Sermons preached

(1.) Partly, because it was more natural to him to enjoy that Comfort and Solace, than it can be to any Creature. To put out a Candle is no great matter, but to have the Sun eclipsed, which is the Fountain of Light, that sets the World a wondering. For poor Creatures to lose their Comforts, is no great wonder, who though they live in God, are so many degrees distant from him; but for Christ, who was God-Man in one Person, that is a difficulty to our Thoughts, and a wonder indeed; for by this means he was so far deprived of some part of Himself.

(2.) Partly, because he had more to lose than we have. The greater the Enjoyment, the greater is the Loss or Want. It was more for David to be driven from his Palace, than a poor Israelite to be driven from his Cottage. We lose Drops, he an Ocean. A poor Christian that hath some Heaven upon Earth in the fore-enjoyment of God, and the first-fruits and earnest of the Spirit, hath more to lose than another that hath had only some vanishing Taste in the Offer of ⟨p. 168⟩Eternal Life, and receiving the Word with Joy. Proportionably judge of Christ, who was Comprehensor, while he was Viator, had the beatifical Vision whiles on Earth.

(2.) Partly, because he had more to lose than we have. The greater the Enjoyment, the greater is the Loss or Want. It was more for David to be driven from his Palace, than a poor Israelite to be driven from his Cottage. We lose Drops, he an Ocean. A poor Christian that hath some Heaven upon Earth in the fore-enjoyment of God, and the first-fruits and earnest of the Spirit, hath more to lose than another that hath had only some vanishing Tast in the Offer of ⟨p. 168⟩Eternal Life, and receiving the Word with Ioy. Proportionably judge of Christ, who was Comprehensor, while he was Viator, had the beatifical Vision whiles on Earth.