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

1. There is a knowledge and a sound discovery of this sufficiency in Christ; You see here knowing and believing put together; Ignorance of this Point that all in Christ is for the believer breedeth much despondency, and takes off the wheels of thy Chariots: They look upon Christ as a Fountain sealed up, as a garden enclosed, They apprehend it's not for every godly person to go and drink of this fountain,¹ unless attaining to such an high measure of grace; Whereas a true knowledge of the end and use of Christ would quickly dispel all such black thoughts.

1. There is a knowledge and a sound discovery of this sufficiency in Christ; You see here knowing and beleeving put together; Ignorance of this Point that all in Christ is for the beleever breedeth much dispondency, and takes off the wheels of thy Chariots: They look upon Christ as a Fountain sealed up, as a garden enclosed, They apprehend it's not for every godly person to go and drink of this fountain,¹ unlesse attaining to such an high measure of grace; Whereas a true knowledge of the end and use of Christ would quickly dispell all such black thoughts.

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2. To believe doth imply a relying and resting of the soul upon this fullness;¹ Christ with his righteousness is the centre of his heart; He trusts and puts his whole confidence in it; He need go out no further to seek, here is enough, he fears no breaking, no shaking, as long as Christ will last and endure, so long shall he; As a man that treads on the firm ground, he fears not as he that walks on slippery Ice; Thus the godly man leaneth on a firm foundation, but he that trusteth in his own righteousness or works, melts as Ice before the Sun.