Chap.3.Seet.6. Looking fmto 1efas. Book I. all things,.every thing unto them. All things are yours (faith · the Apoftle), whether Paul, or c.Apol!o, or CephaJ, or the 1 Cor.3.u123 world, or life, or death, or things prefent, cr things to come, t~!! are )9tm, ttnd J ell are Chrijfs, and Chrijl h· Gods• . All chines are yours, firfr, all the Mmtfters of Chnfl from the highell to the lowefl, whether Paul, or Apollo, or CephM; they .are your fervants, they are men that watch over you for your falvation. Secondly, the world i; )Ot4rs; indeed the world ftands but for your fake.o, if your number were but once compleated, quit"kly would the world be ftt on ~re: you will far, ay! but how is the world ours? we finde not this, for who hatn the world at will ? why, though you have not, yet the mifery you finde in the world, the want of wealth as well as the en joying of it is yours, (i .) it tends to your advantage. Thirdly ', life is yours, it is a fitting, a preparing, a fquaring of you for a better life, even for eternity. FQurthly, dettth i<f yours; for you ilia II die jult then when it is befi for you, i:leath fhall ferve but as a fervant to your advantage. Fifthly, thirtgs prefont, ernd things ta come 11re yours; godlineJ!.e hath the p;·omi(e of this life and of 1 Tim. 4 8,: th..tt which is to come. Stxthly, I will adde, the Lord himfelfis yours, take God, an~ look on him in his greatnelfe, in his mighty power, eveu this great God. the Lord of heaven and earth is yours, he is yours, and all that he hath is yours, and all that he doth is yours, and all that he can do is yours, I will be thine ([aid God to <!Abraham) I will be to thee an exreeding great reward. Gen. 1 P• Here is a Catalogue, an lnventory of a Chrifl:ians riches; have ·. Chrifl and have all ; when an Heathen was but asked, where all his treafure was, he anfwe~d, whrre ,Cyru.s my friend is: and if any aske you, where all your treafure is, you may anfwer, where Chrift _your frimd is; in this refpeel: you may truly fay, there is 110 end of your riches, they are cal fed. the ur.fearchable riches &( Chrift; Pttul could finde no bottome of thefe riches; Ephef. 3· 8~ 0 who would not look_ unto [efm? IfChrifl: be yours (befides thofe partiwlars enumerated in this text, 1 Cor. 3 .22, 2 3 .) God is yours, the Father is yours, the Son is yoors , the Spirit is yours , all the promifes are yours , for in Chrifl: they are all made , and for him they fhall be performed. Come, let the proud man boaft in his honour, and the mighty man in his va- ~our, and .the rich man in h~s wealth, but let the Chriftian pro- - - - . .. . •·· )l ounc~ --: '·
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