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Riches of mercy to men in misery, or, Certain excellent treatises concerning the dignity…
Riches of mercy to men in misery, or, Certain excellent treatises concerning the dignity and duty of Gods children by the late Reverend and Faithful Minister of Jesus Christ, John Preston ...Riches of mercy to men in misery, or, Certain excellent treatises concerning the dignity and duty of Gods children by the late Reverend and Faithfull Minister of Jesus Christ, John Preston ...
London: printed by J.T., 1658
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
And then when a man sees God is this manner, the second will follow, he will be ready to do all for him: for those two will follow one another. As the ivy though it have no root of it self, it cleaves fast to the tree, and depends upon it. Let a man be brought once to this, to see that he hath nothing of his own, and that God is all in all to him, he will easily depend upon God, and cleave to him; but still remember that God be all in all. That as it is said (Col. 3.) of Christ, there is in him neither Jew 1nor Gentile, but Christ is all in all to us. That is, we must make God all, and he must be so in all things. And in this we fail for the most part; we can be content to have God for part, but to make him our all, to seek all our comfort ⟨p. 255⟩from him, all our happiness, and to do it not only in some things but in all things, herein we come short. But when we are able to do this, to look upon God as all in all to us, then we shall be ready to do all to him: and that is the other thing that we must do, to refer all to him to care for nothing but to please him, to do all in sincerity, to do it to the Lord.
And then when a man sees God is this manner, the second will follow, he will be ready to do all for him: for those two will follow one another. As the yvie though it have no root of it self, it cleaves fast to the tree, and depends upon it. Let a man be brought once to this, to see that he hath nothing of his own, and that God is all in all to him, he will easily depend upon God, and cleave to him; but still remember that God be all in all. That as it is said (Col. 3.) of Christ, there is in him neither Iew 1nor Gentile, but Christ is all in all to us. That is, we must make God all, and he must be so in all things. And in this we fail for the most part; we can be content to have God for part, but to make him our all, to seek all our comfort ⟨p. 255⟩from him, all our happiness, and to do it not onely in some things but in all things, herein we come short. But when we are able to do this, to look upon God as all in all to us, then we shall be ready to do all to him: and that is the other thing that we must do, to refer all to him to care for nothing but to please him, to do all in sincerity, to do it to the Lord.