An expository comment, doctrinal, controversial, and practical upon the whole first chapter to the…An expository comment, doctrinal, controversal, and practical upon the whole first chapter to the…

2. As God doth convince the soul of Christ, what a full and glorious Saviour he is; so also in the second place, Of our duty to receive him, and to lay hold on him. And this is a further step to comfort, when God doth so far open the eyes, as to see not only a full and sufficient Christ, but also that it's a duty in particular to apply this Christ, and to rest upon him for comfort and salvation. This is a further discovery still. Paul said, Gal. 2. Who gave himself for me, and loved me: And Thomas said, My God, and my Lord. It is one of the blessed truths discovered in the Reformation out of Popery, That it is not our duty to believe in the general only, that Christ is a Saviour, but to rest on him also for the pardon of my sins: That this is the Faith that justifieth: That this is most acceptable and precious unto God: That unbelief not only in the general, but as it faileth in this particular, in not applying, in not appropriating Christ to the soul, is that which will damn a man. Oh then what blessed and comfortable light is that, which God bringeth into the soul, when he shall make thee see, that though a sinner, though burdened, though unworthy, yet it's thy duty to go to Christ to be eased? That he commands thee with that woman, not only to touch the hem of his garments, but to lay hold on Christ himself. This particular faith is that, which the soul is hardly convinced of. Though others may draw nigh to Christ, yet may I? But he cometh at last to be persuaded of this truth.

2. As God doth convince the soul of Christ, what a full and glorious Saviour he is; so also in the second place, Of our duty to receive him, and to lay hold on him. And this is a further step to comfort, when God doth so farre open the eyes, as to see not only a full and sufficient Christ, but also that it's a duty in particular to apply this Christ, and to rest upon him for comfort and salvation. This is a further discovery still. Paul said, Gal. 2. Who gave himself for me, and loved me: And Thomas said, My God, and my Lord. It is one of the blessed truths discovered in the Reformation out of Popery, That it is not our duty to believe in the general onely, that Christ is a Saviour, but to rest on him also for the pardon of my sinnes: That this is the Faith that justifieth: That this is most acceptable and precious unto God: That unbelief not only in the general, but as it faileth in this particular, in not applying, in not appropriating Christ to the soul, is that which will damn a man. Oh then what blessed and comfortable light is that, which God bringeth into the soul, when he shall make thee see, that though a sinner, though burdened, though unworthy, yet it's thy duty to go to Christ to be eased? That he commands thee with that woman, not only to touch the hem of his garments, but to lay hold on Christ himself. This particular faith is that, which the soul is hardly convinced of. Though others may draw nigh to Christ, yet may I? But he cometh at last to be perswaded of this truth.