Englands duty under the present gospel liberty from Revel. III, vers. 20

I.¹ Let me plead thine own necessity with thee; a mighty argument, which in other cases useth to make its way through all oppositions, and make all difficulties fly before it; thou art a poor, necessitous, pining, famishing Soul; however thy body be accommodated, thou hast not one bit of spiritual bread for thy famishing Soul to live upon. Christ is the bread that cometh down from Heaven; the starving Prodigal, Luke 15. v. 16, 17. is the lively Emblem of thy Soul, he fed upon husks, and thou feedest upon that which is not bread, Isa. 55. 2. Thou art wretched and miserable, poor, blind, and naked, Rev. 3. 17. Thy body hath often been filled and refreshed with the good creatures of God, but thy Soul never tasted one bit of spiritual bread, since it came into thy body; it never smacked the sweetness of a pardon, the deliciousness of a promise, the joy and comfort of Christ; the choicest food that ever thou tastedst was such as thy Soul cannot live upon.

I.¹ Let me plead thine own necessity with thee; a mighty argument, which in other cases useth to make its way through all oppositions, and make all difficulties fly before it; thou art a poor, necessitous, pining, famishing Soul; however thy body be accommodated, thou hast not one bit of spiritual bread for thy famishing Soul to live upon. Christ is the bread that cometh down from Heaven; the starving Prodigal, Luke 15. v. 16, 17. is the lively Emblem of thy Soul, he fed upon husks, and thou feedest upon that which is not bread, Isa. 55. 2. Thou art wretched and miserable, poor, blind, and naked, Rev. 3. 17. Thy body hath often been fill'd and refresht with the good creatures of God, but thy Soul never tasted one bit of spiritual bread, since it came into thy body; it never smackt the sweetness of a pardon, the deliciousness of a promise, the joy and comfort of Christ; the choicest food that ever thou tastedsts was such as thy Soul cannot live upon.