A sermon, occasioned

Lo, then He took occasion to stand, that He might be seen, to cry that he might be heard, & to say, If any man thirst, let him come to me & drink. So then all the needy dying souls of men are still are thus offered; the only Appointed & Anointed Redeemer of men does thus counsel them, Let me hear from you whensoever & whereinsoever you want Salvation. But how many other such amazing lines has He also sent down from the Excellent Glory into a desolate world! It is the Lord Jesus Christ who has compared the Go•••l of Salvation unto a well-fraught Vessel sailing up a River, whereabout He makes that loud & loving Out cry—O Never, never was there an O ye's vouchsafed unto the world like ⟨p. 53⟩to This!—in Isai. 55. 1. Ho, every one that thirsteth let him come and partake hereof. It is the Lord Jesus Christ too, who concludes this miraculous Book with that remarkable Period—when He would put a full Stop to inspired infallible Writings, He does it by exposing His Salvation unto general Acceptation, in Rev. 22. 17. Whosoever will, let him take the water of life freely. In a word: For the fuller Inculcation of such a marvellous Thing, we have this immortal King, laying upon us in the name of Him that is Higher than the highest, in 1. Joh. 3. 23. A Commandment to believe. We have Him hence also annexing the Sanctions of a Commandment hereunto, laying Bonds & Grapplings of Iron upon the Consciences of men: We have Him both upon Mount Ebal & upon Mount Gerizzin giving accents to His Look unto Me. He discharges the dreadful rumbling Thunderclaps of such denunciations as that in Joh 3. 36. He that believeth not shall not see life. And many more such Threats and Menaces does He roar out of Zion with, wherein the smoke of the Fire and Brimstone reserved in a hot Hell for the Portion of Unbelievers is blown under the Nostrils of men. Yea, and He presents no less ch••ming Encouragements to Believing than those in the Preface to the Proverbs of Solomon: & one Text more above all I have found which I must bring to you, as Sampson did unto his Relations the Henry which ⟨p. 54⟩