Gen.32.to. Horn are we compleat in Chri j ? Senn. 2 5. not thefe comforts, yet they had an intereft in him who is infinitely more , and better than all thofe comforts. Nay as to inhxrent righteoufrefs, though you cannot attain a perfeftion, yet in Chrifi is perfec`lion, He is All. 2. You have in him the pledge of Ml ; according to the Apof}les argumentation, Rom. 8. 3 2. Haw fh ,yll he not with him alfo freely give 11J All things. The Inference is thong : Had there been any one mercy that God had thought too great too much for worthlefs creatures, it would certainly have been this; but fiince God bath not flock at giving his Son. This inflançe of Gods bounty is fo high, that it removes all grounds of queflioning his bounty, in any thing elfe. The Apoille from this mercy, might very well infer a cer- tain fubf quence of all other mercies, tha: might be profitable or be- neficial! : no ground of defpondency therefore unto fach as are inter -. refted in Chrifi. Vfe 2. That caufe have we to be thankfull for Chrifi ? We have caufe to be thankfull for the meanefi of mercies, inafrnuch as we are left than the 1e4 of all ; much more for this which is the highefl of mercies : The mercies of our Creation, prefervation, C-c. though ne- ver fo many and great, are little in comparifon of this. 3f is menti- oned as an aílonifhing act of love, that God Should fo love the world, as to give his only Son,&c.Joh. 3 .16. [fo] beyond all comparifon [fo] beyond all exprefíìon. If God hath given you his Son , 'cis more than if he had given you a whole world, becaufe it is in him that God Ephef. r.3. hath ble ffed you with all ¡ iritual ble f ngs in heavenly places. Vfe 3. How great is their folly and mifery who keep at a diflance from Chrifi ? Our Saviour mentions it as the highefl folly in the Jews, You will not come unto me that yoga might have life. There is in Chrifi the life of jullication, to free us from that eternall death to which the Law fen tences us : The life of fane`fification, to free us from that fpi- ritual death under which our apoflacy bath brought us : There is in him an All-fufficient fulnefs, for the repairing of all our lotTes : And are thefe mercies not worthy the coming for? The Apofhe puts the very Ernphafis of the Heathens mifery in this, that they are without Chriff,and therefore withosit hope : And what is their mifery, Shall any of us make our choice ? Vfe I. Of Exhortation. Let it be your care that Chritl may be 'All to you: 'cis no fmall, nor is it any common priviledge. Many there are who live without Chrifi : Others to whom All that is in Chrifi is fo far from being to their falvation that it only aggravates their John 5,40. ipfief.c.12. Ephef.2, t 2.
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