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3.
l44ers
muff
principally
preach
Chrift
I<fus.
x
C¢r. 4.
Doll.
'None
able
to
come
to the
fullknowledge
,ofChritt.
Rom.
rr.
rf,
t:
a
Cons.
17.
Epbefiana,Chap.3.,
V
E
R.
8.
rich
toward God,
all this muft make
you
rich
:
how
then
fhould you
here feck
to
get
your
acquitance
of
your debts
fealed to
you,
feck
a
new
Role
of
righteoufnelfe to live on eternallyt'
We
muff
not
grudge
our
temporali
things to them that fow
fpiri-
tuall treafures
to
us.
Our
duties,ro keep thefe precious treafures under lock andkey.
Lafily
it
teacheth
us
,
what
efpecially
the Miniflers oftbeGofpell muff
beat upon, Chrift
Jefus our
Lord,
to
reveale
Chrift;
this
is
the
princi-
pall
nayleupon which
a
Minifter
is
to
beate, this
is
the Alpha
and
O-
mega which
finfull men muff heare: for
though
the
Law
is
fruitfully
preached,
and
is
like
a
needle
to
make way
for the thread
of
the
Gofpetl, yet
this mull
not be
fo
conceived
as
if
it
were
of
abfolute
ne-
ceffity fo
to
proceed ,
when Chrift preached to
Adam fallen
the
Gof-
pel,yerthis
is
the
end
of
all
which
muff make
the
law
work wholefom-
ly
in us. Paul, Gal.
r
.
defcribeth this
as
thematter
of
his Miniftery
to
make
manifefl the
Sonne,
he
profeffeth
that
he
in
his
preaching
cared
to
know
nothing
but
Chrift
yea
him
crucified, in
the
firft
place
:
and the
miniftery
of
the Golpell
is
called
a
tetimany
of
chrifl.
Which
place
is
to be marked
as
which
fheweth
that the
end
of
all
the
gifts
of
fpeech
and
knowledge
is
this,to confirme the teflimony
of
Chrift.
Now
what it
is
to preach
Chrifl
you muft remember from
Pauli
words,
Gal.
r
.146.
Col.'.
ult.
He
did
labour
and
ftrive
to
this
,
according
to
the
efecluall
working which
woe
wrought
is
hiss mightily ,
to
prelim
them
to
Chrifi, to fpread the
favour
of
chrifi,
to
prefent
men as chaff
vir-
gins
to
chrifl;
to
paint
Chrift
before them
as crucified
in
their
eyes.
Ynfearcheahle
riches.]
Obferve
hence,
that none
is
able to come
to the
full
knowledge
of
Chrift. The
riches
of
his
perfon
in refpeet
of
each
nature we cannot
comprehend them
,
the
everlafting righteouf-
nefle, redemption, grace and favour which he hath procured, we
can-
not fully conceive
of
them; for
we know but
in
part, wee doe
not
yet
fee
him
as
he is,
but
onely
have a
glimpfe
of
him,
as
we have
of
things
that
are
behind
us
while we look into
a
looking-
glaffe.
i
John
3.3.
This
is
the richeft mine
that
can
be digged
in,the
veynes
of
it
are
never
at
an end.
In his
perfon,
the
divine
nature in the fecund perfon affuming, the
humane nature
affumed
:
now
who
can findeout
the
riches
of
his di-
vine
wifdome, power? nay
the
Apoftle
doth
breake out
in exclamati.
on,
o
the
deph
ofthe
wifdome
of
God,
&c. In the humane nature, what
underftanding, what power, what
life, treafures
of
life
which now are
hidde
,
treafures
of
wifdome, the
fpirit
without meafure,
all
power
though acreated power, yet fuch as
by which
he can doe whatfoever
bee
will
,
either
by
that
nature
with himfelfe, or by
his deity
:
for
ithe.righteoufneffe
and
grace
of
Adoption,we
are
the
Sonnes
of
God;
Etc. But we
have the
riches
of
glory
in
his body andfoule
:
1ppe in o-
Ither learning, but drinke
in
this.
Let
Minifters
teach him
as
the
truth
is
in
him
,
that
grace may
not
.
e
turned into
wantonneffe,Whofoever
is
chriji
is a new
creature.
To