to tbe E P H E S I A N S. SE R M 0 N. IV. VERSE j. [WithALL Blejftngi.J IN that Old Difpertfati_?n, when Jacob blelfed his '7 Sons! anci. i~ t~em their Pofierity, the 11. Tnbe.s. In theeonclufionof h1sblellmg; ltlsfaid, theje art then Tribts,mJd everyman,accordmg to hu -ltJ!ing,ht /;/ej[ed them. That is; Jojephhad fome one eminent Earthly blelling befiowed on his Tribe; Rubm ano– ther, and Napthati a third,and fo tht: reft 1 ~one there are faid to be bl~lfed .with all Me/]i11gs : But when Godcomes to open h1s Treafures of blellings •n Chrijf, and to profefs to blefs indeed and altogether,hebtej[eth with all61e.f!ings. Every Child ofhis he blelfeth,even with the tulnefs ofthe blelling ofthe Gofpel, (as Ro. 1 ;. 29 . 'tis called i }-for whenGod gives us Chrifl,a.nd bl~lfeth us in him, How jbatl hn1ot with h1m freely g1ve us allthzngs? Havmg giVen you my Son, nay then take all elfe, and take all freely; having given the greater fo willingly, fure you !hall have all the reft, which arc the lefler; more willingly. 'Tis obfervable, that when Efauapproached his Father, to ask the blelling like one that came to Glean after anothers Harveft alrea~y reaped, ( .7acobhaving been before him; (how hard, how d1fficult he found h1s Father to be, and upon what low terms is Efau fain to beg fomething, any thing of him. Haft thou not rtftrveda Me.f!ingfor me? th~t is, haft thou given all away? and ver. J8• Haft thou ~ut one 6/eJfmg my Father, Mefs me, me atjo, Oh, my Father; and how doth Ifaar his Father fpeak, as having nothing now left he could think of to be– ftow · with tkejt, andtheft tht11gs ( fays he,) bavt I btefl h1m, andwhatfbalt I do .:ow unto thee my Son ? He cafts about with himfelf, to think what fhould be Jcftungiven away. This had not been, if Jaco6 had not gone away with all. Now as our Apofile fays, in the Ep1file to the Galatimu, of Ifmael and I{aac, theft things are m1 Allegory : So exprefly the fame Apofile affirmeth thefe alfo to have been, Heb. 12. •7· The Father is God, (whom in this Difpenfation I(aac the Father reprefented; ) the EleCl:, (the Us, here, ) are Jaco6 or Ifraei 1 as frequently they are called; whomG~d indu7s with all bleilings in Solido;at once, makes over all to them alone, as the1r Inhentance; fo as for the reft there is not any thing left, but things Earthly and ~arnal, which. is the fuperfluity.and r_e– dundancy of that fulnefs beftowed on h1s own, and wh1ch they may well fpJ're. Haft thou not referved one Blelling1 No, not one. God hath bleft lis witlf all. Oh, infinite Goodnefs and fpecial Grace! . 1 With AO,] even each S~int with all; if.withany one,bielliqg , then with all, they hang together and go m a clufter; Whom he hath'P,redefimated, them he bath ctJitttl; whom he bath juf/ifted, them he bathglorified, and not one is want– ing ; if.thou haft one grace,.thou haft all, and all gracious priviledges rogether therewith; Even all the thmgs that belong to life and Godlinefs, all the promi– fes ofthis life 1 and that to come. Meditati011i Oh, Chriflian, fee and rrjoyce In thy lot and portion ; God himfelf bath but all tbings, and fo haft thou. G -Sit
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