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a
Cbriftians
Growth.
S
onely
all
the
excellencies
in
him
in
the true
reali nature
of
all
things
to
which
he
is
compared.
So in like
manner
he
is
Paid
to
be Bread
indeed, 7ohn
6. 55.
and ver.
3
a.
The
true
bread
front
heaven.
Manna, and all
other
meat,
and
all
that
fweetneffe
which
is in
meat,
is
and was but
a
(hadow
to that
which he
affords.
He
excells
and exceeds all
things
he
is
compared
to,
in
what
they
have,
and they
are
bolt
fhadowes
to
him,
Het,.
io.
r.
Firfi
therefore,
never
any
Vine
fo
fruitfull.
All
our
fruit
u`
found in
bim,
Hof i
z.
Ifyou
abide
in me,
you
'hall
bring
forth
much
fruit.
He
hath
juice
to
fapply
you with
every grace,
to
tifl
yore
with
all
the
fruits
of
righteoufneffe,
which
if
the branches
want,
it
is
for want
of
faith
in
themfelves,
to
draw from
him,
not
want
of
fap
in
him.
Secondly, this
he
is
at
all times,
hath
been in all ages,
thus flour
tithing
;
this
root
never
withers
;
is
never
dry or empty
of
fap,
it
is
never
winter
with
Chriff.
Every
branch,
faith
the
fecond
verfe,
that
is,
every
one
that hath born fruit
in
any age,
beareth
all
its
fruit
in him
:
branches
in
him
fear
no
drought,
per.
17.8.
Thirdly,
for
largeneffe
of
fpreading, no
fuch
Vine
as
this
:
He
(as
the
Pfalmifc fayes,
Pfal.
So.
a
r,
a
z.)
fends
out
his boughes
unto
the
fea,
and
his
branches
to
the
rivers
:
all
the earth
is,
or hath
been,
or
(hall
be
filled
with
them.
Is
to
perfwaded
us
to
take
Chriff
alone, and
make
him
our
All
in
all, becaufe in him all excellencies
are fupereminently
found.
All
creatures are
not
enough
to
ferve
for
companions
to
fet
him
forth,
and when they
doe
in
part, for
fome
particu-
lar
thing
tkat
is
the
excellenteff
in
them, yet therein they
arc
but
/Wolves,
Heb. ao.
i.
He
onely
is
the
truth,
he
is
the
true
light,
7ohn a.
The
Baptift, Mofes, and all lights
elfe
were
but
as
twilight,
but
a
(hadow
:
So he
is
the
true
bread,
the
true
Vine,
he
hath really
the
fweetneffe,
the
comfort,
the
excellencies
of
them
all.
The
like may
be faid
of
all
thofe
relations he hath
taken on
him
;
fo he
onely
is
a
true Father,
and Husband, &c.
and
the
love
and
fweetneffe
in
all
other
Fathers and Husbands
are
but
a
fhadow
to
what
is
in
him.
Obf
r.
2.
How the
Father
is
the
Husbandman.
As
Ca
R
z s
a
is
thus
a Vine,
fo
his
Father
is
the
Husband-
man?
vf: