Seth. 25. How are we canopied in ? 577 Spirit, that after ire have put our hand to Gods plough we may not Luk.9.62 look back.,, and after we have begun in the fpirir, we may not end in GaI.3.3 the fefh. I (peak not this as doubting the perfeverance of them who are sincere, but as declaring the true foundation on which their per - feverance is bottomed, viz. not any inhxrent flrergth they have in themfelves, but chofe fupplics of grace and firength they conti- nually derive from Chrif} : there is a vaa difference 'cwixt the bell Non dicit, pa- of Chriîiians cGnfidered f ngly in chemfelves, and cor,íïdered rela rxm porrfis fa- - tiv_ eere, vel di(y in refp.et of their union unto Christ: in themfelves fo weak cx i r porflis ;d impotent that they can do nothing, Joh i 5.5. not (idicient offacere, vel nìliil . . herr,'íclves to think any thing as of themf Ives, 2 Cor. 3,5- and yet poreflúperfice- what can be lots than to thick ? but in Chrift mighty and power- "'fed Aug things throcsgh Ch :-ifs which firengtheneth me, Phil. 4 13. and thus iscoi2,Io, Chrift he Chrillians eí111, thus are they compleat in him. 2. HOW Chrift is all ? The refolutton of this (are is th refore neczfi ry, becaule many there are wt o inflead of fucking milk from this Do &tine are ready to fuck poyfon; but for prevention of all dangerous and unfafe inferenc, s from this great truth, confider r. Negatively, how Chrift is not All ; not fo ás to excufe us from all endeavours in the ufe of means for working out our own falvation.. Chrifis fufficiency does not excufe but engage our induflry : for thus the Apofile argues, Phil. 2. t 2,13. Work, cut your falvation with fear and trembling, becaufe it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do, q. d. it is God does all, therefore do you what you can. z. Pòûtively er affirmatively , and that in thefe two refpets efpecially ; 1. Chriff N All by way of Impetration, in as much as our falva- tion was his purchafe ; we may fay of our hopes, our helps, our ad- vantages, as the Chief Prieto faid of the moneys which yndcu had received for the hire of his perfidioufnefs : It is the price of blood, Match. 27.6 Whence is it that they who have brought themfelvts Epli,5.25,26, under the deferts of Hell, may have hopes of Heaven ? enjoy the 27. means of Heaven ? tafle the firft fruits of Heaven ? all are the price A. 20.28. of Chrifls blood : 'ewas by his own blood that he entred into Heaven John 15.13. himfelf, and hath opened the door to Heaven for all that are incor- porated into him, Heb.9. 12. Heb.10.19,20. 2. Chriff is all by way of Application, in as much as he brings Dome the blefl.ïngs he hash purchafed unto the fouls of his; he bath not
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