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

¹Use 2. Is all that the Father hath Christs? then how happy are the people of God who are admitted into some co-partnership with all this blessedness; For although ⟨p. 265⟩though none but Christ (as you heard) can say, All mine are thine essentially, yet every godly man being made a coheir with Christ, he may by fruition and enjoyment say so, Rom 8. Oh the infinite treasure of that expression, a Son and co-heir with Christ; Whatsoever Christ is heir to, we are also co-heirs with him, only here is the difference, Quod Christus natura, nos gratia, what Christ is by nature that we are by grace; Why then are the people of God so often dejected and cast down? They consider not how rich, how honoured, how abounding they are; All that the Father hath, all that Christ hath is theirs for their good and advantage, and this deed of gift God made when he entered into Covenant with them to be their God, and they to be his people; By this means Paul can triumph and say, I have all things, I can do all things, Phil. 4. The people of God are never established and confirmed till they be anchored here; They are tossed up and down as so many waves like the wicked men of the world who live by sense, and have no bottom or rock to stand upon; For this end it is that God either takes away earthly comforts or casteth in many roots of gall and wormwood in every condition, That you may know your treasure is in God and Christ not in these earthly contents.

¹Ʋse 2. Is all that the Father hath Christs? then how happy are the people of God who are admitted into some co-partnership with all this blessednesse; For although ⟨p. 265⟩though none but Christ (as you heard) can say, All mine are thine essentially, yet every godly man being made a co•heir with Christ, he may by fruition and enjoyment say so, Rom 8. Oh the infinite treasure of that expression, a Son and co-heir with Christ; Whatsoever Christ is heir to, we are also co-heirs with him, only here is the difference, Quod Christus natura, nos gratia, what Christ is by nature that we are by grace; Why then are the people of God so often dejected and cast down? They consider not how rich, how honoured, how abounding they are; All that the Father hath, all that Chtist hath is theirs for their good and advantage, and this deed of gift God made when he entred into Covenant with them to be their God, and they to be his people; By this means Paul can triumph and say, I have all things, I can do all things,