to drofie SAINTS. 91 Laí Uy , Hath Chrift the leven Spirits of God, to give them to all that will come to him? then what may Chrift fay to them that are contented without him, that have no care at all to come at him, that like'not his government, that will not draw water at his Well ? He hath taken paines to procure a flock of grace for them, to provide Merits enough for them, a falve broad enough for all their fores, fpirit e- nough to poure into all their hearts ; and when he hath done all this, they regard other things more than him.True- ly, he may fay as David did, when he was told of Nabals churlifh anfwer , Stsrelj, in vain have I kept all that this fellow hath, in the Wilderneffe, t Sam.i a 5. 21. Even fo may Chrifi fay : furely, in vaine have I fitffered for thefe men; in vaine have I come out of my Fathers bofome for them ; in vaine did I dye upon the croffe : They will have none of my ware, they refpe& not my graces, they will not come at me for my holy Spirit. Revel. 3. I. And unto the Angel of the Church in Sardis, write : There things faith bee that bath the liven Spi- rits of God, and the [yen "ter es. I know thy works, that ¡boa ba fl a name, that thou livt ff, and art dead. Thrfe things, faith he, that kith the. fevers Spirits of God, and the [even Stars. j THefe words containe the Defcription of our Lord Je- fus Chrift , from whom this Epiflie is fent unto the Church in Sardis, and in particular to the Minifler there, who is here called the Angel of the Church in that place. And the defcription does inflance in two royalties of our Saviour Jefus Chrift. N a Firfl,
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