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Thus we have removed the Objections, and showed you, That though other things are to be preached besides Christ, yet reductively all things are brought to him at last. They are but as the rivers that come from the Sea, and empty themselves therein.

Thus we have removed the Objections, and shewed you, That though other things are to be preached besides Christ, yet reductively all things are brought to him at last. They are but as the rivers that come from the Sea, and empty themselves therein.

I shall conclude thi• Text, with showing you,¹ The great advantages that people have who are built on Christ.

I shall conclude thi• Text, with shewing you,¹ The great advantages that people have who are built on Christ.

1. 1The great advantages which those people have, who are built on Christ.

First, They are a sound steadfast people, not carried away as the chaff, and straw is with every wind of Doctrine, Heb. 13. Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and for ever; and then followeth, Be not carried about with divers and strange Doctrines. The Connection is thus made by some, The truth of Christ, the Doctrine of Christ is still the same. And therefore do you retain the same steadfast faith. Oh when men are not built on Christs Doctrine, but their own opinions, their own conceits, they have Reubens curse, Unstable like water! Col 2. They that fell to the worshipping of Angels and Saints did not hold the head; Look then to what thy faith, thy soul is bottomed upon, whether Christ be thy teacher, or thou be thy own teacher. Now this steadfastness and immovableness of those that are founded on Christ, appeareth in their resisting of the violence of persecution, and the subtlety of heresies. In the one, the Devil is a roaring Lion: In the other, he is a glistering, sliding Serpent. The one is like the violent wind to the traveller, that by force would pull off his garments: The other like the hot Sun-beams, that by degrees maketh him throw them away. Oh this is excellent comfort, in the winnowing to be found wheat and not chaff; in the fire to be gold, and not dross! God you hear in this Text, will have a fire, to try all mens doctrines, and if it be stubble and hay, it will quickly be consumed.