Empty oflife. 333 him to things 'here below, that with the invited guefts in the Parable, he b cannot come to (shrift;he cannot im h L1.'4.'E brace Chritk, he cannot attend on Chriff, he cannot mar- ry his foule to Chrift ; this doth fo diftempertheir palates . that they cannot relish Chriff : The flefh-pots of -1 ,iypt were fo favoury to the Ifraelires that they could not long their ' Manna. Chrift isa diftaflfull dial where t Nurnb. z z ç. the world is a fweet 'feaft ; this fils theheart ofman with difhonourable thoughts of Chrift. The over- prizing of the world is the under- prizing of Chriff. Hec can never ap- prehend Chrift as all in all, that doth not apprehend the world as nothing ; theyoung mans over-prizing the world, caufed bis departure from k Chrift : the lovers ofthe world are very inconftant in their following of Chrifç ; if Chrift k Mat, 19.21. and the world will not'fland together Chrift is foone forfaken, the world alone bath their attendance, frvice and affaetion : So that Chrift bath no fpirituall and gra- cious being , where the world hath inch full poffefli- on. And thefe foure forts of fulneffe in man are fo ma- ny clears demonstrations of Chrifts efirangement from man. 5. By mans fpírituill emptineffe : He that is empty of 5.Spiritu3ll 'C.hrift is without Chrift the Cifterne which is empty t Ept*nc e. of water is without the fountaine ; bee that is empty of 1 y grace is without Chrift the aathour and fountainofgrace; he that is without the life of Chriff, whoha.h not Chtifl ,Isving in him, as the root in the branches, gracioufly en- 1Gala.zo, livening him, as the foule doth naturally enliven the bo- dy, endowing himwith fpirituall principles of holy, and gracious life, enabling him like a living man to feele his fin, as a livingman his difeafe ; to rifeup from the world, 'as a living man arilth from the Earth; to feed upon the Ordinances of God, as a living man upon the food which is fet Lefore him ; towalke in the wayes of God, as a living man doth move and walke rn an earthly way ; to follow Chrift, in attending his Ordinances, in beleeving his Fromifes, in obeying his precepts, as Lazarus follow- ed Chrift when he had raifed him from death to life; he C c that.
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