indeed the world stands but for your sakes, if your number were but once completed, quickly would the world be set on fire: you will say, ay! but how is the world ours? we find not this, for who hath the world at will? why, though you have not, yet the misery you find in the world, the want of wealth as well as the enjoying of it is yours, (i e.) it tends to your advantage. Thirdly, life is yours, it is a fitting, a preparing, a squaring of you for a better life, even for eternity. Fourthly, death is yours; for you shall die just then when it is best for you, death shall serve but as a servant to your advantage.1 Fifthly, things present, and things to come, are yours; godliness hath the promise of this life, and of that which is to come. Sixthly, I will add, the Lord himself is yours, take God, and look on him in his greatness, in his mighty power, even this great God, the Lord of heaven and earth, is yours, he is yours, and all that he hath is yours, and all that he doth is yours, and all that he can do is yours, I will be thine (saith God to Abraham) I will be to thee an exceeding great reward. 2Here is a Catalogue, an Inventory of a Christians riches; have Christ and have all; when an Heathen was but asked; where all his treasure was, he answered, where Cyrus my friend is: and if any ask you, where all your treasure is, you may answer, where Christ your friend is; in this respect you may truly say,3 there is no end of your riches, they are called the unsearchable riches of Christ; Paul could find no bottom of these riches; O who would not look unto Jesus? If Christ be yours (besides those particulars enumerated in this Text, (1 Cor. 3.22, 23.) God is yours, the Father is yours, the Son is yours, the Spirit is yours, all the promises are yours; for in Christ they are all made, and for him they shall be performed. Come, let the proud man boast in his honour, and the mighty man in his valour, and the rich man in his wealth; but let the Christian pronounce himself happy, only happy, truly happy, fully happy, in beholding Christ, enjoying Christ, having Christ, in Looking unto Jesus.
indeed the world stands but for your sakes, if your number were but once compleated, quickly would the world be set on fire: you will say, ay! but how is the world ours? we find not this, for who hath the world at will? why, though you have not, yet the misery you find in the world, the want of wealth as well as the enjoying of it is yours, (i e.) it tends to your advantage. Thirdly, life is yours, it is a fitting, a preparing, a squaring of you for a better life, even for eternity. Fourthly, death is yours; for you shall die just then when it is best for you, death shall serve but as a servant to your advantage.1 Fifthly, things present, and things to come, are yours; godliness hath the promise of this life, and of that which is to come. Sixthly, I will add, the Lord himself is yours, take God, and look on him in his greatness, in his mighty power, even this great God, the Lord of heaven and earth, is yours, he is yours, and all that he hath is yours, and all that he doth is yours, and all that he can do is yours, I will be thine (saith God to Abraham) I will be to thee an exceeding great reward. 2Here is a Catalogue, an Inventory of a Christians riches; have Christ and have all; when an Heathen was but asked; where all his treasure was, he answered, where Cyrus my friend is: and if any ask you, where all your treasure is, you may answer, where Christ your friend is; in this respect you may truly say,3 there is no end of your riches, they are called the unsearchable riches of Christ; Paul could find no bottom of these riches; O who would not look unto Jesus? If Christ be yours (besides those particulars enumerated in this Text, (1 Cor. 3.22, 23.) God is yours, the Father is yours, the Son is yours, the Spirit is yours, all the promises are yours; for in Christ they are all made, and for him they shall be performed. Come, let the proud man boast in his honour, and the mighty man in his valour, and the rich man in his wealth; but let the Christian pronounce himself happy, only happy, truly happy, fully happy, in beholding Christ, enjoying Christ, having Christ, in Looking unto Jesus.
- 11 Tim. 4.8.
- 2Gen. 15.1.
- 3Ephes. 3.8.
