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

¹Fifthly; Though this expression be short [Thine they are] yet it comprehends very many precious and excellent particulars; For we are the Lords upon several and various titles, therefore are we sure to continue his; It's good the godly man should know how many ways he is the Lords, that his heart may be enlarged upon every particular.

¹Fifthly; Though this expression be short [Thine they are] yet it comprehends very many precious and excellent particulars; For we are the Lords upon several and various titles, therefore are we sure to continue his; It's good the godly man should know how many waies he is the Lords, that his heart may be enlarged upon every particular.

1. 1How many ways or upon how many Titles those that are godly are the Lords.How many waies or upon how many Titles those that are godly are the Lords.

For 1. He is the Lords by Election from all Eternity; Thou wast the Lords before thou wast born, before thou hadst a being, when thou couldst have no thoughts of thy self, he had thoughts of thee: The Scripture doth often Eph. 1. Rom. 9. comfort the people of God, and quicken up their hearts with ⟨p. 179⟩this particular, and certainly it's a deep and overwhelming Meditation, Who am I Lord when in the womb of nothing, or when born, yet wallowing in my blood, thinking, speaking, and living against thee, and thou didst from all Eternity know this, yet didst choose me to eternal life? Oh how many thousands are past by and I am chosen! Was it not enough Lord not to have created me? It might have been mercy not to have created me, that so I might not have been damned, but positively to appoint me before the foundation of the world to such unspeakable glory, this is that which astonisheth me; Oh my Soul and heart is too narrow if I had the hearts of all the men in the world, they would be too little to conceive of this goodness.