CXLV expository sermons upon the whole 17th chapter of the Gospel according to St.…

2. If you would have an high esteem of this Point labour for a spiritual heavenly heart; For as Christ in his Mediation is wholly spiritual, all his offices and works are spiritual, so it's only the spiritual and heavenly heart that can close with it; There must be a proportion between the Object and the faculty or Subject; Supernatural will not agree with that which is natural; If therefore thou art carnal, earthly, and wholly minding worldly Comforts, thou wilt prefer every Thistle before this Jewell; To you that believe Christ is precious, saith Peter, 1 Peter 2.7. but to others he is not so; Oh then if thy heart do not leap for Joy within thee, as John did in the womb at the Presence of Christ, it's because thy heart is carnal and sensual; Thou knowest no better good then what pleaseth sense: It's not because the matter is empty, but because thy heart is empty of heaven: What makes Paul desire to know nothing but Christ and him crucified; Was it not the high spiritual Frame of his heart? and it cannot ⟨p. 226⟩be otherwise, for Christ is all that an heavenly heart can desire; He is the Way, the Truth, and the Life; He is the Head, and the Vine, He is the true Bread that came down from Heaven; He is made of God Wisdom, Righteousness, and Sanctification: If then there were more Pauls, Christ in his Mediatorship would be more magnified, but the general sort of people are like the Gadarenes, they had rather that Christ should depart out of their Country then that they should lose their Swine, Or like unto the Jews, that desire to show more favour to Barabbas then to Jesus.

2. If you would have an high esteem of this Point labour for a spiritual heavenly heart; For as Christ in his Mediation is wholly spirituall, all his offices and works are spiritual, so it's onely the spirituall and heavenly heart that can close with it; There must be a proportion between the Object and the faculty or Subject; Supernaturall will not agree with that which is naturall; If therefore thou art carnall, earthly, and wholly minding worldly Comforts, thou wilt preferre every Thistle before this Jewell; To you that beleeve Christ is precious, saith Peter, 1 Peter 2.7. but to others he is not so; Oh then if thy heart doe not leap for Joy within thee, as John did in the womb at the Presence of Christ, it's because thy heart is carnall and sensuall; Thou knowest no better good then what pleaseth sence: It's not because the matter is empty, but because thy heart is empty of heaven: What makes Paul desire to know nothing but Christ and him crucified; Was it not the high spirituall Frame of his heart? and it cannot