Sermons preached

Our Love to Christ. Things that concern us, affect us. This is the quickening Motive to the spiritual Life, Who loved me, and gave himself for me, Gal. 2. 20. And, 1 Joh. 4. 19. We love him, because he loved us first. A particular Sense and Experience of God's Love to our own Souls, doth most quicken and awaken our Love to him again. When we see that he hath thought of us, and taken Care of our Salvation, that our Names are written in the Lamb's Book of Life.

Our Love to Christ. Things that concern us, affect us. This is the quickning Motive to the spiritual Life, Who loved me, and gave himself for me, Gal. 2. 20. And, 1 Ioh. 4. 19. We love him, because he loved us first. A particular Sense and Experience of God's Love to our own Souls, doth most quicken and awaken our Love to him again. When we see that he hath thought of us, and taken Care of our Salvation, that our Names are written in the Lamb's Book of Life.

So for our Comfort in Christ. It is the Propriety a Man hath to any good thing, that doth increase the Comfort of it. It is a Misery to a Man, to see others enjoy a Benefit, which he hath as much need of as others, and he can enjoy no part of it. I may allude to that, Prov. 5. 15. Drink Waters out of thine own Cistern, and running Waters out of thine own Well. The greater we know the Benefit, the greater will be our Trouble to want it. A poor Man that sees a large Dole given, and Multitudes relieved, and he can get nothing, is the more troubled. So here, to see Christ ready to save Sinners, and we have no Comfort by him, is very afflicting. Ephes. 1. 13. After the heard the Word of Truth, the Gospel of your Salvation. It is not sufficient to know, that the Gospel is a Doctrine of Salvation to others; but every one should labour, by a due Application of the Promises to their own Hearts, to find it to be a Doctrine of Salvation to themselves in particular. The seeing of Meat, though never so wholesome, doth not nourish; but the eating of it. The beholding of Christ revealed in the Word as a Saviour in general, is not sufficient to give full Comfort, without applying him to be my Christ, my Saviour, my Redeemer. We must make sure of our Share in this universal Good. We read of Blood shed, and Blood sprinkled,