Chap.5 .Seet.J Locking ttnt4'Jtfus. Book. IV. and profitable, 'and comfortable, and therefore deGreable; but co put them in order. 1. The meaneil things ofChrifi: are de!ireable things, the very fylings ofgold, the duft or Iparkies of precious ftones are of real price and valew, yea of much worth ; yea, the very leaves of the tree oflife are healing; the very hemme of Chrifts garment, but even touched, fends forth its vertue : the meanefr and worll things ofChrift are incomparably to be dellred above all things; the duft of Zion, the very ground that Chrifts feet treadeth on, any thing that hath the pooreft relation to Jefus Chri il:, it is deurable for him. Hence we read that one poore womaa,foughc no more of him but to wafh Chrifts feet, and co kiife them ; another woman brrachs out thefe defire> after Chrift, if I may but . touch the hem 6f his garment I jhall be whole. Ulfary Ulfagdalen Ma:th. 9 u . fought only to ha 'I'C her armes filled with his dead hody; {ofeph of Arima.thea was of the fame mind, 0 the bloody winding fheet, together with the dead and torne body of {hrift in his armes are moft precious andfweet. Chriils clay is iilv.er; and his braffe gold ; ( uhn the Baptift thinks it an honour to unluofe the latchets of his J hl fhom; David, though he was a great Prophet, and appointed 0 ' .zr. to be King over Ifr~tel, yet his foul pants thu5, 0 that I might bt: fo neare the L ord as to be a duore-k§eper in the hou(e of Pr~l. &4. 10 • . mr God. Yea he puts an happineife on the fparrow, Vel·3 · and the fwallow, that may build their neft befides the Lords ' altar. 2. The more confiderable actions of Chri~ are efpecial1y deGreabh:. Oh my foul wouldft thou but run through his life, and confider fom-: of his more eminent acbons, in relation co his friends, or 'n relation to his enemies, what delires would thefe kindle in thine heart after Chrill:! . I. To his friends, he was i weet and indulgent ; where there was any beginnings of grace he dtd encourage it, fo was the prophe!le, a bruifed read jhtdl ht not bre11k.,, ani [mo/zj :<g flax e [ball he not quench; nay,where there Matth· u, 1o, was but a reprefentacion of grace, he feemed to accept of it, thus,when the young came and faid, what good thing jha!l I do toM . inherit eternal life? he embraced him, and made much of him, 11 ' 10 ' '7· then {efr:e t bekolding him, he loved him; and fo ~he fcribe, that vcr. ,_ 1 , ·aiked htm whrch u the ftrft commtmdmcnt ofall? tn the conclullon M 1r . u . : 8. Chrift told him, - thGN .m not far from the King dome of God; he vc>. 34~ Q..q q z laboured
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