The Parable of the Ten Virgins Opened and Applied

5. 'Tis to the Lord for himself, for John 6. some came to Christ for loaves, and could have been glad if Christ had been King for it, but did not care for himself: And hence vers. 27. he points and turns them to himself; some came to him for higher ends, therefore were his Disciples, that is, for life from him. But when he told them, There is no life, unless you have the Son, And eat and drink his flesh and blood, or else you die, it was a hard saying, they could not understand nor see what that meant, and hence forsook him, but when they come and receive him himself; now life is indeed theirs.

5. 'Tis to the Lord for himself, for Iohn 6. some came to Christ for loaves, and could have been glad if Christ had been King for it, but did not care for himself: And hence vers. 27. he points and turns them to himself; some came to him for higher ends, therefore were his Disciples, that is, for life from him. But when he told them, There is no life, unless you have the Son, And eat and drink his flesh and blood, or else you die, it was a hard saying, they could not understand nor see what that meant, and hence forsook him, but when they come and receive him himself; now life is indeed theirs.

So that its Christs person that this Faith first pitcheth on, as 'tis in Marriage, and those that come for this, were never sent away. Now the soul is truly come to him for himself: 1. When himself gives rest to the soul in the want of all things, […]. 4. 3. If friends, protection, strength, life, glory be wanting, yet having him, in him I have all these; when all is sold away, not the treasure only, but the Field contents him: For it looks on this, as better then heaven, then glory, it comforts the soul that the Lord himself should be mine. 2. The soul that taketh him, 'tis not only to make boast of him, as […] had him, nor to cover sloth, and sin, and delusion by him: I have Christ, and I have no more to care for, &c. but to live on him,