The saints anchor-hold, in all storms and tempests preached in sundry sermons, and published…

2. Specially, To believers; To behave themselves as it becomes those, who have God for their portion. That you may so do, 1. Professedly avouch God to be your portion, Deut. 26. 17. This is done two ways, 1. When you set your love upon him, with such an esteem of him, as is meet for such a portion. Where a mans treasure is, there will his heart be also, Matth. 6. 21. Let God be your treasure, when you look upon all things in the world, single out those that you account most amiable, desirable; then ascend, in your thoughts to heaven, and contemplate all the excellencies there, the rivers of pleasure, the blessed fellowship of Saints in glory; each of them as dear to another, as if all relations of husbands, and wives, of parents, and children, and friends, were in every one of them; yet let God and Christ be above them all. So did Asaph, Psal. 73. 25. So will every one that ⟨p. 29⟩knows Gods name aright. Psal. 91. 14. Because he hath set his love upon me, therefore will I deliver him: I will set him on high, because he hath known my name. 2. When you are content to part with all, to enjoy him alone. A maid will say of a man whom she loves, I will have him, though I beg my bread with him. A man will lay out his estate, in suit, for his own. 3. When you live in the world with affections free from worldly engagements, as Pilgrims, whose hearts are at home, when their feet are travailing abroad. 2. Possess and use, and enjoy God, as your portion. Thus, 1. Live upon God, as the Israelites in Canaan did upon their lots and inheritances: Live upon Gods favour, in Christ, Psal. 30. 5. And upon his promises, Isa. 38. 16. Live by the faith of the Son of God, Gal. 2. 20. fetching all your comfort thence. 2. Walk with God, Gen. 5. 24. and work in God,