Christian directions, showing how to walk with God all the day long drawn up…Christian directions, shewing how to walk with God all the day long drawn up…

1 Meditate of that fullness which is in Jesus Christ, for the thorough supply of all thy wants, needs, and necessities, as the Apostle expresseth in Col. 1. 19. It pleased the Father, that in Christ ⟨p. 3⟩should all fullness dwell; Fullness of power, to strengthen us in all our weaknesses; fullness of wisdom, to direct us in all our doubts; yea, fullness of spirit, for the supply of his members with all needful, necessary graces.

1 Meditate of that fulness which is in Jesus Christ, for the thorow supply of all thy wants, needs, and necessities, as the Apostle expresseth in Col. 1. 19. It pleased the Father, that in Christ ⟨p. 3⟩should all fulness dwell; Fulness of power, to strengthen us in all our weaknesses; fulness of wisdome, to direct us in all our doubts; yea, fulness of spirit, for the supply of his members with all needful, necessary graces.

2 Believe that Christ is thus filled for the good of his Church and Members, that he may communicate unto them of his fullness grace sufficient for the discharge of the duties both of their general and particular callings. For in Christ there is not only a fullness of abundance, ¹in regard whereof he is sufficiently full in himself, but also a fullness of redundance, an overflowing fullness for the supply of all his members. In which respect we are said John 1. 16. Of his fullness to receive grace for grace, or, grace upon grace,² one grace of the Spirit heaped upon another.