The saints treasury being sundry sermons preached in London /

The Apostle Saint Paul was a chosen vessel to bear the name of Christ, to carry it up and down in the world: and indeed his spirit was full of Christ, he desired to know nothing but Christ, to Preach nothing but Christ, to be found in none but Christ; the very name of Christ was delightful to him: he seeks in all his Epistles to magnify Christ, and in these words (that I have read unto you) he doth omnify Christ; he makes him not only great, but makes him all. There is neither Greek nor Jew, circumcision nor uncircumcision, Barbarian, Scythian, bond nor free, but Christ is all & in all: that is, there is no privilege in the one to commend them to God, and no want of any thing in the other to hinder them from God; let men be what they will in their outward respects, what is that to ⟨p. 32⟩God? let them be never so mean in regard of all outwards, that cannot hinder them from the enjoyment of God: for God looks not at these things, but Christ is all and in all to them; so far as God seeth Christ in any, he accepts of them: if Christ be not there, whatever they have, he regards them not. Christ is all in all, even in the esteem of the Father himself: he was the delight of the father from all eternity, Prov. 8. 30. and the father took infinite contentment in him upon his willingness to undertake this blessed work of the redemption of mankind. God the father is infinitely satisfied in Christ, he is all in all to him: Surely if Christ be an object sufficient for the satisfaction of the father, much more then is he an object sufficient for the satisfaction of any soul.

The Apostle Saint Paul was a chosen vessell to beare the name of Christ, to carry it up and downe in the world: and indeed his spirit was full of Christ, he desired to know nothing but Christ, to Preach nothing but Christ, to be found in none but Christ; the very name of Christ was delightfull to him: he seekes in all his Epistles to magnifie Christ, and in these words (that I have read unto you) he doth omnifie Christ; he makes him not onely great, but makes him all. There is neither Greeke nor Jew, circumcision nor uncircumcision, Barbarian, Scythian, bond nor free, but Christ is all & in all: that is, there is no priviledge in the one to commend them to God, and no want of any thing in the other to hinder them from God; let men be what they will in their outward respects, what is that to ⟨p. 32⟩