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…

1. Consider what drives any man to Christ. Is not sense of wants one main thing? now what are a christians wants, when the Lord hath humbled him? are they not, first, want of Christ; and secondly, of all the benefits of Christ? viz. righteousness, peace, pardon, grace glory, John 16.9. If therefore the souls of all the elect feel a want of both, doth not Faith come to Christ for both? John 4.10. If thou knewest the gift of God, (i. e. the worth of him, and thy want of him) thou wouldest ask, and he would give thee water of life.

1. Consider what drives any man to Christ. Is not sense of wants one main thing? now what are a christians wants, when the Lord hath humbled him? are they not, first, want of Christ; and secondly, of all the benefits of Christ? viz. righteousnesse, peace, pardon, grace glory, Iohn 16.9. If therefore the soules of all the elect feel a want of both, doth not Faith come to Christ for both? Iohn 4.10. If thou knewest the gift of God, (i. e. the worth of him, and thy want of him) thou wouldest aske, and hee would give thee water of life.

2. What doth the Lord offer in the Gospel? is it not first Christ himself, and then all the benefits of Christ? Isay 9.6, 7. To us a Son is borne, to us a Son is given; in the receiving therefore of Christ by faith, what should the soul aim at, but that it may have the Son himself, and so all his benefits with him?

2. What doth the Lord offer in the Gospell? is it not first Christ himselfe, and then all the benefits of Christ? Isay 9.6, 7. To us a Sonne is borne, to us a Sonne is given; in the receiving therefore of Christ by faith, what should the soule aime at, but that it may have the Sonne himselfe, and so all his benefits with him?