Sermons preached

(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.

(3.) Partly, because he knew how to value the Comfort of the Union, having a pure Understanding, and heavenly Affections. God's Children count one Day in his Presence better than a thousand, Psal. 84. 10. One Glimpse of his Love more than all the World, Psal. 4. 7. If they have any thing of the Love of God shed abroad in their Hearts, they would not part with it for all the sensual Enjoyments, which others prize and value so much; and if they lose it, they are touched to the quick, they lose that which is the Life of their Lives, which they account their chief Happiness. Now Christ was best able to apprehend the Worth and Value of Communion with God, having such a clear Understanding, and tender Affections, and therefore it must needs be grievous to him to have his wonted Conversations suspended.