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2 That we seek to multiply our grace and peace. Qui sat habet, nihil habet. Hee hath nothing, that thinks he hath enough. If Christ have healed thee of the palsy, he chargeth thee not to stand still, but^f Take up thy bed, and walk. We must like the Israelites, every day gather Manna till the Sabbath comes; be multiplying graces until our eternal Sabbath in heaven.^g In my Fathers house are many mansions; thither must a Christian arrive, before he can sue out his Quietus est. Every thing now is either Vinculum or Vehiculum; a Chain or a Chariot, an hinderance or a furtherance. O happy soul that can make vincula vehicula, his thwarters that cross him, become his Porters to carry him, to the place of his rest. And can climb up by the ragged rocks of afflictions, to the victorious garrison of heaven. Crescite & multiplicamini; as God said to the man and to the woman when he put them into the world; increase and multiply: so he blesseth his graces, when his holy Spirit sows them in our hearts. Qui requiescit tempore laboris, laborabit tempore quietis. He that rests in the time of labour, shall labour in the time of rest. Let them both grow together, saith God, of the corn and tares, until the harvest. Matth. 13. Now if the tares grow so fast for the fire, let the good corn grow faster for the barn. The vessels whereinto Christ miraculated wine, were^h filled up to the brim. The vessels of Gods grace, which by a greater miracle are made to hold a celestial nature, must be full up to the brim. It is said of Steven, that he wasⁱ full of the Holy Ghost: full? so was Christ only. The School answers, there is three degrees of fullness; Apta, Aequa, Cumulata. An apt or fit and meet fullness; as when a house is well furnished, we say it is full. An equal or measurable fullness, when it is even with the content of the receiver; so a vessel is full to the brim. A cumulate or heaped fullness, when it overflows the continent: such a fullness in Christ;^k in whom dwelleth all the fullness of the God-head bodily. This filled his humanity with fullness of grace, the oil of gladness prae suciis; above all his fellows, and for all his members: and of