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…

3. Not to be too large here, The benefits and heavenly advantages, ¹which come from Christ, being ours, these also are comforts in common. There is no fiery sword to keep out of this Paradise. Rom. 8. Doth not the Apostle conclude those great privileges of Justification, of Perseverance in that state, of conquest over all spiritual enemies, and that from such general grounds, as all the people of God may claim to it, Because Christ died, and because Christ is risen; because he hath given us Christ, and how then not with him all things else? Is there any believer so weak, so contemptible, that Christ did not die for, and rise for? Is there any to whom the Father hath not given Christ? If so, you see, that what comforted Paul may comfort you. It is a vain Position of Papists, that Paul speaketh so assuredly in that condition, because of an extraordinary revelation that he had, that Christ was his; for he grounds his persuasion upon those general arguments which belong to every godly man. Christ then, and his presence, with all his benefits, is a cordial to every believer. This Sun of Righteousness ariseth with healing in his wings to the least believer; as well as the greatest: The The Dwarf as well as the Giant may hold this pearl in his hand. But

3. Not to be too large here, The benefits and heavenly advantages, ¹which come from Christ, being ours, these also are comforts in common. There is no fiery sword to keep out of this Paradise. Rom. 8. Doth not the Apostle conclude those great priviledges of Justification, of Perseverance in that state, of conquest over all spiritual enemies, and that from such general grounds, as all the people of God may claim to it, Because Christ died, and because Christ is risen; because he hath given us Christ, and how then not with him all things else? Is there any believer so weak, so contemptible, that Christ did not die for, and rise for? Is there any to whom the Father hath not given Christ? If so, you see, that what comforted Paul may comfort you. It is a vain Position of Papists, that Paul speaketh so assuredly in that condition, because of an extraordinary revelation that he had, that Christ was his; for he grounds his perswasion upon those general arguments which belong to every godly man. Christ then, and his presence, with all his benefits, is a cordial to every believer. This Sunne of Righteousnesse ariseth with healing in his wings to the least believer; as well as the greatest: The The Dwarfe as well as the Gyant may hold this pearle in his hand. But