2. Would you yet hear more of the Riches of Believers (though more then God there cannot be) The Lord Jesus Christ is their Head and Husband; their Saviour and Intercessor at Gods right hand: They are Married to him! His Merits are theirs for all those uses to which they need them. It is he that Justifieth: Who then shall condemn them? He that spared not his own Son, but gave him up for us all, how shall be not with •i• ▪ also freely give us all things? Rom. 8. 32, 34. Christ is the Pearl of infinite value, for whom we have willingly sold all. Matth. 13. 45, 46. And what are all your Treasures to this Treasure? Ask •••l and he will tell you, that had tried both, Phil. 3. 7, 8. His […] •e counteth Loss for Christ: yea, all things he accounted ⟨p. 222⟩but loss and dung, for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ.] It is Love incomprehensible, surpassing knowledge, that is revealed to us in Christ, Eph. 3. 18, 19. The Riches of Christ are unsearchable Riches, Eph. 3. 8. It is Christ that bindeth up our broken hearts; that is the Peace-maker and Reconciler of our souls to God. What he hath done for us, and what he will do, I shall tell you anon. But the ungodly have no part in him, nor have they any such treasure, that will do for them what Christ will do for us. Their Treasure is the wrath of God, which they are heaping up against the day of wrath, and revelation of the righteous judgement of God, Rom. 2. 5. All the Treasures of wisdom and knowledge are hid. in Christ, Col. 2. 3. And he hath them for us, according to our measure: as being our Treasury, our Head, and made of God to us Wisdom, and Righteousness, and Sanctification, and Redemption, 1 Cor. 1. 30. They are exceeding Riches of Grace that are showed in the kindness of God through Jesus Christ, to all that are sanctified by that grace, Ephes. 2. 6, 7, 8. Yea, that you may see there is no comparison, even that which you abhor in a Christians case, and account his misery and the worst of Christ, is better then the best of your condition, and then that for which you lose your souls. For the very Reproach of Christ, is greater riches then the Treasures of the world, Heb. 11. 26. And it is the reproach that we undergo for Christ, that you most abhor, and the treasures of the world that you highlyest esteem.
2. Would you yet hear more of the Riches of Believers (though more then God there cannot be) The Lord Jesus Christ is their Head and Husband; their Saviour and Intercessour at Gods right hand: They are Married to him! His Merits are th•irs for all those uses to which they need them. It is he that Justifieth: Who then shall condemn them? He that spared not his own Son, but gave him up for us all, how shall be not with •i• ▪ also freely give us all things? Rom. 8. 32, 34. Christ is the Pearl of infinite valu•, for whom we have willingly sold all. Matth. 13. 45, 46. And what are all your Treasures to this Treasure? Ask •••l and he will tell you, that had tryed both, Phil. 3. 7, 8. His 〈…〉 •e counteth Loss for Christ: yea, all things he accounted ⟨p. 222⟩but loss and dung, for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ.] It is Love incomprehensible, surpassing knowledge, that is revealed to us in Christ, Eph. 3. 18, 19. The Riches of Christ are unsearchable Riches, Eph. 3. 8. It is Christ that bindeth up our broken hearts; that is the Peace-maker and Reconciler of our souls to God. What he hath done for us, and what he will do, I shall tell you anon. But the ungodly have no part in him, nor have they any such treasure, that will do for them what Christ will do for us. Their Treasure is the wrath of God, which they are heaping up against the day of wrath, and revelation of the righteous judgement of God, Rom. 2. 5. All the Treasures of wisdom and knowledge are hid. in Christ, Col. 2. 3. And he hath them for us, according to our measure: as being our Treasurie, our Head, and made of God to us Wisdom, and Righteousness, and Sanctification, and Redemption,
