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Sixthly, Christ is to be preached as the foundation of all fullness, for all our necessities and spiritual wants. The people of God, they sit dejected through the•r nakedness and poverty. Oh, they would have better hearts, more fruitful lives! and they complain and complain, but they do not make use of Christs fullness, for all their wants. He is the fountain, their streams are to be replenished by him. Of his fullness, we all receive grace for grace, Joh. 1.16 That is, abundance of grace, as some; or grace, answering the grace in Christ. And Col. 1. It pleased God, that in him should all fullness dwell. So that the soul cannot be cast into such straights, as not to know where to be supplied. There is the fullness of the fountain, and therefore the vessel may well be filled: This is the fullness in the Head, therefore the members may thrive and flourish It's a sad thing to consider how unacquainted even the godly are in this point. They do not improve Christ: They do not go to his fullness. As the Mothers breasts are filled for the Child, and it's an ease to the Mother to have the Child to suck them: Thus Christ received the fullness of grace, as an Head for us, and by Faith we sucking of it, do exceedingly please and honour Christ.

Sixthly, Christ is to be preached as the foundation of all fulnesse, for all our necessities and spiritual wants. The people of God, they sit dejected through the•r nakednesse and poverty. Oh, they would have better hearts, more fruitfull lives! and they complain and complain, but they do not make use of Christs fulnesse, for all their wants. He is the fountain, their streams are to be replenished by him. Of his fulness, we all receive grace for grace, Joh. 1.16 That is, aboundance of grace, as some; or grace, answering the grace in Christ. And Col. 1. It pleased God, that in him should all fulness dwell. So that the soul cannot be cast into such straights, as not to know where to be supplied. There is the fulness of the fountain, and therefore the vessel may well be filled: This is the fulness in the Head, therefore the members may thrive and flourish It's a sad thing to consider how unacquainted even the godly are in this point. They do not improve Christ: They do not go to his fulness. As the Mothers breasts are filled for the Child, and it's an ease to the Mother to have the Child to suck them: Thus Christ received the fulness of grace, as an Head for us, and by Faith we sucking of it, do exceedingly please and honour Christ.