
,
He
hath
all
power
in
Heaven
,
and
Earth
put
into
his
hand
,
Math.
28.
18.
Power
to
bruise
Satan
under
his
peoples
feet
,
Rom.
16.
20.
To
subdue
Corruptions
in
them
,
Mic.
7.
19.
To
vanquish
all
their
Enemies
for
them
,
Joh.
16.
33.
Rev.
12.
11.
To
heal
all
their
backslidings
,
Hos.
14.
4.
To
work
all
their
works
in
them
,
and
for
them
,
Isa.
26.
12.
To
give
them
Faith
,
and
to
finish
it
,
Heb.
12.
2.
To
keep
them
faithful
to
the
death
,
2
Thes.
2.
3.
And
to
secure
the
promised
Fruit
of
all
for
them
,
Rev.
22.
12.
and
therefore
sufficiently
able
to
make
good
Covenant-Promises
to
them
,
and
to
fulfill
Covenant-duties
in
them
.
Sixthly
,
Christs
engagement
to
,
and
for
his
people
,
and
his
interest
in
them
,
is
another
ground
for
the
fulfilling
of
the
Covenant
;
Christ
hath
promised
the
Father
that
he
will
bring
them
all
to
Glory
,
and
hath
undertaken
all
their
work
for
them
,
Heb.
10.
7.
And
he
hath
promised
to
them
to
make
good
his
Covenant
when
he
perswaded
their
hearts
to
him
.
Heb.
8.
9
,
to
13.
Isa.
55.
11.
Again
his
own
interest
in
them
is
security
enough
:
All
the
fruit
of
his
death
and
purchase
lies
in
the
fulfilling
of
the
Covenant
;
if
that
be
broken
,
he
loseth
all
his
hopes
,
and
Obedience
,
he
hath
dyed
in
vain
,
his
blood
and
Intercession
are
to
no
purpose
,
for
herein
lies
all
the
travel
of
his
Soul
,
Isa.
53.
10
,
11.
In
this
is
the
enjoyment
of
all
his
delights
,
if
this
Covenant
be
not
sure
then
no
Soul
can
be
saved
,
and
Christ
should
lose
those
delights
he
had
in
the
habitable
parts
of
the
Earth
before
the
World
was
made
.
Pro.
8.
31.
Saved
Souls
are
Christs
Crown
and
Glory
,
and
how
mangled
and
defective
would
Christs
Crown
be
,
should
any
one
Perish
who
are
interested
in
this
Covenant
?
Upon
this
depends
all
Christs
Mediatory
Glory
,
Joh.
17.
4
,
5.
And
should
there
be
a
failure
here
,
he
would
lose
his
expected
Glory
as
Mediatour
.
So
that
you
see
the
fruit
of
his
Purchase
,
the
delight
of
his
Soul
,
and
his
Eternal
Glory
with
the
Father
,
are
all
wrapt
up
in
the
accomplishment
of
this
Covenant
.
Seventhly
,
The
Immutability
of
Gods
Counsel
,
and
the
certainty
of
his
engagement
,
confirmed
by
an
Oath
,
renders
the
new
Covenant
sure
,
Heb.
6.
17
,
18.
Wherein
God
willing
more
abundantly
to
shew
to
the
heirs
of
promise
the
immutability
of
his
Counsel
confirm'd
it
by
an
Oath
:
These
are
two
immutable
things
,
Gods
purpose
,
and
his
engagement
,
and
because
these
could
admit
of
no
variation
,
therefore
the
things
Promised
must
be
fulfill'd
indue
time
.
Heaven
and
Earth
shall
pass
away
,
but
the
Counsel
of
God
that
must
stand
:
'T
is
laid
upon
Infinite
Wisdom
,
and
all
things
in
order
to
the
fullfiling
of
it
,
are
made
so
sure
,
that
it
cannot
possibly
be
frustrated
:
He
wants
not
sufficient
Power
and
faithfulness
to
reach
his
own
designs
,
and
therefore
what
he
hath
determined
must
come
to
pass
,
and
upon
this
purpose
of
God
is
laid
his
promise
:
He
having
first
resolved
upon
it
,
is
engaged
to
it
.
Lastly
,
Another
reason
to
prove
the
certainty
of
the
new
Covenant
is
taken
from
the
nature
of
the
promises
;
they
are
absolute
;
't
is
true
there
are
some
conditional
promises
as
the
effects
of
the
other
,
but
the
fundamental
promises
,
and
those
which
compleat
the
Covenant
of
grace
are
altogether
absolute
;
't
is
true
also
,
faith
is
a
necessary
qualification
to
interest
a
Person
in
these
promises
,
but
when
the
Soul
comes
to
have
a
propriety
in
them
,
the
tenure
of
them
then
is
absolute
,
Jer.
31.
33
,
34.
Heb.
8.
9.
He
will
put
his
Spirit
within
them
,
and
will
cause
them
to
walk
in
his
Statutes
,
Ezek.
36.
25
,
to
28.
I
will
be
a
God
to
them
,
and
they
shall
be
my
People
,
Jer.
32.
40.
And
I
will
make
an
Everlasting
Covenant
with
them
,
that
I
will
not
turn
away
from
them
to
do
them
good
:
But
I
will
put
my
fear
in
their
hearts
,
that
they
shall
not
depart
from
me
:
In
which
you
see
the
condition
is
undertaken
and
secured
,
as
well
as
the
promise
and
things
promised
;
had
it
indeed
depended
upon
conditional
promises
alone
,
which
doubting
Souls
have
most
in
their
eye
,
then
the
failure
of
the
condition
would
have
forfeited
the
promises
,
and
then
they
had
been
null'd
:
But
you
see
the
promises
of
the
new
Covenant
are
absolute
,
and
therefore
sure
to
all
the
seed
,
even
to
every
one
that
believeth
in
Jesus
Christ
:
These
are
the
grounds
of
hopes
the
believers
have
,
that
the
Covenant
,
and
every
tittle
of
it
,
shall
be
made
good
to
them
;
but
that
which
doth
meritoriously
confirm
it
,
is
the
blood
of
Christ
:
His
death
and
suffering
,
on
which
account
it
may
be
lookt
on
as
the
sealing
and
confirming
of
it
,
and
so
believers
may
see
to
whom
they
are
beholding
and
oblig'd
for
all
their
new-Covenant
stability
.
VSE
.
From
this
grand
and
glorious
truth
:
The
fulfilling
and
assurance
of
the
new
Covenant
,
flows
,
1.
Wonderful
Comfort
to
all
true
Believers
.
2.
Great
Obligations
on
them
to
thankfulness
and
Obedience
.
First
,
This
yeilds
abundant
Consolation
to
Believers
,
on
a
double
account
.
-
1.
From
the
certainty
.
-
2.
From
the
Excellency
of
this
Covenant
.
First
,
From
the
certainty
of
this
Covenant
flows
these
streams
of
comfort
.
First
,
In
that
all
occasions
of
Jealousie
about
the
love
of
God
are
cut
off
;
for
if
the
Covenant
be
sure
,
then
Gobs
love
is
sure
,
and
secured
from
all
mutability
,
and
cessation
,
this
being
one
great
thing
contained
in
it
.
Jer.
31.
3.
I
have
loved
thee
with
an
Everlasting
love
.
Gods
love
to
his
People
is
Eternal
,
therefore
sure
:
He
doth
rest
in
his
love
to
them
,
Zeph.
3.
17.
The
word
is
(
Jacharish
)
he
will
be
silent
in
his
love
.
Bucer
renders
it
Silebit
cum
dilecta
sua
:
He
shall
be
silent
in
his
Beloved
;
that
is
(
saith
he
)
He
shall
cease
from
contending
with
her
,
being
wholly
delighted
in
her
.
But
Montanus
renders
it
in
the
abstract
,
he
shall
be
silent
by
reason
of
his
love
.
Propter
dilectionem
suam
.
But
Cocceius
and
other
Interpreters
,
render
the
letter
(
Beth
)
In
:
He
shall
be
silent
in
his
love
,
or
rest
in
his
love
,
alluding
to
the
wonderful
excess
of
affection
in
a
Person
,
that
through
exceeding
amorousness
cannot
speak
or
express
it
for
a
time
:
Cocceius
takes
it
for
the
pardoning
of
their
sin
,
and
ceasing
from
those
former
stroaks
of
his
displeasure
:
And
this
I
suppose
may
be
chiefly
intended
here
;
to
wit
,
The
greatness
of
his
love
no●ed
by
silence
,
and
exuberant
Joy
,
with
a
remove
of
all
tokens
of
his
anger
,
and
this
to
be
fixt
and
perpetual
;
so
the
Apostle
assures
Believers
,
that
the
love
of
God
in
Christ
is
irremoveable
,
Rom.
8.
35.
All
the
World
cannot
withdraw
Christs
heart
from
his
People
,
where
he
once
loves
he
loves
to
the
end
,
Joh.
13.
1.
This
a
believer
may
be
assured
of
in
the
New
Covenant
,
that
Gods
love
changeth
not
,
his
heart
is
still
towards
his
people
,
however
his
dealings
may
be
with
them
.
Secondly
,
Then
all
the
grounds
of
tormenting
fear
are
now
removed
.
If
the
Covenant
of
grace
be
confirmed
to
believers
,
then
there
's
no
Just
ground
for
them
to
entertain
slavish
fear
,
Rom.
8.
15.
For
ye
have
not
received
the
Spirit
of
Bondage
again
to
fear
.
There
's
no
cause
for
such
to
fear
,
1.
That
God
is
their
Enemy
;
being
once
reconciled
to
them
in
his
Son
,
he
can
hate
them
no
more
.
2.
Their
sins
shall
never
Condemn
them
,
Rom.
8.
1.
3.
God
will
never
totally
leave
them
,
Heb.
13.
5.
4.
They
shall
not
wholly
fall
from
God
.
Jer.
32.
40.
5.
They
have
no
cause
to
fear
the
wrath
to
come
,
Rom.
5.
9.
Much
more
being
justified
by
his
blood
we
shall
be
saved
from
wrath
through
him
.
Thus
you
see
all
the
grounds
of
tormenting
fears
are
gone
:
'T
is
true
a
Cautelous
fear
and
circumspection
may
be
maintained
,
but
the
workings
of
a
Bondage-Spirit
are
removed
.
Thirdly
,
Then
dejecting
Conclusions
from
self-impotency
to
fulfil
this
Covenant
,
and
all
seeming
difficulties
in
the
way
are
wholly
Insignificant
;
if
this
Covenant
be
confirmed
by
Christ
to
and
for
Believers
,
then
no
insufficiency
in
them
to
make
good
these
Covenant-Duties
can
render
it
void
.
Because
,
First
;
the
Certainty
of
this
Covenant
depends
not
on
the
Creatures
ability
,
but
on
Gods
Faithfulness
;
't
is
true
,
if
this
new
Covenant
(
as
the
first
)
did
wholly
depend
upon
the
Integrity
and
Faithfulness
of
the
Soul
in
Covenant
;
then
indeed
the
enjoyment
of
those
mercies
and
promises
comprehended
in
it
would
be
very
dubious
;
but
't
is
not
so
,
for
God
himself
hath
undertaken
the
accomplishment
of
it
,
1
Cor.
1.
8
,
9.
Who
shall
also
confirm
you
to
the
end
,
that
ye
may
be
blameless
in
the
day
of
our
Lord
Jesus
Christ
;
God
is
faithful
by
whom
ye
are
called
to
the
fellowship
of
his
Son
Christ
Jesus
our
Lord
.
So
1
Thes.
5.
23
,
24.
So
that
the
Saints
Confirmation
in
holiness
,
and
preservation
to
glory
depends
on
the
faithfulness
of
God
in
Christ
,
who
having
perswaded
their
hearts
to
embrace
his
call
,
will
finish
Salvation-work
in
,
and
for
them
.
Secondly
,
Strength
sufficient
to
finish
their
work
,
and
to
obtain
Salvation
is
ensured
to
them
.
2
Cor.
12.
9.
My
grace
is
sufficient
for
thee
,
my
strength
is
made
perfect
in
weakness
.
Grace
in
thee
may
fail
,
but
grace
in
God
cannot
:
Christ
hath
a
stock
sufficient
for
thee
,
to
carry
thee
through
Temptations
,
and
to
lift
thee
above
thy
Corruptions
.
So
Ezek.
36.
27.
I
will
put
my
Spirit
within
you
,
and
cause
you
to
walk
in
my
statutes
.
The
Spirit
is
a
Fountain
that
will
fill
up
your
empty
vessels
,
supply
all
your
wants
,
and
engage
your
hearts
to
keep
the
way
of
his
Commandements
.
Fourthly
,
Then
none
of
the
well-grounded
hopes
of
believers
shall
be
lost
,
Psal.
119.
49.
Remember
thy
word
unto
thy
Servant
upon
which
thou
hast
caused
me
to
hope
.
God
will
never
forget
to
fulfil
those
promises
which
he
causeth
us
to
confide
in
,
for
he
is
faithful
who
hath
promised
,
Heb.
10.
23.
Rom.
5.
6.
And
hop●
maketh
not
ashamed
.
That
is
,
by
reason
of
a
disappointment
;
shame
usually
ariseth
from
some
frustrations
of
expectation
,
but
this
cannot
befall
well-grounded
hopes
,
because
they
have
their
dependence
upon
the
firm
word
of
God
which
cannot
be
disappointed
.
Fifthly
,
Then
your
labour
shall
not
be
in
vain
in
the
Lord
,
if
the
Covenant
be
confirmed
,
then
you
cannot
run
in
vain
,
or
lose
any
part
of
that
work
you
do
for
God
,
1
Cor.
15.
58.
Gal.
6.
7
,
8.
What
a
man
soweth
that
shall
he
reap
.
He
that
soweth
to
the
Spirit
shall
reap
life
Everlasting
:
O
Souls
,
all
your
sincere
duties
will
appear
again
,
and
bring
their
reward
with
them
.
All
your
pains
in
serving
God
,
hardships
in
following
him
,
dangers
in
owning
him
,
and
industrious
labours
to
please
him
,
shall
be
fully
and
certainly
recompenc'd
with
a
far
more
and
exceeding
Massy
Crown
of
Glory
.
Sixthly
,
Then
all
your
warrantable
desires
shall
be
satisfied
in
due
time
:
For
this
is
part
of
the
Covenant-promise
,
Psa.
37.
4.
Delight
thy self
also
in
the
Lord
,
and
he
shall
give
thee
the
desires
of
thy
heart
,
Psalm
.
145.
16
,
19.
All
the
breathings
of
your
Souls
after
God
,
and
unfeigned
longings
for
more
spotless
holiness
,
more
perfect
victory
over
sin
,
for
humble
submission
to
divine
pleasure
,
more
sincerity
of
heart
,
and
raised
capacities
for
service
,
shall
certainly
be
satisfied
first
or
last
.
Seventhly
,
If
the
Covenant
of
grace
be
sure
,
then
nothing
can
make
the
believers
state
miserable
,
indeed
he
may
seem
to
be
in
a
bad
condition
,
when
under
the
power
of
temptation
and
corruption
,
and
pressed
grievously
with
severe
and
bitter
Providences
,
and
stroaks
of
seeming
vengeance
,
but
yet
his
state
is
good
;
who
could
have
past
a
favourable
interpretation
on
the
afflictions
of
Job
,
when
on
a
dunghil
,
and
on
the
tryals
of
David
when
pursued
by
Absalom
?
yet
we
find
there
was
hony
in
these
Rods
,
and
David
could
notwithstanding
lye
down
and
sleep
in
peace
,
Psa.
3.
5.
So
Josiah
in
an
evil
day
,
when
wars
and
frowning
providences
did
surround
him
all
about
,
yet
dyed
in
peace
,
2
Kings
22.
20.
Lastly
,
Then
a
gracious
Soul
is
a
blessed
Soul
,
both
here
and
to
all
Eternity
,
because
this
Covenant
takes
care
for
the
good
things
of
this
●ife
,
and
that
which
is
to
come
:
1
Tim.
4.
8.
Godliness
hath
the
promise
of
this
life
and
that
which
is
to
come
:
Hence
the
Scripture
doth
so
often
pronounce
the
Godly
Man
to
be
a
blessed
Man
,
Psa.
119.
1.
Blessed
are
the
undefiled
in
the
way
,
Psa.
112.
2.
Psa.
141.
2.
Thus
we
have
now
briefly
toucht
on
some
grounds
of
Comfort
that
Believers
may
derive
from
the
certainty
of
this
new
Covenant
;
we
now
come
to
consider
,
Secondly
,
The
excellency
of
this
Covenant
which
the
blood
of
Christ
so
confirms
to
Believers
;
this
new
Covenant
is
a
choice
and
precious
Covenant
;
what
David
said
of
Goliah's
Sword
may
be
affirmed
of
this
;
That
there
is
none
like
it
,
1
Sam.
21.
9.
This
would
abundantly
apear
,
could
I
with
consistency
to
my
design
here
,
run
out
at
large
in
the
demonstration
of
this
great
truth
;
but
to
touch
a
little
on
some
evidences
of
its
excellency
under
these
two
general
considerations
.
-
1.
The
things
that
are
promised
in
this
Covenant
.
-
2.
The
way
appointed
of
God
to
attain
them
.
First
,
The
things
stipulated
in
this
Covenant
,
are
,
First
,
Great
and
glorious
things
,
the
products
of
infinite
Grace
,
and
discoveries
of
unconceivable
greatness
,
such
Promises
as
were
never
offered
in
any
other
Covenant
:
In
this
Covenant
God
makes
over
himself
to
Believers
to
be
their
God
,
their
Sun
and
Shield
,
their
exceeding
great
reward
,
all
that
he
is
,
and
all
that
he
hath
to
be
theirs
,
so
far
as
they
are
capable
to
receive
:
I
will
be
to
them
a
God
;
that
's
in
the
Covenant
:
He
whom
the
Heaven
of
Heavens
cannot
contain
;
whom
the
Angels
cannot
define
,
far
above
the
searches
of
the
most
refined
Spirits
,
far
beyond
the
knowledge
of
those
that
always
dwell
in
his
sight
;
this
invisible
unknown
God
in
this
Covenant
makes
himself
over
to
Believers
:
He
will
be
theirs
for
ever
,
Heb.
8.
10.
A
God
in
the
nearest
Relations
that
Creatures
are
capable
to
approach
to
him
in
:
He
will
be
a
Father
,
Husband
,
Head
to
them
,
and
to
every
one
of
them
in
the
Lord
Jesus
Christ
:
To
love
and
delight
in
them
;
to
feed
and
cherish
them
;
to
care
and
provide
for
them
;
to
dwell
and
abide
with
them
;
to
impart
,
and
Communicate
of
all
his
fullness
and
sweetness
to
them
,
so
far
as
it
sutes
with
the
measure
of
Christ
,
and
their
best
good
:
Is
not
this
a
great
thing
indeed
,
that
God
should
make
over
himself
to
the
Believer
?
O
glorious
Covenant
!
Again
,
Another
great
and
glorious
thing
engaged
in
this
Covenant
is
,
That
Believers
shall
be
to
him
a
people
,
a
peculiar
people
;
his
own
people
,
his
Jewel
,
his
Treasure
,
Mal.
3.
17.
They
shall
be
the
Apple
of
his
Eye
;
the
delight
of
his
Soul
,
a
Seal
upon
his
Heart
:
A
people
near
to
God
,
Psa.
148.
14.
Nearer
to
him
than
all
the
world
besides
;
nearer
than
the
Angels
,
that
never
sinned
:
What
a
wonderful
thing
is
this
!
They
shall
be
dandled
on
his
knee
:
Lye
in
his
Bosom
;
sit
at
his
Table
here
;
and
sit
down
on
Thrones
in
his
Kingdom
to
all
Eternity
:
O
what
a
wonderful
Covenant
is
this
!
This
should
fill
the
Believers
heart
brim
full
of
Joy
and
Consolation
.
Again
,
He
hath
promised
in
this
Covenant
,
that
he
will
write
his
Law
in
their
Hearts
,
and
put
his
truth
in
their
inward
parts
,
Jer.
31.
33.
They
shall
be
his
Epistle
known
and
read
of
all
men
,
2
Cor.
3.
2
,
3.
He
will
lead
them
into
all
truth
,
Joh.
16.
13.
He
will
shew
them
his
Covenant
▪
Psa.
25.
14.
He
will
be
merciful
to
their
unrighteousnesses
,
and
remember
their
sins
no
more
,
Heb.
8.
12.
He
will
put
his
Spirit
within
them
,
and
cause
them
to
walk
in
his
ways
,
Ezek.
36.
27.
He
will
give
them
Grace
and
Glory
,
and
no
good
thing
will
he
withold
from
them
,
Psa.
84.
11.
He
will
admit
them
into
his
special
presence
at
all
times
,
through
the
blood
of
his
Son
,
Heb.
10.
19
,
20.
He
will
give
them
the
Spirit
of
Adoption
to
cry
Abba
Father
,
Rom.
8.
15.
They
shall
be
Kings
and
Priests
to
God
,
cloathed
with
beautiful
Garments
,
a
right
noble
seed
all
glorious
within
;
and
advanc'd
into
intimate
familiarity
with
God
in
Christ
by
the
Spirit
,
Rev.
1.
6.
They
shall
be
kept
by
his
mighty
power
through
Faith
to
Salvation
,
1
Pet.
4.
5.
O
,
are
not
these
great
things
indeed
for
poor
sinful
Dust
and
Ashes
,
mercy-abusing
Creatures
!
O
we
want
Hearts
to
contain
them
,
and
Tongues
to
express
them
.
Again
,
As
this
Covenant
is
made
up
of
great
things
,
so
it
contains
in
it
all
good
things
,
Jer.
32.
40.
All
Gods
Thoughts
and
Resolves
,
are
to
do
them
good
;
all
his
dispensations
are
bringing
them
in
good
,
Rom.
8.
28.
O
what
a
Glorious
thing
is
this
!
Yea
they
are
sutable
things
that
are
wrapt
up
in
this
Covenant
:
Such
as
are
sutable
to
their
Natures
;
sutable
to
their
Spiritual
desires
;
sutable
to
their
wants
,
and
sutable
to
their
advantages
:
The
new
Covenant
carries
nothing
Hetrogeneous
to
the
well-being
of
the
Saints
:
O
what
a
wonderful
thing
is
this
!
Great
things
indeed
are
contain'd
in
this
new-Covenant
,
that
tends
to
the
infinite
contentment
,
pleasure
and
profit
of
saved
Souls
:
Surely
this
must
needs
fill
Believers
Joys
,
and
yield
them
merry
days
here
,
and
prepare
for
them
Rivers
of
pleasure
to
all
Eternity
.
Secondly
,
Consider
the
way
which
God
hath
appointed
for
the
attaining
those
glorious
things
,
and
this
will
advance
the
Believers
comfort
:
Persons
may
come
at
good
things
in
a
bad
way
,
and
that
would
abate
much
of
their
consolation
:
But
these
great
and
glorious
things
contain'd
in
the
Covenant
of
Grace
for
Believers
,
are
g●ven
out
in
a
most
excellent
way
:
For
,
First
,
It
is
in
a
way
of
Grace
;
If
God
had
given
them
to
be
bought
and
sold
,
to
be
purchased
by
mans
merit
,
it
would
not
have
been
so
sweet
:
But
they
are
held
out
freely
,
without
money
,
without
price
,
Isa.
55.
1.
It
is
by
Grace
you
are
saved
,
not
of
your selves
,
Eph.
2.
8.
There
's
nothing
for
man
to
glory
in
,
about
his
Salvation
,
that
is
of
his
own
:
Saved
Souls
are
created
to
their
mercies
:
They
are
prepared
for
their
mercies
,
Rom.
9.
23.
And
their
mercies
are
prepar'd
for
them
,
1
Cor.
2.
9.
They
are
also
prepar'd
for
their
Duties
,
in
order
to
their
mercies
:
They
are
Vessels
of
mercy
fitted
and
prepared
for
mercy
and
glory
,
2
Tim.
2.
21.
Secondly
,
It
is
in
a
self-humbling
,
and
abasing
way
:
The
more
the
Creature
is
abased
,
the
more
Divine
Glory
is
exalted
;
and
the
more
God
is
all
in
all
,
the
more
is
the
saved
Souls
Glory
,
Comfort
,
and
Joy
;
the
more
the
loftiness
of
man
is
brought
down
,
the
more
God
alone
is
exalted
,
Isa.
2.
17.
And
the
more
God
is
exalted
,
the
more
Believers
are
pleased
:
Now
God
gives
out
these
new-Covenant
mercies
in
such
a
way
,
as
may
most
abase
self
;
for
he
gives
them
out
in
a
way
of
Believing
,
and
no
Grace
more
cuts
off
self
than
Believing
:
All
boasting
and
Self-glorying
is
cut
off
by
Believing
,
Rom.
3.
27.
Therefore
God
hath
ordered
such
a
way
for
Souls
to
come
at
new-Covenant
Mercies
,
as
may
cut
off
all
Self
glorying
,
that
so
their
comforts
may
rise
to
the
greatest
measure
,
to
be
full
Joy
and
Consolation
,
to
see
the
Creature
abased
,
and
God
exalted
:
There
's
nothing
but
Man's
cursed
self
can
indeed
prove
a
real
Enemy
to
his
comforts
:
A
Child
of
God
is
never
more
filled
with
the
pure
Wine
of
Consolation
,
than
when
he
is
emptied
of
all
the
Lees
and
Dregs
of
his
own
vain-glory
.
Thirdly
,
It
is
in
a
pure
and
clean
way
,
that
God
brings
saved
Souls
to
these
new-Covenant
mercies
:
It
is
in
a
way
of
Holiness
:
No
uncircumcised
shall
pass
therein
:
It
is
in
that
way
of
Grace
,
and
Purity
,
without
which
none
shall
see
the
Lord
:
It
is
the
upright
,
pure
in
Heart
,
the
sincere
Soul
shall
attain
to
these
great
and
glorious
things
:
The
clean
Hands
,
and
the
clean
Heart
,
Mat.
5.
8.
Psa.
140.
13.
Psa.
24.
4.
Isa.
35.
8.
Fourthly
,
It
is
in
a
sweet
and
pleasant
way
:
A
delighful
way
,
for
such
are
all
the
ways
of
Holiness
to
gracious
Souls
,
sweeter
than
Hony
●nd
the
Hony-comb
:
They
take
wonderful
●leasure
in
Holiness
,
Psa.
119.
17.
Prov.
3.
17.
Legal
ways
were
hard
and
troublesome
ways
.
The
Yoke
of
the
Law
is
a
heavy
Yoke
,
Act.
15.
10.
But
the
Yoke
of
Christ
is
an
easie
Yoke
,
Mat.
11.
30.
O
that
God
should
confirm
such
a
Covenant
as
this
,
that
contains
such
glorious
things
,
and
all
these
ensured
to
Believers
,
and
they
led
to
them
in
such
a
choice
way
;
surely
this
must
needs
yield
wonderful
comfort
,
and
advance
the
Believers
Joy
.
Another
improvement
of
this
grand
truth
is
by
way
of
Duty
.
There
's
nothing
more
strengthens
the
Beliewers
Bond
to
Obedience
,
than
the
consideration
of
the
certainty
of
the
new-Covenant
:
Not
to
mention
all
those
arguments
that
might
be
urged
to
engage
Redeemed
Souls
to
all
manner
of
Holiness
from
the
certainty
of
the
Covenant
:
I
shall
insist
only
on
these
two
.
First
,
The
consideration
of
that
Infinite
Love
of
Christ
,
that
led
him
through
such
a
costly
way
to
make
good
this
Covenant
:
O
what
manner
of
Love
is
this
,
if
duly
weighed
?
That
the
Son
of
God
should
come
down
,
and
be
made
man
,
take
upon
him
the
form
of
a
Servant
;
engage
to
the
Service
of
the
first
Covenant
,
to
make
good
all
the
violated
conditions
thereof
by
his
sufferings
,
and
all
the
precepts
thereof
by
his
Obedience
:
That
he
should
be
made
a
Curse
,
and
taste
of
death
,
and
all
to
make
this
Covenant
sure
:
That
he
should
shed
his
blood
,
to
make
firm
this
Covenant
in
all
the
parts
of
it
:
That
he
should
come
and
melt
himself
to
death
,
that
the
seal
might
be
put
upon
this
new
Covenant
.
O
what
wonderful
Love
is
this
,
for
nothing
could
make
it
sure
,
but
the
Testatours
blood
,
and
that
he
would
shed
his
Blood
to
make
it
sure
.
Now
then
there
's
no
greater
constraints
to
duty
,
than
the
sense
of
the
Love
of
Christ
,
2
Cor.
5.
14.
The
Love
of
Christ
constrains
us
.
Arguments
of
Love
are
irresistible
;
it
silences
the
Believing
Soul
in
all
his
resistances
:
When
Arguments
fetch'd
from
the
Law
,
do
only
drive
the
Soul
to
Duty
;
nay
sometimes
bind
back
from
duty
:
That
at
such
a
time
the
sense
of
the
Love
of
Christ
doth
draw
,
yea
post
the
Soul
away
to
Obedience
,
Draw
me
,
and
we
will
run
after
thee
,
Cant.
1.
4.
that
is
,
Let
out
the
potent
influences
of
thy
sweet
Love
upon
me
,
and
then
I
will
hasten
after
thee
,
or
further
my
Obedience
of
thee
.
Secondly
,
Another
reason
for
Obedience
is
taken
from
the
certain
blessed
Ends
,
and
Fruit
of
new-Covenant
Obedience
,
which
is
no
less
than
Eternal
Life
,
Rom.
6.
22.
All
the
blessings
of
the
everlasting
Covenant
are
ensured
to
such
,
Ps.
103.
17
,
18.
The
mercy
of
the
Lord
is
from
everlasting
to
everlasting
upon
them
that
fear
him
;
to
such
as
keep
his
Covenant
,
to
them
that
remember
his
Commandments
to
do
them
:
Mercies
in
the
way
,
mercy
in
the
end
,
are
all
ensured
to
them
that
fear
him
,
to
them
that
Evangelically
keep
his
Covenant
,
Psa.
25.
10.
All
the
paths
of
the
Lord
are
Mercy
and
Truth
,
unto
such
as
keep
his
Covenant
and
his
Testimonies
.
There
's
great
reward
in
the
very
keeping
his
Commandements
,
and
reward
in
the
latter
end
:
O
what
promises
are
entail'd
to
Gospel-Obedience
:
Nay
,
you
will
not
only
have
the
Fruit
of
your
own
Graces
,
but
you
will
have
the
Fruit
of
Christs
Grace
,
the
Fruit
of
his
Obedience
,
and
his
Righteousness
too
:
Therefore
,
O
what
reason
have
such
to
obey
!
seeing
the
Covenant
is
made
sure
,
they
cannot
miscarry
,
their
labour
shall
not
be
lost
;
considering
the
Love
of
God
,
that
should
engage
them
to
Obedience
,
and
the
blessed
Issue
of
it
.
Thus
much
of
the
sixth
Branch
,
and
Item
of
Chist's
Inventory
,
and
the
Riches
of
his
Purchase
.
CHAP.
XXI
.
The
Heavenly
Inheritance
is
the
Fruit
of
Christ's
purchase
.
WE
shall
briefly
add
one
particular
more
of
the
Purchase
of
Christ
,
that
is
,
The
Consummation
,
and
compleating
of
all
the
Believers
happiness
,
and
comprehension
of
his
chiefest
treasure
,
which
is
the
purchased
possession
of
Glory
,
Eph.
1.
14.
Vntil
the
Redemption
of
the
purchased
Possession
,
unto
the
praise
of
his
Glory
:
that
is
,
unil
we
come
to
inherit
this
glory
purchased
by
Christ
:
O
what
a
blessing
is
this
!
All
that
have
been
treated
of
already
,
are
but
little
parcels
of
this
total
sum
of
a
Believers
happiness
:
O
when
the
whole
treasury
of
Christ
shall
be
opened
,
and
set
forth
to
the
view
and
enjoyment
of
saved
Souls
:
When
all
Christ's
personal
Glory
,
as
Mediator
,
shall
be
discovered
to
them
,
and
become
their
Glory
;
when
all
his
purchased
Glory
for
them
also
,
shall
then
be
entred
on
by
them
;
all
that
he
hath
received
for
himself
,
and
all
he
hath
procured
for
them
,
shall
all
be
made
over
to
them
;
This
will
be
a
blessed
Eternity
indeed
;
when
their
Crowns
of
Massy
Glory
shall
be
set
upon
their
heads
,
and
when
they
also
shall
be
set
down
upon
Thrones
of
dignity
,
honoured
with
the
reflections
of
Christs
Majesty
,
and
unconceivable
grandure
.
This
is
a
mystery
indeed
,
but
a
real
truth
to
all
Believers
:
O
blessed
purchase
indeed
!
who
can
tell
over
this
sum
,
when
the
Saints
shall
be
so
enriched
with
the
Riches
of
Christ
,
cloathed
with
the
beautiful
Garments
of
his
praise
?
O
wonderful
Glory
indeed
!
Deckt
with
the
Jewels
of
the
Graces
of
his
Spirit
;
and
fill'd
with
his
holiness
brim
full
:
When
they
shall
be
satiated
with
his
pleasures
,
but
never
tyred
;
sit
down
at
the
Well
head
,
and
drink
full
draughts
of
pleasure
;
Take
in
their
fill
of
the
highest
consolations
;
and
unknown
Sweetness
,
Love
,
and
delight
from
Christ
.
O
this
must
needs
be
wonderful
enriching
!
when
they
be
,
ever
,
ever
,
ever
with
the
Lord
;
where
no
clouds
can
darken
their
sights
,
of
their
blessed
mansion
,
and
their
blessed
God
;
where
no
vail
can
intervene
between
them
and
their
Beloved
:
Where
Rust
,
Moth
,
Worms
,
Time
,
and
Death
can
never
come
to
wear
out
their
enjoyments
:
O
blessed
Treasure
indeed
!
Where
Eternity
shall
be
the
Date
,
Immensity
the
Bounds
,
and
Immutability
the
fixation
of
their
happiness
.
But
so
it
shall
be
with
saved
Souls
in
Heaven
,
when
they
are
got
through
the
Sea
of
Christ's
blood
to
Glory
.
O
Believers
,
Do
not
your
hearts
leap
within
you
?
What
no
kind
of
affection
at
all
to
these
things
?
Is
all
this
as
a
dream
to
you
?
Where
are
your
Hearts
?
O
be
affected
at
this
wonderful
blessedness
Christ
hath
procured
in
Heaven
for
you
.
O
blessed
,
blessed
Eternity
!
where
saved
Souls
shall
wear
a
Crown
,
that
fadeth
not
away
;
where
their
Garlands
shall
be
ever
fresh
and
green
;
their
joys
ever
new
;
and
their
enjoyments
never
wearing
;
where
all
their
sown
seed
of
Spiritual-Duties
and
Gospel-sufferings
,
shall
spring
up
to
Glory
,
to
a
full
crop
of
blessedness
,
to
an
harvest
of
pleasure
,
proportionable
to
all
the
Love
of
God
to
them
;
to
the
utmost
measures
of
their
Graces
,
and
acts
of
their
Faithfulness
;
the
large
extent
of
divine
promises
,
yea
suited
to
the
infinite
deservings
of
Christ
for
his
saved
ones
,
Glory
,
as
much
as
can
be
claimed
:
This
will
set
forth
the
Treasures
of
Christ
to
be
boundless
,
bottomless
,
endless
,
without
all
circumference
;
higher
then
all
Altitude
,
broader
than
all
Latitude
,
deeper
then
all
profunditude
:
O
treasures
indeed
!
Saints
and
Angels
may
look
into
them
,
but
can
never
see
the
bottom
:
In
comparison
of
which
Riches
in
Heaven
,
all
the
warmest
Apprehensions
,
all
the
sweetest
tastes
,
all
the
highest
enjoyments
of
Saints
here
,
are
no
more
than
a
drop
to
the
Ocean
;
like
one
ear
of
Corn
compar'd
with
all
the
fields
in
the
world
,
cloath'd
with
fruitfulness
;
No
more
then
a
single
Dust
,
to
all
the
Beds
of
Sand
in
the
whole
Sea
.
O
what
is
glory
!
Christians
▪
are
these
Jewels
so
valuable
,
that
you
can
bear
about
with
you
here
?
O
what
a
Cabinet
then
is
Heaven
?
O
what
are
the
Treasures
laid
up
there
!
O
wonderful
large
indeed
!
Weigh
the
utmost
pleasures
,
and
delighting
,
ravishing
consolations
that
all
the
Believers
in
the
World
can
get
by
this
side
Heaven
,
all
the
graces
,
all
the
Joys
of
all
the
Saints
in
the
World
put
together
,
compar'd
with
glory
,
is
no
more
than
a
single
grain
to
a
Massy
weight
of
Glory
:
O
't
is
that
which
Men
and
Angels
cannot
express
:
All
that
Believers
have
here
of
Heaven
,
it
is
but
as
Bread
and
Water
in
the
way
,
the
choicest
and
richest
feasting
is
reserv'd
for
the
other
World
,
for
the
Kings
Table
,
where
are
all
Varieties
,
all
Rich
Dishes
,
all
the
choice
Procurements
,
that
may
feed
and
satiate
the
most
curious
desires
of
saved
Souls
:
Dost
thou
meet
with
high
Comforts
at
a
Sacrament
?
wonderful
refreshings
in
Ordinances
?
yet
they
are
but
a
Morsel
or
two
thy
Father
gives
thee
to
chear
thy
Spirits
,
compar'd
with
the
varieties
he
hath
reserv'd
for
thee
in
Heaven
:
Or
as
the
short
allowance
of
some
Rich
Heir
whiles
in
his
Nonage
,
compar'd
with
the
great
Inheritance
he
is
to
possess
when
at
full
age
;
or
as
the
first-fruits
which
are
inconsiderable
compar'd
with
the
lump
.
This
is
glory
,
this
is
Heaven
,
there
's
the
place
where
all
Christ's
Treasures
are
laid
up
:
O
Christians
!
could
you
but
get
a
look
into
glory
,
you
would
say
;
O
unsearchable
riches
indeed
:
Treasures
past
finding
out
.
Thus
have
I
dispatcht
the
first
assertion
,
and
shewn
somewhat
of
those
vast
riches
that
are
in
Christ
;
and
though
sometime
hath
been
spent
in
opening
them
,
yet
it
is
but
little
of
all
those
Treasures
,
which
are
prepar'd
for
them
that
are
Heirs
of
the
Promise
.
CHAP.
XXII
.
The
second
and
third
assertions
proved
:
Shewing
that
those
vast
treasures
of
Christ
are
opened
in
and
by
the
Gospel
,
that
't
is
the
will
of
God
they
should
be
tenderd
to
the
chiefest
of
Sinners
.
I
Come
now
to
demonstrate
the
truth
of
the
second
assertion
,
which
is
this
,
That
those
vast
and
hidden
Treasures
which
are
found
in
Jesus
Christ
,
are
opened
in
and
by
the
Gospel
.
For
the
proof
of
which
I
shall
demonstrate
these
three
things
.
First
,
That
those
treasures
of
Grace
and
Glory
,
which
are
in
and
come
by
Christ
,
can
no
otherwise
be
known
,
than
by
the
Gospel
,
they
are
deeps
that
cannot
be
fathomed
by
all
the
greatest
lengths
of
mans
wisdom
,
1
Cor.
2.
10.
The
Spirit
searcheth
all
things
,
even
the
deep
things
of
God
:
Things
that
lay
deep
in
his
breast
,
which
none
could
know
but
himself
,
and
his
own
Spirit
.
By
these
deep
things
the
Apostle
understands
the
hidden
grace
of
God
in
Christ
,
with
the
fruits
of
it
,
called
ver.
12.
The
things
freely
given
us
of
God
.
These
are
the
Riches
of
Christ
,
or
that
come
by
Christ
,
called
,
Rom.
11.
33.
The
depth
of
the
riches
both
of
the
wisdom
and
knowledge
of
God
:
These
riches
of
grace
that
come
by
Christ
are
so
deep
,
that
none
can
know
them
except
they
be
revealed
:
Therefore
the
wisdom
that
makes
wise
to
Salvation
is
called
hidden
wisdom
,
1
Cor:
2.
7.
And
Treasures
of
wisdom
are
said
to
be
hid
in
Christ
,
called
the
mystery
of
Godliness
,
1
Tim.
3.
16.
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
,
from
the
Heb.
word
,
Mistar
,
or
hidden
,
or
secret
things
:
Some
derive
it
,
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
,
from
shutting
the
mouth
up
,
because
such
things
must
be
concealed
,
or
as
others
think
it
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
,
Shutting
up
the
senses
as
well
as
the
mouth
,
it
being
a
thing
hard
to
be
known
,
such
a
secret
is
the
great
Power
of
Salvation
by
Christ
:
A
religious
secret
(
saith
one
)
that
cannot
be
known
without
some
extraodinary
flatus
,
and
such
are
the
riches
of
Christ
,
hidden
things
,
hid
in
God
,
Eph.
3.
9.
The
fellowship
of
the
Mystery
which
from
the
beginning
of
the
World
have
been
hid
in
God
,
and
therefore
cannot
be
known
by
all
the
wisdom
of
men
without
the
revelation
of
the
Spirit
,
Eph.
3.
3.
5.
And
therefore
it
was
an
unsound
assertion
of
Mr.
John
Goodwin
:
That
the
Sun
and
Moon
do
Preach
the
Gospel
,
seeing
it
cannot
be
known
but
by
the
revelation
of
the
Spirit
.
Secondly
,
These
Treasures
of
Christ
are
Doctrinally
contain'd
in
the
word
of
the
Gospel
,
there
's
the
only
discovery
of
them
Doctrinally
,
there
's
no
other
word
can
discover
them
,
and
thus
they
are
set
forth
,
and
brought
to
light
,
2
Tim.
1.
10.
But
now
is
made
manifest
by
the
appearing
of
our
Saviour
Jesus
Christ
,
who
hath
abolished
death
,
and
brought
life
and
immortality
to
light
by
the
Gospel
.
There
are
actually
exhibited
to
the
view
of
Believers
,
all
the
mysteries
of
godliness
,
so
the
Gospel
is
called
the
revelation
of
the
mystery
which
is
kept
secret
since
the
World
began
,
Rom.
16.
25.
The
Gospel
is
the
wisdom
of
God
that
maketh
wise
to
Salvation
,
2
Tim.
3.
15.
There
are
all
things
opened
necessary
to
Salvation
:
There
are
words
whereby
we
may
be
saved
,
Acts
11.
4.
In
the
word
of
truth
are
all
the
Prophesies
of
Christ
,
and
of
those
great
and
glorious
things
that
God
would
accomplish
upon
and
by
him
,
Acts
3.
18.
In
the
word
are
all
the
promises
of
grace
and
Glory
,
all
things
needful
to
life
and
godliness
,
and
these
promises
are
revealed
in
the
word
of
God
:
All
the
promises
ever
God
made
to
the
Sons
of
Men
are
in
the
word
,
and
therefore
the
promises
are
joyned
with
the
Law
,
and
the
service
of
God
,
the
glory
and
the
Covenant
,
and
all
those
royalties
that
in
Scripture
are
made
over
to
Believers
,
Rom.
9.
4.
There
's
all
that
God
hath
spoken
by
the
Prophets
,
Luke
24.
25.
There
's
all
discover'd
that
ever
God
Doctrinally
revealed
of
his
love
to
Sinners
,
and
the
things
that
are
freely
given
to
them
,
there
's
the
whole
Doctrine
of
Christ
concerning
his
Person
,
Nature
,
Offices
,
Works
,
Excellencies
,
Promises
,
what
he
hath
done
for
them
,
and
procured
for
them
;
what
is
laid
up
in
him
,
and
shall
be
laid
out
by
him
to
all
that
come
to
him
;
there
are
the
openings
of
his
heart
,
and
the
secrets
of
his
love
to
them
,
Eph.
3.
18
,
19.
Therein
the
Righteousness
of
God
is
revealed
from
faith
to
faith
,
Rom.
1.
17.
The
deep
things
of
God
1
Cor.
2.
9
,
10
,
12
,
16.
Things
that
eye
hath
,
not
seen
,
nor
ear
heard
.
Thirdly
,
Those
great
and
glorious
things
contain'd
in
the
Gospel
,
are
opened
by
the
Spirits
Ministration
in
the
Gospel
:
This
is
Gods
appointed
way
to
discover
and
bring
to
light
those
glorious
things
.
Tit.
1.
3.
But
hath
in
due
time
,
manifested
his
word
through
Preaching
,
which
is
committed
to
me
according
to
the
Commandement
of
God
our
Saviour
:
This
is
Gods
way
to
manifest
the
deep
things
of
the
Word
by
Preaching
:
This
he
hath
appointed
as
a
standing
Ordinance
in
his
Church
through
all
ages
,
that
some
should
be
set
apart
for
this
work
,
to
open
and
to
discover
the
glorious
secrets
of
the
Gospel
,
1
Cor.
2.
12
,
13.
2
Cor.
4.
2
,
6
,
7.
To
these
the
Lord
Jesus
Christ
reveals
his
truth
,
even
the
mysteries
of
it
by
his
Spirit
,
Eph.
3.
5.
That
they
might
Preach
,
and
open
them
to
others
:
This
way
God
is
pleased
to
work
▪
thus
he
taught
the
Eunuch
by
Philip
,
Acts
8.
26.
and
Paul
by
Ananias
,
Acts
9.
11.
and
Cornelius
by
Peter
,
Acts
10.
5.
3.
Assertion
.
It
is
the
will
of
God
that
those
great
and
glorious
Treasures
of
Christ
in
the
Gospel
should
be
opened
and
tendred
to
Sinners
,
yea
to
the
chiefest
of
Sinners
.
This
is
as
certain
,
as
choice
a
truth
,
and
precious
news
to
sinners
.
For
the
demonstration
of
which
,
I
shall
,
1.
Prove
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
by
four
arguments
.
2.
The
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
by
four
reasons
.
First
,
That
it
is
really
true
,
that
the
Lord
Jesus
Christ
is
willing
that
all
those
unsearchable
Treasures
of
his
should
be
tendred
to
Sinners
,
yea
the
chiefest
of
Sinners
.
First
,
Christ's
willingness
to
shed
his
blood
for
Sinners
,
shews
he
is
willing
his
Treasures
should
be
opened
and
tendered
to
them
:
He
that
gives
the
cause
,
gives
the
effect
,
Causa
Causae
,
est
Causa
Causati
;
Christs
blood
is
the
procuring
cause
of
all
those
Treasures
that
are
purchased
for
Believers
;
and
that
which
gives
a
right
to
his
personal
riches
too
,
Eph.
1.
7
,
11.
Now
if
Christ
be
willing
to
give
his
blood
for
believers
to
procure
those
Treasures
,
then
surely
he
is
willing
to
have
them
opened
and
tendered
to
them
,
he
that
wills
the
means
to
the
end
,
wills
the
end
too
:
Should
not
Christ
be
willing
that
his
riches
should
be
opened
and
tenderd
to
Sinners
,
it
would
lay
a
great
reflection
on
his
intentions
in
dying
for
Sinners
,
and
leave
the
charge
of
unfaithfulness
on
truth
it self
;
which
how
unjust
it
is
let
all
that
are
rational
judge
;
but
it
is
for
sinners
Christ
hath
shed
his
blood
,
yea
for
the
chiefest
of
sinners
,
1
Tim.
1.
15.
Rom.
5.
6.
In
due
time
Christ
dyed
for
the
ungodly
:
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
,
'T
is
the
same
word
the
Apostle
useth
to
express
the
people
before
the
flood
by
,
2
Pet.
2.
5.
Now
what
these
were
Moses
tells
us
,
Gen.
6.
5.
Ignorance
,
Prophaness
,
Contempt
of
God
,
and
the
vilest
abominations
were
committed
by
those
whom
Christ
came
to
redeem
,
yet
to
these
would
he
have
the
Gospel
sent
,
and
his
Treasures
opened
and
tendred
.
Secondly
,
His
appointing
and
sending
a
Ministry
on
purpose
to
Preach
the
Gospel
to
sinners
proves
it
:
This
was
the
first
thing
the
Lord
Jesus
Christ
did
when
he
ascended
on
high
,
he
gave
gifts
to
Men
,
that
of
Apostles
,
Prophets
,
Evangelists
,
Pastors
,
Teachers
;
and
why
was
this
?
it
was
for
the
work
of
the
Ministry
,
Eph.
4.
10
,
11
,
12.
And
what
is
the
work
of
the
Ministery
?
Why
to
open
and
Preach
Christ
Crucified
to
the
World
,
to
discover
reconciliation-mercy
,
and
all
the
Treasures
of
Christ
concern'd
therein
,
1
Cor.
5.
18
,
19.
Joh.
20.
21.
As
my
Father
hath
sent
me
so
send
I
you
:
Now
if
the
Lord
Jesus
sets
apart
a
Ministery
on
purpose
to
attend
this
work
,
as
Acts
6.
4.
Then
surely
he
is
willing
Sinners
should
have
those
riches
opened
and
tender'd
to
them
.
Thirdly
,
The
choice
annointings
he
gives
them
to
this
end
,
evidenceth
his
willingness
the
Gospel
should
be
Preached
,
and
his
Treasures
opened
to
the
World
;
as
the
Father
hath
annointed
him
,
and
given
the
Spirit
without
measure
to
him
,
so
hath
he
annointed
his
Messengers
with
measures
of
the
Spirit
for
this
work
,
1
Cor.
12.
7
,
11.
But
the
manifestation
of
the
Spirit
is
given
to
every
one
to
profit
withal
:
That
is
the
gifts
of
the
Spirit
by
a
Metonymy
of
the
effect
;
and
given
to
every
one
to
whom
it
is
given
,
for
this
end
to
profit
withal
(
so
Piscator
)
▪
The
Apostle
speaks
here
of
gifted
Persons
in
the
Church
of
Corinth
,
whether
they
were
ordinary
or
extraordinary
Teachers
,
they
had
all
choice
gifts
imparted
to
them
by
the
Spirit
to
that
end
:
All
whom
Christ
sends
to
Preach
the
Gospel
have
the
annointings
of
his
Spirit
to
fit
them
for
that
work
,
Isa.
50.
4.
The
Lord
hath
given
me
the
tongue
of
the
learned
,
that
I
should
know
how
to
speak
a
word
in
season
to
him
that
is
weary
:
The
Prophet
here
(
saith
Calvin
)
doth
personate
all
the
Ministers
of
Christ
in
all
ages
.
And
tells
us
that
all
those
Christ
sends
to
Preach
the
Gospel
,
he
doth
give
sutable
endowments
to
them
for
that
end
;
he
doth
impart
his
truth
to
them
by
his
Spirit
that
they
might
teach
others
:
This
is
the
Reason
Christ
gives
the
Spirit
of
his
Father
,
Mat.
10.
20.
He
makes
them
teachable
,
that
they
might
teach
others
:
Hence
Cyprian
saith
,
Non
bonus
est
Doctor
qui
non
est
docilis
:
Christ
reveals
those
treasures
of
his
to
his
Servants
that
they
might
open
them
to
others
,
Mat.
10.
8.
Freely
ye
have
received
freely
give
.
Fourthly
,
The
charge
he
lays
upon
his
Messengers
,
demonstrates
this
truth
,
he
doth
command
them
to
go
and
preach
the
Gospel
to
every
Creature
,
Mark
.
16.
15.
'T
is
an
Hyberbolical
Synecdoche
of
the
genus
,
Every
Creature
put
for
all
Nations
,
saith
Piscator
.
The
word
of
reconciliation
is
committed
to
them
as
to
Ambassadours
,
faithfully
to
impart
it
to
those
they
are
sent
to
:
There
's
a
necessity
laid
upon
them
to
preach
the
Gospel
,
and
a
wo
if
they
do
not
,
1
Cor.
9.
16.
A
necessity
,
not
of
Coaction
,
but
Obligation
,
and
divine
command
,
saith
Paraeus
.
Secondly
,
The
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
,
why
Christ
is
so
willing
those
Treasures
should
be
tender'd
to
Sinners
.
First
,
That
so
he
might
give
the
world
a
proof
of
the
greatness
of
his
Love
to
perishing
Sinners
,
and
of
the
largeness
of
his
bowels
to
poor
mankind
,
Eph.
3.
9.
To
make
all
men
see
what
is
the
Fellowship
of
the
mystery
,
&c.
Now
what
was
the
fellowship
of
this
mystery
?
The
Apostle
tells
us
,
ver.
6.
That
the
Gentiles
should
be
Fellow-heirs
,
and
of
the
same
body
,
and
partakers
of
his
promise
in
Christ
by
the
Gospel
.
This
sets
forth
the
wonderful
love
of
God
in
Christ
to
fallen
man
;
that
God
is
willing
the
mystery
of
Salvation
should
be
opened
to
such
vile
Creatures
as
the
Gentiles
were
;
worshippers
of
Idols
and
Devils
,
such
unclean
and
filthy
Creatures
,
the
chiefest
of
sinners
,
Tit.
3.
3.
Eph.
2.
2
,
3.
Such
were
all
before
Conversion
,
they
had
fellowship
with
Devils
,
1
Cor.
10.
20.
And
this
commends
the
love
of
God
indeed
,
that
he
should
reveal
Jesus
Christ
to
the
vilest
sinners
,
and
tells
the
world
it
is
by
Grace
any
are
saved
,
Eph.
2.
8.
and
of
the
riches
of
mercy
,
Tit.
3.
5
,
6.
It
lets
sinners
know
that
God
is
no
respecter
of
persons
,
he
saves
none
for
any
worth
in
them
,
but
for
his
great
love
in
Christ
,
Eph.
3.
19.
Secondly
,
That
the
worst
of
sinners
might
be
encouraged
to
come
to
Christ
,
and
none
be
exempted
from
Salvation
but
those
that
exclude
themselves
,
Joh.
7.
37.
This
is
Christs
design
thereby
to
draw
sinners
to
himself
by
the
savour
of
his
Oyntments
,
Joh.
12.
32.
O
the
precious
discoveries
of
his
excellencies
are
attractive
;
the
riches
of
Christ
,
and
the
Glory
of
his
Kingdom
have
a
wonderful
influence
to
perswade
sinners
to
him
,
Gal.
4.
15.
A
seen
and
believed
blessedness
in
the
ways
of
Christ
,
will
make
the
Soul
part
with
all
for
him
,
and
come
on
any
terms
to
the
enjoyment
of
it
:
Terrours
contract
the
Souls
affections
to
God
,
but
mercy
and
the
excellency
of
Christ
doth
constrain
them
;
now
Christ
is
willing
that
every
lost
sinner
that
sees
and
believes
in
him
should
be
saved
.
Thirdly
,
That
so
all
his
Elect
that
lye
among
the
perishing
world
might
thereby
be
gathered
in
,
Joh.
10.
16.
The
Election
must
obtain
,
though
the
rest
be
blinded
,
Rom.
11.
7.
The
Lord
Jesus
Christ
cannot
lose
one
Soul
the
Father
hath
given
him
,
they
must
come
in
first
or
last
;
and
for
their
sakes
,
as
the
evil-days
are
shortned
,
Math.
24.
22.
so
shall
the
Gospel-days
be
continued
till
Christ
hath
gathered
all
his
Elect
into
union
with
himself
from
the
four
winds
,
even
as
many
as
are
ordained
to
Life
:
Now
there
's
no
such
way
to
fetch
in
Souls
to
Christ
,
as
by
opening
those
Treasures
.
Lastly
,
That
they
who
perish
under
the
Gospel
might
be
left
without
excuse
,
Joh.
15.
22.
They
have
nothing
to
plead
against
damnation
,
who
despise
so
great
Salvation
,
Heb.
2.
3.
And
turn
their
backs
on
such
tendered
blessedness
:
To
leave
tryed
Gold
for
Counters
,
and
Treasures
for
Trifles
,
the
portion
of
Saints
for
the
pleasures
of
sin
,
is
utterly
inexcusable
;
and
this
is
one
reason
of
Christs
opening
his
Treasures
to
the
world
,
't
is
to
justifie
his
severity
against
unbelievers
,
that
will
not
come
to
him
that
they
may
have
life
;
he
will
have
every
mouth
stopped
,
and
the
whole
world
of
unbelieving
sinners
become
guilty
before
him
,
Rom.
3.
19.
Thus
have
I
dispatch'd
the
third
Assertion
.
I
now
come
to
make
Application
of
the
whole
.
CHAP.
XXIII
.
Containing
two
Branches
of
Information
:
What
a
great
blessing
the
Gospel
is
:
The
greatness
of
their
sin
that
oppose
the
Gospel
.
IF
there
are
great
,
Glorious
,
and
unsearchable
Riches
in
Christ
;
If
it
be
by
the
Gospel
these
Riches
are
brought
forth
,
opened
,
and
tendered
to
sinners
;
O
then
what
a
mercy
is
it
for
Souls
to
enjoy
the
Gospel
!
The
Gospel
is
the
field
in
which
this
treasure
is
hid
:
The
Ministery
of
the
Gospel
is
the
digging
out
,
and
laying
open
this
treasure
:
The
G●spel
is
the
Cabinet
in
which
these
Jewels
lye
lock'd
up
:
And
the
Ministery
of
the
Gospel
,
by
the
Spirit
,
is
the
opening
and
unlocking
this
Treasury
and
Cabinet
:
Jesus
Christ
is
this
treasure
:
The
Ministers
of
the
Gospel
are
Messengers
and
Ambassadours
of
Christ
,
sent
into
the
world
with
news
of
this
Treasure
,
and
impowered
to
treat
with
perishing
Souls
about
making
them
Rich:
The
Ministers
of
Christ
are
Stewards
of
this
great
Lord
of
Glory
,
entrusted
with
the
tendring
and
Ministerial
disposings
of
these
vast
treasures
,
according
to
his
instructions
:
This
way
God
brings
to
light
the
hidden
things
of
the
Gospel
,
2
Cor.
4.
7.
We
have
this
Treasure
in
Earthen
Vessels
:
As
if
the
Apostle
should
say
:
O
Corinthians
,
there
is
a
treasure
,
there
are
Riches
in
the
Gospel
,
and
we
have
these
Riches
in
Earthen
Vessels
:
The
Lord
commits
them
to
us
,
that
we
may
open
them
,
and
make
a
tender
of
them
to
perishing
sinners
,
according
to
his
order
.
Our
business
is
to
preach
Christ
,
and
open
the
treasures
of
Christ
,
with
all
his
vast
Inheritance
to
every
Soul
that
receives
him
:
O
then
the
singular
happiness
they
have
,
that
have
the
word
of
this
Grace
sent
to
them
:
Oh
what
a
mercy
is
it
to
live
within
the
day-spring
from
on
high
,
and
under
the
joyful
found
:
To
hear
the
good
news
of
a
Saviours
being
born
,
and
offer'd
to
perishing
Souls
:
To
have
the
tydings
of
those
Soul-enriching
overtures
;
O
think
upon
the
blind
perishing
world
,
that
live
without
the
Line
of
Communication
,
with
whom
Free-Grace
holds
no
correspondence
about
Salvation
,
those
Indians
and
Pagans
that
live
without
the
Gospel
,
and
then
reflect
upon
the
priviledges
you
enjoy
,
and
see
what
a
mercy
this
is
;
and
then
say
,
who
hath
made
you
to
differ
;
O
why
should
the
Sun
shine
on
your
borders
,
and
the
day
spring
from
on
high
visit
your
coasts
;
leaving
others
to
perish
without
regarding
?
O
is
it
not
Grace
that
God
should
visit
you
with
the
Gospel
,
and
suffer
others
to
persecute
it
?
O
these
are
the
motions
of
Sovereign
pleasure
,
and
the
paths
of
distinguishing
mercy
:
O
sinners
!
how
much
are
you
indebted
to
this
free
unsearchable
Grace
,
that
should
pass
by
so
many
parts
of
the
World
,
and
pitch
on
this
little
spot
of
ground
?
O
wonderful
Mercy
indeed
!
That
these
swarms
of
Mellefluous
dews
and
priviledges
should
light
on
your
branches
:
That
the
Cloud
by
day
and
a
Pillar
of
Fire
by
night
should
come
,
and
stand
over
you
.
O
little
do
you
know
what
it
is
to
lye
in
darkness
,
and
in
the
Region
and
shadow
of
Death
:
O!
this
should
cause
you
to
value
the
Gospel
:
who
can
tell
but
they
that
feel
it
,
what
it
is
to
be
shut
up
in
the
Region
of
death
,
and
be
bound
in
chains
of
darkness
;
to
lye
in
a
wast
howling
Wilderness
,
where
there
is
none
to
guide
their
feet
in
the
way
of
peace
:
O
what
a
sad
judgment
is
this
!
O
Souls
!
If
ever
you
live
to
see
,
the
light
put
out
,
and
the
Ministery
of
the
Gospel
gone
from
England
,
then
you
will
know
what
doleful
miseries
are
;
and
will
you
not
prize
the
Gospel
then
,
that
is
such
a
wonderful
mercy
,
beyond
all
your
Estates
,
and
all
the
enjoyments
of
the
whole
world
?
How
will
some
men
value
those
Sciences
that
feed
their
natural
minds
with
knowledge
,
and
feast
their
Rational
desires
with
discoveries
of
some
unknown
Notions
:
And
will
not
you
love
the
Gospel
,
that
brings
to
light
the
glorious
truths
of
Christ
?
How
will
Tradesmen
prize
the
Rules
of
their
Arts
,
that
make
them
skilful
!
How
will
the
Worldlings
hug
those
Counsels
that
help
to
make
them
rich
!
And
should
not
you
prize
the
Gospel
,
that
comes
to
make
you
wise
to
Salvation
?
Shall
men
prize
instructions
about
the
obtaining
of
perishing
things
?
And
shall
the
Counsel
God
gives
you
about
the
Food
that
endureth
,
be
slighted
?
O
Souls
!
what
shall
I
say
?
O
labour
to
know
the
worth
of
the
Gospel
,
before
you
feel
the
want
of
the
Gospel
:
O
prize
it
,
prize
it
indeed
.
The
Gospel
is
the
best
Treasure
,
the
best
Comforter
,
the
best
Friend
that
is
in
the
World
:
'T
is
the
best
Counseller
in
all
sinners
difficulties
;
it
shews
you
the
safest
,
and
best
way
out
of
all
your
Clouds
and
darkness
,
Pro.
8.
14.
Counsel
is
mine
,
and
sound
Wisdom
.
It
is
meant
of
Christ
;
In
his
word
is
the
best
Counsel
to
make
men
wise
to
Salvation
,
1
Tim.
3.
15.
There
's
the
best
Counsel
to
make
you
happy
,
Rev.
3.
18.
'T
is
the
best
Interpreter
in
all
the
World
to
resolve
your
dark
cases
,
and
there
's
no
such
way
to
get
solution
in
all
your
doubts
,
and
greatest
troubles
:
The
Psalmist
found
it
so
,
when
he
went
into
the
Sanctuary
,
Ps.
73.
17.
Christians
,
the
Gospel
and
Word
of
God
tells
you
,
what
you
should
do
in
all
your
difficulties
,
Acts
9.
6.
The
Gospel
is
the
chiefest
comforter
:
O
what
happy
Messenger
the
ministery
of
the
Gospel
is
,
it
brings
the
best
Balm
to
heal
your
wounds
:
Balm
of
Gilead
to
heal
your
soul
wounds
,
it
affords
the
sweetest
Consolations
,
Rom.
15.
4.
That
we
through
Patience
and
Comfort
of
the
Scriptures
might
have
hope
.
Ah!
There
's
no
such
pure
Elixir
drops
to
any
,
as
the
Gospel
drops
:
'T
is
the
most
reviving
Spirits
imaginable
:
the
water
of
Life
that
come
through
the
Gospel
:
O
how
reviving
how
chearing
are
these
to
drooping
Souls
!
The
Gospel
is
the
power
of
God
to
Salvation
,
Rom.
1.
16.
'T
is
the
arm
of
God
to
stay
up
the
poor
sinking
Soul
:
'T
is
the
Weapons
of
our
Warfare
which
are
mighty
through
God
to
the
pulling
down
of
strong
holds
,
2
Cor.
10.
4.
O
Souls
!
what
cause
have
you
then
to
be
much
affected
with
the
Love
of
God
in
giving
the
Gospel
?
get
your
hearts
warm'd
with
the
sense
of
this
mercy
;
and
more
appreciative
thoughts
of
these
priviledges
:
O
,
I
know
not
how
to
commend
it
to
you
:
O
Souls
prize
the
Gospel
,
rate
it
in
your
esteem
above
the
whole
World
,
Psa.
119.
167.
My
Soul
hath
kept
thy
Testimonies
,
and
I
love
them
exceedingly
.
O
rest
not
till
you
can
say
so
,
I
love
the
Gospel
exceedingly
;
I
prize
it
above
gold
,
above
tryed
gold
:
'T
is
better
than
all
treasures
,
ver.
72.
Sweeter
,
(
says
David
)
than
Hony
,
and
the
Hony
Comb
,
Psa.
19.
10.
If
the
Gospel
be
stuff'd
with
such
Riches
,
who
would
not
prize
the
Gospel
?
'T
is
a
rich
Cabinet
,
bespangled
with
beauty
in
every
letter
:
'T
is
a
discovery
of
the
manifold
Wisdom
of
God
,
and
should
not
you
be
affected
with
the
Gospel
?
O
testifie
your
valuation
of
the
Gospel
by
all
possible
demonstrations
.
First
,
Shew
your
valuation
of
the
Gospel
,
by
blessing
God
for
it
:
O
send
Clouds
of
Incense
to
Heaven
,
full
of
praises
and
Hosannahs
to
God
for
the
Gospel
:
Paul
blesseth
God
that
the
Phillippians
had
the
Gospel
,
Phil.
1.
3
,
5.
I
thank
my
God
upon
every
remembrance
of
you
,
for
your
fellowship
in
the
Gospel
,
from
the
first
day
until
now
.
As
much
as
to
say
,
that
you
have
enjoy'd
the
Gospel
a
great
while
.
O
from
your
whole
hearts
bless
God
for
the
Gospel
,
1
Thes.
1.
2
,
5.
O
I
am
afraid
Christians
are
not
enough
in
this
duty
of
praising
God
for
the
Gospel
:
It
deserves
solemn
days
of
Thanksgiving
.
Secondly
,
Testifie
your
valuation
of
the
Gospel
;
by
doing
all
you
can
to
keep
it
with
you
:
A
person
that
prizeth
a
Jewel
or
piece
of
Gold
in
his
hand
will
hold
it
fast
:
O
Christians
!
if
you
prize
the
Gospel
,
you
will
do
all
you
can
to
keep
the
Gospel
,
Pro.
23.
23.
Buy
the
Truth
,
and
sell
it
not
:
Lay
out
any
thing
to
enjoy
the
Gospel
;
part
with
your
Lusts
,
part
with
your
Treasures
;
let
all
go
,
so
you
may
keep
the
Gospel
:
But
then
do
not
sell
it
:
O
the
Gospel
is
Treasure
enough
,
count
nothing
too
dear
for
it
.
Thirdly
,
Testifie
your
valuation
of
the
Gospel
:
By
your
willingness
to
part
with
all
,
or
any
thing
,
if
God
call
you
to
it
for
the
Gospel
:
Doth
God
bid
you
pluck
out
a
right
eye
,
cut
off
a
right
hand
,
let
it
go
if
God
call
for
it
:
Doth
he
call
for
your
liberty
,
your
lives
for
the
Gospels
sake
,
let
them
go
,
Acts
21.
13.
O
Souls
!
be
not
like
the
Gadarens
to
value
your
Swine
above
the
Gospel
,
and
rather
let
the
Gospel
go
,
than
part
with
a
little
of
your
Estates
,
Luke
,
8.
37.
Fourthly
,
Christians
,
shew
your
high
esteem
of
the
Gospel
,
by
your
readiness
to
attend
it
at
all
times
:
To
run
at
every
call
of
the
Gospel
,
with
Mary
to
sit
at
Christs
feet
,
though
other
things
be
out
of
order
,
Luke
10.
39
,
40.
Will
not
you
part
with
a
little
of
your
business
,
and
let
your
Plow
stand
still
awhile
,
to
attend
upon
the
Ministry
of
the
Gospel
?
O
Christians
!
shew
your
prizings
of
the
Gospel
,
by
your
willingness
to
sit
down
under
it
at
all
times
.
Fifthly
,
Shew
your
high
esteem
of
the
Gospel
,
by
the
greatest
improvements
of
it
while
you
have
it
;
Sirs
,
you
cannot
tell
how
soon
it
may
be
taken
from
you
,
or
you
from
it
;
you
see
what
attempts
are
made
against
the
Gospel
,
you
have
reason
then
to
make
the
most
of
it
while
you
have
it
:
Christ
gives
this
argument
to
his
hearers
to
prize
it
,
Joh.
12.
35.
Yet
a
little
while
is
the
light
with
you
,
walk
while
you
have
the
light
,
lest
darkness
come
upon
you
:
Be
sure
at
the
best
,
't
is
but
a
little
time
you
shall
have
it
,
if
you
live
out
all
your
time
under
the
Gospel
,
till
your
glass
be
run
every
dust
,
't
is
but
a
little
while
you
shall
sit
under
the
dews
of
this
Hermon
hill
;
the
time
of
your
life
is
but
a
little
while
;
the
time
of
your
digging
in
this
Mine
is
but
a
little
while
,
Death
will
draw
the
Curtain
,
and
set
you
beyond
the
droppings
of
these
dews
and
golden
Oyls
:
O
then
improve
the
Gospel
while
you
have
it
;
make
the
most
of
it
,
get
all
the
good
you
can
from
it
,
by
way
of
illumination
,
instruction
,
Correction
,
Faith
and
Consolation
:
Christians
,
get
your
heads
and
hearts
fill'd
with
this
precious
substance
what
you
can
;
this
will
be
your
wisdom
,
you
will
find
it
so
when
you
come
to
reckoning
:
O
fill
these
Chambers
of
your
Souls
with
precious
treasures
;
lay
up
those
choice
fruits
that
may
last
you
in
your
Winter
Days
:
Get
the
kowledge
of
Christ
,
and
the
unsearchable
Riches
of
Christ
more
and
more
,
while
you
may
come
under
the
news
of
it
:
O
draw
hard
at
these
breasts
,
that
you
may
get
much
food
and
nourishment
for
your
Souls
,
that
may
serve
you
many
a
day
.
Sixthly
,
Shew
your
high
valuation
of
the
Gospel
,
by
your
believing
in
it
,
by
your
loving
and
obeying
of
it
:
Joh.
12.
36.
While
you
have
the
light
believe
in
the
light
:
Those
friends
we
value
much
,
we
trust
much
.
Souls
if
you
value
the
Gospel
,
you
will
believe
it
:
The
Gospel
tells
you
;
He
that
hath
the
Son
hath
life
;
he
that
hath
not
the
Son
hath
not
life
:
It
tells
you
,
he
that
lives
after
the
flesh
shall
dye
:
O
believe
it
!
the
Gospel
saies
,
If
you
forsake
your
evil
ways
,
you
shall
have
mercy
;
if
you
hold
fast
your
sins
you
shall
dye
:
It
tells
you
,
you
cannot
come
at
Salvation
,
but
in
Salvations
wayes
:
O
believe
the
Gospel
;
they
that
know
thy
Name
will
put
their
trust
in
thee
,
Psa.
9.
10.
If
you
did
but
know
the
worth
and
truth
of
it
,
you
would
believe
it
,
you
may
hang
all
the
weight
of
your
Souls
upon
the
Line
of
the
Gospel
,
you
may
adventure
your
immortal
Souls
upon
the
promises
of
the
Gospel
:
It
will
bear
all
your
weights
,
then
love
the
Gospel
:
Love
the
truth
and
peace
,
Zach.
8.
19.
Is
the
Gospel
such
a
good
Messenger
that
brings
you
such
good
news
,
and
will
you
not
love
it
?
O
Souls
!
love
the
Ministrations
of
the
Gospel
.
And
then
obey
the
Gospel
:
If
you
love
Christ
indeed
you
will
keep
his
Commandements
,
Joh.
14.
23.
you
will
obey
his
voice
.
This
argues
your
esteem
of
the
Gospel
,
when
you
follow
the
instructions
it
gives
you
.
Doth
God
bid
you
forsake
your
evil
wayes
?
Come
and
close
with
Christ
?
O!
obey
those
Counsels
he
gives
you
in
his
Gospel
.
Lastly
,
Shew
your
high
valuation
of
the
Gospel
,
by
holding
forth
a
Conversation
sutable
to
it
,
Only
let
your
Conversation
be
as
becometh
the
Gospel
of
Christ
,
Phil.
1.
27.
As
if
he
should
say
,
chiefly
,
this
is
the
main
and
sum
of
all
O!
live
worthy
of
the
Gospel
.
First
,
Then
is
your
Conversation
as
becometh
the
Gospel
,
when
you
live
as
becomes
the
grace
of
God
discover'd
in
the
Gospel
:
'T
is
infinite
grace
is
revealed
in
it
;
you
should
walk
so
as
to
honour
grace
;
you
should
press
after
more
grace
in
your
Conversations
,
there
should
be
grace
in
every
step
of
your
lives
,
Tit.
2.
1
,
12.
Secondly
,
Then
you
live
sutable
to
the
Gospel
,
when
you
live
up
to
those
great
and
Glorious
things
held
out
in
it
:
When
the
Gospel
is
opened
there
are
choice
Jewels
brought
forth
to
sale
:
O
most
excellent
things
produc'd
by
it
,
and
you
should
live
up
sutable
to
these
.
There
's
the
manifold
Wisdom
of
God
held
forth
in
the
Gospel
,
Eph.
3.
10.
Treasures
of
wonderful
wisdom
are
opened
in
the
Gospel
:
O
live
up
to
these
mysteries
:
O
Christians
,
let
your
lives
be
exact
,
for
you
have
curious
eyes
to
look
upon
you
,
labour
to
hold
forth
much
wisdom
and
much
light
in
your
Conversations
.
In
the
Gospel
is
held
forth
the
mystery
of
Godliness
,
1
Tim.
3.
16.
Great
is
the
mystery
of
godliness
.
O
what
mysteries
are
here
!
God
Manifested
in
the
flesh
;
God
,
and
yet
cloath'd
in
flesh
:
Condemn'd
for
sin
,
and
yet
justified
in
the
Spirit
;
seen
of
Angels
:
Preached
to
the
Geutiles
,
the
worst
of
Sinners
in
the
World
:
Now
live
sutable
to
the
mysteries
of
Godliness
.
Again
,
the
Gospel
opens
the
glorious
priviledges
of
Saints
,
of
every
saved
Soul
:
O
wonderful
priviledges
!
That
Enemies
should
be
reconciled
,
and
strangers
made
nigh
,
that
Rebels
should
be
adopted
Sons
and
Daughters
,
made
the
Children
of
God
by
Christ
,
Rom.
8.
16
,
17.
O
what
a
glorious
priviledge
is
this
Believing
Souls
are
brought
into
by
the
Gospel
!
to
a
state
of
Adoption
,
Gal.
4.
6.
A
state
of
glorious
liberty
,
Eph.
5.
1.
Gal.
5.
1.
O
live
up
to
these
glorious
priviledges
:
You
are
Children
of
the
light
,
walk
as
Children
of
the
light
,
Eph.
5.
8.
The
Gospel
shews
you
the
the
things
freely
given
of
God
,
the
infinite
love
of
God
,
the
wonderful
Salvation-Grace
of
God
:
O
then
you
live
sutable
to
the
Gospel
,
when
you
live
up
to
those
great
and
glorious
things
held
forth
in
it
.
Thirdly
,
Then
are
your
lives
according
to
the
Gospel
,
when
they
are
suted
to
the
Rules
of
the
Gospel
,
look
what
the
Gospel
commands
;
and
requires
that
you
do
,
Gal.
6.
16.
Math.
28.
20.
Now
the
Gospel
requires
not
only
Bodily
,
but
Spiritual
worship
;
to
worship
God
in
the
Spirit
:
It
requires
not
only
external
duties
,
but
internal
holiness
:
It
calls
for
Obedience
flowing
from
love
,
and
labours
springing
from
faith
;
well
principled
duties
,
when
you
endeavour
the
greatest
strickness
in
your
lives
;
That
's
sutable
to
the
Gospel
.
Fourthly
,
Then
is
your
Conversation
as
becomes
the
Gospel
;
when
it
is
Subordinate
to
the
ends
of
it
.
One
end
of
the
Gospel
is
to
exalt
the
praise
of
the
glory
of
grace
,
Eph.
1.
12.
To
make
you
vessels
of
Mercy
,
for
the
glory
of
Mercy
:
O
Christians
live
so
as
you
may
most
advance
the
glory
of
grace
,
live
self-denyingly
and
humbly
,
exclude
boasting
,
then
you
live
as
becomes
the
Gospel
.
Another
great
end
of
the
Gospel
is
the
sanctification
of
saved
Souls
,
to
make
Souls
holy
,
2.
Cor.
7.
1.
Then
you
live
as
becometh
the
Gospel
,
when
you
carry
on
Gospel
holiness
,
inward
Holiness
,
outward
Holiness
,
1
Thes.
4.
3.
The
Salvation
of
Souls
,
that
's
another
great
end
of
the
Gospel
,
that
the
Promise
may
be
sure
to
all
the
seed
,
2
Thes.
2.
10.
That
he
that
believes
in
Christ
may
have
Everlasting
Life
:
O
then
live
as
you
may
be
saved
;
you
must
tread
upon
the
World
you
have
so
much
doted
upon
;
you
must
account
all
things
loss
and
dung
for
Christ
,
if
ever
you
be
saved
:
O
Christians
,
labour
then
to
hold
forth
a
Conversation
sutable
to
the
Gospel
.
So
much
for
the
first
Inference
.
Secondly
,
If
such
great
and
unsearchable
treasures
are
opened
and
tendered
to
Sinners
in
the
Gospel
:
O
then
how
great
is
their
sin
that
oppose
and
persecute
the
Preaching
of
it
:
O
this
is
a
black
sin
indeed
;
this
activity
comes
from
the
Spirit
of
darkness
.
O
't
is
a
dreadful
thing
to
oppose
,
resist
,
and
persecute
the
Ministery
of
the
Gospel
:
For
such
do
all
they
can
to
hinder
the
tenders
of
unsearchable
Riches
to
the
World
;
they
labour
to
keep
the
World
poor
,
to
hinder
the
Salvation
of
Souls
:
And
is
not
this
sad
work
?
Again
,
such
as
oppose
and
persecute
the
Gospel
,
are
of
the
cursed
brood
and
off-spring
of
the
Pharisees
,
who
do
shut
up
the
Kingdom
of
God
,
and
neither
enter
in
themselves
,
nor
suffer
them
that
are
entring
to
go
in
:
So
do
those
that
do
oppose
and
persecute
the
Gospel
,
and
would
put
out
the
light
of
the
Gospel
;
they
are
the
Children
of
the
Devil
;
the
first-born
of
Hell
;
they
do
their
Fathers
work
,
Joh.
8.
41
,
44.
They
that
hate
the
light
are
the
Children
of
the
Devil
;
their
deeds
are
evil
,
Joh.
3.
20.
They
carry
the
Devils
mark
upon
their
forehead
;
wherever
they
go
up
and
down
,
to
say
there
goes
the
Devils
Children
,
there
goes
an
Heir
of
Hell
.
Again
,
They
are
Soul
murtherers
;
they
do
hunt
Souls
,
and
shed
the
blood
of
Souls
,
Ezek.
13.
30.
As
well
as
they
that
hinder
the
Gospel
of
Life
,
as
they
that
bring
in
false
Doctrines
,
and
feed
persons
with
Lies
,
and
occasion
death
:
They
that
starve
mens
Souls
as
well
as
they
that
poyson
them
,
both
are
Soul
murtherers
.
They
sight
against
Christ
in
Heaven
:
They
go
up
and
down
with
drawn
Swords
pointed
against
Christ
in
Heaven
.
O
bloody
wretches
!
that
have
murthered
Christ
on
Earth
,
and
now
would
kill
him
in
Heaven
too
,
Acts.
9.
4.
Saul
,
Saul
,
Why
persecutest
thou
me
?
O
Souls
!
't
is
a
fearful
thing
to
oppose
and
persecute
the
Ministery
of
the
Gospel
;
for
all
the
blood
of
all
the
Saints
,
from
the
beginning
of
the
world
to
this
day
,
shall
be
upon
their
heads
,
Math.
23.
35.
O
't
is
a
sad
thing
to
lye
under
the
blood
of
one
person
;
but
to
have
all
the
blood
of
all
the
Saints
in
the
world
to
lye
upon
the
head
of
a
poor
Creature
:
O
what
will
that
Soul
do
?
That
Soul
will
go
to
Hell
with
a
vengeance
,
and
lye
tumbling
under
the
wrath
of
God
to
all
Eternity
.
Thus
much
of
the
Second
Inference
.
CHAP.
XXIV
.
Shewing
the
poor
and
lamentable
State
of
all
Christless
Souls
.
IF
there
are
such
vast
and
unsearchable
treasures
in
Christ
,
tendered
to
sinners
in
the
Gospel
:
Hence
see
then
the
poor
and
lamentable
state
of
all
those
Souls
that
are
without
Christ
.
O
they
are
very
beggerly
Souls
that
are
Christless
Souls
:
As
they
that
are
far
from
the
Sun
,
must
needs
be
far
from
Light
and
Heat
;
so
they
that
are
far
from
Christ
,
must
needs
be
far
from
true
Riches
:
He
that
hath
not
a
Title
to
the
Field
,
hath
none
to
the
Treasure
that
lies
in
it
:
He
that
hath
the
Son
hath
Life
,
he
that
hath
not
the
Son
hath
not
Life
.
The
Character
of
Laodicea
is
the
complexion
of
all
Christless
Souls
:
They
are
Wretched
,
Miserable
,
Poor
,
Blind
,
and
Naked
,
Rev.
3.
17.
They
are
aliens
from
the
Common
Wealth
of
Israel
,
strangers
to
the
Covenant
of
promise
,
without
God
,
and
without
hope
,
Eph.
2.
12.
They
have
none
of
Christs
personal
,
or
purchased
treasures
to
enrich
them
:
They
have
no
right
to
his
Person
,
and
so
none
to
his
Excellency
:
His
glorious
Attributes
signifies
no
good
at
all
to
them
.
His
most
precious
and
sweet
dispositions
,
bespeaks
little
comfort
to
them
:
What
Christ
hath
done
and
suffered
,
imports
no
advantage
to
them
:
Christless
sinners
are
like
beggers
,
or
like
poor
persons
shut
out
of
the
Rich
mans
door
,
that
have
Charity
lock'd
up
from
them
;
till
they
come
to
Christ
,
neither
himself
nor
his
is
theirs
;
they
have
not
any
part
of
his
fulness
:
No
Treasures
of
Justification
,
Pardon
,
and
Peace
,
are
imparted
to
them
:
No
Riches
of
Sanctification
are
made
over
to
them
:
No
Treasures
of
Grace
,
or
Glory
,
are
the
Unbelievers
interest
;
therefore
he
must
needs
be
a
pitiful
poor
Soul
:
Yea
,
all
the
Symptoms
of
Poverty
are
upon
Christless
sinners
.
To
name
a
few
of
them
.
First
,
A
poor
Person
is
a
very
needy
person
:
He
is
full
of
wants
;
ever
and
anon
in
distress
,
and
extremities
;
always
destitute
:
Poor
and
needy
are
Synonimous
terms
,
Isa.
41.
17.
When
the
poor
and
needy
seek
Water
.
So
it
is
with
Christless
Souls
,
their
necessities
are
many
;
their
wants
are
more
than
can
be
numbred
:
They
want
Wisdom
,
Light
,
Grace
,
Glory
,
every
good
thing
:
Nothing
truly
good
is
imparted
to
them
:
Their
unbelief
mars
all
the
mercies
given
to
them
:
To
the
unbelieving
Soul
every
thing
is
unclean
,
defiled
,
Tit.
1.
15.
Their
unregeneracy
overturns
all
their
mercies
.
Ah!
They
want
eyes
to
see
what
is
lacking
in
them
,
and
hence
't
is
they
go
up
and
down
so
secure
:
They
want
Eyes
to
see
,
Ears
to
hear
,
a
mouth
to
speak
,
Legs
to
go
,
and
Hands
to
Labour
:
they
want
Life
,
and
every
good
thing
:
And
being
Aliens
from
the
Common-wealth
of
Israel
,
strangers
to
the
Covenant
of
promise
,
and
alienated
from
the
Life
of
God
;
must
needs
be
miserably
poor
.
Secondly
,
Poor
Persons
as
they
are
needy
,
and
their
wants
great
,
so
they
have
nothing
of
their
own
to
supply
them
:
A
poor
man
may
want
Bread
;
but
his
Cupboard
doth
not
afford
it
:
He
may
see
his
wants
,
but
hath
no
money
in
his
purse
,
no
treasure
to
repair
them
;
they
are
poor
that
have
no
Estates
;
no
Barns-floar
to
go
to
;
no
Lands
,
no
Livings
,
no
money
to
help
them
in
time
of
straits
:
Christless
Souls
are
in
this
sense
poor
also
:
They
have
nothing
to
supply
their
wants
,
to
relieve
them
in
their
necessities
:
Their
own
Treasures
are
totally
exhausted
by
sin
:
Where
the
fountain
is
sealed
,
the
Cisterns
are
dry
:
When
the
Creator
will
not
help
,
the
Creature
cannot
,
Angels
cannot
,
will
not
help
:
Scriptures
can
impart
no
comfort
to
them
,
whiles
out
of
Christ
:
Where
Christ
shuts
his
door
,
no
good
thing
gets
out
to
such
Souls
:
They
are
naked
of
all
those
advantages
that
might
enrich
them
,
stript
of
those
Consolations
that
might
chear
and
refresh
them
:
Where
shall
we
go
?
says
the
Disciples
to
Christ
,
Joh.
6.
68.
So
may
poor
sinners
say
:
Where
shall
we
go
?
they
are
like
the
Lepers
that
sate
without
the
Gate
of
Samaria
,
ready
to
Famish
,
and
knew
not
what
to
do
,
2
Kings
7.
3.
This
is
the
case
of
Christless
Souls
:
They
may
have
of
the
fat
things
of
this
Life
;
but
not
a
jot
of
the
Everlasting
hills
reacheth
them
.
Thirdly
,
Poor
men
usually
fare
hard
;
they
are
much
straitned
in
their
refreshments
;
they
feed
on
mean
things
,
very
low
dyet
;
Bread
and
Water
is
great
chear
with
them
:
When
the
Prophet
was
reduc'd
to
a
state
of
poverty
,
he
was
fed
with
Bread
and
Water
,
1
Kings
18.
4.
Yea
▪
sometimes
worse
fare
;
as
the
Prodigal
fed
on
Husks
;
nay
,
glad
to
have
it
,
he
looked
for
some
that
would
give
it
.
Luk.
15.
16.
Nay
,
sometimes
feed
upon
Doves
dung
;
yea
their
own
flesh
,
2
Kings
6.
25.
O
the
mean
,
hard
fare
poor
persons
are
brought
to
in
a
state
of
Poverty
;
they
go
many
times
with
hungry
Bellies
:
Poor
people
sometimes
with
Lazarus
would
be
glad
of
the
Crumbs
that
fall
from
rich
mens
Tables
,
Luke
16.
21.
Such
is
the
state
of
Christless
Souls
;
their
fare
is
bad
,
and
very
course
:
They
live
upon
the
Carrion
,
the
stinking
Excrements
of
sin
;
They
feed
upon
their
Lusts
;
their
sweetest
draughts
are
(
with
Darius
)
dirty
Waters
:
As
the
Children
of
God
feed
on
holiness
,
't
is
meat
and
drink
to
do
their
Fathers
will
;
so
the
pleasures
of
sin
are
the
dainties
,
and
sweet-meats
of
Christless
Souls
:
The
forbidden
Fruit
is
the
best
chear
such
have
:
No
Tree
in
the
garden
pleaseth
them
so
well
as
the
Tree
of
Knowledge
of
good
and
evil
.
O
such
is
the
meat
and
drink
of
sinners
,
they
feed
upon
their
own
dung
;
yea
,
they
are
fed
with
Judgment
,
whiles
Saints
eat
the
dainties
,
the
marrow
and
fat
things
of
Christs
Table
:
They
eat
the
Bone
,
when
the
Children
feed
on
the
Flesh
:
Sinners
come
to
Ordinances
,
and
eat
up
Bran
,
whiles
the
Children
feed
upon
the
finest
of
the
Wheat
;
they
have
but
the
shell
and
outside
of
Ordinances
,
when
gracious
Souls
eat
the
kernel
and
inside
sweetness
:
The
Friends
of
Christ
feed
upon
hidden
Manna
,
when
sinners
fill
their
stomachs
with
husks
,
yea
,
gravel
:
The
appointments
of
Christ
yield
no
sweetness
to
them
:
Their
Ear
doth
not
try
words
,
their
Palate
hath
lost
its
taste
;
it
cannot
difference
sweet
Waters
from
bitter
;
the
Language
of
Canaan
from
the
language
of
Ashdod
:
Institutions
from
Superstition
:
'T
is
all
one
to
them
what
is
preached
:
The
pure
strains
of
Gospel
truths
is
no
other
to
them
;
than
the
dull
methods
of
dead
preaching
,
juicy
meat
and
dry
Bones
is
all
alike
to
them
;
O
they
are
poor
indeed
that
fare
so
hard
;
If
Hypocrites
feed
on
any
thing
't
is
but
a
dream
;
if
they
have
comforts
,
't
is
but
stollen
Waters
,
when
they
awake
they
are
empty
still
:
Let
the
fare
be
never
so
nourishing
,
the
choicest
priviledges
they
prove
not
by
;
they
are
ill
favour'd
Souls
,
and
look
gastly
.
Fourthly
,
Poor
Men
have
usually
mean
cloathing
,
so
John
the
Baptists
low
estate
in
the
World
was
set
forth
by
his
habit
,
Mark
1.
6.
And
John
was
cloathed
with
Camels
Hair
,
and
with
the
girdle
of
a
skin
about
his
Loynes
:
A
plain
and
sordid
habit
,
as
Calvin
calls
it
:
Ab
omni
urbano
nitore
&
lautitiis
remotis
:
A
man
far
from
a
Court-like
neatness
,
either
in
habit
or
apparel
,
but
in
a
poor
and
rustick
attire
;
not
but
that
John
might
have
been
better
cloathed
;
he
was
the
Son
of
Zacharias
the
Priest
,
but
taking
on
him
the
state
of
Poverty
,
he
cloathed
himself
accordingly
:
Poor
Men
are
badly
clad
,
Job
31.
19.
Sometimes
they
go
in
rags
,
as
Soloman
saies
,
Pro.
23.
21.
Drowsiness
will
cloath
a
man
in
rags
:
It
notes
the
Poverty
that
slothful
Persons
are
brought
into
;
when
James
would
discribe
a
poor
man
,
he
sets
him
forth
as
cloath'd
in
vile
rayment
,
Jam.
2.
2.
And
there
come
in
a
poor
man
in
vile
rayment
,
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
,
dirty
base
cloaths
:
The
same
word
that
is
rendred
filthly
garments
,
Zach.
3.
3.
Is
the
dress
of
poor
men
:
So
Christless
Souls
are
very
poor
,
they
go
in
mean
rayment
,
they
are
naked
;
the
Spirit
of
God
tells
the
Church
of
Laodicea
so
,
Rev.
3.
17
,
18.
Till
Souls
be
cloathed
with
the
white
rayment
of
Christ's
Righteousness
,
they
be
naked
,
and
their
shame
appears
;
they
have
nothing
to
cover
their
nakedness
from
the
sight
of
God
,
Angels
,
and
Saints
:
They
go
in
poor
rayment
;
their
garments
are
webs
of
their
own
weaving
,
and
their
works
are
their
covering
.
They
are
cloath'd
with
shame
,
and
cover'd
with
Confusion
as
with
a
Mantle
,
Psa.
109.
29.
O
what
sad
rayment
do
Sinners
go
in
!
Saints
are
cloathed
with
white
Rayment
,
and
beautiful
through
Christs
comeliness
;
adorn'dwith
his
Graces
,
bespangled
in
his
Jewels
;
they
go
up
and
down
in
rich
Attire
:
But
sinners
lye
in
sordid
attire
,
cloath'd
with
vile
Rayment
.
Fifthly
,
Poor
men
usually
have
but
bad
Lodging
;
They
commonly
live
in
mean
Houses
;
little
Cottages
:
They
sometimes
dwell
in
the
dust
,
Psa.
113.
7.
He
raiseth
the
poor
out
of
the
dust
,
and
lifteth
the
needy
out
of
the
dunghill
;
So
the
Prophet
Isaiah
describes
a
poor
man
,
as
one
that
is
cast
out
,
Isa.
58.
7.
The
poor
that
be
cast
out
:
O
their
Loding
is
hard
;
they
do
not
spread
themselves
on
Beds
of
lvory
;
nor
lye
on
Cloth
of
Tapestry
:
The
rich
have
their
ceiled
Houses
,
fair
dwellings
.
The
poor
many
times
their
Cottages
are
in
a
Wilderness
,
and
Houses
that
drop
through
.
So
't
is
with
Christless
Souls
;
they
have
poor
Lodgings
;
when
Saints
Lodge
in
the
bosom
of
Christ
,
they
lye
in
the
Arms
of
Devils
:
They
lie
upon
Thorns
;
yea
,
Spears
,
that
will
pierce
them
thorough
:
They
lye
upon
Stones
;
the
Earth
is
their
Bed
,
they
are
Earthy
Souls
,
and
lodge
in
the
very
bosome
of
the
world
:
They
dwell
in
habitations
of
cruelty
;
they
lye
in
Graves
:
So
the
Prophet
,
when
he
speaks
of
the
Jews
dead
in
sin
before
Coversion
,
he
describes
them
to
be
in
their
Graves
,
Ezek.
37.
12.
Dead
sinners
lye
like
Lazarus
,
bound
with
a
Napkin
in
their
Graves
,
Joh.
11.
44.
O
there
's
your
Bed
Souls
,
if
out
of
Christ
;
there
you
lye
kept
till
the
day
of
Judgment
;
held
Prisoners
till
a
call
comes
to
bring
you
to
the
Bar
of
Christ
.
O
your
lodging
is
mean
indeed
!
Saints
dwell
in
God
,
Psa.
91.
1
,
9.
their
habitation
is
in
the
City
of
God
,
Eph.
2.
19.
But
all
Christless
sinners
lye
without
amongst
Devils
;
they
dwell
on
pinacles
,
and
live
upon
the
borders
of
death
every
moment
,
amongst
Dogs
,
amongst
the
unclean
O
see
their
habitation
,
and
the
place
where
their
honour
dwelleth
,
Rev.
22.
15.
Without
are
dogs
,
and
Sorcerers
,
and
Whoremongers
,
and
Murtherers
,
and
Idolaters
,
and
whosoever
loveth
and
maketh
alye
.
These
are
the
company
Christless
Souls
lodge
with
:
they
are
turn'd
out
of
doors
:
O
sad
,
doleful
state
indeed
!
Sixthly
,
Another
Character
of
a
poor
man
is
this
:
Poor
men
are
Friendless
,
Pro.
19.
4
Wealth
maketh
many
friends
,
but
the
poor
is
separated
from
his
Neighbour
.
Every
man
seeketh
the
Rulers
Favour
;
every
mans
Cap
,
and
Hand
,
and
Knee
,
and
all
is
for
them
;
But
the
poor
man
,
his
very
Neighbour
comes
now
to
leave
him
,
who
was
his
Friend
whiles
in
prosperity
:
When
Rich
men
sit
down
in
places
of
Honour
,
poor
men
must
stand
at
the
Feet
,
Jam.
2.
3.
They
are
sure
to
find
few
Friends
to
own
them
,
to
pity
,
and
help
them
!
So
Christless
Souls
are
friendless
;
they
have
no
true
Friends
in
Heaven
or
Earth
:
Those
that
seem
to
flatter
them
,
are
not
Friends
but
Foes
;
they
rather
wound
them
,
and
draw
them
into
mischief
;
whiles
they
lye
in
their
blood
there
's
no
eye
to
pity
them
,
to
do
any
of
these
things
for
them
,
Ezek.
16.
5
No
hand
to
help
them
,
to
wash
,
salt
,
and
swaddle
them
,
ver.
4.
5.
If
the
Father
of
Bowels
shut
up
his
pity
,
Creatures
can
extend
but
little
;
whiles
they
reject
the
good
Samaritane
,
none
that
passeth
by
regards
them
.
If
God
will
not
withdraw
his
anger
,
the
proud
helpers
do
stoop
under
him
,
Job
9.
13.
If
God
be
angry
,
who
can
befriend
us
?
O
sinner
,
If
God
frown
,
what
is
the
love
of
Creatures
?
O
thy
case
is
doleful
,
thou
thou
art
a
poor
Soul
indeed
,
that
art
out
of
Christ
;
if
he
wound
,
none
can
heal
,
Job
11.
10.
If
he
cut
off
,
or
shut
up
,
or
gather
together
,
none
can
hinder
him
.
Christless
Souls
are
like
a
Gangreen
member
,
in
danger
of
being
cut
off
if
a
sudden
cure
be
not
found
:
and
who
then
can
befriend
them
?
where
the
Lord
of
hosts
is
a
Friend
,
Creatures
are
Friends
:
And
where
he
is
an
Enemy
,
Creatures
are
Enemies
too
:
If
God
be
in
Covenant
with
a
Soul
,
the
Creatures
are
in
Covenant
too
.
And
if
God
be
against
a
Soul
,
all
his
armies
fight
against
that
Soul
too
:
O
sinners
,
who
can
be
friend
you
?
suppose
you
have
Rich
kindred
,
great
acquaintance
,
what
can
they
do
at
the
Bar
of
God
for
you
?
They
will
not
go
to
the
Judgment
seat
of
Christ
,
and
speak
for
you
there
.
Seventhly
,
A
poor
man
is
one
that
is
lightly
esteemed
:
This
David
gives
as
a
Testimony
of
a
mean
state
;
when
some
were
sent
to
treat
with
him
about
a
match
with
Saul's
daughter
;
he
modestly
puts
it
off
.
Who
I
,
says
he
,
I
am
a
poor
man
,
and
lightly
esteemed
,
1
Sam.
18.
23.
The
word
is
contemptible
,
of
little
,
little
worth
.
Rich
men
are
sure
of
honour
;
but
the
poor
are
little
regarded
:
Great
persons
are
Courted
,
when
the
poor
are
sleighted
,
passed
by
,
little
esteemed
.
So
't
is
with
Christless
Souls
:
They
are
lightly
esteemed
:
God
hath
a
very
low
account
of
them
:
The
ungodly
in
Gods
account
are
like
the
Chaff
the
Wind
drives
away
,
Psa.
1.
4.
So
are
the
wicked
,
let
them
be
what
they
will
,
in
greatest
dignity
here
below
;
they
are
glittering
stars
in
the
worlds
Eye
,
but
falling
Comets
in
God's
account
:
The
mighty
King
of
Babylon
being
a
wicked
man
,
God
accounts
him
but
an
abominable
Branch
,
Isa.
14.
19.
So
Christ
calls
proud
Herod
,
a
Fox
,
Luk.
13.
32.
God
reckons
them
as
broken
Pitchers
:
Wicked
Coniah
is
as
a
broken
Vessel
in
whom
is
no
pleasure
,
Jer.
22.
28.
No
more
doth
God
reckon
of
wicked
men
,
though
under
all
the
grandure
of
the
World
:
Angels
do
not
regard
them
:
They
do
not
account
them
worth
their
company
,
and
attendance
:
The
Saints
are
guarded
by
Angels
;
but
wicked
men
are
let
alone
:
Angels
are
Ministring
Spirits
to
the
Heirs
of
Salvation
;
not
to
the
Heirs
of
Hell
;
they
have
no
charge
at
all
,
to
watch
over
them
;
but
to
fight
against
them
:
They
are
set
in
battel
array
against
them
;
good
men
cannot
regard
wicked
men
;
let
them
be
never
so
high
and
honourable
:
Though
they
give
every
man
his
due
;
yet
they
cannot
weigh
them
in
the
ballance
of
the
Sanctuary
as
any
thing
:
They
had
rather
converse
with
a
poor
Saint
,
than
with
the
greatest
persons
in
the
world
,
if
wicked
,
2.
Kings
3.
14.
And
Elisha
said
,
As
the
Lord
of
hosts
liveth
,
before
whom
I
stand
;
Surely
were
it
not
that
I
regarded
the
presence
of
Jehoshaphat
King
of
Judah
,
I
would
not
look
toward
thee
,
nor
see
thee
.
So
lightly
esteemed
are
wicked
men
in
the
Eyes
of
God
,
Saints
and
Angels
.
Lastly
,
A
poor
man
is
liable
to
dangers
and
sufferings
;
he
hath
no
might
against
the
mighty
,
but
lies
open
to
the
injuries
and
oppressions
of
those
that
are
above
him
,
Amos
4.
1.
Hear
ye
this
word
ye
kine
of
Bashan
,
which
oppress
the
poor
,
which
crush
the
needy
:
Poor
men
lye
under
the
feet
of
the
potent
,
and
are
subject
to
their
Tiranny
:
On
the
oppressors
side
is
power
,
and
on
the
oppresseds
side
are
tears
,
Eccl.
4.
1.
So
Christless
Souls
are
under
the
ruling
power
of
Satan
,
and
taken
Captive
by
him
at
his
will
,
2
Tim.
2.
26.
They
have
no
defence
against
the
stroaks
of
Judgment
;
't
is
easie
with
God
to
crush
them
every
moment
;
they
no
have
power
to
secure
themselves
from
ruining
vengeance
,
wicked
men
are
no
more
match
for
God
than
Bryars
and
Thorns
,
Isa.
27
4.
Yea
they
can
no
more
resist
him
than
the
stubble
can
the
fire
,
Mal.
4.
1.
O
sinner
,
thou
art
a
miserable
Caitiff
indeed
!
O
see
thy
poverty
,
let
this
stain
thy
glory
;
O
sinner
,
look
about
thee
,
whiles
thou
hast
a
little
time
:
Art
thou
willing
to
die
so
poor
?
O
't
is
not
Houses
,
nor
Lands
,
nor
Money
,
nor
Friends
,
can
minister
comfort
to
thee
then
;
O
how
wilt
thou
do
to
live
for
ever
,
if
thou
hast
none
of
Christs
tryed
Gold
.
So
much
of
the
Third
Inference
.
CHAP.
XXV
.
Wherein
Christ
is
set
forth
to
sinners
,
as
a
Match
wortby
of
their
choice
,
in
regard
of
the
excellency
of
his
Estate
:
The
amiableness
of
his
Person
:
His
lovely
Dispositions
and
other
Considerations
to
win
the
hearts
of
sinners
to
be
looking
after
this
lovely
Jesus
.
IF
there
are
such
vast
treasures
in
the
Lord
Jesus
Christ
;
then
this
will
follow
hence
:
That
the
Lord
Jesus
Christ
is
worth
the
looking
after
by
perishing
sinners
.
O
what
a
match
is
Jesus
Christ
for
undone
sinners
;
could
●hey
but
obtain
him
,
how
happy
would
they
be
for
ever
;
this
is
a
principal
thing
in
a
woers
eye
,
to
get
a
rich
match
;
O
Souls
you
cannot
get
a
better
match
than
Jesus
Christ
,
there
's
none
like
him
.
First
,
In
point
of
Riches
:
O
let
me
commend
the
Lord
Jesus
Christ
to
you
upon
the
account
of
his
wealth
:
Sinners
,
if
you
would
have
a
rich
Husband
;
there
's
none
so
rich
as
Christ
:
He
is
wonderfully
rich
;
if
you
but
consider
the
Nature
and
number
of
his
riches
:
If
you
observe
the
verity
and
variety
of
his
treasures
:
If
you
weigh
the
kind
or
degree
of
his
substance
,
you
will
say
he
is
exceeding
rich
:
Take
him
positively
,
or
comparatively
,
he
is
vastly
rich
:
he
is
really
so
,
and
superlatively
so
:
The
worlds
treasures
are
but
shadows
:
But
he
hath
substance
;
true
solid
subsisting
treasures
,
Pro.
8.
21.
That
I
may
cause
them
that
love
me
to
inherit
substance
,
and
I
will
fill
their
treasures
.
Christ's
Gold
is
tryed
Gold
,
that
which
can
bear
the
hardest
touch
,
and
abide
the
fire
:
And
he
is
superlatively
rich
,
none
like
him
:
Job
was
a
rich
man
,
but
his
riches
were
limitted
within
the
Confines
of
a
Countrey
:
He
was
the
richest
,
not
in
all
the
world
,
but
of
all
the
men
of
the
East
,
Job
1.
3.
But
Christ
is
richest
of
all
:
All
the
Men
and
Angels
in
Heaven
and
Earth
put
together
cannot
vye
treasures
with
Christ
:
What
was
said
of
the
vertuous
woman
is
true
of
Christ
,
he
excels
them
all
,
Pro.
31.
29.
O
sinners
,
would
you
have
a
rich
match
,
cast
your
eyes
on
Jesus
Christ
:
He
hath
a
very
taking
Estate
,
that
will
be
wonderful
attractive
upon
your
hearts
if
rightly
set
.
I
shall
shew
in
a
few
particulars
what
an
Estate
Christ
hath
.
First
,
It
is
a
fair
Estate
,
exceeding
large
and
full
;
't
is
incomprehensible
,
and
past
finding
out
,
both
as
to
his
personal
,
and
purchased
Treasure
:
It
is
in
heighth
,
depth
,
length
,
breadth
,
passing
knowledge
,
as
hath
been
shewn
at
large
,
Eph.
3.
18
,
19.
Christs
Estate
is
as
large
as
himself
is
,
and
he
is
past
finding
out
:
Who
can
search
out
the
Almighty
to
perfection
?
Job
11.
7.
All
mens
Estates
lie
here
in
the
lower
world
,
within
the
measure
of
a
spot
of
ground
:
But
Christ's
treasure
fills
Heaven
and
Earth
:
The
Heavens
,
yea
the
Heaven
of
Heavens
are
his
,
Neh.
9.
6.
The
Lord
Jesus
Christ
is
rich
every
way
considered
:
He
is
rich
in
inheritance
:
Heir
of
all
things
,
Heb.
1.
2.
He
is
rich
in
Jewels
,
he
hath
abundance
of
choice
Jewels
;
he
hath
a
day
on
purpose
to
make
up
his
Jewels
,
Mal.
3.
17.
He
is
rich
in
mansions
too
,
Joh.
14.
2.
In
my
Fathers
House
are
many
mansions
.
A
mansion
for
every
Heir
of
Glorie
:
O
how
many
Houses
hath
this
Heir
of
all
things
?
How
many
dwelling
places
in
Glory
?
He
is
rich
in
Crowns
and
Thrones
:
We
account
that
man
rich
that
hath
two
or
three
Kingdoms
:
But
Jesus
Christ
hath
a
multitude
of
Crowns
:
A
Crown
for
every
Subject
,
Mat.
9.
28.
Every
saved
Soul
is
a
Crowned
King
,
or
shall
be
so
to
all
Eternitie
,
Rev.
1.
6.
Every
overcoming
Soul
shall
sit
on
Thrones
;
and
every
one
wearing
a
Crown
of
Glorie
,
1
Pet.
5.
4.
O
what
a
vast
Potentate
is
Jesus
Christ
:
All
the
Angels
in
Heaven
cannot
draw
an
inventory
of
Christs
Estate
,
so
numberless
are
his
Treasures
:
He
that
hath
so
many
millions
of
Saints
,
and
can
give
every
one
of
them
a
Kingdom
:
O
how
rich
must
this
Lord
be
?
O
sinners
think
what
a
rich
Jointure
Christ
can
make
you
;
he
can
settle
an
Estate
upon
you
indeed
.
O
will
you
Espouse
Christ
,
he
hath
a
fair
Estate
indeed
.
Secondly
,
Christ
hath
a
free
Estate
:
Some
men
may
have
large
Estates
,
but
many
Mortgages
and
debts
upon
them
;
but
Christ's
Estate
is
all
free
;
no
debts
lies
on
Christ
to
lessen
his
Estate
;
whatever
he
gives
to
the
whole
Creation
,
doth
no
way
lessen
his
Riches
;
like
the
Sun
,
whatever
light
it
imparts
to
the
World
,
or
Inferiour
Luminaries
,
doth
not
exhaust
or
diminish
it's
Original
splendour
;
all
that
the
Rivers
emptie
from
the
Sea
,
do
not
lessen
it
,
but
repay
its
bounty
by
a
retribution
of
all
those
receptions
;
so
whatever
contributions
come
from
Christ
to
men
,
it
doth
not
lessen
his
ability
to
give
to
his
people
:
The
more
Abraham
gave
to
his
Sons
by
Keturah
,
the
less
he
had
for
Isaac
:
But
Christ's
liberality
and
Obligations
do
not
diminish
his
treasure
;
Christ's
whole
Estate
comes
to
every
Believer
,
every
saved
Soul
hath
a
whole
Christ
full
of
Grace
and
Glory
.
Thirdly
,
Christ
hath
a
sure
Estate
,
exceeding
safe
;
there
's
no
defrauding
of
his
Spouse
,
no
pre-mortgage
to
take
it
away
:
If
Christ's
Life
could
not
be
taken
from
him
without
his
consent
,
when
he
was
Mediatour
,
Joh.
10.
18.
Then
all
the
Estate
he
hath
purchased
with
his
blood
is
unremoveable
;
the
Father
hath
given
it
,
who
is
greater
than
all
,
and
in
whose
hands
Believers
are
put
,
and
their
Estates
secured
for
them
:
All
new-Covenant
promises
are
sure
,
as
you
have
heard
,
part
of
which
is
the
inheritance
of
the
Saints
.
This
Estate
is
sure
both
by
donation
and
purchase
:
The
Father
hath
given
Christ
and
all
that
is
his
to
Believers
,
Isa.
55.
4.
I
have
given
him
to
be
a
witness
to
the
people
,
a
leader
and
commander
to
the
people
:
This
shews
the
certainty
and
truth
of
this
Covenant
which
is
confirmed
in
Christ
,
whom
the
Father
hath
given
and
made
over
to
Believers
to
be
the
confirmation
of
his
promises
.
'T
is
confirm'd
by
purchase
;
he
hath
bought
and
paid
for
't
;
he
went
and
sold
all
to
get
this
pearl
;
he
parted
with
his
Life
,
Blood
,
Glory
,
his
All
,
to
get
this
Estate
for
Believers
:
The
Father
hath
received
every
Farthing
of
the
money
,
and
gives
him
an
acquittance
under
his
hand
,
declares
before
men
and
Angels
,
that
Christ
ows
him
nothing
for
all
the
whole
Estate
he
hath
purchas'd
for
Believers
,
Mat
3.
17.
This
is
my
beloved
Son
in
whom
I
am
well
pleased
:
O
't
is
a
sure
Estate
.
A
conveyance
is
made
of
it
to
Christ
in
the
behalf
of
Believers
,
Isa.
49.
8.
Math.
28.
18.
All
power
is
put
into
the
hands
of
Christ
:
The
Deeds
are
drawn
,
and
interchangeably
sealed
between
the
Father
and
the
Son
,
that
the
Estate
is
firm
and
sure
to
all
Believers
:
Nay
the
seisure
and
delivery
is
given
,
and
Christ
hath
taken
possession
of
it
,
and
he
is
entered
into
the
Heavens
in
the
behalf
of
Believers
,
and
all
to
make
this
sure
.
O
sinners
will
you
espouse
Hell
,
and
let
go
Jesus
Christ
,
who
is
Heir
of
Life
,
and
Glory
,
that
hath
such
a
sure
Estate
for
you
?
Fourthly
,
He
hath
a
sutable
Estate
:
Let
a
man
have
a
fair
,
free
,
and
sure
Estate
,
yet
if
it
be
not
sutable
to
his
quality
,
necessities
,
and
desires
,
't
is
unsatisfying
:
But
Christ's
Estate
is
every
way
sutable
both
to
himself
,
and
to
his
Bride
:
He
hath
a
large
inheritance
sutable
for
his
dignity
,
and
to
his
Spouses
quality
:
Christ
having
finished
his
work
on
Earth
,
being
about
to
drink
the
last
draught
of
the
Cup
;
he
comes
and
treats
with
the
Father
about
his
receiving
,
and
't
is
Glory
sutable
to
his
quality
:
O
Father
glorifie
thou
me
with
thy self
,
with
the
glory
which
I
had
with
thee
before
the
World
was
,
Joh.
17.
1.
to
ver.
5.
O
unreasonable
Souls
,
that
despise
Christ
;
O
sinners
!
had
you
ever
such
a
Lover
stood
at
your
doors
?
No
,
nor
never
will
have
the
like
,
if
you
refuse
this
Jesus
:
Yea
,
't
is
a
sutable
Estate
to
his
Spouse
too
:
'T
is
a
fit
joynture
for
the
Kings
Daughter
,
sufficient
to
maintain
her
Immortality
,
and
Glory
,
Luk.
22.
29.
I
appoint
unto
you
a
Kingdom
:
Now
a
Kingdom
is
a
sutable
state
to
a
Kings
Daughter
:
O
Souls
!
will
you
fall
in
Love
with
Christ
?
he
hath
Crowns
,
Thrones
,
a
Kingdom
of
Glory
for
you
.
Then
't
is
an
Estate
sutable
to
your
necessities
too
:
There
's
enough
in
Christ
to
spend
upon
,
and
maintain
you
bravely
,
richly
,
here
and
for
ever
:
O
sinners
,
will
you
match
with
Christ
?
whatever
you
need
is
in
him
.
My
God
shall
supply
all
you
wants
,
Phil.
4.
19.
If
a
Kingdom
will
do
it
,
you
shall
not
want
it
:
If
a
Crown
of
Glory
will
make
you
happy
and
blessed
you
shall
not
want
it
;
his
Estate
is
fullness
that
filleth
all
in
all
,
Eph.
1.
23.
O
Believer
,
it
may
be
thou
wantest
Bread
,
Cloaths
,
Money
,
and
thou
goest
up
and
down
dejected
,
sad
,
full
of
fears
:
But
hast
thou
espoused
Christ
?
O
consider
thou
hast
a
fullness
,
O
what
a
vast
Estate
hath
Jesus
Christ
for
thee
.
Sinners
,
your
wants
are
many
,
more
then
you
know
,
God
only
knows
your
wants
,
Sinners
,
yet
there
's
enough
in
Christ's
Estate
and
Patrimony
to
supply
them
all
.
Then
't
is
sutable
also
to
their
desires
.
Sinners
desires
are
large
;
O
what
wandring
things
are
the
desires
;
persons
may
desire
things
to
the
utmost
ends
of
the
Earth
,
which
they
cannot
get
:
But
all
that
the
Believer
rationally
desires
,
Christ's
Estate
can
satisfie
:
He
will
fulfill
the
desires
of
them
that
fear
him
,
Psa.
145.
19.
Yea
,
't
is
above
their
desires
:
Desire
as
much
as
thou
canst
,
Christ's
Estate
is
above
thy
desires
,
Pro.
3.
15.
O
what
a
treasure
then
is
Christ
!
it
fills
every
chink
of
the
Believers
desires
,
with
an
overplus
:
'T
is
more
than
can
be
desired
.
Fifthly
,
'T
is
a
pleasant
Estate
,
Psa.
16.
6.
The
lines
are
fallen
to
me
in
a
pleasant
place
,
yea
,
I
have
a
goodly
herritage
.
The
Chaldee
renders
it
in
sweetness
,
others
delightful
place
:
A
great
Estate
if
it
be
not
well
scituated
,
and
lye
not
in
a
pleasant
place
,
is
not
half
so
contentful
;
but
Christs
Estate
is
well
scituated
;
it
hath
all
considerations
and
circumstances
that
may
make
it
desirable
.
Canaan
,
that
was
a
type
of
it
,
is
call'd
the
pleasant
Land
,
Jer.
3.
19.
'T
is
in
the
Original
,
the
land
of
desires
:
So
the
Believers
portion
that
is
prepared
for
him
by
Christ
;
't
is
a
Land
of
desires
;
an
Inheritance
of
beauty
and
Glory
:
Christs
Riches
are
very
precious
and
pleasant
Riches
,
Pro.
24.
4.
And
by
knowledge
shall
the
Chambers
be
filled
with
all
precious
and
pleasant
Riches
.
Rare
,
as
the
word
imports
;
delighting
Riches
:
The
whole
possessions
of
Christ
are
pleasant
,
the
way
to
it
is
pleasant
,
Pro.
3.
17.
The
borders
of
Christs
interest
are
made
with
pleasant
stones
,
Isa.
54.
12.
And
all
thy
borders
of
pleasant
stones
.
The
first
fruits
of
Christ's
harvest
is
all
pleasure
and
delight
,
much
more
the
lump
;
the
maintenance
he
allows
his
Children
here
in
the
way
is
delighting
,
much
more
the
Estate
reserved
at
the
Journeys
end
.
The
Fruits
that
fall
from
this
Tree
of
Life
is
sweet
to
those
that
sit
under
its
shaddow
,
Cant.
2.
3.
how
much
more
to
them
that
climb
,
and
crop
the
pleasant
fruits
thereof
.
Their
drink
is
pleasant
,
Psal.
36.
8.
Thou
shalt
make
them
drink
of
the
Rivers
of
thy
pleasures
.
And
at
last
he
brings
them
to
his
Right
Hand
,
where
are
pleasures
for
evermore
,
Psal.
16.
11.
Sixthly
,
It
is
a
peaceful
state
,
not
liable
to
contests
and
controversies
,
as
mens
Estates
oft-times
are
here
:
A
man
may
have
a
great
Estate
,
but
it
may
be
a
litigious
Estate
:
It
may
occasion
many
Law
Suits
about
it
:
But
it
is
not
so
in
Christ's
Estate
:
'T
is
a
peaceful
Estate
;
no
wars
grow
out
of
this
Estate
:
Christs
Countrey
is
called
Salem
:
The
Land
of
peace
,
Psa.
76.
2.
And
he
is
The
King
of
Salem
;
The
King
of
peace
,
Heb.
7.
1.
His
Kingdom
is
Righteousness
,
and
Peace
,
and
Joy
in
the
holy
Ghost
,
Rom.
14.
17.
He
is
their
peace
,
Eph.
2.
14.
In
him
they
shall
have
peace
,
Joh.
16.
33.
His
very
Doctrine
are
words
of
peace
,
Eph.
2.
17.
He
came
to
guide
our
feet
into
the
way
of
peace
,
Luke
1.
79.
He
came
and
Preached
Peace
:
O
what
a
blessed
Estate
hath
Christ
;
what
a
lovely
Lord
is
Christ
:
He
bequeaths
peace
to
his
people
:
Peace
I
leave
with
you
,
my
peace
I
give
unto
you
,
Joh.
14.
27.
They
have
peace
with
God
who
Espouse
this
Christ
,
Rom.
5.
1.
Peace
with
Saints
and
Angels
,
Col.
1.
20.
Peace
with
Conscience
too
,
Phil.
4.
7.
Heb.
10.
22
The
Fruits
of
the
Spirit
is
Peace
,
Gal.
5.
22.
His
Riches
have
no
sorrow
annexed
with
them
.
7thly
,
It
is
a
perpetual
Estate
:
An
inheritance
that
fadeth
not
away
,
reserved
in
Heaven
,
1
Pet.
1.
4.
Christs
Riches
are
durable
Riches
,
aged
Riches
,
strong
,
solid
,
Riches
:
Opes
densae
,
that
is
●ultae
&
firmae
,
says
Mercer
,
they
are
great
,
stable
Riches
,
Pro.
8.
18.
Riches
and
Honour
are
with
me
,
yea
durable
Riches
and
Righteousness
.
His
Gold
is
not
liable
to
rust
.
'T
is
said
of
the
Cedar
,
worms
will
not
breed
in
it
;
sure
there
's
no
worm
in
Christ's
Treasure
:
O
Souls
,
't
is
a
lasting
Estate
:
That
neither
time
nor
changes
can
wast
nor
weaken
:
All
the
Saints
spending
upon
it
to
all
Eternity
,
never
detracts
from
it
:
Christs
Treasures
are
like
the
deep
waters
,
or
like
the
bottomless
Ocean
,
that
cannot
be
exhausted
;
his
treasure
will
last
as
long
as
God
,
the
Soul
,
and
Eternity
lasts
,
which
is
for
ever
,
for
ever
,
for
ever
.
Some
men
have
out-liv'd
their
Leases
and
their
Estates
and
have
seen
an
end
of
their
Houses
and
Riches
;
but
the
Spouse
of
Christ
can
never
out-live
her
jointure
,
it
lasts
to
all
Eternity
.
Lastly
,
'T
is
a
possest
estate
:
Some
may
have
great
estates
,
but
it
is
in
reversion
,
they
may
look
long
for
it
,
as
some
Heirs
do
all
their
days
:
But
Christs
Estate
is
all
in
his
own
hand
,
't
is
actually
made
over
to
him
by
the
Father
,
and
possession
given
him
when
he
sate
down
at
the
Right
hand
of
God
,
Heb.
1
3.
He
hath
actually
obtained
this
Inheritance
with
the
Fruits
of
it
,
Heb.
1.
4.
And
is
actually
invested
with
this
glory
,
Heb.
2.
7.
This
sinners
is
the
Estate
of
that
Beloved
that
is
tendered
to
you
in
the
Gospel
for
your
choice
;
he
is
very
wealthy
,
he
hath
a
fair
,
free
,
sure
,
sutable
,
pleasant
,
peaceful
,
perpetual
possession
;
an
Estate
you
cannot
spend
or
comprehend
;
an
Inheritance
you
cannot
lose
or
out-●ive
:
riches
that
will
not
cloy
,
nor
clog
y●u
;
a
portion
that
cannot
be
out-vy'd
or
match'd
:
Come
view
the
Rentals
of
his
Lands
,
the
Inventory
of
his
Goods
,
and
see
what
a
rich
match
Christ
is
,
there
's
none
like
him
;
where
can
you
mend
your
penny-worths
?
all
the
world
,
no
nor
the
Heaven
of
Heavens
can
yield
you
such
another
bargain
.
Job
28.
ver.
13.
&c.
Man
knoweth
not
the
price
thereof
—
the
gold
and
the
Chrystal
cannot
equal
it
,
and
the
exchange
of
it
shall
not
be
for
Jewels
of
fine
gold
,
&c.
Then
Jesus
Christ
is
worth
a
looking
after
if
he
be
so
rich
as
the
Scripture
reports
him
to
be
,
and
I
presume
you
question
not
the
truth
of
this
testimony
.
O
slight
not
this
bargain
which
will
make
you
happy
to
all
Eternity
;
if
wealth
will
please
you
,
here
's
enough
,
what
say
you
?
Have
you
any
objection
against
his
estate
?
If
not
;
what
stick
you
at
?
Secondly
,
Dost
thou
dislike
his
person
?
Then
it
argues
thou
knowest
him
not
;
for
he
is
altogether
Lovely
,
the
chiefest
of
ten
thousands
:
The
fairest
of
the
Children
of
Men
:
O
come
,
behold
the
Lamb
of
God
:
Look
upon
this
glorious
Jehovah
Christ
:
O
see
his
Personal
Excellency
,
and
it
will
allure
you
,
and
invite
you
to
come
to
him
:
he
is
the
brightness
of
his
Fathers
Glory
,
and
the
express
image
of
his
Fathers
Person
,
Heb.
1.
3.
Sinners
look
well
upon
him
,
view
him
from
top
to
toe
;
there
is
no
blemish
in
him
:
O
he
is
the
most
exquisite
one
,
his
perfections
are
enough
to
please
you
,
his
beauty
sufficient
to
allure
you
:
See
his
excellent
lineaments
,
the
sweet
proportion
of
every
part
:
O
how
lovely
is
Christ
to
the
believing
eye
,
in
regard
of
his
Person
.
Consider
his
Natures
,
God
Man
sweetly
concentring
in
an
intimate
and
Eternal
Union
,
perfect
God
,
perfect
Man
in
one
person
:
O
where
can
you
espy
such
an
object
!
sure
he
is
a
Non-such
;
none
like
him
in
Heaven
,
none
like
him
on
Earth
,
in
regard
of
his
Personal
Glory
as
Mediatour
,
God
Man
:
look
over
his
Characters
that
his
friends
have
given
him
;
See
in
that
Book
of
Cant.
Chap.
5.
How
the
Spouse
displays
him
,
and
you
will
find
him
a
beautiful
Person
,
ver.
11.
to
the
end
,
His
head
is
as
the
most
fine
gold
:
His
Wisdom
and
Government
is
most
pure
,
solid
and
excellent
:
His
locks
are
bushy
and
black
as
a
Raven
:
Which
notes
not
only
his
love
liness
,
but
his
strength
and
vigour
he
hath
his
radical
moysture
,
his
vital
heat
:
He
is
strong
,
his
vigour
abides
with
him
;
he
hath
strength
sufficient
for
all
his
undertakings
,
and
he
is
able
to
go
through
what
he
sets
his
hand
unto
;
he
is
strong
,
vigorous
,
and
spritely
.
His
eyes
are
as
the
eyes
of
doves
by
the
Rivers
of
Waters
,
washed
with
Milk
,
and
fitly
set
.
His
sight
is
quick
,
and
perfect
,
his
understanding
is
infinite
:
His
Counsels
are
holy
,
and
consistent
,
all
well
set
,
his
decrees
,
his
purposes
,
all
methodically
ordered
and
fixed
:
His
looks
are
gracious
,
his
aspects
lovely
,
enamouring
the
eyes
of
them
that
behold
him
.
O
such
a
lovely
Christ
is
tendred
to
Sinners
;
O
I
know
not
how
to
set
him
forth
to
your
capacities
,
he
is
a
most
taking
object
indeed
.
His
face
is
white
and
ruddy
:
Emblems
of
Rich
Beauty
,
captivating
the
eyes
,
and
ravishing
the
hearts
of
beholders
:
The
purity
of
the
divine
nature
,
with
the
passions
of
the
humane
,
and
procurements
of
his
Redemption
,
sets
him
forth
as
infinitely
amiable
in
the
eyes
of
Believers
.
His
cheeks
are
as
a
bed
of
spices
,
as
sweet
flowers
:
His
graces
and
choice
discoveries
of
his
Excellencies
,
doth
wonderfully
feed
and
delight
the
Souls
of
those
that
have
acquaintance
and
fellowship
with
him
;
his
sweet
and
lovely
perfections
discover'd
to
Believers
are
like
a
rich
feast
that
stay
with
them
:
His
lips
like
Lillies
dropping
sweet
smelling
Myrrhe
:
The
impartings
of
his
wisdom
,
the
droppings
of
his
Doctrine
,
his
gracious
words
,
his
Holy
Communications
,
are
savoury
and
sound
,
pure
and
incorruptible
,
they
strengthen
the
heart
,
and
heal
the
Soul
of
those
that
imbrace
him
:
His
Doctrine
carries
wonderful
strength
to
those
that
are
in
weakness
;
how
do
the
words
of
grace
revive
the
fainting
hearts
of
Believers
;
his
wayes
are
strength
to
the
upright
,
like
Myrrhe
,
they
make
the
heart
sound
.
His
hands
are
as
gold
rings
set
with
the
Beryl
:
His
works
and
administrations
in
the
World
,
are
full
of
order
,
beauty
,
and
excellency
:
All
that
he
doth
in
Sion
and
out
of
Sion
,
is
all
holy
;
every
providence
that
seems
to
us
sometimes
to
be
unseasonable
,
is
in
infinte
wisdom
display'd
by
Jesus
Christ
for
the
good
of
his
people
.
His
belly
is
as
bright
Ivory
overlaid
with
Saphires
:
His
tender
Bowels
,
and
boundless
affections
to
his
people
,
are
wonderfully
lovely
and
delighting
;
they
are
pure
,
firm
,
and
fixed
in
their
nature
,
and
they
are
chearing
,
and
enriching
in
their
effects
;
O
Christs
love
is
not
fleeting
,
't
is
firm
as
Ivory
,
set
with
gold
,
overlaid
with
Saphires
.
O
how
rich
are
his
affections
,
what
a
Treasure
to
those
that
have
him
.
His
legs
are
as
Pillars
of
Marble
,
set
upon
sockets
of
fine
gold
.
The
gracious
motions
and
efficacious
workings
of
his
Spirit
,
are
exceeding
mighty
and
glorious
;
full
of
strength
:
He
hath
power
to
bear
up
all
those
that
follow
him
:
His
legs
are
strong
,
he
can
carry
his
Lambs
that
are
committed
to
his
arms
;
there
's
no
burden
too
heavy
for
Christ
,
his
loins
are
strong
,
he
can
bear
what
is
laid
upon
him
;
the
weight
of
all
the
Saints
on
Earth
is
nothing
to
him
:
He
can
carry
on
all
his
intendments
and
interest
in
the
World
;
his
legs
are
as
Marble
,
able
to
bear
his
Body
;
quick
in
motion
:
O
what
a
lovely
Christ
is
this
display'd
in
the
Gospel
!
His
countenance
is
as
Labanon
,
excellent
as
the
Cedars
:
Those
discoveries
the
Lord
Jesus
Christ
makes
of
himself
in
his
word
,
and
works
,
are
wonderful
taking
;
exceeding
enriching
:
Christ's
word
is
fruit
fullizing
:
O
when
he
speaks
to
the
hearts
of
his
Children
,
what
a
deal
of
vertue
goes
through
his
lips
;
Grace
is
poured
out
of
his
lips
,
Milk
and
hony
is
under
his
tongue
:
His
appearances
carries
excellency
,
riches
and
glory
with
them
,
His
mouth
is
most
sweet
,
yea
he
is
altogether
lovely
:
His
discourses
,
the
openings
of
his
mind
is
wonderful
pleasing
:
The
word
of
Christ
never
cloys
the
spiritual
part
.
Thus
you
see
what
a
Person
Jesus
Christ
is
:
O
Sinners
consider
his
beauty
;
O
how
lovely
an
object
is
he
!
what
can
you
object
against
his
Person
,
why
you
will
not
espouse
him
?
Thirdly
,
Consider
his
lovely
dispositions
,
O
Sinners
will
you
accept
of
him
?
He
is
of
an
excellent
Spirit
,
of
a
very
sweet
nature
;
full
of
grace
and
goodness
:
His
sweet
dispositions
have
been
largely
opened
already
,
he
is
full
of
mercy
and
compassions
,
meekness
,
gentleness
,
patience
,
long-suffering
,
slow
to
anger
,
ready
to
forgive
,
great
in
kindness
,
free
and
bountiful
,
of
a
generous
Spirit
;
true
and
faithful
:
Sinners
,
you
may
trust
him
with
your
secrets
;
you
may
venture
your
Souls
upon
him
:
He
is
harmless
,
and
inoffensive
;
he
doth
wrong
to
no
man
;
his
company
is
lovely
and
desirable
:
His
converses
are
pleasant
and
profitable
:
O
what
a
person
is
Christ
!
O
Sinners
,
never
was
such
a
one
offer'd
you
as
Christ
is
;
why
will
you
not
come
unto
him
?
Fourthly
,
Consider
his
quality
and
high
dignity
,
he
is
no
mean
Person
,
but
a
mighty
Potentate
,
1
Tim.
6.
15.
The
sole
and
only
superintendent
of
the
whole
World
,
the
King
of
Kings
,
and
Lord
of
Lords
,
Rev.
19.
16.
He
hath
on
his
vesture
and
on
his
thigh
a
name
written
,
King
of
Kings
and
Lord
of
Lords
:
He
is
not
only
a
King
,
but
the
King
,
the
only
true
Potentate
from
whom
all
ohters
derive
their
glory
,
a
King
not
only
of
Men
,
but
of
Saints
;
not
only
of
Saints
,
but
of
Angels
,
of
Thrones
,
Principalities
and
Powers
:
Math.
26.
53.
And
can
command
them
down
now
he
is
in
Heaven
for
the
service
of
his
elect
,
Heb
1.
14.
Are
they
not
all
Ministring
Spirits
sent
forth
to
Minister
for
them
who
shall
be
heirs
of
Salvation
.
O
Sinners
!
shall
this
prevail
with
you
to
accept
of
him
?
Fifthly
,
Take
notice
of
his
potency
:
He
hath
power
as
well
as
honour
,
Math.
28.
18.
All
things
are
put
under
his
feet
,
Heb.
2.
8.
All
the
Armies
of
Heaven
and
Earth
are
deliver'd
over
to
him
:
He
is
Lord
of
Hosts
:
He
hath
the
Keys
of
Heaven
,
Death
and
Hell
:
Rev.
1.
18.
Who
then
can
lock
out
Christ
,
or
exclude
him
from
doing
what
he
pleaseth
,
seeing
all
things
are
at
his
beck
?
He
doth
whatsoever
pleaseth
him
in
Heaven
and
in
Earth
,
in
the
Seas
and
in
all
deep
places
,
Psa.
135.
6.
He
sitteth
in
the
Heavens
,
and
laughs
the
Counsels
of
the
Potentates
to
scorn
;
he
makes
no
reckoning
of
their
combinations
,
but
derides
their
ambitious
attempts
against
him
,
Psa.
2.
4.
He
shall
pass
thorow
and
over-flow
,
and
break
all
their
consederacies
in
pieces
,
Isa.
8.
8
,
9
,
10.
Let
all
the
subtleties
of
Hell
be
woven
together
,
to
make
a
web
to
catch
the
interest
of
Christ
in
;
it
shall
all
be
as
a
spiders
web
,
that
can
soon
be
swept
away
.
O
admire
the
Kingdom
of
Christ
;
the
glorious
power
of
Christ
;
nothing
is
too
hard
for
him
:
He
hath
an
absolute
,
unlimited
and
uncontroulable
power
:
He
is
the
supream
over
all
persons
,
and
all
things
,
in
all
places
,
Lands
,
and
Countries
:
O
what
power
hath
he
!
not
only
Authority
,
but
likewise
Might
,
2
Chro.
20.
6.
In
his
hand
there
is
power
and
might
,
and
none
is
able
to
withstand
him
:
O
Sinners
come
away
to
Christ
,
he
can
protect
you
and
defend
you
from
dangers
.
Sixthly
,
Observe
his
wisdom
too
:
this
is
taking
with
some
to
have
a
head
that
hath
intellectuals
in
him
,
and
marry
one
that
hath
exquisite
parts
and
eminency
of
knowledge
.
Now
all
Treasures
of
wisdom
are
in
him
,
Col.
3.
3.
His
judgments
are
unsearchable
and
past
finding
out
,
Rom.
11.
33.
His
judgments
,
his
acts
in
the
World
,
his
Righteous
deeds
,
and
the
way
he
takes
to
accomplish
his
designs
;
O
how
wonderful
deep
are
they
!
The
spirit
of
the
Lord
shall
rest
upon
him
;
the
Spirit
of
wisdom
,
and
understanding
,
the
Spirit
of
Counsel
and
might
;
the
Spirit
of
knowledge
and
of
the
fear
of
the
Lord
,
Isa.
11.
2.
He
is
of
quick
understanding
,
full
of
judgment
;
called
The
wonderful
Counsellour
,
Isa.
9.
6.
The
only
wise
God
,
from
whom
all
wisdom
is
fetch'd
,
that
fills
Men
and
Angels
;
all
the
World
do
light
their
Candles
at
his
Torch
:
He
is
the
Sun
that
fills
the
whole
Creation
with
beams
:
There
's
no
searching
of
his
understanding
;
he
can
bring
to
light
the
hidden
things
of
darkness
:
1
Cor.
4.
5.
He
hath
eyes
can
reach
where
men
cannot
;
he
can
reveal
the
deep
things
of
God
:
1
Cor.
2.
10.
O
Sinners
,
what
an
excellent
one
is
Christ
!
O
how
worthy
of
your
choice
!
Seventhly
,
Weigh
the
glorious
and
blessed
effects
of
your
closing
with
the
Lord
Jesus
Christ
:
Sinners
,
the
very
day
you
marry
Christ
he
will
pay
all
your
debts
,
and
they
are
many
;
he
will
pardon
all
your
sins
,
blot
out
all
your
iniquities
,
remember
them
no
more
:
He
will
free
you
from
all
your
Bondages
,
deliver
you
from
all
your
fears
,
secure
you
from
all
your
dangers
;
if
you
will
but
espouse
him
.
O
the
very
day
you
marry
Christ
he
will
wipe
off
all
your
shame
,
and
remove
your
reproach
:
He
will
heal
all
your
wounds
and
sicknesses
,
he
will
begin
to
heal
them
immediately
;
and
never
leave
till
he
hath
perfectly
cured
your
Souls
:
He
will
strip
off
all
your
filthy
garments
,
and
cloath
you
with
broidered
rayment
;
he
will
advance
you
to
highest
dignity
;
he
will
lift
up
your
heads
above
your
fellows
:
He
will
make
you
Kings
and
Priests
to
God
;
he
will
set
you
in
Heavenly
places
;
he
will
seal
your
title
to
a
Rich
Joynture
,
he
will
make
sure
your
interest
to
all
the
Treasures
of
Heaven
:
He
will
possesse
you
with
grace
,
and
assure
you
of
glory
:
O
sinners
,
is
not
this
argument
enough
to
win
your
Souls
,
and
make
you
willing
to
accept
of
such
a
Majesty
as
Jesus
Christ
?
Eighthly
,
Sinners
think
upon
the
greatness
of
that
love
t●e
Lord
Jesus
Christ
bears
you
:
He
hath
good-will
towards
Men
,
towards
sinners
,
as
sinners
,
whiles
in
their
blood
,
he
hath
a
love
of
pity
for
you
:
'T
is
true
till
you
close
with
Christ
he
can
have
no
love
of
acquiescense
in
you
;
but
he
hath
a
love
of
good-will
to
your
Souls
,
he
hath
so
much
love
for
you
,
as
hath
made
him
willing
to
shed
his
blood
for
you
;
his
love
brought
him
down
from
the
Fathers
Glory
,
made
him
willing
to
drink
the
dregs
of
a
cup
of
wrath
for
you
;
the
love
of
Christ
to
Sinners
,
hath
set
up
a
standing
Ministery
in
the
World
,
sent
forth
multitudes
to
publish
glad
tidings
:
O
Sinners
,
did
you
but
believe
this
,
how
attractive
would
it
be
upon
your
hearts
,
to
draw
you
to
Christ
.
But
if
none
of
these
arguments
will
prevail
,
let
me
adde
one
consideration
more
.
Lastly
,
The
effects
of
your
refusing
Jesus
Christ
will
be
dreadful
:
if
you
will
not
accept
of
this
proposal
;
O
think
what
a
terrible
answer
Christ
will
send
you
:
Such
shall
not
taste
of
his
Supper
,
Luke
14.
24.
Not
a
crumb
that
fall
from
this
Rich
Table
of
Salvation-chear
shall
fall
to
the
share
of
that
wretched
sinner
.
If
you
will
not
have
his
Person
you
shall
not
have
his
purchase
:
He
hath
sworn
in
his
wrath
these
shall
never
enter
into
his
Rest
,
Heb.
3.
11.
O
sinner
!
were
there
no
other
Hell
but
the
loss
of
Heaven
,
it
were
enough
to
break
thy
heart
in
pieces
:
O
think
upon
the
sad
Issue
of
thy
final
unbelief
:
When
thy
sins
get
over
thy
head
,
and
thy
guilt
follows
thee
at
thy
heels
;
When
Death
and
Hell
shall
be
at
thy
back
,
and
then
to
call
and
cry
,
and
knock
at
the
door
of
mercy
and
not
be
heard
;
O
what
a
doleful
thing
will
this
be
!
When
armies
of
devils
are
round
about
thee
,
ready
to
snatch
thy
Soul
into
everlasting
burnings
,
and
none
to
relieve
thee
;
O
fearful
will
the
case
of
thy
Soul
be
!
When
thou
shalt
cry
;
O
for
mercles
sake
,
Help
Lord
;
I
am
going
to
Hell
,
for
mercies
sake
help
;
and
then
for
the
Ear
of
God
to
be
deaf
,
and
thou
not
have
one
good
word
,
and
the
door
be
shut
against
thee
;
O
what
a
dolefull
case
will
this
be
!
for
tender
mercy
to
cease
;
is
miserable
:
But
for
mercy
to
become
cruel
to
you
;
O
fearful
case
indeed
!
when
tender
Bowels
shall
become
Brass
and
Iron
,
and
there
shall
be
no
sounding
at
all
in
it
towards
thy
Soul
:
O
sinner
if
thou
wilt
not
accept
of
this
Christ
,
he
will
laugh
at
thy
Calamity
,
and
mock
when
thy
Fear
cometh
,
Pro.
1.
26.
That
's
terrible
;
when
God
shall
not
only
cease
to
pity
,
but
deride
thy
misery
:
Be
assur'd
,
Soul
,
as
quiet
as
now
thou
art
,
a
day
of
Calamity
will
come
;
there
will
come
a
time
of
Fears
for
thy
poor
Soul
,
and
then
will
mercy
it self
be
turn'd
into
wrath
,
and
laugh
at
thy
Calamity
;
yet
further
(
sinner
)
if
thou
wilt
not
accept
of
Christ
;
then
will
incensed
fury
send
forth
its
army
of
destroyers
,
and
ruine
,
and
cut
off
thy
Soul
for
ever
,
Mat.
22.
7.
Then
shalt
thou
be
punished
with
everlasting
destruction
from
the
presence
of
God
,
and
from
the
glory
of
his
Power
,
2
Thes.
1.
8
,
9.
Then
shall
vengeance
glut
it self
upon
thy
Soul
,
and
seize
upon
thee
in
flaming
Fire
:
O
't
is
a
dreadful
thing
to
lye
at
the
mercy
of
vengeance
:
O
what
will
not
enraged
fury
do
to
its
adversaries
,
when
it
hath
them
at
its
power
?
But
what
will
divine
vengeance
do
?
O
sinner
,
when
God
shall
arraign
thee
at
the
Bar
of
Judgment
for
kicking
at
the
Bowels
of
mercy
;
for
Crowning
the
head
of
Christ
with
thorns
,
and
trampling
his
blood
under
feet
;
what
wilt
thou
do
then
?
(
O
canst
thou
read
this
and
not
shake
)
when
thou
shalt
see
Devils
round
about
thee
,
and
flaming
vengeance
take
hold
of
thee
:
But
thus
it
will
be
.
Then
they
that
would
not
let
Christ
reign
over
them
;
shall
feel
Devils
rending
of
them
:
Then
they
that
fled
from
the
Arms
of
mercy
,
shall
fall
into
the
Jaws
of
fury
:
Then
they
that
shut
their
ears
against
the
fervent
wooings
of
Christ
shall
open
their
hearts
to
the
fiery
wrath
of
Christ
:
Then
they
that
would
not
get
into
the
bosom
of
Christ
;
shall
lodge
in
the
burnings
of
Hell
:
Then
the
Furnace
of
Hell
shall
be
heated
seven
times
hotter
for
those
whose
hearts
freezed
under
the
warm
beams
of
Christ's
Love
:
Oh
dreadful
will
thy
state
be
,
Sinner
,
if
thou
refuse
Christ
.
Well
sinner
,
take
the
Counsel
given
thee
:
kiss
the
Son
Iest
he
be
angry
;
turn
in
,
turn
in
hither
;
reach
out
thy
arms
,
come
away
to
Christ
;
say
Lord
Jesus
,
I
am
willingly
thine
.
Sinners
are
you
perswaded
?
what
answer
shall
we
return
to
this
Lord
of
Glory
?
Will
you
be
his
?
Will
you
accept
of
this
grace
tendered
to
you
,
before
it
breathe
its
last
to
you
.
CHAP.
XXVI
.
Objections
answered
.
Counsels
how
to
come
to
Christ
.
I
shall
now
endeavour
to
answer
those
Objections
which
are
made
by
doubting
Souls
,
against
their
coming
to
Christ
.
1.
Objection
.
Says
a
Soul
:
But
will
this
blessed
Potentate
,
this
glorious
King
of
Kings
,
stoop
so
low
as
to
look
upon
such
an
obscure
Creature
,
such
a
worthless
worm
as
I
am
?
Alas
!
I
am
too
mean
to
unloose
the
latchet
of
his
shooes
:
I
am
too
unworthy
to
be
the
meanest
Servant
in
his
House
:
To
be
a
dog
to
his
Flock
:
And
will
he
cast
his
skirt
over
me
?
O
do
not
flatter
me
into
such
vain
hopes
,
and
fond
dreams
,
that
such
a
King
of
Glory
will
look
upon
me
:
I
am
too
low
for
one
aspect
of
his
Eye
.
Answ.
Abundant
Testimony
hath
this
Lord
given
of
his
condescending
heart
to
sinners
:
Dost
thou
think
thou
art
too
low
for
such
a
Majesty
?
When
he
left
his
Fathers
Kingdom
,
and
came
down
from
his
Eternal
Glory
with
the
Father
,
he
gave
abundant
proof
of
the
humility
of
his
heart
:
when
he
did
espouse
thy
nature
,
(
sinner
)
to
himself
;
and
took
upon
him
the
form
of
a
Servant
;
he
shewed
his
humble
heart
,
that
he
was
far
from
contemning
sinners
:
He
was
the
true
Jacob
,
who
served
a
far
harder
bondage
for
thy
Soul
,
than
ever
Jacob
did
for
his
Rach●l
;
this
shews
his
humility
:
His
choosing
such
mean
persons
,
such
notorious
sinners
for
his
companions
,
in
nearest
Union
and
Communiwith
himself
;
Matthew
the
Publican
,
Paul
the
Blasphemer
:
Poor
Fishermen
of
no
regard
upon
Earth
:
These
did
Christ
personally
chuse
for
his
nearest
Converses
;
this
shews
his
condescension
:
And
't
is
not
thy
low
state
(
sinner
)
can
discourage
Christ
,
if
thy
heart
be
really
willing
:
His
preaching
the
Gospel
to
the
poor
,
and
calling
the
base
things
of
this
world
,
and
things
that
are
not
,
shews
his
lowly
mind
.
And
his
humility
hath
been
abundantly
prov'd
already
:
He
will
dwell
with
the
Lowly
,
Isa.
57.
15.
2.
Object
.
But
I
have
no
portion
for
Christ
:
I
am
exceeding
poor
and
beggarly
;
I
have
no
Righteousness
,
no
Grace
,
no
good
things
dwell
in
me
:
I
can
bring
nothing
to
glorifie
him
;
I
have
no
ability
at
all
to
serve
him
;
I
cannot
pray
or
do
any
thing
that
is
good
,
and
will
Christ
accept
of
me
?
Ans.
Christs
design
in
these
Gospel
tenders
of
himself
to
sinners
,
is
not
to
get
,
but
to
give
Riches
:
He
wants
no
treasures
for
himself
,
but
he
rather
wants
objects
to
give
them
to
:
He
wants
no
goods
,
but
(
like
the
Rich
man
in
the
Gospel
)
he
wants
room
to
bestow
his
goods
:
He
is
willing
to
impart
his
treasure
to
sinners
,
2
Cor.
8.
9.
Of
all
persons
in
the
world
he
is
sure
to
hear
the
desires
of
the
poor
.
The
rich
shall
be
sent
empty
away
:
but
the
poor
that
wai●
on
him
shall
be
heard
,
Psa.
69.
33.
Art
●●ou
a
poor
Soul
in
thy
own
eyes
?
The
Lord
hat●
special
regard
for
such
:
These
are
the
persons
he
invites
to
him
that
have
no
money
,
no
price
,
Isa.
55.
1.
The
poor
have
the
Gospel
preached
●o
them
,
Math.
11.
5.
Therefore
sinners
't
is
●ot
thy
poverty
can
break
the
match
,
nor
hinder
●y
reception
of
Jesus
Christ
,
if
thy
heart
be
w●●ling
.
3.
Object
.
But
I
am
a
deformed
loveless
Creature
,
I
have
no
beauty
at
all
in
me
;
I
am
black
with
sin
,
full
of
all
uncleanness
,
and
abominations
,
polluted
in
my
blood
,
wallowing
in
my
Mire
and
Vomit
,
scarce
such
a
nauseous
Object
as
I
in
all
the
world
.
O
what
a
filthy
heart
,
O
what
an
unclean
Soul
,
O
what
vile
affections
have
I
!
and
will
this
holy
one
cast
a
glance
of
Love
on
such
a
Creature
as
I
?
I
dare
not
think
he
will
endure
the
sight
of
me
;
therefore
I
am
afraid
to
look
to
him
.
Answ.
Believing
sinners
,
though
black
in
their
own
eye
,
yet
are
comely
in
Christ's
Eye
,
Cant.
1.
5.
Faith
puts
an
amiableness
on
the
believing
sinner
in
Christs
account
:
This
is
one
of
those
eyes
that
ravishes
his
heart
,
Cant.
4.
9.
He
looks
upon
them
as
lovely
that
come
to
him
,
though
unlovely
in
themselves
:
Affections
spie
no
deformity
in
the
beloved
object
.
Christs
love
is
so
great
to
fallen
man
,
as
that
nothing
appears
unlovely
in
him
,
but
an
unwillingness
to
be
hi●
:
He
sees
no
iniquity
in
Jacob
,
though
ther●●e
a
great
deal
.
The
halt
,
blind
,
lame
,
imp●●●nt
are
no
amorous
Objects
;
yet
these
Christ
invites
to
his
feast
,
Luk.
14.
21.
Others
are
not
worthy
,
says
Christ
,
but
bring
these
,
they
a●e
companie
for
me
,
if
they
will
but
come
.
●
Let
not
thy
deformity
,
and
the
sense
of
thy
u●worthiness
keep
thee
from
Christ
,
because
h●
hath
beauty
enough
for
himself
,
and
thee
.
He
hath
comeliness
enough
to
cover
thy
nakedness
:
't
is
but
for
some
of
his
beams
to
reflect
on
thy
Soul
,
and
thou
wilt
be
altogether
glorious
;
thy
perfection
lies
in
his
,
and
not
thy
own
comeliness
:
Christ
can
soon
fill
thee
with
amiableness
:
see
,
in
Ezek.
16.
what
a
change
Grace
makes
upon
deformed
sinners
:
The
beautie
of
sinners
is
Christs
beautie
put
upon
them
,
and
Christs
Holiness
imparted
to
them
,
and
there
's
enough
of
it
for
thee
.
3.
Know
,
that
Christs
blood
is
cleansing
blood
,
it
doth
not
only
cover
spots
and
deformities
,
but
it
takes
away
filthiness
;
if
thou
come
to
him
,
the
blood
of
Christ
cleanseth
from
all
sin
,
1
Joh.
1.
7.
4.
Object
.
But
I
am
a
great
sinner
,
none
like
me
,
therefore
.
I
cannot
think
the
Lord
Jesus
will
pass
them
by
;
or
have
thoughts
of
favour
for
me
.
Ans.
So
was
Davids
,
and
yet
found
pardon
,
Psa.
25.
11.
for
thy
name
sake
,
O
Lord
,
pardon
mine
iniquities
for
they
are
great
.
Manassch's
sins
were
notorious
,
and
yet
upon
hi●
Repentance
found
favour
with
God
,
2
Chro.
33.
3
,
4
,
5
,
6.
He
reared
up
Altars
for
Baalim
,
worshipped
all
the
host
of
Heaven
,
and
served
them
;
he
built
Altars
in
the
House
of
the
Lord
,
and
caused
his
Children
to
pass
through
the
fire
in
the
Valley
of
the
Son
of
Hinnom
.
He
also
observed
times
,
and
used
I●chantments
,
and
Witchcrafts
,
and
dealt
with
familiar
Spirits
,
and
with
●izards
,
and
when
God
spake
to
him
he
would
not
hearken
,
ver.
10.
O
abominable
sins
!
One
would
think
here
was
a
man
ripe
for
Hell
;
yet
upon
his
supplication
,
when
he
was
in
affliction
,
God
heard
him
,
and
pardon'd
him
,
ver.
12
,
13.
Paul
was
a
flagitious
sinner
,
in
his
own
eyes
the
greatest
that
ever
was
,
1
Tim.
1.
15.
A
Blasphemer
,
a
persecutor
,
injurious
,
but
obtained
mercy
,
ver.
13.
Therefore
't
is
not
the
greatness
of
thy
sin
can
stand
in
the
way
of
thy
mercy
,
if
thou
come
over
to
Christ
with
all
thy
heart
.
5.
Object
.
But
I
have
been
an
old
sinner
;
I
have
been
rooted
in
sin
,
and
liv'd
in
sin
all
my
days
;
I
have
been
a
continual
provocation
to
the
Lord
,
for
many
years
;
through
my
whole
Life
sin
hath
touch'd
sin
,
and
I
cannot
think
Christ
hath
thoughts
of
Love
for
me
.
Answ.
So
did
the
Thief
upon
the
Cross
,
he
sinn'd
to
the
last
hour
of
his
Life
,
and
yet
obtained
mercy
,
Luke
23.
40
,
41
,
42
,
43.
So
did
some
of
those
that
were
called
in
at
the
Eleventh
hour
,
yet
embracing
the
call
,
obtained
mercy
,
Math.
20.
9
,
12.
it
was
not
the
length
of
their
sinning
time
excluded
the
Efficacie
of
Salvation-mercy
,
when
they
did
come
in
at
the
call
of
it
.
I
mention
not
this
for
a
Pillow
to
secure
sinners
,
but
for
a
Cordial
for
desponding
Souls
:
Now
the
Gospel
calls
thee
,
nner
;
if
thou
come
in
this
hour
,
and
embrace
the
calls
of
mercy
;
't
is
not
the
length
of
thy
sinning
time
,
will
make
void
the
Grace
of
God
.
6.
Object
.
But
saies
the
Soul
:
I
have
sleighted
many
calls
already
:
I
have
quenched
many
motions
of
the
Spirit
:
I
have
despised
the
first
call
:
and
may
I
have
hopes
to
go
to
Christ
?
Will
he
receive
me
?
Answ.
So
did
Manasseh
,
he
did
reject
many
calls
;
God
did
speak
to
him
,
but
he
would
not
hearken
;
and
after
his
rejection
of
the
first
call
,
yet
mercie
found
him
:
The
Jews
in
the
wilderness
rejected
many
calls
of
God
;
yet
the
Lord
said
,
while
't
is
called
to
day
,
harden
not
your
hearts
,
H●b.
3.
7
,
8.
Though
thou
hast
been
guiltie
of
despising
many
calls
,
this
is
matter
for
thy
humbling
,
but
not
for
thy
despair
.
7.
Object
.
But
I
am
never
the
better
for
all
the
means
and
mercy
I
have
enjoyed
:
though
I
had
despised
the
first
calls
of
mercy
,
yet
if
I
had
been
the
better
for
after
tenders
of
grace
,
there
were
some
hope
:
But
I
am
still
the
same
notwithstanding
all
the
Sermons
I
hear
,
and
precious
overtures
of
Salvation
;
my
heart
is
hard
,
and
dead
under
all
.
Answ.
So
it
was
with
the
Impotent
man
a
great
while
,
he
was
diseased
thirty
and
eight
years
.
Joh.
5.
5.
He
lay
at
the
Pool's
side
near
the
means
of
cure
,
but
never
the
better
,
ver.
6.
7.
And
so
continued
till
Christs
time
came
to
cure
him
.
So
Israel
were
barren
and
unfruitful
,
till
the
Lord
became
a
dew
to
them
.
Hos.
14.
5.
Therefore
this
is
no
discouragement
;
if
thou
believe
and
come
to
Christ
,
God
will
be
a
dew
to
thee
,
and
thou
shalt
quickly
find
a
change
.
8.
Object
.
But
saith
one
:
I
am
not
only
never
the
better
for
all
the
means
of
grace
,
but
I
am
worse
than
I
was
before
;
when
I
was
under
first
awakenings
,
my
heart
was
more
tender
;
but
now
my
heart
seems
to
be
more
brawny
and
hard
;
I
find
more
unbelief
than
ever
,
more
indisposition
to
go
to
Christ
:
I
am
worse
than
I
was
.
Answ.
So
was
Sarah
too
,
as
to
the
receiving
the
promised
mercy
,
more
and
more
indisposed
,
she
complaines
of
the
deadness
of
her
womb
;
she
was
past
age
to
be
the
Mother
of
Children
,
till
the
time
of
life
came
,
then
Sarah's
growing
indisposition
becomes
no
impediment
at
all
to
the
fulfilling
of
the
promise
.
So
was
Israel
,
they
began
to
say
for
their
part
,
their
hope
was
cut
off
,
and
God
had
forsaken
them
,
when
mercy
was
nearest
to
them
:
So
the
woman
that
had
a
bloody
issue
twelve
years
,
and
had
spent
all
that
she
had
on
Physitians
,
yet
was
nothing
bettered
,
but
rather
grew
worse
,
till
Christ
came
and
healed
her
,
Mark
5.
25
,
26.
Persons
are
usually
worst
in
their
own
eyes
when
mercy
is
nearest
their
doors
.
Again
,
Thy
not
comming
to
Christ
is
the
cause
of
thy
decaies
and
hardnings
;
't
is
thy
unbelief
that
deadens
thy
heart
,
and
withers
thy
Soul
,
Christ
doth
withdraw
his
influence
from
such
,
and
refuseth
to
do
any
mighty
works
in
them
because
of
unbelief
.
O
then
Soul
,
come
away
to
Christ
,
and
this
is
the
way
to
cure
thee
.
9.
Object
.
But
saies
the
Soul
:
Christ
seems
to
take
no
notice
of
me
,
I
call
but
he
heareth
me
not
,
I
come
to
Ordinances
,
but
I
cannot
see
him
,
nay
he
seems
to
be
angry
with
me
;
every
thing
goes
against
me
,
his
word
speaks
bitter
things
to
me
;
methinks
there
's
never
a
threatning
but
belongs
to
me
;
I
am
the
Hypocrite
and
unclean
person
,
that
God
strikes
at
in
every
Sermon
,
and
his
rod
lies
heavy
on
me
too
,
and
in
the
way
of
his
providence
he
writes
bitter
things
against
me
.
Answ.
Soul
,
is
this
thy
case
,
doth
Christ
take
no
notice
of
thee
?
It
is
because
thou
takest
so
little
of
him
,
when
he
unveils
his
beauty
;
thou
dost
not
believe
in
him
,
when
he
makes
a
promise
to
thy
Soul
:
When
he
sends
words
of
Counsel
,
thou
dost
not
obey
him
.
He
hath
called
,
and
thou
hast
not
answered
,
and
therefore
when
thou
callest
he
doth
not
answer
,
Zach.
7.
13.
Yet
at
such
a
time
what
follows
;
doth
God
make
an
end
of
such
sinners
?
No
,
see
Chap.
8.
2
,
3.
O
Soul
,
if
the
Lord
Jesus
Christ
seems
to
take
no
notice
of
thee
,
but
to
frown
upon
thee
,
it
is
to
frown
thee
from
thy
unbelief
;
it
is
but
to
make
thee
sensible
of
thy
slighting
him
:
If
thou
wilt
this
day
accept
of
the
Lord
Jesus
Christ
;
his
frowns
will
soon
pass
away
,
as
a
dark
Cloud
doth
when
the
Sun
shines
;
he
will
remember
thy
Iniquities
no
more
.
10.
Object
.
But
may
some
Soul
say
:
I
would
fain
come
to
Christ
,
but
I
cannot
;
I
like
the
terms
well
,
but
O
my
unbelieving
heart
!
O
my
impenitent
hard
heart
!
I
cannot
sense
Salvation-kindness
.
Answ.
O
Soul
!
The
afflicting
sense
of
thy
unbelief
,
is
a
hopeful
sign
of
thy
faith
:
If
thou
dost
see
thy
unbelieving
heart
;
so
as
to
be
burdened
under
it
,
and
be
weary
of
it
,
the
Lord
reckons
it
for
the
beginnings
of
faith
,
Mark
9.
24.
This
is
the
method
of
Salvation-Grace
in
begetting
faith
,
to
convince
thee
of
its
impotency
to
believe
,
Joh.
16.
9.
Soul
,
is
this
thy
weariness
;
that
thou
canst
not
come
to
Christ
?
Wouldst
thou
have
a
wider
heart
for
him
?
Thou
art
the
Soul
he
waits
for
that
mournest
over
thy
unbelief
,
Mark
9.
24.
But
there
's
one
thing
more
may
be
as
a
discouragement
to
some
Souls
.
11.
Object
.
O
saies
the
Soul
,
I
fear
the
time
is
past
,
and
that
God
will
be
gracious
no
more
;
I
have
had
a
day
of
grace
,
but
that
is
gone
:
The
Angel
came
troubling
the
Waters
,
but
I
would
not
step
in
:
I
have
had
the
dawnings
of
mercy
,
but
I
resisted
:
I
fear
I
have
outstood
my
Market
:
That
I
have
outstrived
the
Spirit
so
long
,
that
he
will
strive
no
more
:
And
this
bows
me
down
,
that
I
am
afraid
to
look
up
.
Answ.
Sinner
,
if
this
be
thy
case
,
know
that
thy
fears
of
losing
the
day
of
grace
,
is
a
sign
it
is
not
lost
:
The
greatest
symptome
of
departing
grace
is
security
,
and
false
peace
,
1
Thes.
5.
3.
So
it
was
with
the
people
before
the
flood
:
Noah
threatned
judgments
,
but
they
dreamt
of
peace
,
Math.
24.
37.
&c.
Security
usher'd
in
the
departure
of
grace
from
them
:
But
while
the
Spirit
of
grace
strives
with
thy
Soul
,
the
day
of
grace
is
not
past
from
thee
.
Doth
God
call
upon
thee
now
,
and
plead
with
thy
heart
?
And
dost
thou
find
some
movings
,
and
turnings
of
thy
Bowels
in
thee
,
crying
out
,
O
that
there
might
be
mercy
for
me
;
that
this
day
of
grace
may
not
be
past
?
If
so
,
then
sure
the
Spirit
strives
yet
with
thy
Soul
:
Therefore
,
Soul
,
if
now
thou
wilt
close
with
Christ
,
none
of
these
pleas
can
debar
thy
closing
with
him
.
Well
Sinners
,
consider
the
Lord
Jesus
Christ
invites
you
to
come
to
him
,
once
more
he
demands
your
answer
:
what
say
you
,
will
you
be
his
or
no
?
Do
your
hearts
accept
of
him
?
Do
you
like
his
proposals
?
will
you
heartily
consent
to
be
his
,
upon
all
his
terms
?
If
so
,
I
shall
lay
down
some
Counsels
to
direct
you
in
your
right
comming
to
Christ
.
First
,
Sinner
,
if
thou
will
come
to
Christ
,
thou
must
come
as
a
poor
needy
,
empty
,
undone
,
Sinner
,
stript
of
all
beauty
,
as
having
nothing
at
all
that
may
deserve
his
favour
:
'T
is
the
poor
have
the
Gospel
Preached
to
them
.
Math.
11.
5.
It
signifies
such
as
are
brought
to
great
necessities
,
and
extremities
;
So
Beza
renders
it
:
Such
as
are
brought
very
low
:
Therefore
some
derive
it
from
a
word
that
signifies
,
falling
down
at
the
rich
Mens
feet
:
As
some
beggers
will
.
Ferus
interprets
it
,
the
poor
in
Spirit
,
that
acknowledge
themselves
mean
,
and
are
low
in
their
own
eyes
.
So
Calvin
takes
it
,
for
them
that
are
oppressed
with
the
sense
of
their
own
wants
,
such
as
feel
their
pinching
necessities
;
that
lye
down
overwhelm'd
with
the
apprehension
of
their
emptiness
:
The
Treasures
of
the
Gospel
are
design'd
to
such
Persons
that
are
poor
and
afflicted
in
their
own
Spirits
.
There
's
no
greater
obstacle
in
this
Match
betwen
Christ
and
sinners
,
than
a
sense
of
self
worthyness
:
This
keeps
many
from
seeing
the
beauty
of
Christ
;
their
own
Righteousness
hangs
in
their
eye
;
they
are
too
heavy
laden
with
their
own
thick
clay
,
I
mean
the
sense
of
their
own
worthyness
,
to
be
looking
up
to
Jesus
,
and
lifted
up
to
him
:
Sinners
may
be
too
rich
for
Christ
in
their
own
opinion
,
but
never
too
poor
;
hence
the
Lord
Jesus
Christ
tells
us
,
he
came
not
to
call
the
Righteous
,
but
sinners
to
Repentance
,
Math.
9.
13.
Not
them
that
Judge
themselves
Righteous
,
but
them
that
feel
themselves
sinners
:
The
Rich
he
sends
empty
away
,
those
that
are
Rich
in
their
own
thoughts
,
when
the
poor
and
hungry
are
fill'd
with
good
things
:
Men
chuse
empty
vessels
to
put
their
liquors
in
;
and
low
rooms
to
cellar
their
wines
,
so
doth
Jesus
Christ
chuse
empty
Souls
for
his
good
things
:
He
chooseth
the
Low
plains
for
his
walks
,
when
the
high
towring
Mountains
are
rejected
:
The
high
,
and
lofty
One
comes
to
dwell
in
the
low
and
contrite
Spirit
,
Isa.
57.
15.
Sinner
,
thou
must
strip
thy self
of
thy
own
Ornaments
,
if
thou
intend
to
put
on
Jesus
Christ
:
Thou
must
throw
down
thy
Crown
at
his
feet
;
if
thou
thinkest
to
wear
his
Crown
on
thy
head
:
O
Soul
!
thou
must
come
as
a
poor
wretch
to
Christ
;
with
thy
empty
sack
,
as
Jacobs
Sons
did
to
Egypt
to
buy
corn
,
and
then
thou
shalt
have
Treasure
too
:
Thou
must
see
thy self
an
undone
sinner
;
thou
must
come
(
with
Lazarus
)
and
throw
thy self
down
at
this
Rich
Kings
Door
;
if
ever
thou
wilt
be
fed
with
his
Crumbs
;
nay
rather
feasted
with
his
Dainties
.
Secondly
,
Thou
must
come
to
Christ
as
to
a
full
and
sufficient
treasure
,
able
to
save
and
satisfie
thee
;
to
pay
off
thy
debts
,
and
enrich
thy
Soul
for
ever
,
Heb.
7.
25.
Able
to
supply
all
thy
wants
and
fill
all
thy
emptiness
,
Phil.
4.
19.
We
have
shewn
already
that
his
treasures
are
bottomless
,
boundless
,
unfathomable
,
unexhaustible
,
never
to
be
wasted
or
spent
:
O
Soul
come
to
Christ
as
such
a
one
:
Measure
not
Christ's
gold
by
thy
bushel
;
nor
his
plenty
by
thy
poverty
:
think
not
thy
debts
too
great
for
Christ
to
pay
,
because
thou
knowest
not
where
to
get
mony
of
thy
own
:
Think
not
thy
straits
too
many
for
him
to
relieve
:
He
hath
enough
for
thy
Soul
to
live
upon
both
here
and
to
all
Eternity
;
O
Sinner
believe
this
,
and
come
to
him
as
such
a
one
;
suppose
not
the
Fountain
is
empty
,
because
thy
Cisterns
are
dry
:
His
Righteousness
is
like
the
great
Mountains
,
Psa.
36.
6.
It
is
in
the
Hebrew
,
The
Mountains
of
God
:
And
his
grace
is
without
measure
,
Joh.
3.
34.
Therefore
thou
must
look
to
him
as
having
a
sufficient
fulness
for
thy
Soul
.
Thirdly
,
Thou
must
look
to
Christ
with
expectation
,
as
the
poor
Cripple
did
to
Peter
and
John
,
Acts.
3.
5.
Now
shall
a
poor
Creature
expect
to
receive
some
needful
sutable
good
from
a
fellow
Creature
;
and
will
not
thou
expect
some
mercy
from
the
Lord
Jesus
Christ
,
thy
Creator
,
and
Redeemer
?
O
sinner
come
with
expectations
to
Christ
;
believe
that
he
is
as
willing
as
able
to
enrich
all
that
come
to
him
:
He
hath
past
his
word
for
it
.
He
that
cometh
to
me
I
will
in
no
wise
cast
out
.
Joh.
6.
37.
He
that
believeth
on
him
shall
not
perish
,
Joh.
3.
16.
The
weary
Soul
that
comes
yea
creeps
to
him
,
shall
have
rest
,
Math.
11.
28.
The
thirsty
Soul
shall
be
satisfied
,
Joh.
7.
37.
He
goes
up
and
down
in
the
Ministery
of
the
Gospel
,
seeking
to
save
that
which
is
lost
,
Luke
19.
10.
And
he
is
angry
with
them
that
will
not
come
to
him
,
Joh.
5.
40.
O
sinner
,
do
not
take
up
hard
thoughts
of
Christ
:
Such
suspitious
thoughts
of
Christ
is
some
of
the
Devils
seed
that
he
doth
sow
in
broken
ground
.
When
Christ
comes
to
break
sinners
hearts
and
make
them
sensible
of
their
undoneness
,
then
the
Devil
casts
in
these
tares
,
and
raises
up
ill
thoughts
of
Christ
;
It
was
this
did
so
enervate
the
diligence
of
the
unprofitable
Servant
;
some
undue
thoughts
he
took
up
of
his
Lords
bounty
:
I
knew
(
saies
he
)
thou
wert
an
hard
,
and
austere
Man
:
Hence
he
puts
up
his
Talent
in
a
Napkin
,
and
his
hand
in
his
bosom
,
Math.
25.
24
,
25.
Jealousies
of
Christs
good-will
to
sinners
are
very
destructive
to
Salvation-work
:
The
Devil
hath
hindred
many
a
Soul
from
coming
to
Christ
,
by
casting
this
block
in
his
way
.
O
then
come
with
expectations
;
at
least
come
to
Christ
,
with
as
great
hopes
as
the
Lepers
came
to
the
Tents
of
the
Assyrians
who
were
Enemies
;
come
to
Christ
the
friend
of
Sinners
.
2
Kings
7.
4.
They
adventured
with
some
hopes
;
we
may
live
,
and
we
can
but
dye
;
they
may
kill
us
,
and
they
may
save
us
alive
:
But
thy
case
is
not
so
,
if
thou
come
and
adventure
on
Christ
,
thou
mayest
be
sure
,
he
will
not
kill
thee
:
O
look
to
Jesus
then
with
some
hopes
;
say
,
who
can
tell
but
my
Soul
may
live
.
Fourthly
,
Close
first
with
Jesus
Christ
himself
,
and
afterwards
with
his
Treasure
:
I
confess
usually
something
from
Christ
draws
the
Sinner's
first
respects
to
him
:
The
savor
of
his
oyntments
,
some
love-tokens
,
kindnesses
,
apprehension
of
necessity
;
sense
of
undoneness
may
conduce
to
get
the
first
glances
of
Sinners
towards
Christ
;
But
though
these
allure
to
Christ
,
yet
the
first
thing
the
Espoused
Soul
must
eye
in
his
Match
with
Christ
,
is
Christ
himself
;
though
these
things
draw
the
Soul
,
yet
they
do
not
center
the
Affections
:
Christ's
kindnesses
are
design'd
as
motives
to
beget
an
esteem
of
himself
in
sinners
hearts
:
The
knowledge
of
what
Jesus
Christ
hath
for
sinners
,
an
intimation
of
pardon
,
peace
and
Salvation
for
all
that
come
to
him
,
may
be
the
Prodromus
or
fore-runner
of
Christs
Person
to
sinners
view
;
but
when
they
come
to
see
him
,
they
must
first
pitch
upon
himself
;
and
till
they
come
to
this
they
cannot
have
a
due
and
orderly
close
with
Christ
:
In
all
right
and
regular
Matches
,
the
Person
must
be
first
regarded
,
then
the
Portion
:
A
Soul
is
not
fit
to
match
with
Christ
,
till
he
comes
to
see
infinitely
more
worth
in
him
,
then
in
all
his
gifts
,
and
favours
:
It
was
the
excellency
of
Christ
himself
that
drew
Pauls
highest
regards
to
him
,
with
respect
to
relation
;
Phil.
3.
8.
The
excellency
of
the
knowledge
of
Christ
Jesus
my
Lord
:
Paul
sets
that
fore-most
;
And
then
to
be
made
conformable
to
his
Death
,
and
Resurrection
.
The
Spouse
was
more
taken
with
Christ's
Person
then
with
his
Gifts
:
Cant.
1.
2
,
3.
First
himself
was
lovely
,
then
his
fruits
.
Cant.
2.
3.
David
counts
nothing
in
Heaven
,
or
Earth
like
to
God
in
Christ
.
Psa.
73.
25.
'T
is
sordid
love
,
and
too
unworthy
of
a
conjugal
State
,
that
values
the
Portion
more
then
the
Person
;
that
Soul
is
too
unworthy
of
Christ
,
who
values
any
thing
more
then
him
:
Math.
10.
37
It
must
be
Christ
himself
,
must
sit
in
the
upermost
seat
in
thy
Soul
.
'T
is
a
saying
of
Calvin
,
T
is
an
unworthy
thing
not
to
perfer
one
Christ
above
all
:
Those
Matches
never
prove
comfortable
where
the
Estate
is
eyed
more
then
the
Person
,
hence
conjugal
love
is
broken
,
when
the
estate
is
gone
;
but
where
true
conjugal
love
is
,
it
is
setled
upon
the
Person
:
Love
that
is
set
upon
some
Gifts
of
Christ
,
more
then
Christ
himself
,
when
these
are
suspended
,
the
others
will
decay
;
but
love
placed
upon
his
Person
will
last
:
Hence
't
is
many
do
so
easily
leave
Christ
,
when
it
comes
to
parting
with
other
things
,
because
their
love
was
set
more
upon
these
things
then
Christ
himself
:
O
Soul
be
sure
't
is
Christ
himself
thou
dost
chuse
,
and
not
another
;
O
be
not
guilty
of
that
mistake
as
Jacob
was
,
to
take
Leah
instead
of
Rachel
:
Be
sure
it
be
not
a
false
Idea
of
Christ
in
thy
thoughts
,
but
that
it
be
a
real
Christ
thou
takest
;
and
then
thou
wilt
never
look
for
another
:
Be
sure
give
Christ
the
preheminence
:
The
Father
hath
given
him
the
preheminence
,
and
wilt
not
thou
?
Phil.
2.
9.
Col.
1.
18.
Col.
2.
9.
If
Christ
must
take
the
best
place
in
Heaven
,
he
hath
reason
to
take
the
first
place
in
thy
heart
.
Fifthly
,
If
thou
wouldest
come
to
Christ
aright
,
then
bring
thy
all
with
thee
to
him
;
and
make
a
free
and
full
surrender
of
thy self
,
and
thy
all
to
him
:
When
God
would
have
Israel
out
of
Egypt
,
they
must
not
leave
a
hoof
behind
,
Exod.
10.
26.
2
Cor.
8.
5.
They
first
gave
their
own
selves
to
the
Lord
:
Be
sure
make
over
thy self
first
to
Christ
,
and
then
all
thy
interests
,
and
Capacities
:
Come
and
subscribe
to
Christ
,
Isa.
44.
5.
One
shall
say
I
am
the
Lords
,
and
another
shall
call
himself
by
the
name
of
Jacob
,
and
another
shall
subscribe
with
his
hand
unto
the
Lord
.
Calvin
hath
a
saying
upon
this
:
A
Person
(
saies
he
)
can
never
have
true
faith
in
Christ
,
till
he
comes
to
make
this
testification
and
confession
of
him
:
In
the
espousing
betwivt
Christ
and
the
Soul
,
there
is
a
mutual
resignation
of
each
to
other
with
all
they
have
.
Christ
gives
his
Person
and
Purchase
to
Believers
,
and
the
sincere
Soul
gives
back
himself
and
all
to
Christ
:
To
detain
the
least
part
from
Christ
is
abominable
fraud
,
and
lying
against
the
Holy
Ghost
,
Acts
5.
3.
If
thou
accountest
any
one
thing
too
good
for
Christ
;
He
accounts
all
his
too
good
for
thee
.
Lastly
,
Be
sure
your
acceptance
of
Christ
be
considerate
and
sincere
,
sit
down
first
and
count
the
cost
,
Luk.
14.
28.
Thou
must
be
no
more
thy
own
;
thou
must
take
up
thy
Yoke
and
his
Yoke
:
Thy
cross
and
his
Cross
:
Thou
must
denie
thy self
and
follow
him
:
Weighty
things
are
not
to
be
undertaken
rashly
,
Diu
deliber
andum
was
an
ancient
Motto
.
Hasty
matches
seldom
prove
well
:
O
Soul
,
be
not
rash
in
thy
taking
Christ
.
The
Lord
Jesus
Christ
Espouseth
his
in
Judgment
as
well
as
in
Faithfulness
,
Hos.
2.
19
,
20.
in
considerate
bargains
are
oft-times
broken
or
repented
of
,
You
will
never
espouse
Christ
in
Faithfulness
,
till
you
espouse
him
in
Judgment
:
Weigh
all
things
,
consider
Marriage
Articles
,
what
they
are
,
and
whether
you
are
willing
to
perform
them
,
Math.
16.
24.
O
Soul
try
,
can
thy
heart
consent
to
this
?
O
the
falseness
of
Souls
pretended
match
to
Christ
hath
undone
many
!
You
must
take
whole
Christ
with
the
whole
heart
,
or
else
you
will
never
match
aright
with
Christ
,
You
must
chuse
him
never
to
chuse
again
.
You
must
make
him
your
only
choice
,
and
let
all
your
other
choosings
be
by
him
:
Thou
shalt
choose
our
inheritance
for
us
,
Psa.
47.
4.
Say
then
,
I
will
only
chuse
him
;
I
will
chuse
his
Person
,
his
Laws
,
his
Honour
and
Glory
;
but
Christ
shall
chuse
all
for
me
;
Let
Christ
chuse
my
place
,
and
condition
,
high
or
low
:
Let
Christ
dispose
of
me
,
where
,
and
how
he
will
in
the
World
,
I
will
dispose
of
Christ
in
my
heart
.
So
much
of
this
Fourth
Inference
.
That
Jesus
Christ
is
worth
a
looking
after
.
CHAP.
XXVII
.
Shewing
the
folly
of
such
as
pursue
earthly
things
,
with
neglect
of
Christ
,
considering
the
Nature
of
those
things
;
the
Terms
on
which
they
are
to
be
enjoyed
;
The
casualty
that
attends
them
:
The
guilt
such
contract
.
IF
there
be
such
great
and
glorious
treasures
of
Christ
tendered
to
sinners
in
the
Gospel
:
Then
see
the
folly
of
those
that
pursue
earthly
treasures
with
a
neglect
of
Christ
:
For
Souls
to
turn
their
backs
on
Christ
,
and
court
the
World
,
and
peri●hing
things
:
O
folly
indeed
!
I
shall
give
four
Reasons
to
convince
such
persons
of
folly
.
-
The
1.
Taken
from
the
things
themselves
they
pursue
with
neglect
of
Christ
.
-
2.
The
different
terms
on
which
Christ
and
these
are
to
be
enjoyed
.
-
3.
The
casual●y
that
attends
Souls
attempts
after
Earthly
things
.
-
4.
The
guilt
that
such
contract
,
who
pursue
Earthly
treasures
more
than
Christ
.
First
,
'T
is
folly
,
yea
madness
to
pursue
Earthly
things
and
neglect
Christ
because
the
things
themselves
they
chuse
cannot
be
compar'd
with
Christ
;
which
will
appear
in
several
particulars
.
First
,
They
are
uncertain
Riches
;
There
's
no
dependance
upon
them
,
1
Tim.
6.
17.
Nor
trust
in
uncertain
Riches
,
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
.
Riches
that
are
not
declared
,
and
manifested
,
to
be
sure
and
certain
,
for
a
dependance
;
They
are
not
a
sure
bottom
for
Souls
to
build
so
much
hope
and
delight
upon
;
when
it
comes
to
a
pinch
indeed
;
then
i●●ppears
they
are
vain
,
and
will
not
profit
in
the
day
of
wrath
.
Like
a
broken
Staff
,
when
you
lean
upon
it
,
then
it
breaks
:
So
the
Riches
of
this
world
,
when
Souls
put
some
stress
upon
them
,
then
they
fail
:
They
are
uncertain
;
sometimes
you
enjoy
them
,
and
anon
they
are
removed
,
Pro.
23.
5.
Wilt
thou
set
thine
Eyes
upon
that
which
is
not
,
for
riches
certainly
make
themselves
wings
,
they
flye
away
as
an
Eagle
towards
Heaven
.
They
come
slowlie
,
but
get
off
swiftlie
;
when
they
come
to
men
,
they
have
leaden
feet
,
and
when
they
leave
them
,
Eagles
Wings
:
To
day
they
flourish
like
the
grass
,
and
to
morrow
burn
like
an
Oven
:
A
man
hath
a
beautiful
house
to
day
,
and
to
morrow
an
heap
of
Ashes
▪
O
most
uncertain
Riches
!
All
the
world
runs
in
changes
;
To
day
(
says
one
)
they
ar●
for
the
Bosom
,
and
to
morrow
for
the
Beesom
:
To
day
men
take
them
into
their
bosoms
,
to
morrow
vengeance
sweeps
them
away
.
Secondly
,
They
are
empty
things
,
they
cannot
satisfie
the
Soul
that
feeds
upon
them
:
The
world
is
not
filling
meat
to
an
immortal
Soul
;
let
a
person
feed
never
so
heartily
,
yet
he
is
hungry
:
The
whole
world
●●nnot
fill
one
heart
;
Alexander
wept
,
that
there
were
no
more
worlds
to
conquer
:
Nature
puts
bounds
to
the
Sea
;
and
all
Earthly
beings
have
their
end
,
Psa.
119.
96.
but
sin
hath
made
carnal
desires
boundless
:
It
is
with
earthly
minded
men
,
as
Solomon
says
it
is
with
the
Grave
,
and
barren
womb
,
and
the
fire
that
say
it
is
not
enough
,
Pro.
30.
15
,
16.
Wherefore
(
says
the
Prophet
)
do
you
spend
your
money
for
that
which
is
not
Bread
,
and
your
labour
for
that
which
satisfieth
not
,
Isa.
55.
2.
One
calls
the
whole
Turkish
Empire
but
a
bone
that
is
thrown
to
dogs
:
very
dry
meat
;
so
are
all
the
things
of
this
world
:
Riches
are
like
meat
in
a
dream
:
An
hungry
man
thinks
he
feeds
,
when
he
dreams
but
when
he
awakes
he
is
emptie
.
Riches
feed
nothing
but
the
Eye
;
hence
Covetousness
is
call'd
the
lusts
of
the
Eye
,
1
Joh.
2.
16.
O'tis
a
vanity
indeed
to
look
after
that
which
you
can
put
in
to
your
Eye
!
it
will
not
feed
your
affections
,
it
will
not
satiate
the
Soul
,
it
will
not
quiet
the
Conscienc
:
O
that
men
should
adventure
their
all
for
that
which
will
not
satisfie
!
Thirdly
,
They
are
fading
things
in
their
Nature
:
not
only
uncertain
,
and
liable
to
remove
in
the
event
,
but
they
are
dying
in
their
Nature
;
Corruptible
riches
:
Your
Houses
,
Lands
,
whatever
your
greedy
Eye
covets
,
are
but
rotten
things
:
Your
Garments
are
liable
to
the
Moth
,
and
your
Gold
and
Silver
Subject
to
Rust
,
J
am
.
5.
2
,
3.
Ah
poor
treasure
indeed
!
Which
rust
and
Moth
consume
,
rest
that
strengthens
other
Creatures
eats
out
these
;
Houses
,
Lands
,
Gold
and
Jewels
,
are
subject
to
wearing
away
,
Tempus
teret
omnia
:
Time
will
wear
them
out
:
Hence
Christ
advises
his
Disciples
to
provide
bags
which
wax
not
old
,
a
treasure
in
Heaven
,
which
faileth
not
,
Luk
12.
33.
Implying
that
all
the
treasures
of
this
world
are
not
so
:
If
men
lay
them
up
in
bags
,
the
bags
will
wax
old
,
and
time
will
rot
them
;
Thieves
can
approach
to
these
treasures
,
and
Moth
,
and
Rust
can
eat
them
out
:
(
'T
is
a
pretty
simile
one
hath
of
it
,
who
compares
the
Riches
of
the
world
to
hailstones
,
that
when
they
fall
upon
a
tyl'd
House
,
make
a
ratling
noise
for
the
present
,
but
by
and
by
sl●de
down
,
and
melt
away
to
nothing
.
Fourthly
,
The
treasures
of
this
world
are
ensiaving
treasures
;
they
bring
their
owners
into
bondage
:
as
one
says
;
Ducendo
vincimur
,
vincendo
ducimur
:
By
their
cunning
allurements
they
overcome
us
,
and
overcoming
us
,
they
lead
us
Captive
:
They
first
allure
the
heart
,
and
then
enthrall
the
heart
:
They
bring
men
into
the
worst
bondage
of
any
,
for
they
bring
them
into
a
willing
bondage
Earthly
men
are
not
only
led
Captive
by
the
world
at
Satans
will
,
but
are
enslaved
by
their
own
will
;
they
consent
to
be
bound
:
Earthly
men
do
with
Esau
,
swap
a
bargain
for
the
things
of
the
world
;
they
consent
to
let
go
their
birth
right
for
a
mess
of
pottage
;
they
give
up
their
birth
right
to
their
Inferiours
,
and
consent
to
become
a
slave
to
their
own
Servants
:
That
word
of
the
Wiseman
is
never
more
true
,
Eccl.
10.
7.
then
when
men
are
led
Captive
by
the
love
of
this
world
:
I
have
seen
Servants
upon
Horses
,
and
Princes
walking
as
Servants
upon
the
Earth
.
Never
did
Israel
do
greater
drudgery
in
Egypt
,
then
Carnal
,
Earthly
men
do
to
the
world
:
It
makes
them
rise
early
,
sit
up
late
,
and
eat
the
bread
of
sorrows
,
and
all
for
a
few
shaddows
,
Ps.
127.
2.
Earthly
men
,
(
says
one
)
are
like
Beasts
that
are
set
to
draw
in
the
Devils
Teams
,
who
draw
sin
with
Cart-ropes
,
and
Iniquity
with
Cords
of
Vanity
:
Isa.
5.
1.
Peccata
facile
veniunt
,
sed
fortiter
ligant
.
Fifthly
,
The
riches
of
this
world
are
ensnaring
too
.
1
T●m.
6.
9.
They
that
will
be
rich
fall
into
Temptations
and
Snares
:
The
word
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
signifies
such
snares
as
persons
use
to
take
Birds
and
Beasts
with
,
and
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
to
fasten
down
to
the
ground
as
nets
are
that
take
beasts
;
So
Earthlyminded
men
the
Devil
stakes
them
down
to
the
ground
:
They
are
held
fast
in
the
cords
of
their
own
iniquity
,
Pro.
5.
22.
What
a
snare
was
Balack's
Gold
to
Balaam's
Covetous
heart
to
draw
him
against
his
light
,
convictions
and
a
Divine
charge
.
The
Bag
prov'd
a
fatal
charm
to
covetous
Judas
,
it
lead
him
to
the
Halter
:
The
things
of
the
world
prov'd
a
sad
snare
to
Demas
,
and
led
him
off
from
all
his
profession
:
Earthly
things
are
like
twigs
that
are
in
Bird-lime
,
that
hold
fast
those
silly
Souls
that
come
at
them
,
that
they
have
no
mind
nor
power
●o
leave
them
:
O
they
are
sad
snares
indeed
.
Sixthly
,
Earthly
riches
are
defiling
too
:
The
Apostle
calls
riches
filthy
lucre
,
1
Pet.
5.
2.
Not
for
filthy
lucre
:
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
Obscure
gain
as
the
word
implies
,
filthy
,
unbecoming
,
undecent
:
O
't
is
dishonest
gain
indeed
;
which
ends
in
the
loss
of
the
Soul
!
Such
men
are
the
greatest
Couzeners
in
the
world
,
that
cheat
themselves
,
and
loose
their
Souls
for
sublunary
treasures
:
The
Riches
of
this
world
defile
the
Consciences
of
those
that
love
them
;
the
Apostle
calls
them
the
pollutions
of
the
world
,
2
Pet.
2.
20.
'T
is
considerable
that
the
Psalmist
doth
use
the
word
,
Psa.
52.
7.
to
fignifie
both
riches
and
unrighteousness
:
Lo
this
is
the
man
that
made
not
God
his
strength
,
but
trusted
in
the
abundance
of
his
Riches
,
and
strengthened
himself
in
his
wickedness
:
noting
that
riches
prove
occasions
of
much
evil
,
hurt
,
and
filthiness
to
them
that
have
them
.
Seventhly
,
They
are
accountable
Riches
,
Talents
that
must
be
reckoned
for
,
Math.
25.
19.
After
a
long
time
,
the
Lord
of
that
Servant
cometh
and
reckoneth
with
him
.
All
Earthly
interests
are
trusts
committed
to
the
fidelity
of
those
that
have
them
,
and
they
must
give
an
account
for
them
,
Luke
16.
2.
Give
an
account
of
thy
Stewardship
for
tbou
must
be
no
longer
Steward
(
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
)
All
thy
undue
pursuits
of
the
World
;
thy
inordinate
love
to
it
,
thy
unjust
ingrossings
of
it
to
thy self
,
thy
penurious
witholding
it
,
from
those
distributions
God
hath
required
must
shortly
be
reckoned
for
.
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
ab
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
an
house
&
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
,
those
things
which
Families
use
.
Eighthly
,
They
are
afflicting
riches
:
They
carry
more
trouble
then
comfort
with
them
,
1
Tim.
6.
10.
For
the
love
of
money
is
the
root
of
all
evil
,
which
while
Some
coveted
after
—
pierce
themselves
through
with
many
sorrows
:
They
run
themselves
through
.
So
Beza
:
They
stab
themselves
all
over
from
Head
to
Foot
with
darts
;
So
the
word
imports
.
O
how
great
are
those
anxieties
,
and
troubles
the
riches
of
this
world
breed
for
those
that
have
them
!
they
be
troublesome
things
;
They
cause
a
great
deal
of
pains
to
get
them
:
a
great
deal
of
care
to
keep
them
;
a
great
deal
of
fear
to
loose
them
;
And
a
great
deal
of
trouble
when
they
are
gone
:
Christ
compares
the
love
of
the
world
to
Thorns
,
Mat.
13.
7.
Compar'd
with
ver.
22.
Because
they
prick
and
scratch
the
Consciences
,
as
well
as
choak
the
word
:
O
the
many
wounds
they
will
see
in
them
one
day
that
love
the
world
inordinately
:
Whence
Gregory
hath
this
upon
it
:
Let
rich
men
take
heed
how
they
handle
Throns
,
least
they
prick
them
.
Nint●ly
,
They
are
damnifying
riches
,
and
bring
a
great
deal
of
loss
with
them
:
A
man
can
hardly
come
by
much
of
the
world
,
without
a
sensible
detriment
:
They
occasion
the
loss
of
a
great
deal
of
time
that
should
be
used
about
their
precious
Souls
:
The
loss
of
precious
peace
;
O
what
trouble
,
what
carking
,
fretting
,
rending
cares
have
men
about
these
Riches
!
They
loose
their
natural
peace
many
times
,
and
lose
their
Soul
quietness
:
The
cares
of
this
world
breed
a
great
deal
of
guilt
:
Then
there
's
a
loss
of
purity
too
;
they
sully
thy
Soul
,
dirt
thy
Conscience
:
bespatter
thy
Affections
:
Many
a
hopeful
Soul
is
corrupted
by
them
to
fall
from
their
seeming
vertue
and
moral
excellencies
;
as
the
young
man
in
the
Gospel
,
Judas
Annanias
,
and
Demas
.
Earthlimindedness
like
the
F●ie
in
a
Box
of
Oyntment
spoil
mens
natural
and
moral
Vertues
:
They
occasion
the
loss
of
many
priviledges
;
the
love
of
the
world
robs
Souls
of
great
advantages
,
such
cannot
wait
on
God
many
times
in
secret
duties
,
family
duties
,
publick
duties
;
they
have
a
Farm
,
and
Oxen
,
and
Merchandise
to
look
after
,
and
therefore
cannot
come
.
Nay
,
they
that
will
be
rich
deprive
themselves
of
the
profit
of
those
priviledges
they
do
enjoy
:
The
Love
of
the
world
takes
off
the
good
of
the
word
,
whiles
it
is
preached
to
them
,
Math.
13.
22.
The
things
of
the
world
damp
mens
affections
to
Christ
,
and
heavenly
things
;
they
stifle
mens
Consciences
:
It
duls
and
blunts
the
edge
of
the
Sword
of
the
Gospel
,
and
makes
it
rebound
back
again
,
when
it
fals
upon
the
rocky
heart
,
hardned
with
the
love
of
the
World
:
O
they
are
damnifiing
things
:
And
at
last
they
will
set
you
hard
,
but
they
will
lose
your
Souls
,
and
then
you
have
made
a
cursed
bargain
indeed
,
when
you
have
lost
your
Souls
.
Lastly
,
They
are
dangerous
and
too
often
damning
things
;
they
are
dangerous
for
they
keep
the
Soul
from
Christ
:
As
the
young
man
in
the
Gospel
,
he
came
to
the
very
last
step
,
and
yet
there
he
stayed
,
he
could
not
part
withall
for
Christ
that
broke
the
bargain
Mat.
19.
22.
He
went
away
sorrowful
for
he
had
great
possessions
:
The
love
of
the
World
stood
in
the
way
of
his
receiving
Christ
;
Thorns
are
the
shelter
for
Serpents
and
riches
for
many
lusts
,
that
drown
men
in
perdition
and
destruction
.
1.
Tim.
6.
9.
The
word
in
the
original
signifies
a
plunging
over
head
and
ears
in
ruine
,
sunk
to
the
bottom
,
as
one
that
hath
a
great
weight
upon
him
:
One
compares
rich
men
to
a
Pine
Tree
of
which
it
is
said
,
that
if
the
bark
be
pluckt
off
it
will
last
long
,
but
while
that
abides
it
rots
:
riches
are
as
a
deep
pit
,
into
which
men
easily
get
,
but
hardly
get
out
,
and
therefore
Christ
saies
.
it
is
easier
for
a
Camell
to
go
through
the
eye
of
a
needle
then
for
a
rich
man
to
enter
into
the
Kingdom
of
Heaven
.
Math.
19.
24.
The
things
of
the
World
bar
up
the
way
to
Heaven
,
and
open
the
way
to
Hell
,
and
hasten
the
Soul
with
a
vengeance
to
destruction
:
They
are
like
the
Devils
sleep-drench
,
that
casts
Souls
into
a
deep
trance
,
and
'till
they
come
to
the
end
of
their
lives
they
never
awake
,
and
then
they
awake
with
a
vengeance
:
That
's
the
first
.
Consider
what
the
things
of
the
world
are
,
and
they
are
fools
indeed
that
pursue
them
with
the
neglect
of
Christ
.
Secondly
,
Consider
the
different
terms
on
which
they
are
to
be
had
,
and
it
will
appear
to
be
folly
for
men
to
desert
Heavenly
things
,
and
chuse
Earthly
:
If
you
would
have
the
World
,
it
will
cost
you
a
great
deal
of
sorrow
,
trouble
,
and
pains
,
you
must
tug
hard
;
Adam
being
turn'd
out
of
Paradise
must
work
in
the
sweat
of
his
brows
for
his
bread
.
Gen.
3.
10.
But
Heavenly
Treasures
is
to
be
received
by
believing
;
They
come
by
gift
.
It
is
but
to
come
and
take
it
and
receive
it
.
Isa.
55.
1
,
2.
Thirdly
Consider
the
casualty
that
attends
the
persuit
of
these
Earthly
things
.
A
great
deal
of
casualty
whether
you
may
have
them
or
no
;
and
a
great
deal
of
hazard
that
attends
them
:
The
Marchant
engages
in
dangerous
voyages
,
and
after
all
,
is
not
sure
to
bring
home
any
treasure
.
Eccles.
5.
14.
These
Riches
perish
by
evil
travel
:
Suppose
they
are
obtained
,
they
sometimes
are
wasted
assoon
as
won
;
and
he
that
thinks
he
hath
enough
for
many
years
,
many
times
leaves
,
nothing
behind
him
:
Many
toyl
,
and
tug
,
eat
out
their
bowels
,
and
spend
their
days
for
that
which
they
cannot
obtain
;
how
many
labour
to
be
rich
,
and
yet
dye
Poor
:
Riches
make
themselves
wings
and
flie
away
.
Pro.
23.
5
Fourthly
,
Such
as
persue
Earthly
things
with
the
neglect
of
Christ
,
contract
much
guilt
upon
their
own
Souls
;
they
violate
the
whole
Law
of
God
;
for
the
whole
Law
contains
supream
love
to
God
:
Love
(
saies
the
Apostle
)
is
the
fulfilling
of
the
Law
.
Rom.
13.
10.
And
upon
this
Commandement
(
saies
Christ
)
hangs
all
the
Law
,
and
the
Prophets
:
Math.
22.
40
▪
Upon
supream
love
to
God
,
and
equal
love
to
our
neighbour
,
as
to
our selves
:
Therefore
such
as
persue
Earthly
things
,
and
love
the
World
more
then
God
,
they
break
the
whole
Law
of
God
.
1
Joh.
2.
5.
Yea
they
violate
and
break
the
commands
of
grace
also
:
It
makes
men
false
to
all
their
engagments
,
and
promises
;
and
to
all
their
civil
trusts
:
O
what
horrid
wickedness
will
not
the
love
of
this
World
put
men
upon
!
therefore
such
contract
foul
guilt
upon
their
Souls
:
And
this
shews
their
folly
.
So
much
for
the
use
of
Information
.
CHAP.
XXVIII
.
Containing
an
use
of
reprehension
to
several
sorts
of
Persons
,
with
consolation
to
all
sound
Believers
.
IF
there
be
such
vast
and
glorious
Treasures
in
the
Lord
Jesus
Christ
,
opened
and
tendered
in
the
Gospel
.
Then
this
reprooves
such
as
have
or
profess
to
have
an
interest
in
these
vast
and
boundless
Treasures
,
and
yet
are
so
little
affected
with
them
,
and
have
a
low
estimation
of
them
;
O
sad
indeed
!
That
the
choicest
substance
that
ever
was
;
boundless
treasure
,
should
be
esteemed
no
more
then
perishing
trash
.
'T
is
a
lamentable
thing
indeed
to
see
how
most
Professors
value
perishing
treasures
so
much
,
and
Jesus
Christ
so
little
:
Did
persons
prize
those
Heavenly
Treasures
,
they
would
have
a
lesse
esteem
of
Earthly
;
they
would
be
more
restless
till
they
saw
their
Interest
in
them
:
Pursue
more
after
them
;
be
at
more
pains
and
cost
to
secure
them
:
Be
more
in
the
commendation
of
them
,
and
highly
esteem
those
that
have
them
.
Secondly
,
It
reproves
those
that
have
or
seem
to
have
a
title
to
this
glorious
Treasure
,
and
yet
are
not
contented
with
it
:
O
Souls
,
will
a
few
handfuls
of
dust
please
you
,
and
will
not
a
Kingdom
,
Crown
,
and
Glory
?
Will
a
little
Cottage
in
the
world
take
up
your
delight
,
and
will
not
a
Mansion
and
dwelling-place
in
Heaven
satisfie
you
?
O
Believer
,
hath
God
made
over
himself
,
Father
,
Son
,
and
Spirit
to
be
thine
eternal
Treasure
,
and
is
not
he
rich
enough
to
fill
all
thy
heart
,
and
all
thy
desires
?
sit
down
and
consider
how
groundless
are
all
thy
mournings
,
how
unreasonable
are
all
thy
frettings
and
discontent
,
who
canst
say
of
Heaven
,
This
is
mine
;
and
of
God
,
and
Christ
,
He
is
mine
.
Thirdly
,
It
reproves
those
that
have
or
seem
to
have
a
Title
to
those
treasures
,
and
yet
look
after
others
treasures
,
and
eagerly
pursue
a
portion
in
this
World
.
O
unexcusable
!
Like
Dinah
they
wander
after
the
things
of
this
World
,
as
she
did
after
the
people
of
the
Land
,
till
they
deflower
their
Souls
:
O
Christians
,
have
you
chosen
God
,
and
will
you
back
to
the
World
again
?
Hath
God
deliver'd
you
from
this
present
World
,
and
will
you
yield
up
your selves
to
it
again
!
Hath
grace
opened
your
Prison
Doors
,
and
will
you
enter
in
again
?
Have
you
tasted
God
to
be
gracious
,
and
yet
long
after
the
worldlings
bottle
,
to
drink
of
these
Waters
of
Marah
?
O
unreasonable
Souls
:
How
unsutable
is
this
to
your
state
and
condition
!
if
you
are
Saints
indeed
you
are
not
of
this
World
,
Joh.
15.
19.
Are
you
the
Citizens
of
Heaven
,
Eph.
2.
19.
And
would
Saints
and
Angels
so
dig
after
the
World
if
they
come
down
from
Heaven
?
'T
is
contrary
to
your
promises
and
engagements
.
You
go
against
your
convictions
,
and
experiences
,
and
by
your
inordinate
love
to
,
and
pursuit
of
the
World
you
are
Enemies
to
God
your
own
and
others
Souls
.
Fourthly
,
This
reproves
those
of
the
People
of
God
,
who
have
an
interest
in
these
vast
Treasures
of
Christ
,
and
yet
are
miserably
poor
in
their
own
Souls
:
Many
complain
Times
be
hard
,
Estates
wast
,
Trades
decay
,
but
the
greatest
Poverty
lies
in
Spirituals
:
Faith
,
Love
,
Humility
,
selfe
denyal
,
Mortifiedness
to
the
World
,
persons
are
destitute
of
these
things
chiefly
;
little
grace
laid
out
,
little
grace
laid
up
:
Few
workings
of
Spirit
in
duty
,
and
few
works
of
grace
in
Mens
lives
;
this
argues
wonderful
Poverty
in
mens
Souls
:
'T
is
not
Poverty
in
Spirit
,
but
poverty
in
Spirituals
,
Professours
are
so
guilty
of
this
day
;
few
acts
of
Piety
towards
God
,
few
works
of
charity
towards
Men
:
How
lean
,
and
ilfavoured
are
most
under
the
Gospel
:
Many
are
learning
,
and
never
come
to
the
knowledge
of
the
truth
;
a
strange
vail
lyes
yet
upon
the
minds
of
many
:
Little
right-kind
of
knowledge
,
few
know
the
meaning
of
the
Spirit
,
few
are
led
into
the
mysteries
of
the
Gospel
:
Others
profess
themselves
wise
,
and
to
know
God
,
but
by
works
deny
him
,
and
their
Poverty
lies
here
,
They
are
ful
of
notions
,
but
empty
of
holiness
,
Earthly
and
vain
in
their
Spirit
:
Most
mens
Religion
this
day
lies
in
the
head
;
little-heart-godliness
,
little
life-holiness
:
Little
love
to
God
,
and
Saints
:
Little
fruits
brought
forth
for
God
,
this
shews
the
Poverty
of
the
times
we
live
in
:
Again
,
the
difficultness
of
maintaining
Spiritual
life
;
hard
to
get
to
a
life
of
faith
,
and
love
,
hard
to
keep
up
hope
,
this
comes
from
Soul
Poverty
:
Hard
for
Persons
to
live
from
one
Ordinance
to
another
:
Spiritual
life
decays
,
wasts
,
languishes
;
't
is
with
too
many
Professours
as
it
is
with
ancient
weak
Persons
,
that
are
grown
so
cold
,
Nature
so
decay'd
,
that
they
can
hardly
keep
themselves
warm
,
longer
then
by
the
fire
:
So
t
is
with
many
Christians
,
no
longer
then
under
a
warming
Sermon
,
but
cold
presently
;
nay
't
is
not
ordinary
Sermons
will
heat
them
:
The
richest
feedings
,
the
choicest
Cordials
,
scarce
keep
up
faith
,
love
,
and
delight
in
God
one
moment
,
and
are
not
these
poor
men
?
Corruptions
grow
,
a
light
,
vain
,
Eearthy
,
frothy
Spirit
abounds
;
but
meekness
,
savouriness
,
humility
,
gravity
,
livelyness
decays
:
Little
strength
for
duty
,
hard
to
hear
,
pray
,
or
to
manage
one
duty
aright
;
little
Spirit
and
Truth
in
most
duties
,
and
services
:
Unable
to
conflict
with
temtations
,
corruptions
,
oppositions
:
Hard
to
live
up
to
light
,
convictions
,
resolutions
:
How
do
Souls
make
shipwrack
of
faith
,
and
conscience
!
How
easily
are
they
overcome
by
their
hearts
lust
,
pride
,
passion
,
Earthyness
presently
carries
them
aside
.
Unable
to
bear
the
least
sufferings
:
The
very
shaking
of
the
rod
will
drive
some
from
duty
:
Persons
cannot
yet
digest
difficulties
,
and
endurings
for
the
Gospels
sake
:
How
soon
are
many
worn
out
by
the
afflictions
,
and
persecutions
of
this
day
:
This
deserves
sharp
reproof
.
Lastly
,
It
reproves
those
who
partake
of
those
riches
of
Christ
,
and
yet
are
reserved
to
others
:
O
how
unlike
are
these
to
Christ
!
He
opens
his
Treasures
to
you
,
but
you
shut
yours
from
others
;
he
hands
out
his
bounty
to
you
,
but
you
shut
your
eyes
from
others
:
His
streams
make
glad
the
City
of
God
;
your
narrow
heartedness
makes
sad
the
Sons
of
men
:
His
bowels
are
enlarged
,
yours
sttaitned
;
Milk
and
Honey
are
under
his
tongue
,
emptiness
and
vanity
under
yours
;
his
steps
drop
fatness
,
your
hands
cause
leanness
:
O
Christians
!
see
your
unsutableness
to
Christ
,
and
be
ashamed
of
your
straitned
bowels
,
and
shut
hands
,
towards
your
poor
Brethren
,
whether
as
to
outward
or
spiritual
supplies
!
How
few
are
the
better
for
you
in
soul
or
body
,
whose
lips
bless
God
for
your
bounty
?
Deut.
14.
13.
A
close-handed
Professor
is
a
Paradox
in
nature
,
and
differs
from
God
and
the
whole
Creation
:
The
Lord
is
good
and
doth
good
:
Jesus
Christ
ascended
on
high
,
and
gives
gifts
to
men
,
Eph.
4.
8.
He
is
always
doing
good
.
The
Sun
diffuseth
freely
of
his
light
,
and
heat
:
The
clouds
drop
fatness
:
The
Earth
brings
forth
her
increase
;
the
Trees
yield
their
fruit
,
and
when
fit
for
the
use
of
man
,
lets
them
fall
into
their
bosomes
;
the
air
communicates
its
refreshing
;
the
fire
its
heat
,
the
Sea
its
store
,
only
man
is
selfish
and
with
the
unprofitable
Servant
hides
his
talent
in
a
Napkin
:
Christians
be
humbled
for
your
non-conformity
to
Christ
,
and
the
little
use
you
have
made
of
your
Talents
,
and
graces
for
the
good
of
those
you
live
with
.
Note
That
this
use
of
Reprehension
was
more
fully
and
largely
compos'd
by
the
Author
.
but
the
substance
of
it
is
contain'd
in
that
excellent
Treatise
of
the
Author
,
call'd
The
Heavenly
Trade
;
to
which
the
Reader
is
refer'd
.
Third
Vse
of
Consolation
.
If
there
be
such
unsearchable
riches
in
C●rist
for
his
people
:
Then
here
's
wonderful
Comfort
to
those
that
are
in
Christ
;
such
have
cause
to
rejoyce
and
be
exceeding
glad
:
For
,
First
,
In
your
interest
in
Christ
lies
your
right
to
all
those
great
and
glorious
treasures
of
Christ
:
He
that
hath
Christ
,
all
that
is
Christ's
is
his
:
All
things
are
yours
,
and
you
are
Christs
,
and
Christ
is
Gods
,
1
Cor.
3.
21.
Such
are
Joynt-Heirs
with
Christ
put
down
in
the
same
everlasting
Covenant
:
adopted
to
the
same
inheritance
,
Rom.
8.
27.
They
have
a
Title
to
all
that
Christ
hath
as
Mediatour
,
and
that
by
donation
and
purchase
:
A
title
that
cannot
be
forfeited
nor
wasted
:
A
Title
to
the
whole
inheritance
of
God
.
Ah
Believer
if
Christ
be
thine
then
't
is
no
presumtion
to
lay
claim
to
any
thing
that
is
his
:
All
that
have
been
treated
of
him
as
God-Man
Mediatour
,
his
glorious
endowments
,
his
personal
dispositions
,
and
excellent
perfections
are
all
thine
.
1
Cor.
1.
30.
Is
not
this
comfort
indeed
to
believers
,
that
have
such
a
Beloved
in
Heaven
,
that
is
altogether
lovely
?
'T
is
wonderful
reviving
when
a
Person
can
see
some
excellency
he
is
related
to
beyond
what
is
in
himself
:
What
comfort
will
a
Mother
take
in
a
beautiful
Child
,
though
her self
be
deformed
?
What
delight
will
the
faithful
Wife
take
in
the
excellencies
of
her
Husband
,
and
glory
in
them
as
her
own
:
Such
pleasure
doth
the
Spouse
take
in
the
beauty
of
Christ
.
Cant.
5.
10.
And
reckons
them
as
her
comliness
though
she
was
black
.
Cant.
1.
5.
I
am
black
but
comely
:
What
consolation
is
this
to
a
child
of
God
to
be
intitled
to
such
a
glorious
Jesus
?
Though
thou
art
poor
yet
thy
beloved
is
rich
:
Though
thou
art
unlovely
he
is
fair
,
though
thou
art
obscure
and
vile
,
yet
he
is
honourable
;
and
his
riches
,
beauty
,
and
honour
are
thine
;
and
thy
reputation
with
God
,
Saints
,
and
Angels
shall
be
in
him
,
and
as
he
is
.
Cant.
6.
10.
Who
is
she
that
looketh
forth
as
the
morning
,
fair
as
the
Moon
,
clear
as
the
Sun
.
The
Lord
Jesus
hath
a
high
account
of
the
Spouses
beauty
;
she
is
bright
,
fair
,
clear
,
but
it
is
as
the
Morning
,
or
Moon
,
who
borrow
their
beauty
from
the
Sun
:
Comfort
thy
Heart
,
O
drooping
Believer
,
though
thou
canst
see
no
worth
in
thy self
,
yet
thou
hast
enough
in
Christ
for
thee
.
Again
,
what
wonderful
Comfort
may
a
Child
of
God
gather
from
a
seen
Title
to
all
the
purchase
of
Christ
,
his
Righteousness
,
Graces
,
Priviledges
,
sure
Covenant
,
and
Salvation
,
when
he
can
upon
warrantable
grounds
lay
claim
to
all
this
?
but
so
the
Believer
may
,
1
Cor.
1.
30.
Secondly
,
The
time
is
drawing
near
when
they
shall
have
a
full
possession
of
all
those
treasures
of
Christ
,
Rev.
21.
7.
He
that
overcometh
shall
inherit
all
things
:
All
those
great
and
glorious
things
promised
shall
be
his
possession
,
God
shall
be
all
in
all
to
him
,
1
Cor.
15.
28.
Every
tittle
of
his
word
shall
be
fulfilled
,
though
Heaven
and
Earth
pass
away
,
Math.
5.
18.
Here
Believers
are
rich
Heirs
under
age
,
which
differ
nothing
from
a
Servant
,
Gal.
4.
1.
but
the
day
hastens
when
their
great
Estate
will
fall
into
their
hands
,
and
they
shall
live
upon
it
to
all
Eternity
;
the
expectation
of
which
is
cause
of
comfort
;
when
veils
shall
be
taken
away
,
and
thy
soul
ever
with
the
Lord
;
when
thy
filthy
Garments
shall
be
taken
off
,
and
thy
beautiful
rayment
for
ever
worn
;
when
thou
shalt
live
no
more
at
small
allowances
of
Grace
,
but
receive
it
without
measure
;
thy
Table
spread
,
thy
Cup
overflow
;
thy
feeding
shall
be
no
more
on
sent
portions
from
thy
Fathers
Table
,
but
shalt
sit
down
in
his
presence
,
and
feast
upon
his
fulness
to
all
Eternity
:
Then
shall
all
promises
be
turned
into
performances
;
all
hopes
shall
end
in
fruition
,
and
all
desires
center
in
delights
,
then
shall
parts
be
turned
into
perfections
,
darkness
into
delight
,
changes
into
immutabilities
,
fears
into
joyes
;
wants
into
fulness
;
absence
into
presence
:
O
blessed
Eternity
!
When
the
Lord
shall
bring
forth
all
his
Treasures
,
open
his
Ward-robe
,
and
and
pay
off
every
saved
Soul
with
an
infinite
fulness
as
much
as
he
can
receive
,
or
desire
to
have
,
treasures
of
love
in
God
the
Father
,
Son
,
and
Spirit
;
rivers
of
joy
in
the
presence
of
God
;
and
fulness
of
grace
in
conformity
to
God
.
Things
which
eye
cannot
see
,
nor
ear
hear
,
nor
the
heart
of
man
conceiue
.
1
Cor.
2.
9.
And
is
not
a
cerainty
of
these
future
treasures
ground
enough
for
present
comfort
.
Thirdly
,
from
an
interest
in
this
rich
Jesus
,
here
's
comfort
to
Saints
under
all
their
present
wants
whether
outward
or
inward
:
In
that
.
First
,
There
's
enough
in
Christ
to
supply
them
:
In
him
dwells
the
fulness
of
the
God-head
,
Col.
2.
9.
Thy
wants
Believer
are
but
finite
,
be
they
never
so
great
;
but
Christs
fulness
is
infinite
:
Thy
necessities
are
the
needs
of
a
Creature
,
his
abilitie
is
the
power
of
a
Creator
:
The
Lord
Jesus
Christ
can
more
easily
supply
thy
need
,
then
a
whole
Ocean
can
fill
one
pitcher
;
for
betwixt
the
Creatures
there
is
some
proportion
,
but
betwixt
God
and
the
Creature
none
at
all
.
Secondly
,
As
there
is
enough
in
Christ
to
fill
all
thy
wants
;
so
all
the
fulness
that
is
in
Christ
is
thy
own
,
Believer
,
laid
up
in
Christ
for
thee
,
made
over
to
thee
,
1
Cor.
1.
30.
Deus
mens
&
omnia
mea
.
And
therefore
mayest
boldly
expect
supplies
according
to
the
measure
of
Christ
,
1
Cor.
12.
11.
Dividing
to
every
man
severally
as
he
will
.
Thou
mayest
as
boldly
go
to
the
treasury
of
Christ
,
as
a
man
doth
to
his
Purse
for
money
,
or
to
his
Cupboard
for
Bread
,
and
as
a
Child
doth
to
his
Father
for
necessary
supplies
,
Math.
6.
32.
Lastly
,
The
Lord
Jesus
Christ
stands
engaged
to
see
the
wants
of
his
people
supplied
,
Ps.
34.
20.
They
that
fear
the
Lord
shall
want
no
good
thing
,
Phil.
4.
19.
So
that
thou
mayst
boldly
say
the
Lord
is
my
helper
,
Heb.
13.
6.
Dost
thou
want
Food
,
Rayment
,
Health
,
&c.
for
thy
Body
,
or
dost
thou
want
Grace
,
Wisdom
,
Faith
,
Love
,
Humility
,
Patience
,
Courage
,
Self-denial
,
Power
over
Corruptions
,
Succour
under
thy
temptations
,
victory
over
thy
lust
;
thou
mayst
go
to
Christ
with
expectations
of
all
that
God
sees
best
for
thee
:
seeing
there
are
such
treasures
of
all
Grace
plac'd
and
entrusted
in
Christ
for
thee
.
Fourthly
,
Comfort
under
all
your
losses
for
Christ
;
surely
if
Christ
be
yours
,
and
such
vast
treasures
are
in
him
,
he
will
not
see
you
losers
for
his
sake
;
he
can
and
will
save
you
harmless
;
nay
,
requite
your
expensive
love
for
him
:
all
that
strength
of
affection
,
liberty
,
time
,
talents
(
Christians
)
you
lay
out
for
him
,
shall
be
given
in
again
:
Jesus
Christ
is
that
good
Samaritane
,
who
hath
past
his
word
to
repay
again
whatever
is
laid
out
for
him
,
or
upon
his
,
at
his
bidding
,
Luke
10.
35.
If
a
tender
hearted
Paul
would
take
the
offences
of
an
Onesimus
on
his
account
,
Philemon
ver
.
18.
Much
more
will
Christ
take
the
expences
for
him
on
his
account
and
repay
it
a
hundred
fold
in
this
life
,
with
Glory
in
that
which
is
to
come
,
Math.
19.
29.
Lastly
,
Comfort
under
all
your
reproaches
for
Christ
:
'T
is
the
lot
of
gracious
Souls
many
times
to
be
accounted
vile
,
and
the
off-scouring
of
all
things
by
the
men
of
this
world
,
1
Cor.
4.
13.
so
ver.
10.
We
are
Fools
for
Christs
sake
,
and
despised
:
'T
is
part
of
the
Cross
of
Christ
to
be
reproach'd
for
his
sake
,
1
Pet.
4.
14.
But
here
's
Comfort
in
such
a
case
in
the
consideration
of
those
treasures
of
Christ
:
Christians
,
your
relation
to
such
a
Jesus
who
is
the
Heir
of
glory
will
wipe
off
all
your
disgrace
:
Think
on
that
account
you
have
with
God
,
and
the
glory
you
shall
shortly
have
in
your
own
Countrey
,
and
that
will
ballance
all
troubles
on
the
account
of
disgrace
for
Christ
.
CHAP.
XXIX
.
Containing
an
use
of
Examination
;
Characters
of
such
as
have
an
interest
in
Christ
,
and
in
all
those
glorious
treasures
.
CHristians
;
you
that
have
hopes
of
an
Interest
in
these
treasures
of
Christ
:
clear
up
your
title
:
Be
sure
your
claim
be
good
:
Rest
not
till
you
can
have
your
evidences
of
Christ
past
dispute
,
to
make
the
matter
plain
and
certain
to
you
;
that
you
are
Christs
,
and
Christ
is
yours
:
Adventure
not
at
all
your
hopes
of
such
great
and
glorious
things
upon
uncertainties
:
if
you
miss
and
fail
in
your
propriety
to
this
Estate
,
you
are
undone
for
ever
:
There
's
no
repairing
the
loss
of
Christ
when
you
come
to
dye
:
All
your
after-wit
cannot
mend
this
bad
bargain
when
time
is
past
:
If
you
build
upon
the
sand
,
till
the
building
time
be
over
,
you
will
have
an
Eternitie
to
repent
your
folly
:
there
's
no
room
for
another
adventure
when
the
door
of
Heaven
is
shut
:
If
you
have
too
carelesly
,
and
groundlesly
laid
your
hopes
of
Christ
,
and
Glorie
,
and
and
so
are
secure
till
the
time
be
past
,
you
can
no
more
make
tryal
of
a
better
building
:
O
how
great
will
the
fa●l
of
mistaken
hopes
be
at
last
;
when
the
Hypocrite
shall
say
too
late
,
wo
is
me
,
I
am
deceived
!
all
my
hopes
for
Heaven
have
Proved
a
Lye
;
I
did
suppose
my
title
was
good
,
and
others
thought
so
too
:
I
could
tell
of
Experiences
,
and
dreamt
of
closing
with
Christ
;
I
have
had
my
Convictions
,
Desires
,
Tastes
,
Affections
,
Parts
,
Priviledges
,
and
high
hopes
of
Glory
:
But
alas
,
now
I
see
my
building
is
upon
the
sand
;
wo
to
me
,
all
must
down
again
!
I
have
run
in
vain
,
and
now
I
must
sit
down
in
sorrow
to
all
eternity
.
O
lamentable
!
when
time
is
gone
to
come
to
such
a
pass
:
And
surely
this
will
be
thy
case
whoever
thou
art
that
hast
not
sure
grounds
of
thy
interest
in
Christ
:
Therefore
,
Christians
,
take
not
up
upon
probable
hopes
,
but
put
it
out
of
doubt
that
Christ
is
yours
,
and
this
state
is
yours
.
Quest.
But
,
saies
the
Soul
,
I
confess
it
will
be
sad
and
doleful
to
hear
of
these
excellent
treasures
,
and
miss
of
all
at
last
:
But
how
might
I
do
to
be
satisfied
in
this
matter
,
to
know
that
Christ
is
mine
,
and
his
Riches
mine
?
For
the
resolution
of
this
Case
I
shall
speak
to
four
things
.
-
1.
How
and
in
what
manner
a
title
to
Christ
and
those
glorious
treasures
are
to
be
obtained
.
-
2.
Who
they
are
that
do
obtain
them
.
-
3.
What
is
requisite
towards
the
obtaining
of
them
.
-
4.
What
are
the
certain
and
specifical
fruits
and
effects
of
such
an
obtaining
.
1.
How
or
in
what
manner
may
the
soul
come
to
have
a
Right
to
Christ
?
Answ.
There
are
three
usual
ways
by
which
persons
obtain
a
Title
to
a
thing
:
1.
By
Birth
2.
By
Purchase
,
3.
By
Gift
.
First
,
By
Birth
:
On
this
a
natural
Relation
is
founded
:
A
Child
comes
to
have
a
right
to
his
Fathers
Inheritance
by
Birth
.
This
way
the
Blessing
and
Birth-right
fell
to
the
First-born
:
So
Esau
had
his
Title
to
the
Birth-right
and
Blessing
could
he
have
kept
it
,
Gen.
27.
32.
So
Manasseh
had
a
right
to
the
Blessing
,
because
he
was
the
First-born
,
Gen.
48.
18.
Secondly
,
Another
way
of
obtaining
a
Title
to
a
thing
is
by
Purchase
:
So
Jeremiah
bought
a
Field
,
Jer.
32.
25
,
Thus
men
get
a
Title
to
Estates
by
Purchase
,
when
they
part
with
a
considerable
value
for
them
.
Thirdly
,
Another
way
of
Right
to
a
thing
is
by
Gift
and
Adoption
:
So
Jacob
came
to
an
Estate
in
the
Land
of
Goshen
,
and
Joseph
to
the
Government
of
Egypt
,
and
Moses
the
Son-in-Law
to
Pharaoh
,
by
gift
and
Adoption
:
These
are
the
three
usual
ways
by
which
an
interest
is
obtained
.
By
the
first
of
these
man
can
lay
no
claim
to
an
interest
in
Christ
:
By
Birth
we
are
Children
of
wrath
,
Eph.
2.
3.
By
Purchase
man
can
never
get
a
claim
to
Christ
:
There
's
no
buying
this
Pearl
of
price
.
Therefore
a
Title
to
Christ
must
come
the
last
way
,
by
Gift
.
Faln
man
having
lost
his
first
Estate
,
with
all
right
to
life
,
and
capacity
to
regain
it
,
by
fulfilling
the
terms
in
order
to
it
,
it
must
needs
follow
,
that
now
if
ever
he
obtain
life
again
it
must
be
on
a
new
account
,
even
of
Grace
.
The
breach
of
the
first
Covenant
forfeited
all
,
and
bound
over
the
Offender
to
death
and
damnation
,
till
which
penalty
be
removed
(
which
lost
man
could
never
do
)
there
cannot
possibly
be
any
purchase
made
of
new
life
and
Salvation
.
Rom.
5.
12.
Sin
hath
passed
over
all
men
,
and
Death
by
Sin
for
that
all
Men
have
sinned
,
and
by
this
fall
all
power
of
doing
good
is
lost
.
Rom
,
7.
18.
So
that
now
of
necessity
there
must
be
a
change
of
the
first
term
on
which
life
was
to
be
had
,
there
being
no
possibility
in
lost
man
to
fulfill
them
,
and
if
ever
Salvation
comes
it
must
be
by
grace
Eph.
2.
7.
and
gift
:
The
new
Covenant
gives
out
all
his
mercies
freely
,
Rev.
21.
7.
There
's
no
place
for
creature
worth
and
merit
in
order
to
Salvation
under
the
Gospel
;
he
that
will
be
saved
must
accept
it
as
a
gift
:
That
's
the
first
,
the
way
of
obtaining
Christ
:
He
is
the
Fathers
gift
,
and
his
own
gift
.
Gal.
2.
20.
God
gives
Christ
to
whom
he
pleaseth
,
not
for
any
distinguishing
worth
in
the
Creature
,
but
from
the
good
pleasure
of
his
will
.
Eph.
1.
11.
2.
Who
are
they
that
obtain
Christ
,
and
Salvation
by
him
?
Answ.
It
is
they
that
come
to
,
and
receive
Christ
by
Faith
.
Joh.
1.
12.
To
as
many
as
received
him
to
them
gave
he
power
to
become
the
Sons
of
God
:
Christ
is
offerd
in
the
Gospel
by
grace
,
and
is
received
by
faith
,
the
acceptance
as
offer'd
of
God
is
that
which
interests
the
Soul
in
him
;
This
is
called
a
comming
to
Christ
,
Mat.
11.
28.
A
letting
Christ
into
the
heart
,
Eph.
3.
17.
A
believing
in
him
,
1
Joh.
5.
10.
He
that
believes
in
the
Son
of
God
hath
the
witness
in
himself
:
That
is
the
witness
of
right
to
Christ
and
life
.
ver.
11.
And
this
is
the
record
God
hath
given
us
,
Life
Eternall
;
and
all
this
in
his
Son
:
For
where
a
gift
is
freely
tendred
to
all
that
will
receive
it
,
there
needs
nothing
to
make
that
Person
fit
for
that
gift
,
but
accepting
the
offer
as
tenderd
to
him
:
Neither
doth
this
acceptance
make
a
Person
worthy
of
the
gift
,
but
fulfills
the
terms
in
order
to
an
Interest
in
it
:
If
a
sum
of
money
be
offered
to
a
poor
man
,
and
he
is
called
to
receive
it
,
this
receiving
doth
not
merit
it
,
but
appropriate
it
:
So
that
the
Persons
to
whom
Christ
is
tenderd
is
to
sinners
,
to
all
sinners
,
to
the
chiefest
of
Sinners
.
1
Tim.
1.
15.
And
to
every
one
of
them
,
Isa.
55.
1.
Ioh.
7.
37.
And
the
terms
on
which
he
is
held
out
is
freel●
without
money
,
and
without
price
,
and
nothing
is
required
to
entitle
them
to
this
glorious
gift
,
but
their
receiving
it
as
tendred
.
3.
What
is
necessary
to
the
obtaining
of
Christ
,
and
and
so
of
those
glorious
Treasures
in
him
?
Without
which
Persons
cannot
,
will
not
,
come
to
him
?
Answ.
There
are
prerequisites
to
the
Souls
obtaining
of
Christ
:
Though
they
do
not
merit
Christ
,
yet
are
necessary
to
the
receiving
of
him
.
First
,
That
the
Sinner
be
brought
to
see
his
absolute
need
of
Christ
,
and
his
everlasting
undoneness
without
him
:
This
course
the
Spirit
of
God
took
with
Laodicea
.
Rev.
3.
17.
And
with
those
Jews
,
Acts
2.
23
,
36.
Opens
to
them
their
cursed
damning
Sin
,
and
wretched
state
by
reason
of
sin
,
that
their
hearts
might
be
pricked
and
wounded
.
So
the
Jaylour
was
this
way
prepared
for
Christ
.
Acts
16.
30.
He
was
made
to
see
his
doleful
state
.
Thus
the
Law
is
School-Master
to
bring
to
Christ
.
Gal
3.
24.
To
beat
and
wound
the
sinner
that
he
may
see
his
need
of
a
healing
Jesus
:
Thus
the
Spirit
is
promised
to
convince
the
World
of
sin
,
Righteousness
,
and
Judgment
.
Joh.
16.
8.
And
so
did
God
deal
with
the
unconverted
under
the
Gospel
.
1
Cor.
14.
25.
Secondly
,
Another
requisit
to
the
Souls
getting
this
title
to
Christ
is
this
,
that
there
be
a
knowledge
of
the
Lord
Jesus
Christ
;
his
sutableness
and
sufficiency
to
save
,
his
grace
,
and
real
willingness
to
heal
,
and
cure
all
that
come
to
him
,
Heb.
11.
6.
hence
,
Eternal
Life
is
said
to
lie
in
the
knowledge
of
Christ
,
Joh.
17.
3.
that
is
,
in
the
knowledge
of
his
sufficiencie
,
and
willingness
to
save
:
therefore
when
Paul
came
to
obtain
Christ
in
order
to
it
,
says
he
:
It
pleased
God
to
reveal
his
Son
in
me
,
Gal.
1.
15
,
16.
True
faith
carries
knowledge
with
it
:
Faith
is
not
hoodwinkt
and
blind
,
but
hath
his
discerning
:
By
faith
we
come
to
understand
:
hence
the
Gospel
is
to
be
preached
to
every
Creature
;
what
is
the
Gospel
but
the
opening
of
Jesus
Christ
,
his
sufficiencie
,
and
willingness
to
save
sinners
;
while
persons
lie
in
a
state
of
ignorance
,
they
cannot
come
to
have
a
true
title
to
Jesus
Christ
.
Thirdly
,
'T
is
necessary
that
the
Soul
see
the
worth
and
excellency
of
Christ
to
satisfie
:
That
were
there
no
Heaven
at
the
end
;
yet
Christ
himself
were
Heaven
enough
:
So
Paul
saw
an
excellencie
in
Christ
,
Phil.
3.
8.
And
the
Apostles
also
,
Joh.
1.
14.
The
Soul
that
comes
to
Christ
,
must
see
him
to
be
the
chiefest
of
ten
thousand
;
the
onely
desirable
one
,
none
in
Heaven
but
Christ
,
and
none
in
Earth
in
comparison
of
him
,
Psa.
73.
25
,
He
that
only
eyes
Salvation
in
comming
to
Christ
,
takes
him
upon
necessity
,
not
upon
choice
.
Fourthly
,
Another
requisite
to
this
comming
to
Christ
is
that
the
Soul
be
brought
to
a
real
and
actual
willigness
to
part
with
all
for
him
;
yea
,
to
a
throwing
all
over
board
to
take
him
in
,
Phil.
3.
8.
For
whom
I
have
suffered
the
loss
of
all
things
,
and
do
count
them
dung
to
win
Chrisi
.
It
was
no
small
sum
these
Converts
parted
with
before
they
could
close
with
Christ
,
Acts.
19.
19.
They
brought
their
Books
,
and
burned
them
,
and
counted
the
price
,
and
found
it
fifty
thousand
pieces
of
Silver
;
which
amounts
in
our
money
,
to
one
thousand
,
five
hundred
,
sixty
and
two
pounds
,
and
ten
shillings
:
hence
't
is
said
,
That
he
that
will
be
saved
must
pluck
out
his
right
Eye
,
and
cut
off
his
right
Hand
Math.
5.
29
,
30.
And
the
want
of
which
made
the
Young
man
go
away
from
Christ
sorrowful
.
Fifthly
,
In
order
to
a
closing
with
Christ
't
is
necessary
that
the
Soul
see
an
utter
poverty
,
and
inability
in
himself
ever
to
come
to
Christ
without
Christ
:
Draw
me
,
and
we
will
run
after
thee
,
Cant.
1.
4.
No
man
cometh
to
me
(
says
Christ
)
except
the
Father
,
which
sent
me
,
draw
him
,
Joh.
6.
44.
They
must
see
themselves
poor
,
that
come
for
satisfaction
in
Christ
,
Isa.
41.
17.
Thou
must
deny
thy
own
Abilities
,
and
Rigteousness
,
and
see
thy self
utterly
unable
,
so
much
as
to
look
to
Christ
,
till
he
give
an
Eye
,
Math.
11.
5.
Lastly
,
The
Soul
must
be
brought
to
close
with
all
the
terms
of
the
Gospel
propos'd
to
him
,
and
made
heartily
willing
to
take
Christ
on
his
own
conditions
,
Math.
16.
14.
A
person
is
never
fit
for
Christ
till
he
can
give
him
a
blank
,
and
bid
him
write
his
own
terms
,
unfeignedly
saying
,
Lord
command
me
any
thing
;
I
stick
at
no
proposals
,
so
I
may
be
thine
,
he
that
would
fain
beat
down
the
bargain
shall
never
have
Christ
,
Isa.
44.
5.
now
to
such
a
reception
of
Christ
't
is
needful
that
things
be
plainly
opened
,
and
all
the
demands
of
Christ
be
known
,
and
considered
,
Luk.
14.
28.
So
that
there
may
be
a
known
and
hearty
consent
to
Christ
,
and
a
full
compliance
with
all
his
conditions
.
4.
What
are
the
certain
fruits
,
and
effects
of
the
Souls
obtaining
Christ
?
Ans.
First
,
That
Soul
that
hath
an
interest
in
Christ
is
a
new
Creature
,
2
Cor.
5.
17.
If
any
man
be
in
Christ
he
is
a
new
Creature
;
old
things
are
past
away
,
all
things
are
become
new
.
As
the
Lord
Christ
when
he
was
crucifi'd
,
was
laid
in
a
new
Tomb
;
so
when
he
is
received
he
must
be
lodged
in
a
new
heart
:
In
redemption
work
all
things
are
new
:
there
's
a
new
Covenant
,
Heb.
8.
8.
A
new
Mediatour
;
the
first
Covenant
had
none
,
Heb.
9.
15.
Souls
are
now
brought
into
a
new
state
,
of
new
and
glorious
Priviledges
:
They
were
dead
,
but
now
are
made
alive
,
Eph.
2.
1.
There
's
a
new
Law
also
,
the
Law
of
the
Gospel
,
called
the
Law
of
the
Spirit
of
life
,
Rom.
8.
2.
Therefore
't
is
necessarie
that
the
Soul
be
renewed
also
;
this
is
promis'd
under
the
Gospel
,
Isa.
65.
17.
Behold
I
create
new
Heavens
,
and
a
new
Earth
wherein
dwelleth
Righteousness
,
so
2
Pet.
3.
13.
there
will
be
a
wonderful
change
wrought
in
that
Person
above
what
flesh
and
blood
can
do
,
an
inward
change
a
new
heart
,
and
a
new
Spirit
,
Ezek.
36.
26.
new
desires
,
Ps.
63.
1.
Before
the
Soul
did
long
after
the
world
,
pleasures
,
vanities
;
but
now
,
My
Soul
breaks
for
the
longing
it
hath
to
thy
Judgments
at
all
times
,
Ps.
119.
20.
Ps.
42.
1
,
2.
New
affections
to
God
,
Ps.
116.
1.
new
love
to
Christ
,
1
Cor.
16.
22.
new
love
to
the
Law
of
God
,
Ps.
119.
97
,
127.
new
love
to
the
people
of
God
,
1
Joh.
3.
14.
new
love
to
the
name
and
glory
of
God
,
Ps.
26.
12.
Psa.
145.
15.
new
affections
for
the
Cross
of
Christ
,
and
reproach
for
his
name
,
Gal.
2.
14.
Heb.
11.
26.
a
new
will
to
loath
sin
and
cleave
to
God
and
Holiness
,
Rom.
7.
19
▪
Act.
11.
23.
a
new
Conscience
,
Heb.
10.
27.
2
Tim.
1.
3.
and
they
have
a
new
Convesation
,
Rom:
6.
4.
Eph.
2.
10.
Phil.
1.
27.
They
will
walk
in
newness
of
the
Spirit
,
Rom.
6.
4.
They
are
created
to
good
works
to
walk
in
them
,
Eph.
2.
10.
At
least
,
they
design
it
,
though
they
fall
short
of
it
.
Thus
a
Soul
that
is
come
to
Christ
is
a
new
Creature
.
That
Soul
that
hath
no
renewings
in
him
,
that
hath
the
same
Spirit
,
desires
,
affections
,
will
,
conscience
,
that
ever
he
had
,
cannot
prove
his
interest
in
Christ
.
Secondly
,
Tha●
Soul
that
hath
received
Christ
hath
received
the
Spirit
of
Christ
,
Rom.
8.
9.
If
any
man
hath
not
the
Spirit
of
Christ
,
he
is
none
of
his
,
1
Cor.
12.
13.
for
by
one
Spirit
we
are
all
baptiz'd
into
one
Body
.
None
can
receive
the
Son
,
but
he
must
have
the
Spirit
too
;
for
Christ
is
not
divided
:
He
that
hath
Christ
,
hath
the
Father
and
the
Spirit
,
for
these
three
are
one
.
Now
a
Soul
that
hath
the
Spirit
of
Christ
may
know
it
by
the
effects
of
it
:
The
Spirit
of
Christ
is
a
quickening
Spirit
,
it
begets
a
principle
of
Life
:
The
Soul
that
was
dead
to
God
,
and
holiness
;
now
hath
a
new
life
,
a
heart
to
move
after
God
:
it
works
from
other
motives
,
even
from
love
to
God
:
Dost
thou
find
thy
heart
always
dead
to
every
act
of
Grace
?
No
heart
to
pray
,
hear
,
&c.
and
is
this
habitual
?
O
then
here
's
no
fruit
of
Christs
Spirit
.
The
Spirit
of
Christ
is
a
sin-opposing
spirit
,
always
quarrelling
with
Lust
;
always
convincing
,
troubling
,
humbling
the
Soul
for
sin
,
Gal.
5.
17.
Tit.
2.
11
,
12.
It
gives
no
peaceable
possession
to
it
,
but
always
opposes
it
as
fire
doth
water
:
Where
the
Spirit
of
Christ
is
,
't
is
a
leading
guiding
Spirit
,
Rom.
8.
14.
Christians
,
what
is
it
leads
you
?
Is
it
your
own
Spirits
?
if
you
have
received
the
Spirit
of
God
,
you
may
know
it
by
those
Scripture
ways
it
takes
to
put
you
upon
duty
:
such
a
one
is
co●vinced
by
the
word
,
and
perswaded
,
and
help'd
by
the
word
to
this
and
the
other
duty
.
Again
,
The
Spirit
of
Christ
is
a
praying
Spirit
:
A
Soul
that
is
in
Christ
cannot
live
without
prayer
;
though
no
eye
see
it
,
and
no
good
come
by
it
,
yet
he
cannot
omit
secret
prayer
,
Zach.
12.
10.
Rom.
8.
15.
'T
is
not
enlargement
of
affections
,
parts
,
abilities
,
and
expressions
in
prayer
;
but
the
inditings
of
the
Spirit
;
inward
breathings
,
sighs
and
groans
of
the
Spirit
:
A
man
may
pray
like
a
Saint
,
or
an
Angel
,
and
yet
not
have
a
jot
of
the
Spirit
of
prayer
:
but
it
is
the
encouragement
of
the
Spirit
to
wrestle
with
God
by
Christ
;
the
inward
suggestions
of
hope
,
when
a
Soul
can
go
to
God
as
to
a
Father
,
when
the
very
heart
goes
out
to
God
in
prayer
,
and
when
prayer
is
wing'd
with
Faith
and
Love
:
These
are
the
effects
of
a
Spirit
of
prayer
,
and
the
fruit
of
a
Souls
reception
of
Christ
.
Thirdly
,
They
that
have
obtain'd
an
interest
in
Christ
,
have
crucified
the
flesh
with
the
lusts
there
of
,
Gal.
5.
24.
They
,
and
only
they
that
are
in
Christ
have
crucified
the
flesh
;
that
is
,
the
body
of
death
,
original
sin
:
The
general
Nature
of
sin
;
the
universal
extents
of
sin
;
come
under
the
workings
of
this
Crucifixtion
:
O
try
Souls
;
●ath
the
Axe
been
ever
laid
to
the
root
of
sin
?
Have
you
ever
found
felling
stroaks
upon
the
bodie
of
your
Corruptions
,
are
you
baptiz'd
into
the
death
of
Christ
,
and
as
he
died
for
sin
,
so
do
you
die
to
sin
;
and
by
vertue
of
his
death
,
and
wounds
,
do
you
fetch
power
,
and
strength
from
him
to
crucifie
it
?
There
's
a
difference
between
the
curbing
;
and
the
crucifying
of
sin
:
sin
may
be
chain'd
up
,
imprison'd
,
and
not
crucified
:
Hypocrites
that
are
under
a
seeming
change
,
do
restrain
,
and
confine
sin
;
yea
they
may
punish
sin
,
but
do
not
crucifie
it
:
The
crucifying
of
sin
is
the
giving
it
a
deadly
mortal
wound
,
fetch'd
from
the
blood
,
and
death
of
Christ
:
Faith
fetches
vertue
from
the
Grave
of
Christ
,
to
destroy
the
power
of
sin
,
nothing
so
mortally
stabs
this
Leviathan
as
a
believing
reflection
on
our
propriety
in
Christs
Crucifixtion
,
and
a
laying
hold
on
promises
by
Faith
in
order
to
the
application
of
the
benefit
of
a
crucified
Christ
,
Rom.
6.
4
,
6.
Our
old
man
is
crucified
with
him
:
The
putting
our
lusts
into
the
side
,
wounds
,
and
grave
of
Christ
;
A
levelling
the
Ax
to
the
body
of
sin
,
doth
strange
work
to
the
crucifying
of
it
.
Trie
then
are
your
corruptions
,
Pride
,
Passions
,
Earthliness
as
strong
as
ever
?
deceive
not
your selves
,
this
will
never
assure
your
interest
in
Christ
till
sin
be
destroyed
:
't
is
true
,
when
the
wound
is
given
,
sin
doth
not
immediately
die
,
but
the
bodie
of
sin
is
dying
,
and
the
believing
Soul
finds
his
corruptions
hath
less
strength
every
day
;
as
a
man
that
loseth
his
blood
weakens
more
and
more
;
so
a
Soul
that
crucifies
Lust
,
finds
it
to
weaken
day
by
day
.
Fourthly
,
Another
effect
of
a
Souls
union
with
Christ
is
this
:
There
will
be
some
resemblance
of
Christ
.
1
Joh.
4.
17.
As
he
is
so
are
we
in
this
World
.
As
Christ
was
Crucified
in
the
flesh
,
so
are
his
Crucified
to
the
flesh
:
And
as
Christ
was
risen
and
justified
in
the
Spirit
,
so
are
they
sanctified
by
the
Spirit
,
and
have
the
nature
,
and
Image
of
Christ
:
Hence
we
are
said
to
be
made
conformable
to
the
Image
of
his
Son
.
Rom.
8.
29.
They
that
are
Christ's
are
in
some
measure
of
truth
like
him
.
1
Joh.
3.
3.
They
have
something
of
Christ's
Nature
,
and
Spirit
:
Let
the
same
mind
be
in
you
that
was
in
Christ
Jesus
.
Phil.
2.
5.
Christ's
mind
was
off
from
,
and
above
the
World
;
and
herein
lies
as
great
an
evidence
of
interest
in
Christ
as
in
any
thing
,
that
Soul
is
dead
to
,
and
wonderfully
loose
from
the
World
.
Gal.
6.
14.
Christ's
mind
was
heavenly
,
he
favour'd
the
things
above
,
his
meat
,
and
drink
was
to
do
his
Fathers
will
,
If
you
are
Christ's
you
will
be
of
the
same
mind
;
nothing
in
the
World
will
so
much
delight
you
as
to
do
something
for
God
:
Christ's
mind
was
heavenly
,
to
do
his
work
,
and
hasten
home
;
and
if
you
are
Christ's
this
will
be
your
mind
to
dispatch
your
work
,
and
hasten
home
.
Christ
was
full
of
mercy
,
humility
,
meekness
:
If
you
are
interested
in
Christ
,
so
it
will
be
with
you
.
Lastly
,
They
that
are
interested
in
Christ
,
do
interest
Christ
in
themselves
,
and
in
all
that
is
theirs
,
2
Cor.
8.
5.
They
first
gave
themselves
to
the
Lord
:
Such
do
devote
,
and
make
over
themselves
,
and
all
to
Christ
,
and
glad
they
have
any
interest
,
parts
,
capacities
,
that
Christ
will
accept
of
;
they
cannot
keep
back
a
part
;
no
,
were
it
a
thousand
times
dearer
,
Christ
shall
have
all
,
Can.
6.
3.
I
am
my
Beloveds
,
and
my
Beloved
is
mine
:
The
keeping
back
of
part
lost
Ananias
,
and
Saphira
;
they
were
undone
,
and
damned
for
ever
,
Act.
5.
If
Christ
be
yours
;
you
will
entitle
him
to
all
you
are
and
have
.
And
thus
are
we
come
to
a
Conclusion
in
this
matter
:
That
Soul
that
can
come
to
seal
to
those
things
,
is
a
happy
Soul
:
O
blessed
Soul
indeed
!
Then
mayst
thou
boldly
say
,
The
Lord
is
my
helper
;
God
,
Christ
,
the
Spirit
,
the
Promises
the
Kingdom
,
and
glory
is
mine
.
Thus
much
for
the
use
of
Examination
.
CHAP.
XXX
.
Containing
a
Vse
of
Exhortion
,
pressing
Believers
to
several
duties
.
HAving
already
dispatch'd
Motives
,
Counsels
,
and
Directions
to
Sinners
,
about
their
coming
to
this
Christ
,
I
shall
only
apply
this
last
use
of
Exhortation
to
those
who
are
interested
in
this
rich
,
and
glorious
Jesus
.
Christians
,
you
that
are
made
happy
in
your
Relation
to
Christ
,
and
invested
with
a
Title
to
these
glorious
Treasures
,
of
all
persons
;
you
are
most
obliged
to
duty
;
Christians
,
be
you
advis'd
and
exhorted
to
these
several
duties
.
1
Duty
.
First
,
Be
exhorted
to
Thankfulness
to
the
rich
Grace
of
God
,
for
giving
such
a
Treasure
and
Treasury
as
Christ
is
;
be
continually
offering
up
Praises
and
Thansgivings
to
God
,
Flames
of
holy
Affection
,
be
admiring
the
Grace
of
God
,
as
the
Fountain
and
Spring
of
these
waters
of
Life
,
as
the
deep
Mine
of
those
glorious
Treasures
:
now
to
scrue
up
your
Affections
,
and
wind
up
your
Hearts
to
make
way
for
holy
Melody
,
admiring
,
triumphing
,
and
blessing
God
for
giving
Christ
,
consider
these
following
Particulars
,
as
motives
to
this
choice
duty
.
First
,
Consider
what
you
were
without
Christ
,
O!
Christians
,
look
back
,
and
see
what
once
you
were
,
Eph.
2.
11.
Remembring
that
in
times
past
,
you
were
Gentiles
in
the
Flesh
.
The
worst
of
men
,
an
idolatrous
sort
of
men
,
Worshippers
of
Devils
,
you
were
wild
Olives
,
Enemies
to
God
in
your
minds
,
Col.
1.
21.
hateful
,
and
hateing
one
another
,
Tit.
3.
3.
Lying
in
your
blood
to
the
loathing
of
your
persons
,
Ezek.
16.
4
,
5
,
6.
dead
in
Trespasses
and
Sins
,
wretched
,
miserable
,
poor
,
blind
,
naked
,
Rev.
3
,
17.
Children
of
Wrath
,
heirs
of
Hell
,
born
to
Wrath
,
Eph.
2.
1
,
2
,
3.
under
the
Curse
and
Condemnation
of
the
whole
Law
,
Gal.
3.
10.
O
lamentable
state
!
Obnoxious
to
Death
,
liable
to
everlasting
Destruction
,
every
moment
,
no
guard
about
you
,
open
to
Devils
,
liable
to
the
pourings
out
of
divine
Fury
,
and
the
openings
of
the
deep
Treasures
of
infinite
Vengeance
,
to
have
no
security
from
the
greatest
Evils
,
nor
capacity
ever
to
be
deliver'd
out
of
them
;
obnoxious
every
minute
to
a
fearful
looking
of
a
fiery
Wrath
and
Indignation
,
which
shall
devour
the
Adversary
,
Heb.
10.
27.
This
was
once
your
state
Believers
,
you
were
stubble
,
ready
for
everlasting
Burnings
,
Fuel
for
that
Fire
that
can
never
be
quenched
,
and
Food
for
the
Worm
that
never
dyeth
,
O!
sad
case
indeed
,
and
was
not
freedom
and
deliverance
from
such
a
state
,
a
Mercy
worth
your
highest
Thanks
?
Had
you
but
lookt
into
the
place
of
Torment
,
and
dipt
your
Finger
into
that
lake
of
Fire
and
Brimstone
,
you
would
have
wonder'd
at
Redemption-mercy
,
and
adored
that
Grace
of
God
that
pluckt
you
out
of
it
:
and
is
not
your
acknowledgment
of
preventing
Grace
,
as
due
now
as
it
would
have
been
to
an
actual
deliverance
out
of
these
Miseries
?
Secondly
,
Consider
what
you
are
by
Grace
,
if
you
are
related
to
Christ
,
you
are
brands
pluckt
out
of
the
Fire
,
Zach.
3.
2.
Bond-slaves
redeemed
from
the
Pit
,
Zach.
9.
11.
Condemned
Wretches
sav'd
from
Wrath
to
come
,
1
Thes.
1.
10.
Translated
from
Darkness
to
Light
,
and
from
the
Power
of
Satan
into
the
Kindgdom
of
God
,
Acts
26.
18.
Col.
1.
13.
Made
Sons
and
Daughters
to
God
,
called
to
his
Kingdom
and
Glory
,
1
Thes.
2.
12.
Gal.
4.
6.
Crown'd
and
invested
with
a
Right
to
his
Presence
and
most
glorious
Priviledges
,
Eph.
2.
18.
19.
Under
the
Eye
of
God
,
under
divine
Care
;
infinite
Grace
is
an
Undertaker
for
you
,
1
Pet.
5.
7.
O
glorious
State
!
Consider
further
,
how
you
lye
upon
the
Heart
of
God
,
as
a
Seal
and
Signet
there
,
Cant.
8.
6.
Reckoned
amongst
his
Jewels
accounted
his
peculiar
Treasure
,
Exod.
19.
5.
Mal.
3.
17.
Partakers
of
the
Inheritance
of
the
Saints
in
Light
,
Col.
1.
12.
Sitting
in
heavenly
places
in
Christ
Jesus
,
made
Vessels
,
●itted
for
Mercy
,
fill'd
with
Mercy
,
devoted
to
Mercy
,
Rom.
9.
23.
And
Heirs
of
Glory
,
Jam.
2.
5.
O
wonderful
,
wonderful
Grace
;
this
is
matter
of
Praises
to
God
to
all
Eternity
:
Time
would
fail
to
read
over
your
Inventory
,
and
to
look
through
your
Treasury
,
't
is
Work
for
an
Eternity
to
do
:
O
believe
what
you
cannot
see
,
and
admire
what
you
cannot
know
,
and
study
out
what
you
yet
understand
not
of
your
blessed
state
,
both
privatively
,
and
positively
consider'd
,
and
when
you
have
found
out
a
little
of
your
Happiness
,
then
look
on
those
beneath
you
,
put
your
Mercies
into
the
scale
with
the
World's
Miseries
,
rate
your
Redemption-interest
with
the
lot
of
Christless
Souls
,
matter
of
the
same
Lump
with
you
,
think
on
your
Acquaintance
,
Friends
,
Relations
,
Neighbours
,
that
have
enjoyed
the
same
Gospel-Priviledges
with
you
,
and
yet
these
are
left
to
their
Blindness
,
to
perish
in
the
Error
of
their
ways
,
and
must
down
into
the
deep
for
ever
,
but
you
are
exalted
,
and
lifted
up
to
Glory
.
O!
What
cause
is
here
for
Praises
blessings
,
Thansgivings
,
and
Hallejuahs
to
him
that
sits
upon
the
Throne
,
and
to
the
Lamb
for
evermore
.
Thirdly
,
Consider
the
greatness
of
that
Grace
which
hath
made
you
to
differ
;
Ah!
Believers
,
Redemption-grace
saw
nothing
more
in
you
than
in
Judas
,
Demas
,
and
those
that
perish
;
you
were
of
the
same
Lump
,
cut
out
of
the
same
piece
,
there
was
not
a
Jot
of
Difference
between
you
and
the
damned
,
but
only
the
good
pleasure
of
Grace
,
only
divine
Mercy
laid
it's
hand
upon
you
:
O
that
astonishing
word
,
because
it
pleased
him
to
make
you
his
people
,
1
Sam.
12.
22.
It
was
only
the
free
grace
of
God
that
chose
Jacob
,
and
left
Esau
,
Rom.
9.
13.
It
was
not
for
your
sakes
Christians
,
that
the
Lot
was
cast
so
well
for
you
:
No
,
Be
it
known
to
you
O
house
of
Israel
,
be
ashamed
and
confounded
for
ever
in
your
own
Eyes
,
Ezek.
36.
32.
The
moving
Cause
,
the
Wheel
within
the
Wheel
,
that
made
you
adopted
,
and
others
rejected
,
was
only
the
good
Pleasure
of
his
Will
,
Eph.
1.
5.
7.
It
was
from
hence
,
God
so
loved
the
World
,
out
of
this
Womb
sprung
all
your
Mercies
,
it
was
Height
of
Grace
,
Length
,
Breadth
,
Depth
,
Love
passing
Knowledge
,
Eph.
3.
18.
19.
O
ye
heirs
of
Glory
,
be
affected
,
astonished
,
ravished
with
the
sense
of
this
rich
grace
of
God
towards
you
,
in
giving
Christ
not
only
for
you
,
but
to
you
,
and
revealing
him
in
you
,
and
uniting
him
to
you
by
the
Spirit
,
from
the
same
Mass
of
fallen
man
,
to
single
out
some
for
pardon
,
and
leave
others
for
Punishment
:
O
wonderful
!
The
Sense
of
this
made
the
Apostle
break
out
in
such
a
holy
Extasie
,
Rom.
11.
33.
O
the
Depth
of
the
Riches
both
of
the
Wisdom
and
Knowledge
of
God
,
O
the
depth
!
A
note
of
Exclamation
,
and
silencing
wonder
.
O
consider
this
Love
of
God
to
your
Souls
,
't
is
free
Love
without
any
Influences
from
the
Creature
,
full
Love
without
Circumference
or
Bounds
,
eternal
Love
without
Beginning
and
without
end
.
Fruitful
Love
,
abounding
in
the
rich
Gifts
and
Procurements
of
it
,
O
the
Gifts
and
Tokens
God
sends
to
you
now
,
and
O
the
large
store
he
lays
up
for
ever
for
you
:
't
is
sympathyzing
Love
,
full
of
Bowels
,
delighting
Love
,
full
of
pleasure
in
you
,
't
is
resting
Love
:
He
will
rest
over
them
in
his
Love
;
't
is
immutable
Love
without
Changes
,
giving
Love
,
forgiving
Love
,
caring
Love
,
securing
Love
,
returning
Love
,
overcoming
Love
.
O!
where
shall
I
make
an
end
?
How
can
you
come
to
the
bottom
of
this
Deep
,
wade
a
little
further
,
till
you
have
lost
your selves
in
holy
wonder
:
Can
you
see
your
brave
houses
,
fine
Cloaths
,
comfortable
Relations
,
and
have
such
high
Regards
,
for
these
,
and
no
more
for
this
Grace
of
God
:
O
wonder
more
at
this
Love
.
Fourthly
,
Consider
how
this
is
the
great
Design
of
God
in
this
grace
,
that
you
should
be
to
his
praise
Eph.
1.
12.
That
is
the
end
which
God
aimed
at
in
Predistinating
you
to
Glory
,
that
you
might
be
to
the
Praise
of
his
grace
,
that
his
Grace
might
procure
the
Manifestation
of
his
Praise
;
't
is
not
for
an
Enlargement
of
his
Revenue
,
or
Advancement
of
his
Profit
;
for
man
cannot
be
profitable
to
God
,
Job
22.
22.
or
for
any
addition
to
his
Honour
being
above
all
Praise
,
but
that
he
might
receive
the
Tribute
of
his
own
Glory
,
and
the
returns
of
his
outgoing
Goodness
:
Now
if
this
be
the
very
end
why
God
sets
his
love
upon
you
Christians
,
then
you
have
reason
to
glorifie
his
Grace
,
lest
you
endeavour
to
overturn
the
whole
Proj●cts
of
Salvation-kindness
.
Fifthly
,
Think
how
delightful
Praise
is
to
God
,
Psal.
69.
31.
This
also
shall
please
the
Lord
better
than
an
Oxe
or
a
Bullock
that
hath
Horns
and
Hoofs
.
That
is
,
an
Adult
,
and
full
grown
Beast
,
which
is
more
fit
for
Sacrifice
;
as
Rabbi
D.
Kimohy
notes
,
a
Beast
was
not
fit
for
Sacrifice
under
two
years
old
;
so
that
Praise
is
preferred
here
above
all
Sacrifice
,
as
that
which
God
takes
most
delight
in
of
any
thing
,
because
this
doth
most
honour
him
to
acknowledge
him
the
Author
of
all
Mercy
,
and
God
of
all
Grace
,
Psal.
50.
23.
Whoso
offereth
Praise
,
glorifieth
me
,
That
is
,
He
doth
in
a
singular
manner
shew
forth
mine
Honour
,
and
this
is
pleasing
to
him
.
Sixthly
,
This
brings
Profit
to
your
own
Souls
,
Psal.
50.
23.
For
't
is
the
means
and
way
to
obtain
the
Salvation
of
God
;
Ponit
viam
aut
praeparat
viam
,
(
saith
one
)
it
opens
the
way
for
Salvation
to
go
out
to
that
Soul
;
this
duty
of
Praise
will
bring
you
Gain
,
because
it
engageth
God
to
give
out
more
Mercy
,
and
it
leaves
Influences
of
spiritual
Good
on
your
own
Souls
;
it
puts
the
heart
into
a
good
Frame
to
love
God
,
and
delight
in
him
,
and
leaves
more
obligedness
on
the
Soul
to
fear
and
serve
God
:
so
David
after
that
Psalm
of
Praise
to
God
,
2
Sam.
7.
was
wonderfully
influenced
to
duty
to
God
,
as
you
may
see
,
chap.
8.
11.
and
had
his
Spirit
abundantly
sweetned
to
men
,
chap.
9.
1.
Lastly
,
Consider
also
,
how
pleasant
this
duty
of
Praise
is
to
the
Soul
it self
,
it
is
wonderfully
delightful
,
and
abundantly
affects
,
and
ravishes
the
Heart
,
to
have
the
sense
of
divine
Mercy
in
it
,
Psal.
147.
1.
Praise
ye
the
Lord
,
for
it
is
pleasam
,
and
Praise
is
comely
.
O
Believers
!
let
me
effectually
perswade
you
then
to
the
highest
Acknowledgments
of
Redemption-grace
,
and
to
the
utmost
Praises
for
this
rich
Jesus
,
who
hath
blessed
you
with
all
spiritual
Blessings
,
Eph.
1.
3.
2
Duty
.
Secondly
,
You
that
have
an
Interest
in
this
glorious
Redeemer
,
labour
to
keep
up
a
high
valuation
of
him
in
your
Hearts
;
if
he
be
so
rich
as
the
Gospel
reports
of
him
,
O
then
prize
him
acoording
to
his
excellent
worth
:
Great
men
are
highly
esteemed
,
the
Cap
,
the
Knee
,
the
best
Room
,
the
chiefest
Seat
are
theirs
,
Jam.
3.
3.
And
how
much
more
worthy
is
Christ
of
your
account
,
1
Pet.
2.
7.
To
you
that
believe
he
is
precious
.
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
it
signifies
an
high
Estimation
of
anothers
Worth
and
Excellency
,
ready
to
be
attested
by
all
possible
and
due
Demonstrations
:
four
things
should
oblige
Believers
to
a
high
Esteem
of
Christ
.
First
,
His
own
transcendent
Excellency
which
singularly
resides
in
him
,
and
eminently
shines
out
from
him
,
ten
thousand
times
brighter
than
the
Beams
of
the
Sun
,
which
in
their
own
nature
challenge
the
highest
Adoration
of
men
and
Angels
,
especially
of
saved
Souls
,
to
whom
he
is
most
endeared
and
most
nearly
related
.
As
the
Apple-tree
excells
the
meanest
and
most
useless
Shrub
,
infinitely
more
doth
the
Lord
Jesus
over
top
all
the
Glory
of
the
world
as
Mediator
,
Cant.
2.
3.
He
is
the
chiefest
of
ten
thousands
,
Cant.
5.
10.
He
is
before
all
things
,
Col.
1.
17.
Both
in
dignity
and
time
,
he
precedes
all
Creatures
,
he
is
the
Fountain
of
all
Excellencies
;
his
divine
and
personal
Perfections
make
him
the
glory
of
Heaven
,
the
adoration
of
Angels
,
the
admiration
of
Saints
,
and
the
object
of
all
Observance
and
holy
Wonder
,
2
Thes.
1.
10.
Secondly
,
The
high
honour
the
Father
puts
upon
him
;
He
is
his
Well-beloved
,
Matth.
3.
17.
The
object
of
his
Delight
,
the
Exaltation
of
his
right-hand
,
who
hath
put
all
things
under
his
Feet
,
Heb.
2.
8.
Set
over
the
works
of
his
hands
,
crowned
with
Glory
and
Honour
,
vers.
7.
Worshipped
by
all
the
Angels
,
by
the
Fathers
Appointment
,
and
set
down
at
the
right
hand
of
the
Majesty
on
high
,
Heb.
1.
3.
6.
entrusted
with
all
the
Concerns
and
Interests
of
God
,
in
the
World
,
made
his
pleni-potentiary
,
to
compose
all
Differences
betwixt
himself
and
fall'n
man
:
now
,
hath
the
Father
such
a
high
Valuation
of
Christ
?
then
surely
't
is
an
unworthy
thing
in
you
,
to
detract
from
his
Honour
.
3dly
,
The
Lord
Jesus
Christ
deserves
your
high
Estimation
,
because
he
is
the
Fountain
of
all
those
Streams
that
do
make
glad
your
Souls
,
the
Sun
of
all
those
Beams
,
that
warm
your
Hearts
,
the
Author
of
all
those
Mercies
that
do
supply
and
delight
you
;
all
your
Excellencies
and
the
things
you
mostly
value
,
are
Derivations
from
his
glory
;
things
are
ratable
as
they
come
from
Christ
,
he
turns
your
Water
into
Wine
,
sweetens
your
bitter
Cups
,
and
makes
them
to
overflow
,
all
your
graces
come
from
his
Fullness
,
he
is
your
Friend
,
your
best
Friend
,
your
old
Friend
,
your
none-such
in
Heaven
and
Earth
,
Psal.
73.
25.
The
Procurer
of
all
your
Mercies
,
the
sweetness
of
all
your
Comforts
,
the
crown
of
all
your
Glory
,
and
doth
he
not
deserve
your
Estimation
?
If
he
hide
his
Face
all
Light
goes
with
him
,
if
he
suspends
the
Communications
of
his
Favour
,
nothing
is
comfortable
to
you
,
if
he
lock
up
his
Treasures
,
nothing
b●t
Poverty
and
wasting
covers
your
Souls
,
every
thing
without
him
is
nothing
,
and
with
him
,
any
little
thing
is
enough
;
Bread
and
Water
is
rich
cheer
with
Christ
,
Disgrace
and
Reproach
is
Honour
with
Christ
;
Poverty
is
Riches
with
Christ
;
O
prize
Christ
then
,
for
he
puts
a
worth
upon
all
things
that
you
can
enjoy
.
Fourthly
,
Consider
the
wonderful
value
the
Lord
Jesus
Christ
puts
upon
you
,
and
let
this
perswade
you
to
a
due
valuation
of
him
,
Gal.
2.
20.
Who
loved
me
,
and
gave
himself
for
me
,
Joh.
15.
16.
O
amazing
,
wonderful
,
sovereign
Grace
!
That
the
Son
of
God
should
set
his
highest
Regards
upon
loathsome
Dung
,
swept
out
of
door
by
divine
Justice
,
cast
out
into
the
open
Field
,
pityful
,
loathsome
,
undone
Creatures
,
that
he
should
account
you
(
Believers
)
as
the
Apple
of
his
Eye
,
who
have
been
as
Thorns
in
his
side
,
that
he
should
account
you
as
a
Seal
on
his
Heart
,
who
have
been
spears
to
pierce
through
his
Bowels
,
that
he
should
value
you
as
the
travel
of
his
Soul
,
the
Jewels
of
his
Crown
,
the
Inhabitants
of
his
glorious
Presence
to
all
Eternity
,
that
he
should
account
such
spotty
Worms
as
you
worthy
of
his
Love
,
his
Blood
,
and
his
Mediation
,
deserving
his
Bosom
,
his
Kingdom
and
his
Throne
:
O
what
strange
astonishing
Grace
is
this
!
and
will
you
prefer
Creatures
,
and
place
Relations
in
your
Bosom
,
and
let
Christ
lye
out
of
door
,
O
unworthy
act
indeed
!
Surely
he
deserves
your
highest
Estimation
,
O
prize
Christ
!
prize
Christ
!
value
him
.
First
,
Above
all
things
in
Heaven
and
Earth
,
count
nothing
like
him
,
much
less
above
him
;
set
him
in
the
uppermost
Seat
,
enthrone
him
in
your
Heart
;
Let
him
ride
in
that
Chariot
of
yours
that
is
pav'd
with
Love
;
Esteem
his
Person
above
all
Persons
,
his
Purchase
above
all
Purchase
:
his
Love
above
all
Affections
;
his
help
above
all
Assistance
:
Value
him
above
Father
,
Mother
,
Husband
,
Wife
,
Friends
,
Pleasures
,
Credit
,
Riches
,
or
whatever
is
dearest
to
you
:
Say
as
Moses
did
,
Who
is
like
to
thee
?
Exod.
15.
11.
Thy
Name
alone
is
excellent
,
thy
Glory
above
the
Heavens
.
Esteem
his
Precepts
above
all
the
Commands
of
men
;
His
Promises
,
his
Priviledges
,
his
Comforts
,
his
Ordinances
,
his
People
above
all
:
Christ
,
in
conjunction
with
other
things
,
accounts
himself
slighted
;
He
must
be
Aut
Caesar
,
aut
nullus
.
Secondly
,
Prize
Christ
in
all
;
in
all
Persons
and
things
,
make
him
the
Standard
to
measure
the
worth
of
all
created
Beings
by
;
Reckon
things
as
they
carry
Christ
in
them
:
when
Satan
or
Corruption
tempt
you
to
a
high
esteem
of
any
,
Ask
them
,
as
Christ
did
,
whose
Superscription
and
Image
they
bear
?
Matth.
22.
20.
As
the
Talent
of
the
Temple
was
of
greatest
value
,
so
let
thy
Account
be
of
those
things
that
have
the
Temple
stamp
upon
them
,
in
a
Sacred
Reflection
of
Jesus
Christ
.
Reckon
not
much
of
any
thing
that
hath
not
Aliquid
Christi
,
something
of
Christ
in
it
.
Thirdly
,
Prize
Christ
at
all
times
;
not
only
by
fits
and
starts
;
not
when
he
brings
thee
Loaves
,
and
loads
thee
with
his
Favours
onely
,
but
also
when
he
hides
his
Face
,
and
holds
his
Hand
,
when
he
seems
to
take
no
notice
of
thee
:
Let
Christ
be
thy
Sun
in
the
Day-time
;
let
him
be
thy
Diamond
in
the
Night
,
when
all
other
Lights
are
gone
,
and
shadows
of
Darkness
are
over
thee
;
let
him
be
alwayes
uppermost
in
thy
Account
;
Think
meanly
of
him
at
no
time
;
let
him
lye
between
thy
Breasts
,
to
satiate
thee
at
all
times
,
Cant.
1.
13.
3.
Duty
.
Thirdly
,
Believers
,
(
Have
all
your
expectations
from
Christ
,
Psal.
62.
5.
My
Soul
waiteth
only
upon
God
,
for
my
expectation
is
from
him
.
If
the
Lord
Jesus
be
so
rich
,
then
he
is
able
to
maintain
you
,
and
supply
all
your
wants
:
There
's
Bread
enough
in
his
house
to
feed
you
;
Light
enough
in
him
to
guide
you
;
Comfort
enough
to
cheer
you
:
Blood
enough
to
pardon
you
;
Righteousness
enough
to
justifie
you
:
Grace
enough
to
sanctifie
you
:
Strength
enough
to
bear
and
support
you
;
Treasures
enough
to
satisfie
and
requite
you
.
Hence
't
is
he
calls
his
People
to
look
to
him
,
and
be
saved
,
Isa.
45.
22.
And
on
this
Belief
the
Saints
resolved
to
wait
and
look
for
him
,
Isa.
8.
17.
O
Christians
!
expect
all
you
need
from
Christ
:
His
sufficiency
to
help
you
,
and
his
willingness
to
supply
you
,
are
Arguments
enough
for
your
Expectation
:
why
should
you
look
to
Creatures
more
than
to
the
Creator
?
to
the
Clay
,
more
than
to
the
Potter
?
to
broken
Pits
,
more
than
to
the
Fountain
?
to
the
Physician
,
more
than
unto
God
?
Is
there
not
a
God
in
Israel
?
why
then
are
your
eyes
,
Christians
,
after
empty
Cisterns
,
and
things
that
cannot
profit
you
?
Have
you
chosen
Christ
to
be
your
Rock
,
your
Fountain
,
Life
,
Sufficiency
,
and
Fulness
,
to
fill
all
in
all
;
and
yet
run
to
other
things
for
your
Relief
,
as
if
he
were
not
able
to
supply
you
?
O
Souls
!
fasten
your
eyes
on
Christ
;
expect
all
you
want
from
him
,
as
the
impotent
man
did
on
John
and
Peter
,
Acts
3.
5.
Look
not
so
much
on
Creatures
and
Relations
,
Friends
,
Riches
,
and
Wisdom
,
&c.
lest
you
be
ashamed
;
but
wait
for
the
Vision
,
for
it
will
speak
,
Hab.
2.
3.
Expect
all
you
need
from
Christ
,
for
the
expectation
of
the
poor
shall
not
perish
.
4.
Duty
.
Fourthly
,
Be
contented
with
Christ
alone
,
whatever
is
wanting
;
and
truly
,
't
is
strange
indeed
,
that
an
infinite
Portion
cannot
satisfie
a
finite
Being
,
and
a
whole
Ocean
fill
a
little
Vessel
;
Believer
,
Thou
hast
the
person
of
Christ
,
who
is
the
wonder
of
Angels
,
the
Satisfaction
,
and
the
Heaven
of
glorified
Saints
,
the
desire
of
all
Nations
,
the
longed-for
Joy
of
all
that
truly
know
and
tast
him
,
and
will
not
this
content
you
?
Paul
could
leave
all
the
World
to
go
after
Christ
,
and
art
not
thou
satisfyed
with
Christ
,
without
the
World
?
This
(
saith
Agnes
the
Roman
Martyr
)
Even
this
is
he
,
I
now
confess
that
I
do
love
,
I
will
make
haste
to
meet
him
.
The
naked
presence
of
Christ
hath
been
a
Heaven
to
suffering
Saints
under
the
want
of
all
things
:
I
have
found
a
nest
of
Honey
(
saith
Algerius
)
in
the
Entrals
of
a
Lyon
,
in
a
deep
dark
Dungeon
,
I
have
found
a
paradise
of
Pleasure
,
&c.
And
if
some
glimpses
of
the
presence
,
some
Illapses
of
the
love
of
Christ
,
were
enough
to
these
Sufferers
in
the
want
of
all
things
,
O
unreasonable
Soul
,
that
thou
shouldest
complain
,
and
be
dissatisfyed
,
who
hast
an
Interest
in
Christ
,
and
so
much
of
other
things
too
.
O
Christian
!
If
Christ
be
thine
,
let
it
content
thee
,
for
all
is
thine
;
his
Heart
is
upon
thee
,
and
will
not
that
content
thee
?
He
loves
thee
more
than
all
the
World
,
he
will
not
leave
thee
,
and
will
not
this
please
thee
?
Heb.
13.
5.
He
will
care
for
thee
,
1
Pet.
5.
7.
Thou
shalt
want
no
good
thing
,
he
will
make
up
the
want
of
creatures
with
himself
,
he
will
sweeten
bitter
cups
;
't
is
but
a
little
while
,
and
he
will
take
thee
to
himself
,
where
Wants
,
Sufferings
,
Shame
,
Reproaches
,
Griefs
,
and
Sin
shall
trouble
thee
no
more
:
O
then
be
satisfyed
with
a
single
Christ
,
in
Heaven
he
must
be
thy
alone
Happiness
;
there
's
no
House
,
Land
,
Husband
,
Wife
,
Parent
,
Children
,
to
make
up
thy
Fullness
and
Blessedness
,
there
God
will
be
all
in
all
,
and
is
not
this
God
in
Christ
enough
now
?
5
Duty
.
Fifthly
,
Take
up
your
Delights
in
this
rich
and
glorious
Christ
,
he
is
the
Treasure
,
and
his
should
be
the
heart
also
,
Math.
6.
21.
There
is
all
that
in
Christ
,
which
thy
Heart
can
desire
,
stretch
thy
Longings
to
the
utmost
,
and
he
is
infinitely
beyond
them
;
and
if
he
deserves
to
be
the
object
of
thy
Desires
,
then
of
thy
Delight
,
for
what
is
Delight
but
Desire
in
Fruition
?
He
is
the
only
adequate
object
of
Delight
:
other
things
are
unsutable
to
a
spiritual
Heart
,
and
cannot
please
;
empty
;
and
cannot
satisfie
;
fading
,
and
cannot
last
;
cloying
,
and
soon
become
burdensome
;
but
God
in
Christ
is
an
eternal
Excellency
:
those
things
that
seem
most
delectable
in
Creatures
,
are
but
Derivations
from
his
Excellency
,
Drops
of
his
Fullness
,
Sips
of
his
Sweetness
,
the
impress
of
his
Fingers
:
The
precious
Ordinances
of
Christ
,
are
but
the
Galleries
in
which
he
walks
,
the
Chariot
in
which
he
rides
,
the
Cabinet
wherein
his
Jewels
lye
,
the
Cisterns
through
which
Waters
of
Life
pass
to
saved
ones
;
and
if
these
be
so
pleasant
,
O
what
then
is
himself
,
and
should
not
Believers
then
delight
themselves
in
him
.
Quest.
But
how
shall
I
do
to
get
my
Heart
to
this
delight
in
Christ
?
I
find
my
Affections
cold
,
and
my
Spirits
dead
,
that
I
cannot
taste
that
Sweetness
in
Christ
,
nor
take
that
Pleasure
in
the
Almighty
as
I
would
.
Answ.
First
,
withdraw
your
Hearts
from
all
other
Delights
,
this
course
doth
the
Lord
set
Israel
to
get
up
to
a
delight
in
himself
,
Isa.
58.
13
,
14.
There
is
no
greater
Enemy
to
true
delight
in
God
,
than
a
persons
own
carnal
Pleasure
,
and
delight
in
things
below
God
,
Whoredom
and
new
Wine
take
away
the
Heart
,
Hos.
4.
11.
'T
is
impossible
a
Soul
can
take
pleasure
in
Christ
and
Sin
together
,
Mat.
6.
24.
For
carnal
Pleasures
withdraw
the
Affections
from
God
,
Job
21.
ver.
12.
to
15.
1
Joh.
2.
15.
Secondly
,
Rest
not
till
you
have
cleared
up
your
Interest
in
Christ
,
and
can
upon
good
grounds
apprehend
him
as
your
peculiar
and
chief
Treasure
better
than
all
the
World
besides
,
and
appropiate
it
to
your
own
Souls
,
Cant.
2.
3.
5.
This
drew
the
Spouses
Heart
to
so
much
longing
after
and
solace
in
the
Lord
Jesus
,
even
the
sight
of
his
transcendent
Worth
beyond
all
others
,
and
her
title
to
all
those
Excellencies
;
't
is
seen
Interest
in
Christ
that
draws
out
the
Heart
after
him
,
Cant.
7.
10.
Doubts
of
Relation
to
Christ
,
and
Fears
of
laying
a
claim
to
these
precious
Treasures
,
damps
the
Soul
pleasure
in
Christ
.
Thirdly
,
Be
satisfy'd
about
Christ's
special
love
to
you
,
and
delight
in
you
,
1
Joh.
4.
19.
Jealousies
about
an
Interest
in
this
love
of
God
,
did
so
cool
the
Jews
Hearts
towards
him
,
Isa.
49.
14.
But
Zion
saith
,
the
Lord
hath
forsaken
me
,
and
my
God
hath
forgotten
me
:
From
hence
they
began
to
slack
their
pace
after
God
,
and
cryed
out
,
behold
what
a
weariness
is
it
,
and
snuffed
at
it
,
Mal.
1.
13.
chap.
3.
14.
Suspition
of
Christs
Heart
towards
you
will
straiten
yours
towards
him
:
think
well
of
Christ's
Heart
to
you
,
cherish
daily
a
good
Opinion
of
his
Nature
,
Affection
,
and
Faithfulness
.
Fourthly
,
Beg
hard
for
heart-affecting
fights
of
Christ
;
This
so
enamoured
the
Spouses
Heart
,
she
saw
the
beauties
of
her
beloved
,
Cant.
2.
1.
She
beheld
him
to
be
the
rose
of
Sharon
,
and
Lilly
of
the
Vallies
,
the
powrings
out
of
his
Name
drew
her
affections
to
him
,
Cant.
1.
3.
The
Eye
affects
the
Heart
,
Lam.
3.
51.
As
with
Sorrow
so
with
Joy
;
'T
was
David's
Sight
of
God
in
the
outgoings
of
his
Love
and
Glory
,
that
made
his
Soul
thirst
after
him
,
Psal.
63.
1.
2.
Fifthly
,
Be
much
in
the
consideration
of
what
Christ
hath
done
for
you
,
and
bestowed
upon
you
;
this
so
engaged
Hezekiah's
Heart
to
God
,
Isa.
38.
17.
and
filled
David's
heart
with
such
an
Extasy
of
Joy
in
God
,
2
Sam.
7.
19
,
20.
Psal.
8.
Sixthly
,
Get
a
nature
and
Spirit
sutable
to
Christ
,
Similo
Simili
gaudet
,
Psal.
17.
15.
I
shall
be
satisfied
when
I
awake
with
thy
Likeness
.
This
made
the
Image
of
Christ
glorious
in
the
Souls
eye
also
,
when
once
it
becomes
changed
into
it's
Likeness
,
2
Cor.
3.
18.
Therefore
did
Paul
delight
in
the
Law
of
God
after
the
inner
man
,
Rom.
7.
22.
Because
he
had
his
inner
parts
changed
into
the
Image
of
it
;
what
pleasure
will
wicked
men
take
in
a
wicked
Cause
,
from
the
similitude
it
hath
to
their
own
Nature
?
So
will
the
Soul
in
Christ
,
when
once
brought
into
a
sutableness
to
him
.
Lastly
,
Be
much
in
Communion
with
Christ
,
and
this
will
beget
wonderful
Joy
in
him
,
Psal.
119.
167.
David's
being
much
conversant
in
God's
Laws
,
begat
and
strengthen'd
his
delight
in
it
.
So
vers.
14.
'T
is
Intimacy
breeds
Delight
,
whereas
Strangeness
lessens
all
that
Familiarity
and
Pleasure
we
else
might
take
in
Persons
,
Psal.
14.
10.
A
Stranger
intermeddles
not
with
his
Joy
.
Be
not
contented
to
keep
to
duty
,
but
press
after
Communion
with
Christ
therein
.
6
Duty
.
Sixthly
,
Be
not
troubled
at
your
Wants
,
Losses
and
Sufferings
,
you
undergoe
in
this
World
;
Consider
these
four
things
.
First
,
You
can
want
no
good
thing
,
the
God
of
Glory
stands
bound
for
your
Supplies
,
Psal.
34.
10.
They
that
seek
the
Lord
shall
want
no
good
thing
,
Psal.
23.
1.
The
Lord
is
my
Shepheard
,
I
shall
not
want
.
It
cannot
be
,
that
those
who
are
so
much
interested
in
the
Heart
,
Care
,
Person
,
and
Treasure
of
the
Lord
Christ
,
can
be
destitute
;
what
can
you
want
who
are
entitled
to
all
good
things
?
1
Cor.
3.
22
,
23.
Who
are
Heirs
of
the
Promises
,
Promises
that
concern
the
Life
that
now
is
,
and
that
which
is
to
come
,
1
Tim.
4.
8.
You
have
a
surer
Title
to
your
Supplies
,
than
they
that
have
most
of
the
World
in
their
hands
;
for
God
hath
laid
up
,
in
the
hands
of
Jesus
Christ
,
a
full
Allowance
for
you
,
how
short
soever
he
may
seem
to
keep
you
for
a
while
:
the
Earth
is
your
Lords
,
and
the
Fullness
thereof
,
and
the
Cattel
on
a
thousand
Hills
,
Psal.
50.
10.
12.
Psal.
24.
1.
Heaven
,
and
Earth
and
all
things
therein
,
are
made
over
in
the
everlasting
Covenant
for
your
use
.
Secondly
,
You
shall
want
or
suffer
no
more
than
infinite
Wisdom
,
and
fatherly
Love
sees
best
for
you
;
't
is
impossible
that
divine
Purposes
should
be
frustrated
towards
you
;
he
that
will
work
will
work
,
and
nothing
shall
let
,
't
is
not
Men
nor
Devils
,
nor
the
greatest
injury
of
time
,
can
deprive
you
of
your
Fathers
Allowance
,
and
that
is
upon
infinite
Wisdom
and
good
Pleasure
.
The
Wings
and
Wheels
of
Gods
Providence
over
his
people
,
and
for
them
,
are
full
of
Eyes
within
and
without
,
to
shew
the
wise
Care
and
Providence
of
God
over
his
,
in
the
worst
of
times
,
and
hardest
condition
;
and
these
Wheels
are
moving
for
your
Good
,
Christians
,
and
God
sees
in
the
darkest
Providence
,
what
is
best
for
you
;
all
his
Dealings
with
his
people
,
are
the
Fruits
of
everlasting
Love
,
Jer.
31.
3.
God
doth
in
infinite
Wisdom
manage
all
your
Concerns
;
't
is
not
by
Chance
,
or
through
any
inadvertency
,
any
Crosses
or
Losses
befall
you
,
but
all
is
done
in
wise
Counsel
.
3dly
,
The
less
you
have
of
Creatures
,
the
more
will
God
give
you
of
himself
,
if
you
be
looking
to
him
,
and
by
Faith
live
upon
him
.
God
will
admit
of
no
Vacuums
towards
his
people
,
they
can
want
no
good
thing
;
therefore
if
creature-supplies
be
remov'd
,
Grace
comes
in
the
room
;
as
they
say
,
Water
will
ascend
to
prevent
a
Vacuum
,
and
Grace
will
descend
to
prevent
Emptiness
in
Believers
;
God
comes
in
the
room
of
creature-comforts
:
when
Job
was
stript
of
all
,
he
had
more
of
the
visions
of
God
,
Job
42.
5.
John
had
never
more
Intimacy
with
Jesus
Christ
,
than
when
he
was
in
the
barren
Island
of
Patmos
,
stript
of
the
Confluence
of
earthly
Comforts
;
Elijah
never
made
a
better
Meal
,
than
when
he
was
driven
into
the
Wilderness
,
and
the
Angel
was
his
Cook
,
1
Kin.
19.
8.
Ah
Believers
!
you
have
never
better
Allowance
of
God
,
than
when
you
are
cut
short
in
outward
things
,
if
you
be
faithful
;
therefore
you
should
be
quiet
under
all
Straits
and
Necessities
in
the
world
.
The
day
we
live
in
is
full
of
Tryals
to
many
a
gracious
Soul
,
the
wants
of
many
may
be
more
than
many
think
of
,
and
't
is
now
a
time
to
expect
more
Maintainings
from
the
hand
of
God
,
and
from
the
Spirit
of
Grace
,
when
outward
things
are
removed
;
when
Israel
was
brought
into
the
Wilderness
where
was
no
sowing
nor
reaping
,
they
had
their
Bread
from
Heaven
,
and
't
is
God's
usual
way
,
to
send
Meat
from
his
own
Table
,
when
the
Tables
of
his
Children
are
empty
,
I
mean
,
more
spiritual
Communications
from
himself
,
if
they
murmur
not
,
but
patiently
and
quietly
wait
for
God's
Salvation
.
Lastly
,
Consider
,
Believers
,
'T
is
not
long
you
shall
be
in
the
way
of
Wants
,
or
Sufferings
:
the
time
is
hastning
that
will
set
you
beyond
the
reach
of
offending
Providences
,
nothing
shall
offend
you
when
you
get
home
to
your
own
Country
.
O!
the
time
is
hastning
,
when
Moth
and
Rust
cannot
consume
,
nor
Thieves
break
thorough
and
steal
,
Matth.
6.
20.
And
when
afflictive
Providences
cannot
injure
your
Treasure
,
if
the
Lord
be
your
Treasure
,
't
is
not
long
you
will
be
open
to
the
Injury
of
time
,
and
to
those
Casualties
that
pass
upon
your
Comforts
;
every
day
(
Christians
)
brings
you
farther
through
the
Briars
,
and
Thickets
of
this
World
,
and
through
the
barren
Wilderness
,
that
leads
to
your
Canaan
;
you
are
travelling
apace
towards
a
period
of
all
your
Tryals
,
every
new
hour
brings
you
a
step
nearer
to
the
Sight
,
and
Fruition
of
your
blessed
Inheritance
.
Christian
,
Think
every
Evening
,
now
I
have
a
day
less
to
wade
through
the
deep
Troubles
,
and
Red-sea
of
this
World
,
and
to
be
kept
at
such
strait
Allowances
and
Supplies
in
this
Life
:
O
a
real
Faith
of
this
,
how
should
it
patient
and
quiet
Believers
,
under
present
Straits
and
short
Allowances
here
?
O!
Think
upon
the
coming
of
the
Lord
,
Jam.
5.
7.
Be
patien●
therefore
Brethren
unto
the
coming
of
the
Lord
behold
the
Husband-man
,
waiteth
for
a
precious
Fruit
of
the
Earth
,
and
hath
long
patience
for
it
:
He
waits
a
long
time
before
Harvest
comes
,
and
bears
many
a
wet-day
,
and
shall
not
a
Believer
wait
with
more
Quietness
,
and
hope
for
a
far
better
Treasure
?
O!
Christians
,
if
you
feel
some
Difficulties
and
Straits
through
want
of
Supplies
,
Comfort
,
Credit
,
Strength
,
Ease
,
Peace
,
Rest
,
for
a
little
time
,
know
,
Eternity
is
coming
,
that
will
make
amends
for
all
.
7
Duty
.
Seaventhly
,
Live
upon
your
Treasure
,
these
unsearchable
Riches
in
Christ
;
for
this
end
hath
the
Father
provided
those
rich
Treasures
,
to
satisfie
you
here
,
and
to
solace
you
hereafter
,
't
is
laid
up
in
Christ
for
you
,
not
lockt
up
from
you
.
Christians
,
the
Lord
Jesus
is
a
Fountain
sealed
to
,
not
from
you
,
there
's
no
Bolt
between
you
and
your
Treasures
,
you
may
go
and
fetch
supply
at
all
times
of
need
,
Heb.
4.
16.
It
hath
pleased
the
Father
that
in
Christ
should
all
Fullness
dwell
,
Col.
1.
19.
For
the
use
of
Believers
,
that
he
might
give
eternal
Life
to
all
that
come
to
him
,
and
be
the
head
of
the
Body
,
the
Fullness
that
filleth
all
in
all
,
Eph.
1.
23.
This
is
the
work
he
hath
undertaken
to
do
,
and
invited
all
his
people
to
come
to
him
,
that
they
might
have
Life
,
and
have
it
more
abundantly
,
he
bids
them
ask
and
ask
again
,
that
their
Joy
might
be
full
,
Joh.
16.
23
,
24
,
26.
This
is
the
Will
of
God
,
that
Believers
should
eat
their
own
Bread
with
Quietness
,
2
Thes.
3.
12.
And
make
use
of
this
Inheritance
for
all
their
Supply
and
Comfort
:
Christians
,
you
cannot
make
too
bold
with
your
own
,
Christ
and
all
his
Fullness
is
your
Interest
:
you
may
wear
out
your
Welcome
with
men
,
and
beg
too
often
at
fellow-Creatures
doors
,
but
you
cannot
ask
too
often
of
free
Grace
,
or
take
too
much
of
Redemption-treasures
,
if
you
be
sure
to
refer
the
Measures
and
time
to
divine
pleasure
.
In
all
your
need
come
to
Christ
for
whatever
you
want
,
for
the
Life
that
now
is
,
and
that
which
is
to
come
;
this
answers
the
end
of
the
everlasting
Covenant
,
and
the
Fathers
placing
this
store
in
Christ
,
and
Christ's
undertaking
the
Care
,
Conduct
,
and
Salvation
of
all
that
come
to
him
,
and
this
wonderfully
pleaseth
Christ
,
and
advanceth
his
mediatory
Glory
:
this
also
keeps
up
the
credit
and
Reputation
of
the
ways
of
God
in
the
World
,
when
Strangers
see
Believers
rich
fare
,
and
what
a
Sufficiency
is
laid
up
in
Christ
for
them
,
that
Christ
maintains
his
own
poor
,
that
they
need
not
go
a
begging
;
this
commends
that
State
and
Government
,
where
care
is
taken
to
prevent
wandring
Beggers
:
Besides
,
otherwise
the
Promises
are
useless
if
you
come
not
to
Christ
for
all
your
Supplies
.
These
full
Breasts
will
be
injured
if
you
milk
them
not
out
,
Promises
are
the
Bags
in
which
this
Treasure
is
carried
out
to
believers
,
which
will
wax
old
if
you
use
them
not
.
Christ
gets
nothing
(
Christians
)
by
your
Savingness
this
way
,
the
more
he
lays
out
upon
you
,
the
more
he
lays
up
for
you
.
8
Duty
.
Eighthly
,
Improve
your
Interest
in
these
vast
Treasures
,
to
the
enriching
of
your
own
Souls
;
are
there
such
Riches
in
Christ
,
and
is
this
Jesus
yours
?
O
then
labour
to
be
rich
also
.
There
are
two
things
which
I
should
press
you
to
be
rich
in
,
1.
In
Grace
,
2.
In
good
Works
.
First
,
You
that
have
Interest
in
these
Treasures
of
Christ
,
labour
to
be
rich
in
Grace
,
be
not
content
with
the
Truth
of
Grace
,
with
little
Measures
of
Grace
,
but
strive
to
abound
in
Grace
,
1
Thes.
3.
12.
For
,
First
,
Grace
is
the
best
Treasure
,
and
most
rationally
desirable
for
it's
self
.
All
other
created
Beings
are
conditionally
good
,
so
far
as
God
sees
them
best
for
us
,
and
so
far
as
they
conduce
to
the
great
end
of
Gods
Glory
,
and
our
Salvation
;
but
Grace
is
absolutely
good
,
because
't
is
part
of
the
divine
Nature
and
Image
of
God
,
2
Pet.
1.
4.
Which
divine
Nature
he
tells
us
,
ver.
5.
6.
Lies
in
Faith
,
Vertue
,
Knowledge
,
Temperance
,
Patience
,
Godliness
,
and
Charity
.
'T
is
absolutely
necessary
to
the
glorifying
of
God
,
and
being
glorified
with
God
,
Heb.
11.
6.
Without
Faith
't
is
impossible
to
please
God
,
and
without
Holiness
no
man
can
see
God
,
Heb.
12.
14.
Grace
is
the
best
Treasure
,
because
the
most
enduring
Treasure
,
the
most
potent
Treasure
,
it
can
procure
more
than
all
the
World
can
,
Mark
9.
23.
All
things
are
possible
to
him
that
believeth
.
Indeed
created
grace
cannot
,
by
way
of
Merit
or
Purchase
,
procure
any
thing
but
by
way
of
Appropriation
and
Meekness
,
it
brings
that
which
all
the
World
cannot
:
Grace
is
Gods
high
way
to
Mercy
and
Peace
,
being
under
a
Promise
of
Peace
;
Grace
and
Peace
are
usually
twins
in
gracious
Souls
,
2
Pet.
1.
2.
Grace
can
quiet
you
under
Troubles
,
strengthen
you
under
Weakness
,
guide
you
under
Darkness
,
cheer
you
under
Sufferings
,
enrich
you
under
Losses
,
and
fill
you
under
Wants
;
again
,
Gaace
is
the
purest
Treasure
,
earthly
Treasures
are
as
those
Cities
Solomon
gave
to
Hiram
,
a
mere
Cabal
and
dirty
things
,
defiling
the
Souls
of
those
that
have
them
,
and
use
not
them
aright
;
Grace
is
the
most
pleasant
Treasure
,
it
doth
not
burthen
those
that
have
it
,
as
earthly
things
do
with
wasting
Cares
and
tormenting
Fears
.
Further
,
Grace
is
the
best
Treasure
,
in
that
it
will
go
with
the
Soul
into
the
other
World
;
all
the
Riches
of
this
World
must
be
left
behind
,
Death
puts
the
Owner
and
his
Interest
into
a
winding
Sheet
;
no
man's
Propriety
to
these
out-lives
himself
,
the
Grave
buries
all
his
Relation
to
these
things
,
but
Grace
never
dies
,
true
Holiness
goes
with
the
Soul
to
glory
.
Secondly
,
Labour
to
be
rich
in
Grace
,
because
if
you
have
but
little
grace
,
you
will
hardly
prove
the
truth
of
grace
,
though
the
least
grace
is
grace
,
as
a
drop
of
Wat●r
is
Water
,
yet
a
little
grace
doth
not
so
capacitate
a
Soul
to
see
it
,
2
Pet.
1.
9.
He
that
wants
this
thriving
Grace
,
forgets
that
he
was
purged
from
his
old
Sins
,
he
cannot
remember
or
make
out
his
saving
Change
,
or
putting
off
his
old
state
;
little
Grace
is
ever
sceptical
,
and
subject
to
Doubtings
,
Matth.
14.
31
,
O
thou
of
little
Faith
,
wherefore
didst
thou
doubt
.
Thirdly
,
Because
little
grace
will
hardly
carry
a
Soul
through
the
Temptations
,
Duties
,
and
Sufferings
of
the
day
we
live
in
;
these
are
some
of
the
last
times
we
are
fall'n
upon
,
and
the
last
times
are
perillous
times
,
2
Tim.
3.
1.
This
is
the
Character
of
these
times
,
Abounding
Iniquity
,
and
Decay
of
Love
,
Matth.
24.
12.
And
therefore
a
little
Grace
will
not
carry
a
Soul
through
strong
Corruptions
;
where
Sin
abounds
,
Grace
must
abound
much
more
,
or
else
the
Soul
will
loose
ground
,
Rom.
6.
1.
What
the
Apostle
speaks
there
of
grace
in
God
,
't
is
as
true
of
grace
in
Saints
that
must
abound
more
than
their
Sin
,
or
else
Sin
will
be
too
hard
for
them
;
Judgment
must
be
brought
forth
to
Victory
,
or
else
the
bruised
Reed
will
break
,
Matth.
12.
20.
For
this
end
the
Apostle
adviseth
the
Ephesians
,
in
his
time
,
which
were
less
liable
to
such
Temptations
,
they
should
put
on
the
whole
Armor
of
God
,
and
having
done
all
,
to
stand
,
Eph.
6.
13.
Fourthly
,
Else
you
cannot
answer
the
ends
of
grace
,
and
all
the
Cost
of
God
about
you
;
the
design
of
grace
in
all
the
means
and
helps
to
his
people
,
is
to
further
their
growth
in
grace
,
and
to
make
them
abound
to
all
well-pleasing
before
God
,
Isa.
5.
2.
4.
Joh.
15.
2.
Psal.
92.
13
,
14.
To
whom
much
is
given
of
them
much
is
required
,
Luke
12.
48.
Fifthly
,
That
so
you
may
be
more
like
to
God
,
who
is
rich
to
all
that
call
upon
him
,
Rom.
10.
12.
He
is
rich
in
Mercy
,
he
hath
abounded
in
the
Riches
of
grace
towards
all
his
People
,
Eph.
1.
7
,
8.
Christians
should
be
Epitomies
of
Christ
,
and
Resemblers
of
his
Excellency
,
holding
forth
his
Vertues
in
the
World
,
1
Pet.
2
,
9.
There
can
be
no
greater
glory
to
a
Child
of
God
in
this
World
,
than
to
be
like
to
Christ
,
who
is
the
glory
of
the
Father
;
but
by
being
rich
in
Grace
,
you
will
much
manifest
the
Excellency
of
Christ
in
the
World
.
Sixthly
,
By
being
rich
in
grace
,
you
will
become
more
serviceable
to
God
and
others
in
your
Generation
,
you
will
be
able
to
do
more
work
for
God
than
others
.
Grace
is
a
Talent
,
and
the
more
Talents
you
have
,
the
more
Incomes
hath
God
from
you
,
Matth.
25.
16
,
17.
Rich
men
have
larger
Capacities
to
honour
God
in
the
World
than
others
have
,
they
can
do
more
,
and
lay
out
more
for
God
,
and
be
more
serviceable
for
God
than
others
;
they
can
feed
the
Hungry
,
and
cloath
the
Naked
,
and
take
Out-casts
into
their
houses
;
they
can
do
more
to
support
the
interest
of
God
,
than
the
poor
,
and
have
more
Substance
to
honour
God
with
;
so
Souls
rich
in
grace
,
have
larger
Abilities
to
serve
and
honour
God
with
:
the
more
Grace
the
more
acceptably
can
they
serve
God
,
Heb.
12.
28.
The
more
spiritual
Services
are
the
more
acceptable
to
God
by
Christ
,
1
Pet.
2.
5.
For
such
the
Father
chuseth
to
serve
him
,
who
serve
him
in
Spirit
and
Truth
,
Joh.
4.
23.
Psal.
45.
12.
And
the
Daughter
of
Tyre
shall
be
there
with
a
Gift
,
even
the
rich
among
the
People
shall
entreat
thy
Favour
.
Tyre
was
a
rich
place
as
well
as
vitious
,
and
yet
,
there
would
God
have
a
People
,
which
should
honour
him
with
their
gifts
and
large
expences
for
him
,
and
the
richer
the
People
,
the
greater
will
their
gifts
be
;
The
rich
,
or
richest
,
for
't
is
the
superlative
in
the
Hebrew
,
Shall
bring
Gifts
,
and
entreat
thy
Favour
:
noting
,
that
those
who
are
more
spiritually
rich
,
are
more
serviceable
for
,
and
potent
with
God
through
Christ
:
these
can
do
more
with
God
,
as
Noah
,
Daniel
,
and
Job
were
mentioned
above
others
for
their
Potency
with
God
,
Ezek.
14.
14.
And
Moses
and
Samuel
,
Jer.
15.
1.
As
men
who
had
larger
faith
and
grace
,
and
so
greater
Intimacy
with
God
than
others
,
and
such
as
could
do
more
.
O
Christians
,
labour
after
more
grace
,
because
hereby
you
may
become
more
serviceable
for
God
and
others
,
you
may
more
prevail
with
God
through
Christ
for
Mercies
for
the
Nation
,
and
can
be
more
helpful
for
others
to
teach
,
counsel
,
and
comfort
them
,
and
have
more
Gold
,
Myrrhe
and
Frankincense
in
your
Treasures
to
offer
to
,
and
for
Christ
.
Seaventhly
,
The
more
rich
you
are
in
grace
,
the
more
rich
you
will
be
in
glory
;
the
more
grace
you
improve
for
God
,
the
more
glory
shall
you
receive
from
God
,
Luke
19.
17.
19.
This
is
the
rule
of
the
Lords
Procedure
in
the
day
of
Judgment
,
he
will
render
to
every
man
according
to
his
work
,
2
Cor.
5.
10.
Though
glorified
Souls
receive
not
for
their
grace
,
yet
they
shall
have
according
to
the
Measure
of
their
graces
,
for
grace
widens
the
Vessels
of
Mercy
for
glory
.
The
more
Liquor
the
Vessel
hath
,
the
larger
it
is
;
so
the
more
grace
,
the
larger
is
that
Soul
,
and
the
more
capable
to
take
in
glory
,
when
grace
shall
be
turn'd
into
glory
.
Quest.
But
some
may
say
,
How
may
we
get
more
of
this
spiritual
Treasure
?
Answ.
First
,
Get
your
Hearts
more
engaged
to
it
,
Desires
are
the
Souls
Wings
,
that
carry
it
over
all
difficulties
,
to
it
's
beloved
Object
;
this
is
one
Character
the
Apostle
gives
of
rich
men
,
1
Tim.
6.
9.
They
are
such
as
will
be
rich
:
They
have
an
earnest
mind
,
an
ardent
Desire
to
be
rich
,
't
is
a
Will
and
Purpose
grounded
on
Counsel
and
Consideration
;
Christians
,
this
will
much
further
your
obtaining
these
riches
of
grace
,
if
you
once
get
your
Hearts
resolved
for
them
.
Secondly
,
Labour
for
a
holy
skill
in
managing
Christianity
to
the
greatest
Advantage
;
this
makes
men
thrive
when
they
have
the
Mystery
of
their
Art
,
and
are
their
Crafts
Masters
,
and
understand
the
Rules
of
their
Trade
;
unskillful
persons
are
not
like
to
thrive
whatever
their
Employment
be
,
Prov.
4.
7
,
8.
Prov.
3.
13.
14.
Prov.
24.
3.
Thirdly
,
Be
diligent
in
the
use
of
all
your
helps
and
advantages
to
Soul-profit
,
Prov.
10.
4.
chap.
13.
4.
2
Pet.
1.
5.
Take
all
Opportunities
of
waiting
at
the
Pools
side
,
Isa.
55.
1.
They
that
will
be
rich
in
the
World
,
take
all
Opportunities
of
getting
,
and
ply
Markets
and
Fairs
,
and
Seasons
of
Advantage
for
their
Interest
,
and
so
do
Souls
that
thrive
in
Spirituals
,
they
are
much
in
waiting
on
God
,
they
lose
no
Seasons
that
will
bring
them
in
some
Soul-advantage
,
Prov.
23.
23.
Fourthly
,
Be
still
getting
in
more
and
more
grace
from
Christ
,
't
is
Christ's
Treasures
that
enriches
the
Soul
,
he
that
will
be
rich
must
buy
tryed
gold
of
Christ
,
Rev.
3.
18.
The
graces
of
Christ
are
true
gold
,
they
will
bear
the
Fire
,
and
hold
out
in
greatest
Tryals
:
counterfeit
grace
will
be
as
reprobate
Silver
when
it
comes
to
melting
,
it
will
be
as
Hay
and
Stubble
that
perish
in
the
Fire
,
but
true
grace
will
hold
in
time
of
Tryal
,
1
Pet.
1.
7.
In
this
,
Gold
differs
from
all
other
Mettals
in
that
it
loseth
nothing
by
the
Fire
,
but
comes
forth
the
more
pure
;
so
is
the
grace
of
Christ
,
't
is
as
tryed
Gold
,
that
doth
not
loose
,
but
get
in
the
Fire
of
Affliction
and
Temptation
.
Naturalists
say
,
that
Gold
is
more
warm
in
the
night
than
in
the
day
,
so
true
grace
cheers
the
Heart
more
in
the
night
of
Tribulation
,
than
in
the
day
of
Prosperity
.
O
Christians
!
if
you
will
be
rich
,
get
in
grace
from
Christ
,
every
day
,
for
that
is
the
true
Cornucopia
,
or
the
Souls
plenty
,
Joh.
1.
16.
Of
his
Fullness
have
we
received
Grace
for
Grace
.
Make
some
new
Additions
to
your
graces
every
day
,
2
Pet.
1.
5.
What
the
Heathen
said
concerning
Learning
,
Nulla
dies
sine
Linea
,
Let
the
Christian
say
concerning
Grace
,
Nulla
dies
sine
Gratia
.
This
would
be
a
notable
way
to
Soul-prosperity
,
to
be
getting
from
Christ
some
more
grace
in
every
Approach
to
him
:
as
are
your
Receivings
from
Christ
,
so
will
your
Thrivings
be
;
put
often
the
hand
of
Faith
into
Christs
Treasury
,
and
grasp
large
Portions
of
Grace
for
thy
Soul
:
Faith
is
the
only
receiving
grace
,
Joh.
1.
12.
To
as
many
as
received
him
,
to
them
gave
he
Power
to
become
the
Sons
of
God
,
Joh.
7.
39.
Therefore
't
is
called
the
Substance
of
things
hoped
for
,
Heb.
11.
1.
Faith
appropriates
to
the
Believer
,
the
Overtures
and
Promises
of
grace
,
and
by
a
secret
magnetick
Vertue
derives
in
from
the
Fullness
of
grace
needed
Supplies
,
Faith
dips
into
the
Fountain
,
and
fills
the
Soul
with
what
it
needs
.
Fifthly
,
They
that
will
be
rich
in
grace
,
must
be
thrifty
saving
Souls
,
choice
of
their
time
,
and
careful
that
they
do
not
wast
their
graces
,
or
loose
the
things
that
they
have
wrought
,
2
Joh.
ve
.
8.
So
persons
that
are
thriving
in
the
World
,
are
saving
of
every
thing
,
that
nothing
be
waste
;
the
same
Care
is
needful
to
spiritual
Enrichings
;
Prodigality
will
soon
consume
great
Estates
,
he
that
is
not
saving
will
never
be
wealthy
:
Christians
,
do
not
consume
your
days
as
a
Tale
that
is
told
,
Psal.
90.
9.
make
the
most
of
every
hour
,
do
your
proper
work
every
day
;
a
wise
and
faithful
Improvement
of
time
,
would
tend
much
to
Soul-flourishings
,
Eph.
5.
16.
Spend
no
words
in
vain
:
put
Time
and
Talents
to
the
greatest
Advantage
:
they
got
most
for
God
and
themselves
,
who
were
most
in
the
Improvement
of
their
Talents
;
hold
fast
also
the
Truths
you
have
received
,
Rev.
2.
25.
That
is
,
keep
and
retain
the
Doctrine
,
preserve
and
maintain
the
practice
of
those
Truths
you
have
received
.
Sixthly
,
Be
much
in
begging
grace
,
be
always
asking
some
spiritual
Blessing
from
God
,
as
Caleb's
Daughter
Achsah
,
Judg.
1.
15.
her
Father
had
given
her
one
Blessing
,
and
she
asks
another
,
and
't
is
said
,
he
gave
the
upper
and
the
nether
Springs
;
so
be
not
content
with
what
you
have
,
but
still
be
craving
for
more
grace
:
like
Princes
Favourites
who
have
their
Lords
Ear
,
will
be
often
begging
,
now
this
place
,
then
that
Preferment
;
so
Believers
be
suing
hard
for
Grace
,
ply
the
Throne
of
Grace
daily
,
loose
no
Opportunity
wherein
you
may
further
your
spiritual
Interest
by
Supplication
;
this
is
Gods
appointed
way
to
the
obtaining
of
Mercy
,
Ezek.
36.
37.
Follow
your
Sutes
till
you
obtain
,
let
your
chiefest
Requests
be
for
Grace
,
and
be
restless
till
you
prevail
,
like
Jacob
,
who
would
not
let
God
go
till
he
had
blest
him
,
Isa.
62.
7.
Give
him
no
rest
,
till
he
establish
and
make
Jerusalem
the
Praise
of
the
Earth
.
Never
leave
begging
till
the
Lord
Jesus
hath
left
off
giving
,
and
that
will
not
be
whilst
he
sits
upon
the
Throne
,
Eph.
4.
8.
Lastly
,
Maintain
constant
,
intimate
,
and
universal
walks
with
God
:
He
is
the
most
thriving
Soul
that
keeps
nearest
to
God
;
as
that
is
the
fruitfullest
ground
that
is
nearest
the
warm
Sun
,
Isa.
18.
4.
Deut.
33.
14.
so
is
it
to
keep
near
to
God
:
This
was
that
which
exalted
Israel
above
all
Nations
,
they
were
a
People
near
to
God
,
Psal.
148.
14.
This
made
Enoch
so
soon
ripe
for
Heaven
,
he
was
one
that
walkt
with
God
,
Gen.
5.
24.
Christians
,
't
is
not
your
sitting
under
God's
shadow
,
will
make
you
thrive
,
till
there
be
a
dew
on
your
Souls
,
Hos.
14.
5.
7.
Keep
much
in
his
presence
,
with
him
is
the
Fountain
of
Life
,
Psal.
36.
9.
Be
also
constant
in
thy
walks
with
God
,
not
by
sits
and
flashes
,
but
drive
a
steady
Trade
of
godliness
:
Let
thy
whole
course
of
Life
,
both
in
thy
Civil
and
Religious
Duties
be
as
one
constant
Walk
with
God
,
Gen.
17.
1.
In
your
Callings
,
Relation-Duties
,
in
every
state
,
change
,
and
undertaking
,
keep
close
to
God
;
this
is
a
notable
way
to
spiritual
prosperity
,
Deut.
5.
33.
2
Chro.
17.
from
vers.
3.
to
7.
Secondly
,
Improve
your
Interest
in
Christ
,
towards
your
inriching
in
good
Works
;
Labour
to
be
rich
towards
God
,
as
well
as
in
your
own
Souls
,
Luke
12.
21.
1
Timothy
,
6.
18.
Consider
,
Christians
,
the
more
you
lay
out
for
God
,
the
more
are
you
like
to
God
,
who
giveth
us
richly
all
good
things
,
1
Tim.
6.
17.
And
in
being
rich
towards
God
,
you
will
inrich
your
own
Souls
also
:
for
he
that
soweth
bountifully
,
shall
reap
bountifully
,
2
Cor.
9.
6.
Acts
of
Mercy
and
Piety
are
as
good
Seed
,
that
shall
not
miscarry
,
but
shall
bring
forth
a
sure
crop
in
glory
,
Gal.
6.
8
,
9.
9.
Duty
.
Ninthly
,
Live
up
to
your
Treasure
,
Walk
as
becomes
so
high
a
Dignity
and
Relation
to
so
rich
a
Jesus
,
2
Thes.
2.
12.
This
is
but
reasonable
,
if
God
hath
changed
your
State
,
that
you
should
change
your
Lives
;
If
your
Relation
be
new
,
then
your
Conversation
should
be
new
also
,
Eph.
5.
8.
'T
is
an
unsutable
thing
,
if
God
hath
invested
you
with
new
Priviledges
,
to
retain
your
old
Practices
:
You
were
Slaves
to
Sin
and
Satan
,
but
the
Son
hath
made
you
free
;
how
unbecoming
a
state
of
Liberty
are
Bonds
and
Fetters
?
Grace
hath
given
you
Beauty
,
and
,
is
it
fit
you
should
lye
in
Ashes
,
and
wear
your
Sack-cloth
still
?
Christians
,
you
are
arrived
to
your
adult
state
,
and
to
your
manly
years
,
and
will
you
be
like
Children
,
and
Heirs
under
age
?
This
is
unsutable
.
How
unbecoming
is
a
carnal
Heart
to
a
Spiritual
State
?
Works
of
Darkness
to
the
Day-time
?
Rom.
13.
12
,
13.
You
were
poor
,
worth
nothing
,
stript
of
all
,
destitute
,
afflicted
,
and
naked
;
Redemption-Mercy
hath
inrich'd
you
,
and
once
more
intrusted
you
with
a
glorious
Treasure
.
O
,
how
unmeet
is
a
low
Spirit
and
sordid
Life
now
!
To
live
on
beggatly
Elements
,
to
wear
filthy
Garments
,
to
sit
in
the
dust
,
and
wallow
in
the
mire
of
your
Corruptions
,
this
is
most
unworthy
also
of
the
Grace
by
which
you
are
advanced
.
Hath
the
Lord
advanced
you
to
Dignity
and
Honour
,
and
will
you
disgrace
the
Throne
of
his
Glory
,
and
walk
unbecoming
his
Highness
and
Majesty
?
O
Christians
,
you
bring
Dishonour
on
that
King
of
Glory
you
are
related
to
,
to
live
like
the
Subjects
of
Satan
,
and
Inhabitants
of
the
lower
World
:
you
disgrace
his
Family
,
into
which
you
are
adopted
,
to
be
heterogeneous
to
it
in
your
Spirit
and
carriages
:
you
disparage
the
Table
you
are
admitted
to
,
and
the
Fare
you
live
upon
,
to
look
so
ill-favoured
and
lean
in
your
Souls
,
as
if
the
Lord
Jesus
kept
a
bad
House
,
and
did
not
allow
meat
enough
to
his
Children
:
O
Christians
!
live
as
becomes
your
Riches
,
and
glorious
state
into
which
Free
Grace
hath
put
you
.
Now
,
't
is
becoming
such
a
change
in
your
condition
;
First
,
Not
to
keep
your
old
Company
:
Persons
advanced
to
high
Honour
,
usually
cast
off
their
former
and
obscure
Companions
,
and
converse
with
Persons
sutable
to
their
Dignity
:
When
David
was
advanced
from
the
Sheepfold
to
a
Crown
,
he
leaves
his
fellow
Shepherds
,
and
converses
with
Nobles
:
so
should
you
,
Christians
,
have
no
fellowship
with
the
unfruitful
works
of
Darkness
,
but
rather
reprove
them
,
Eph.
5.
11.
Ye
are
now
fellow
Citizens
with
the
Saints
,
and
of
the
Houshold
of
God
,
and
your
Lives
should
be
like
those
,
and
your
intimate
Converses
with
them
,
Psal.
119.
63.
What
,
a
Christian
,
and
yet
help
on
the
ungodly
in
their
way
,
and
love
them
that
hate
the
Lord
?
sit
with
vain
Persons
,
and
maintain
Confederacy
with
Rezin
and
Remalian's
son
?
Isa.
8.
6.
What
a
Christian
,
and
look
strangely
on
thy
Brethren
,
and
become
an
Alien
to
thy
Father's
House
?
O
how
unbecoming
is
this
!
Secondly
,
Not
to
wear
your
old
clothes
:
when
Elijah
was
mounting
to
a
new
condition
of
Honour
,
he
left
his
Mantle
behind
him
,
2
Kin.
2.
13.
When
Joshua
was
advanced
to
higher
dignity
,
his
filthy
Garments
were
taken
off
,
and
he
was
clothed
with
change
of
Rayment
,
Zach.
3.
4
,
5.
O
Christians
!
cast
off
your
filthy
garments
,
your
old
sins
,
by
Repentance
,
put
off
Pride
,
and
be
clothed
with
Humility
,
put
off
Guilt
by
Repentance
,
and
put
on
Christ
by
Faith
.
Thirdly
,
Live
not
on
your
old
fare
:
When
the
three
Children
were
brought
to
Nebuchadnezzar's
Family
,
they
were
called
to
leave
their
old
Pulse
and
Water
,
and
live
on
the
King's
Table
,
Dan.
1.
5.
O
Christians
!
Are
you
taken
from
your
Kindred
and
Father's
House
,
and
brought
into
the
Family
of
Christ
;
leave
then
your
old
Garlick
and
Onions
,
your
stollen
Waters
and
forbidden
Fruit
,
and
feed
on
the
King's
Table
,
eat
and
drink
abundantly
of
his
Provisions
,
his
finest
Wheat
,
and
Honey
out
of
the
Rock
of
Ages
;
feast
on
his
Marrow
and
fat
things
,
the
Bread
of
his
Table
,
his
Word
and
Ordinances
,
his
hidden
Manna
;
let
it
be
your
meat
and
drink
to
do
his
Will
.
Fourthly
,
Do
not
your
old
work
,
cast
off
the
works
of
Darkness
,
Rom.
13.
12.
Leave
off
your
old
Trade
of
Sin
;
and
serving
your
former
Lusts
in
your
Ignorance
,
1
Pet.
1.
14.
ch.
4.
2.
but
carry
on
a
new
Trade
of
Godliness
,
and
Heavenly
Conversation
,
Phil.
1.
27.
Fifthly
,
Leave
your
old
Language
;
speak
no
more
the
Language
of
Ashdod
,
Neh.
13.
24.
Let
no
filthy
Communication
drop
from
your
Lips
,
nor
vain
Discourses
be
found
among
you
,
but
let
your
Communications
be
holy
,
Eph.
4.
29.
Col.
4.
6.
Persons
of
Honour
usually
have
their
Discourses
according
to
their
Greatness
;
not
so
light
and
familiar
,
but
more
grave
and
stately
.
O
Christians
!
labour
you
to
live
so
,
that
more
gravity
and
seriousness
appear
in
your
Language
and
Carriage
.
Lastly
,
Drive
on
new
Thoughts
and
Designs
:
when
Persons
are
exalted
from
Obscurity
to
Honour
,
they
will
not
take
up
such
old
Thoughts
and
Projects
:
So
Christians
should
now
have
new
Imaginations
,
2
Cor.
10.
5.
Grace
should
bring
into
captivity
every
Thought
to
the
Obedience
of
Christ
.
Vain
thoughts
must
now
lodge
no
more
in
you
,
Jer.
4.
14.
10
Duty
.
Tenthly
,
If
there
be
such
vast
Treasures
in
Christ
,
then
you
that
are
the
Friends
of
Christ
commend
him
unto
others
;
so
did
the
Spouse
,
Cant.
5.
10
,
&c.
so
will
the
Bridegroom's
Friends
speak
for
their
Friend
,
Joh.
3.
29.
compar'd
with
Pro.
9.
3.
Wisdom
should
be
justified
of
her
Children
,
Matth.
11.
19.
O
Christians
!
set
forth
the
Praises
of
your
Beloved
,
that
others
may
be
taken
with
him
:
Do
all
you
can
to
further
the
Match
between
the
Lord
Jesus
and
Sinners
:
Be
advising
your
Neighbours
to
forsake
their
evil
wayes
,
and
come
to
Christ
that
they
may
be
saved
:
Be
calling
upon
,
and
stirring
up
your
Christless
Friends
,
Relations
,
Children
and
Servants
,
to
be
looking
after
Christ
,
that
they
may
be
delivered
from
the
wrath
to
come
.
You
should
be
publishing
his
Praises
,
and
commend
him
to
all
the
World
:
O
,
be
speaking
of
his
Excellency
,
and
the
Glory
of
his
Kingdom
,
Psal.
145.
11.
11
Duty
.
Eleventhly
,
You
that
are
interested
in
this
Rich
Christ
,
be
exhorted
,
above
all
Portions
,
to
get
Christ
to
be
a
Portion
to
your
Children
;
you
know
what
a
Treasure
Christ
is
,
you
have
found
him
inriching
your
Souls
;
when
you
were
as
a
Syrian
,
ready
to
perish
,
he
came
in
,
and
took
you
up
;
he
comforted
you
with
the
Wine
of
his
Consolation
:
O
,
that
you
would
labour
to
provide
this
Treasure
for
your
Children
!
'T
is
strange
to
see
Christians
heap
up
Dust
for
their
Children
,
and
be
so
careless
to
get
Christ
for
them
:
What
if
you
leave
them
Houses
and
Lands
when
you
are
gone
,
and
leave
them
not
Christ
,
what
doleful
Creatures
will
they
be
to
all
Eternity
?
Time
will
consume
your
Earthly
Treasures
:
your
Children
may
out-live
their
Money
and
Lands
that
you
may
leave
them
:
O
,
let
your
chiefest
Provisions
be
for
their
Souls
,
do
what
you
can
to
get
Christ
for
them
:
Some
may
be
poor
in
the
World
,
and
have
no
Portions
to
leave
them
;
O
,
how
careful
should
such
be
to
leave
them
a
Treasure
in
the
Promises
,
a
Portion
that
will
not
be
spent
.
If
you
can
say
,
as
the
Martyr
,
Mr.
Saunders
told
his
Wife
,
when
he
came
to
the
Stake
,
he
had
no
Portion
to
leave
her
,
but
a
Portion
in
the
Promises
;
and
surely
,
if
you
can
leave
your
Children
an
Interest
in
Christ
,
you
leave
them
the
best
Portion
.
But
,
you
will
say
,
How
might
we
do
this
?
First
,
Labour
to
Interest
them
in
the
Everlasting
Covenant
:
Get
sound
and
saving
Faith
your
selves
,
and
that
will
appropriate
new
Covenant-Mercies
to
your
Seed
,
I
will
be
a
God
to
thee
and
to
thy
Seed
,
Gen.
17.
7.
This
is
God's
usual
way
to
the
Heirs
of
Promise
.
'T
is
true
,
Gracious
Persons
may
have
Carnal
Children
;
but
this
is
God's
way
;
Labour
to
have
sincere
Faith
your selves
,
and
then
you
will
leave
Covenant-Promises
for
your
children
.
Secondly
,
Get
a
Treasure
for
your
Children
that
will
not
waste
,
by
your
strong
Cries
to
God
for
them
:
Improve
the
Spirit
of
Grace
and
Supplication
for
them
:
Pour
out
strong
cries
and
Tears
.
Few
are
like
Austin's
Mother
,
who
did
daily
pour
out
Tears
for
the
Conversion
of
her
Son
:
'T
is
impossible
(
said
Ambrose
to
her
)
that
a
Son
of
so
many
Prayers
can
be
lost
.
May
be
you
pray
too
coldly
for
them
.
O
follow
God
Day
and
Night
,
for
your
Children
!
O
,
skrew
your
Supplications
higher
!
It
may
be
you
do
not
pray
so
fervently
,
so
believingly
as
you
should
for
your
Children
.
Thirdly
,
Do
all
you
can
to
convince
them
of
their
undone
condition
without
Christ
.
Don't
daub
and
flatter
them
with
false
Promises
;
they
must
be
born
again
,
or
else
they
cannot
enter
into
the
Kingdom
of
God
,
Joh.
3.
3.
Fourthly
,
Instruct
them
in
the
knowledge
of
Christ
:
Be
opening
,
and
commending
Christ
to
them
:
shew
them
the
necessity
of
Faith
,
and
what
the
Grace
of
Faith
is
:
Watch
over
their
Lives
;
be
strict
and
severe
in
reproving
their
Sins
,
that
they
may
be
sound
in
the
Faith
.
Lastly
,
Lead
a
holy
Conversation
before
them
,
that
by
your
Lives
you
may
win
them
to
Jesus
Christ
;
O
your
Pride
,
Passion
,
Carnallity
,
Vanity
,
may
stumble
them
.
Thus
do
all
you
can
to
get
a
Portion
of
upper
Springs
for
your
Children
.
12
Duty
.
Lastly
,
you
that
have
an
Interest
in
these
rich
and
glorious
Treasures
of
Christ
,
long
to
be
with
Christ
,
for
then
you
shall
partake
of
all
his
Riches
;
Here
you
have
but
a
little
to
carry
you
in
the
way
,
you
have
but
in
part
,
but
when
you
come
home
to
him
,
then
you
shall
have
according
to
the
measure
he
hath
purchased
for
you
,
you
shall
see
and
know
,
as
you
are
seen
and
known
,
1
Cor.
13.
9
,
10
,
12.
In
heaven
,
there
you
will
have
a
Treasure
without
Measure
,
there
you
will
see
all
his
Riches
and
Glory
,
and
be
glorified
with
his
glory
,
then
you
will
live
at
the
full
,
you
will
live
upon
himself
,
and
God
will
be
all
in
all
to
your
Souls
;
O
Christians
!
long
then
to
be
with
Christ
,
there
's
your
Treasure
where
your
Lord
is
,
your
Inheritance
is
above
with
the
Saints
in
Light
;
Christ
is
gone
to
Heaven
,
and
there
are
all
his
Riches
:
O
long
then
to
be
fit
to
go
home
,
to
be
with
Christ
,
that
you
may
partake
of
all
his
glory
.
And
thus
have
I
now
come
to
the
further
side
of
this
great
deep
,
I
mean
to
the
Conclusion
of
this
Subject
;
and
O
that
what
hath
been
opened
of
this
glorious
Christ
,
may
not
be
in
vain
;
you
have
heard
much
of
this
Tree
of
Life
,
God
knows
what
Fruit
hath
been
gathered
:
a
glorious
Treasure
hath
been
presented
to
your
View
,
and
offered
to
you
.
O
see
what
Advantage
you
have
gained
,
how
dreadful
will
it
be
,
for
any
that
have
heard
so
much
of
this
rich
Christ
,
to
be
found
poor
at
last
?
O
it
will
be
sad
for
any
to
dye
poor
in
a
Loadicean
State
,
Poor
,
Blind
,
and
naked
,
and
to
be
cast
away
.
O
Sinners
consider
this
,
you
that
have
been
woo'd
and
invited
to
get
this
choice
,
tryed
Gold
,
Christ
hath
pleaded
with
you
,
to
win
your
Hearts
if
possible
;
O
take
heed
you
dye
not
without
an
Interest
in
Jesus
Christ
,
you
will
hear
all
those
Truths
brought
over
to
you
again
at
the
Bar
of
Christ
:
and
all
the
Counsels
and
Helps
you
have
had
to
draw
your
Hearts
to
Christ
,
will
be
then
as
burning
Fire
in
your
Bones
,
and
as
boyling
Lead
in
your
Bowels
,
if
you
perish
without
Christ
;
Therefore
take
heed
,
take
heed
,
that
this
Christ
become
not
a
stumbling
Stone
,
and
a
Rock
of
offence
to
your
Souls
.
And
such
as
are
Believers
,
mind
your
Duty
which
hath
been
opened
to
you
;
and
O
that
these
Truths
might
be
profitable
to
all
.
And
the
Lord
give
a
Blessing
to
it
.
Amen
.
FINIS
.