Looking unto Jesus a view of the everlasting gospel, or, the souls eying of…

2. They object; we feel no such thing; you tell us of sweetness, easiness, pleasantness;¹ but if we must speak out our own experiences, O what a weariness is it?— when will the New-moon be gone, that we may sell Corn? and the Sabbath, that we may set forth wheat? We feel a sweetness in these present enjoyments of the World, but as for Holiness, Grace, Religion, the Discipline of Christ, we wonder where the sweetness is, we can find no such secret golden Mines in these spiritual diggings.

1. 1Mal. 1.13. Amos 8.5.

I answer, 1. This indeed is the speech of carnal and profane men, they feel no sweetness, easiness, pleasantness in Gods ways; The natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God, ¹for they are foolishness unto him, neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned: but he that is spiritual judgeth or discerneth all things. Poor souls! till God speak to your hearts you cannot understand this hidden Manna: It is observed that God never sent the pleasant Manna unto Israel so long as their Flower and Bread of Egypt lasted; so never will you taste how good the Lord is, so long as you dote on sin and vanity.

I answer, 1. This indeed is the speech of carnal and prophane men, they feel no sweetness, easiness, pleasantness in Gods wayes; The natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God, ¹for they are foolishness unto him, neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned: but he that is spiritual judgeth or discerneth all things. Poor souls! till God speak to your hearts you cannot understand this hidden Manna: It is observed that God never sent the pleasant Manna unto Israel so long as their Flower and Bread of Aegypt lasted; so never will you tast how good the Lord is, so long as you doat on sin and vanity.