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

4. In believing there is a receiving, and a participation of all that Christ hath, ¹and hence receiving and believing is put for one another; It's also metaphorically expressed by eating and drinking, Joh 6. That as by those actions we receive meat, and it becometh our very substance, so it is here, by believing in him Christ is made ours, even all that he hath is ours; Thus by Faith we are said to be branches partaking of the fatness of the Olive, Rom. 11. Oh then how excellent is this act of Faith, which is the hand to put on all the glorious robes of Christ upon our soul; It being not enough to know there is a Christ so qualified unless he become ours.

4. In beleeving there is a receiving, and a participation of all that Christ hath, ¹and hence receiving and beleeving is put for one another; It's also metaphorically expressed by eating and drinking, Joh 6. That as by those actions we receive meat, and it becometh our very substance, so it is here, by beleeving in him Christ is made ours, even all that he hath is ours; Thus by Faith we are said to be branches partaking of the fatnesse of the Olive, Rom. 11. Oh then how excellent is this act of Faith, which is the hand to put on all the glorious robes of Christ upon our soul; It being not enough to know there is a Christ so qualified unlesse he become ours.

1. 14. A receiving of what Christ hath.

5. This believing works an holy confidence and boldness at the Throne of grace; It makes our prayers and duties full of fervency and alacrity,