The staves of beauty & bands opened in a sermon preached at Yarmouth, August…The staves of beauty & bands opened in a sermon preached at Yarmovth, August…

I shall shut up all with one observation out of the Text more, which is this, That what Christ in the beginning of the verse did undertake, I will feed the flock of slaughter, in the latter end thereof he makes it good, I fed the flock. Christ never undertook more in a way of Office then what he finished, nor more in a way of Promise then what he performed. He undertook a difficult service, to feed ⟨p. 80⟩his Church not only with his Doctrine but with his Blood; he had a^z Command and Commission to do it, and this Commission he accepted,^a Lo I come to do thy will O God. And though it were so hard a duty, that his humane nature did shrink, and as it were draw back from it,^b Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from me, yet he submitted his will to the will of his father, and was^c obedient even to that servile, ignominious and cursed death, which his humane nature so earnestly declined. And in like manner what he undertakes to work in us, he^d will finish, as well as what he undertook to work for us; he is as the Author, so the finisher of our faith; when he hath begun a good work in us, he will perform it unto the day of Christ.

I shall shut up all with one observation out of the Text more, which is this, That what Christ in the beginning of the verse did undertake, I will feed the flock of slaughter, in the latter end thereof he makes it good, I fed the flock. Christ never undertook more in a way of Office then what he finished, nor more in a way of Promise then what he performed. He undertook a difficult service, to feed ⟨p. 80⟩his Church not only with his Doctrine but with his Blood; he had a^z Command and Commission to do it, and this Commission he accepted,