..,____ ____________ -------------- 5 I 6 Book. rv. Looking ffnto ::fe(us. Chap. 5. Seet.7 ·---- alas, what am I richer for all his treafures, if 1 have no claime thereto, or interefi therein? -or what can I joy ia anothers riches, when I my felfe am wretchu:l, 11nd mifernb!e; emd po~re , .tnd blind and n.1k_td? look to this, 0 my foul ; perufe againe ard again~ thy grou,ndsof hope as afore laid down; do not flightly run them over, thou canfi not be too fure of C hrifi; thou read eft in the Gofpel this and that pafiage of thy Jefus, canfi thou lay thine hand on every Jine, and fay, thu paffag.e i.· mim l rhu Sermon 'w.u preahed, '~~~d thu miracle '[PM wrought for me, thnt Imight -be1m. e, and th11t in btleeving I might h11ve life through hu 11ame .< 0 then how fhouldfr thou but rejoyce? when Zr:cheus in the SJca- · luke 1,9. s, 6. more tree heard but Chrifii yoyce, Z achrus 1t111kf haft, t~nd cou.e down ,foPto day I muft abide in thJ houfe. 0 what hafie made ZacheuJ to receive Chrifi l he came down hafiily, and recC?ived him joyfully. This affer ofChrill toZacheu.s is -thine as well as his, if thy hope be right, ..ceme down poore fo.ul (faith Chrifi) thu daJ mufi it~ bide in thy houft. 0 then what JOY fhould there be in thy heart when Chrifi comes in, or whe1:1 thou fedefl Chriil: come in, the friend ~f the bridgroome .rejoyceth grearJy, becaufo of the bridJ ob. l· _2 g. groamn voycc ; how much more .may the bride her fclfe rejoyee -~ 3. Let us .come ..up to m6re and more and more fruition of Chrifi ; alI other things work out delight but as they look towards this; now in this fruition of Chrift are contained ·thefe things, firil: a propriery unto Chrifi, for as a fick man doth not _ feele the joy of afound mans health, fo neither doth a·ftranger to • 1 Cbrifi feele the joy of a beIeever in Chr,il:; how fhould he joy in Chrifr that. can make no claime to him in the leaft degree ? but to that wo have fpoken. Secondty , a polfdfion of Chrifi; this exceedingly enlargeth our joy. Obow fweet was Chrifi to the Cant; . 6 , 3 , Spoufe wben fhe could fay, I am my .well beloveds,anJ m7 belovtd u mine, he feedeth among the lilLJfs· q. d. we have took po{feffion ofeach other, he is mine through faith,an~ 1 am his through love; we are both fo knit by an infeparable union , that nothing thai! be able to feperate us two; hefeedet h among the !illye;; herefrefheth bimfd:"~ and his Saint~, b} his union and cornfijl.mion with tl1e.rn; mat1y are taken up with the joy and comfort ofoutward polfeffions, but Chrifi is better than all ; in one Chrifi is (Omp~ifcd every fcattcred .comfort here below ; Chrift mii?,e . (~~
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