The unbelievers preparing for Christ. By T.HThe vnbeleevers preparing for Christ. By T.H

there saith the text, Christ is all in all, when a soul can say that Christ is all in all, that it desires nothing else, then this is the value of him; many will be content to have Christ, but they do not court him worth a great price, but they that will truly will Christ ⟨p. 36⟩must know and apprehend the excellency that is in Christ, and esteem him answerably thereunto, as you may see in the third chap. of the Lament. and 24. verse, there saith the text, The Lord is my portion, therefore will I hope in him, now a mans portion is his chiefest good, and David also saith, thy Commandments have I chosen as mine inheritance, that is, as the chiefest good that could befall me, or be received of me: So when the soul can truly apprehend that Christ is the better part, when the soul can say it is not necessary to be rich, it is not necessary to be learned, it is not necessary to be honourable, nor to have pleasure or delight, but it is necessary to have Christ, it is necessary to have grace, it is necessary to have sins pardoned, when we can say Christ is our portion and our inheritance, when we can see the excellency that is in him, and can set a price upon him answerable thereunto, then we are said to will Christ in the first place.

there saith the text, Christ is all in all, when a soule can say that Christ is all in all, that it desires nothing else, then this is the value of him; many will be content to have Christ, but they doe not court him worth a great price, but they that will truely will Christ ⟨p. 36⟩must know and apprehend the excellency that is in Christ, and esteeme him answerably thereunto, as you may see in the third chap. of the Lament. and 24. verse, there saith the text, The Lord is my portion, therefore will I hope in him, now a mans portion is his chiefest good, and David also saith, thy Commandements have I chosen as mine inheritance, that is, as the chiefest good that could befall me, or be received of me: So when the soule can truely apprehend that Christ is the better part, when the soule can say it is not necessary to bee rich, it is not necessary to be learned, it is not necessary to be honourable, nor to have pleasure or delight, but it is necessary to have Christ, it is necessary to have grace, it is necessary to have sinnes pardoned, when wee can say Christ is our portion and our inheritance, when we can see the excellency that is in him, and can set a price upon him answerable thereunto, then we are sayd to will Christ in the first place.