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

2. That this was wholly of Gods will and appointment that he should have for us.

3. That it's our duty to believe in and receive him thus appointed by God, And all these particulars will be accounted sweeter then the honeycomb to the empty hungry soul, that finds it self undone without Christ; Though to those ⟨p. 193⟩who are full of their sins or their own righteousness this very honeycomb is loathsome; Oh then that this Truth might overtake you that hear it, as David did the poor fainting famished Amalekite, to whom those clusters of Raisins he gave were so reviving, if with Jonathan you taste but a little of this honey, your eyes will be enlightened.

3. That it's our duty to beleeve in and receive him thus appointed by God, And all these particulars will be accounted sweeter then the honeycomb to the empty hungry soul, that findes it self undone without Christ; Though to those ⟨p. 193⟩who are full of their sins or their own righteousnesse this very honeycomb is lothsome; Oh then that this Truth might overtake you that hear it, as David did the poor fainting famished Amalekite, to whom those clusters of Raisins he gave were so reviving, if with Jonathan you taste but a little of this honey, your eyes will be enlightned.

First, The implied Truth is, That whatsoever Christ had or was, ¹was not for himself but for us; His fullness was for our emptiness, his atonement for our sins; Even as the full breasts are for suck to the child, or as the efficacy and virtue of the head is for the parts of the body, and as the fullness of the Fountain is for the streams; Thus