; I CHRIST A R 0 C K. Book II. 6. Chri~ is a comfortable Wax• There is fweet Company, all Friends <md Brethren, and no Enemy walks m thts Way; befides, there are excellent Accommodations. 7· Chri!l: is a plain Way, a Way prepared, call: up, and all Stumbling-Blocks re– moved. 8. He is a holy Way, all other Ways are unclean and filthy; none but holy Perfons can walk in this Way. 9· It is a Way of God's devifing and finding out. IO. It is a coftly Way: It is a cheap Way to us, but dear to God; it coO: him the parting with his own beloved Son, and Chri!l: the Price of his precious Blood. MET A PH 0 R. I. QTHERWays lead onlytoex– ternalPiaces and Privileges. II. Other Wavs lead to a Ploce, but they are not that Place to which thev lead. ill. Other Ways are fometimes out of Repair, and unfit for Tra– vellers. IV. Other Ways have no Life in them, nor cannot preferve the Traveller from .Death and Danger. D IS PAR IT Y. I. CHRIST leads to the bleffed, immortal, and eternal God, Heaven, and la(bng Happi– nefs. II. Chri!l: and the Father are one; he is the End of a Saint's Journey, as well as the Father Jobn xiv. It . 1 J ohn v. 7· ' ' Ill. Bm Chri!\ is a Way never out of Repair, nor unfit for Sinners to walk in. IV. Chri!\ is a living Way; he is a fpeakinrr, direcring, animating, and quickening Way; l~e preferves from Death and Danger, Heb. x. 20. N F E R E N C E ~ '·BLESS God for this Way. 0! what infinite Grace is here, that the Almirrhty fhould be fo kind and inerciful to us poor Sinners, as when we had barred up ·our Way to him, he fhould find out another for us, and be at fuch great Charge as to fend his own Son to be the Way itfelf. 2. We may infer from hence, that the Salvation of the EleCl: is one and the fame, hence called common Salvation, Jude 3· 3· It fhews us, that there is no Salvation but by Chrift. 4· It holds forth the great Neceffity of the Gofpel, and the Miniftry thereof. 5 . What a miferable Condition are all thofe in that rejeCl: ChriU! 6. It reproves thofe who think to find other Ways to Heaven. The Papi!l:s think to aet thither by their own Merits, the Quakers by the Light within, &c. J· Labor to fee a N eceffity of Chri!l:. S. Prize Chri!\, 0! value Chri!\; he is All in All, he is every thing to Believers; you can never overvalue precious Jefus. CHRIST A R 0 C K. '!'he Rock of Ifrael j)>ake to me, &c. 2 Sam. xxiii. 3· Upon tbis Rock will I build my Church, Matt:-:><vi. 18. And that Rock was Chriji, I Cor. x. 4· · THE Lord Jefus is compared to a Rock. METAPHOR. I. A Rock is a firm and an immoveable Thing, good for a Foundation: I <Vi!! liken him un– to a Man that built his Houfe upon a Rock, &c. Luke vi. 47· Matt. vii. 24. That which is built upon a Rock, ftands fure in a tempeftu· ous and !l:ormy Seafon : '!'he Rain dejcended, the Floods came, and the 2 PAR ALL EL. I. THE Lord Chri!l: is a firm and fure Foundation: Upon tbis Rock will I build my Church, &c. Matt. xvi. I8. Bebold, I lay in Zion for a Foundation, aStone.-Other Foundation can no Man lay, I Cor. iii. 1 1. The Church being built upon Chri!l:, the Gates of Hell fhall not pre– vail again!l: it. Whofoever lays the Strefs and Structure of his Salvation upon this Founda;ion, the Power of Hell, and Rage of Devils fuall never
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