The sound believer, or, A treatise of evangelical conversion discovering the work of Christs…The sound beleever, or, A treatise of evangelicall conversion discovering the work of Christs…

¹When the eye of the soul so sees Christ, and the heart so embraceth and resteth upon Christ, as that it resteth in Christ, as in its portion and all sufficient good: many rest upon Christ that do not rest in him, that is, ⟨p. 191⟩that are not abundantly satisfied with him; and hence their souls go out of Christ to other things to perfect their rest, and so their hearts are divided between Christ and other things;² oh fear this, saith the Apostle, lest there being a promise left us of entering into his rest, any of you fall short of it; for (saith he) we that have believed do enter into rest, verse 3. so say I to you; of all delusions, fear this, lest when you come to Christ, and rest upon Christ for life and salvation, that you rest not in Christ: I tell you, saith Christ to those that came to him, and were constant followers of him, John 6.53. except you eat the flesh and drink the blood of the Son of God, you have no life in you; what is this eating and drinking? verily, sipping and tasting is not properly eating and drinking, tasting your meat will not satisfy you, and therefore will not nourish life in you; to eat and drink Christ is so to receive him, as to satiate and satisfy the soul with him: to quench all your desires, your hungering and thirsting in him; until thy soul saith, as he said in another case, it is enough that Joseph lives, so Lord I have enough now I have this love, this grace of Christ to be my portion; now you rest in Christ. For if there be some great good a man enjoys, if there be any good wanting in it, it is not possible that his whole heart should be set upon it: Ex. gr. ⟨p. 192⟩a man hath food, but if he wants clothes, and his bread will not clothe him, his whole heart will not be set upon his food, but upon that which may clothe him also: so on the contrary if there be an eminent good, wherein he finds all in one, no good out of it, that is wanting in it; it is certain that the whole soul is carried after this good: so it is here, when the soul so comes to Christ, as that it comes for all good to him, and so finds all good in him, that he now only supports the sinking soul, verily the whole soul is now come, because as it felt before it came all wants and evils out of him, so now it finds all fullness in him, and whither should the whole soul be carried but after such a good?