66 Chrifts poverty á fispport to the godly poore. world. Now the Confideration that the King himfelfe is in a poore Condition, and bath no better fupplyes and Comfort then we have ; It is a very great fupportment. As now in an Army,If the Generall fhould fay to his Souldiersto Incourage them, Goe on,...you have tiórhing to drink but water, I but you have as good to drinke as your Generall : So Chrift may well fay, you thatare poore in fpirit, what are you dejeéied be- caufe of yourpoverty,why are you poorer then I was; It may- be you have a poore houfe ; you know what's aid of Chrift ; .The Foxes have holes, and the birds have neafts, but the Son -of man bath not whereon to hide his head . Chrift had no houle at all, Chrift had not fo good a houfe as you-have , that was the great King of Heaven and Earth: -- For your diet, that feemes to be poore and mean, you have not thole full difhes that others have. In the z1 loh. 5 v. Chrift comes to -his Dif- ciplés and faith, Children -have ye anymeate; He'doth not fay, have you fuch and fuch kind of dill -es, but have you any thing : yeaand this was after his Refurre&ion, after he had made an end of fuffering for fin. O remember that Scripture,Chrift was. Content with any thin have you any meate, faith Chia, z Çor. 8. g. He was made poore,, faith the text , that he might .make 144 rich. There was never a Godly man that we read of,. was in a poorer Condition then Chrift was, in many refpe&s Now he that was your King , and is your King, he fub- je&edhimfelfe intò filch a poore condition; he'C.omforted -in this, yours is the k ngdome of Heaven. If you understood what the kingdome of Heaven meaner, who is the King of this kingdome, and Confidered that his eliate, was fo poore, It fhould take away your murmuring thoughts againf} a poore eflate. My Cngdome is not of this world, faith Chrif} ; There- ': fore what though you have not the Riches of this world,Chrif} himfelfe had them riot. But fecondly, Confider this, Chrifls poverty it was to fan &cifie your poverty (meerely to Confider that our Captaine or King, fullers as well as we, that's fomewhat, but no poverty or fuffering of aKing or Captaine, can. take awáy the curie of the feifferiiigs of his fubje.E}s : I but the poverty of jefus Chrif} (the
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