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All good is in God, true; but how shall we come to partake of that good? there is such a distance between these two terms, yours and Gods, that were not Christ in the middle, they would never come together. Yea, but Christs coming between, and joining them together, then all are yours, because ye are Christs, and Christ is Gods; so that we may take the intent of the Holy Ghost here, in this similitude (though it be too low for the great mystery we are about to express.) Conceive God the father as the fountain of all good, and Christ as it were the Cistern: and then from him, pipes conveyed to every believer; and faith, that sucks at the mouth of every pipe, and draws from God, but it comes from God through Christ. The Father he fills the Son with all good, and so it comes from the Father through the Son by faith unto the soul of every believer: we have a notable expression further of this mystery in the Epistle to the Ephes. in the second and third Chapters, in Chapter 2. vers. 12, having told them that they had been without hope, and without God in the world; but saith he vers. 13. Ye who sometimes were far off, are made nigh by the ⟨p. 37⟩blood of Christ: It is by the blood of Christ that you have any thing to do with God; but especially in Ephes. 3. 12. In whom we have boldness and access with confidence by the faith of him; in whom? in Christ, we come to have boldness and access: boldness, the word signifies liberty of speech that we can come with liberty of speech before God, and we have access: Manudction, we are led by the hand of Christ to the father, there is no coming to the father but by Christ, and Christ he takes a believer by the hand and leads him to the father, and so he comes to have boldness: as if a Traitor should be banished, the Court, and afterward the Prince should be a means of his reconciliation with the King, and comes and takes the Traitor by the hand, and says to him, come, I will lead you in my hand to my father, and though you have provoked him, yet being in my hand, you need not be afraid, but may go to him with boldness and confidence. Just the meaning of the Text here, In Christ we have boldness and access with confidence; and although before there was a dreadful breach between the father and us, yet being led by the hand of Christ, there is access and freedom of speech for us:

All good is in God, true; but how shall we come to partake of that good? there is such a distance between these two terms, yours and Gods, that were not Christ in the middle, they would never come together. Yea, but Christs coming between, and joyning them together, then all are yours, because yee are Christs, and Christ is Gods; so that we may take the intent of the Holy Ghost here, in this similitude (though it be too low for the great mystery we are about to expresse.) Conceive God the father as the fountaine of all good, and Christ as it were the Cisterne: and then from him, pipes conveiged to every believer; and faith, that sucks at the mouth of every pipe, and drawes from God, but it comes from God through Christ. The Father he fills the Son with all good, and so it comes from the Father through the Son by faith unto the soul of every beliver: we have a notable expression further of this mystery in the Epistle to the Ephes. in the second and third Chapters, in Chapter 2. vers. 12, having told them that they had been without hope, and without God in the world; but saith he vers. 13. Ye who sometimes were farre off, are made nigh by the