· 300 , The Faith oj · - ones, to whom the _offe: i~ there made, are 'rpending :tnoney for that whtch 1s not bread, and thetr labour · · for that which fatisfiet:h not/ Ver. 1, 2. But it is evi– dent, that finners duly jefljible, who are 'thiril:ing . after Chrifi and his right~oufnefs,' are notjj>ending · their mo1zey and labour at that rate ; but on the · con– trary, for that which alone is bread, and fatisjieth; namely, ]efus Chrift the true Bread which camo .. down fi·om heaven. . \Vherefore, the thirfi --there · meant, mufl: needs comprehend, yea, and principally aim at, that ' thirfi after happinefs and fatisfaCl:ion,' which, being natL1ral, is <;:ommon to all mankind. :U1eri pained with this thirfi do naturally n ~ n, for quenching thereof, to the empty cre;1tion,- and their fulfome l~fis: and fo they ' fpend monei for that · which is not bread, and ,their labour for that which fatisfieth not;' finding not~ing there, that can fatisfy .. . that their appetite or-thirft. Now, to men in this wretched cafe, is the gofpel·offer of the waters oflifi made: Chrift is offered to them, as bread, fatnefi, · ·what is good, and will (atijfy that fbe_ir painful thit:Jl. whi~h otherwife will never be quen·ched, ibid. And as little is the folemn gofpel·offer, Mat. xi. 28. ' refiricred t0 a certain fet ofmen, endowed with fome I . laudable qu'alijicati"nS' going under the name of la– .. /iouripg a~d being heavy laden ; the which do indeed - denote the refllefnefs natural to the finful foutofman, fpen4ing its ' labour, for .that which fatisfie;th not,' I fa. lv. 2. Our father Adam left his whole .family, · . ·, with a confcience full ofguilt, ai1d a heart full of~n{atisfied dejir,es. Tht:s we naturally having a refllejs ~pnfcience, and a r~fllefs heart, the·.foul as ·naturally f~lls a labouring for refr to them. And it labours, in the barren Tegion of the fiery_ltl'W, for a refl to the confcience ; and ,in the empty creation, for a reft to the heart. But, after ·all, the confi.lience is ftill ~eavy laden with guilt, wheth~r it has any lively fe,eling ~hereof, or not ; anJ the heart is fiiH under a load·of zm• ' .
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