Serin. 25. Flow are we conspleat in Ckry ? 575 his flefb upon the bodies of poor creatures, in refloring fight to the Ephef.5.8. blind, fpeech to the dumb, life to the dead, all tlrefe does Chrift Ephef.2.5,to. work over again upon the fouls of them whom he prepares for Heaven. 3. Chrift is All to fiil all Ordinances with power and efficacy ; thefe are the means of falvation, and through fir >. concurrence effe- dual( means, as they are his inItitutions, we are a ìderan obligation of ufing them ; and as they have the promife of his pretence, we are Match. 78.20. warranted in ourexpec±ations of benefit from them : but yet Or- Macth.18.20. dinarces are but empty p`pes, but dry breaRs, ní.lefs Cbriii be pleafed to fill them, who fillech all in all, Ephef. I.23. That there fhould he fuch a might and cffic<cy in things fo weak, filch miraculous and ftrange effects by means fo inconfiderab'e, that the fooliflrncfs of preaching íhould be powerfull to falvatior , 'cis becaufe it iÿ not man but Godthat fpeaks. job. 5.25. The hour a coming e nd now ie when the dead flall hear the voice of the Son of God, and they that hear fhall live. Look upon Ordinances in themfelves, and fo they are óv1x, things that are not ; but as they are accompanied with the power of Chrift, fo fo they brig to nought things that are, 1 -.Cor. 1.28. 'ris he who in Sap;ifine bapttfes with the Holy Ghoft and with fire, Mátth3II. 'ris he in preaching the Word, fpeaks not onely to the ear but to the heart, - Luk. 24.32. Did not our hearts burn within ru while he tallied with nu by the way, and while he opened to eu the Scriptures ? In a word, Chrift u all in every Ordinance in refile& of efficacy ;while the Difciples fifhed alone they caught no- thing, but when Chrift is with them, the draught of fifties is fo great they are fcarce able to draw it, lob. 21.3,6. 4. Chrift is All to fill every condition with co-calf-on, .the belt -of conditions is not good without him, nor is the wort} bad with him. Vbi bene fine Alexander accounted himfel to live fo many dayes as he obtained te,autkbi male victories : but David accounts. himfelf to live more in one dayes cum te. Bern. communion with God, than in a thoufand dayes enjoyment of all earthly comforts, Pfal. 84.10. yea in the midit of all his earthly confluences, he looks upon alt_as nothing in comparifon of commu- nion with God, Pfel. 73.25.. Whom have I in Heaven but thee ? and Non dick nihil there is none upon earth that I define betides thee. Though he had a habeo- fed nihil Kingdom he values not that; and well might David bé of this mind, Mufcpiin lec. for could we adde Kingdom to Kingdom, and world to world, yet all thefe in comparifon of the leaft (mile or love -token from God, are no better than nothing, for thy loving kindnefs to better than life, Pfal.
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