The Wife that hath frequent occasions for money, for provision for her Self, and Children, and Servants, and for Clothes and all Family necessaries, and not a penny but what comes out of her Husbands ⟨p. 759⟩purse, and he fearing she should be prodigal, lets her have money by driplets, but from hand to mouth, must be always going or sending to him, or otherwise starve. The Shopkeeper that drives a great trade in the Country, must go often to London, or abroad in other parts, to fetch in commodities. The Israelites in the Wilderness were maintained for water by the Rock. They drank of the Rock that followed them, and that Rock was Christ. The Rock followed them, they did not only drink of it at first, but had a constant mornings draught, and drank of it often in the day, it ran i• a stream after them, and every day supplied them. Its no marvel the Apostle commandeth us, Pray continually, Pray without ceasing, Pray evermore, when he knew all our living was got by begging, that all our supplies must be from above, and we must expect nothing without asking; Ordinances are the food of the soul. As Cows afford us both Milk and Beef; so Ordinances are Milk to Babes, and Meat for strong Men. Our God is the Fountain of Spiritual, as well as of natural life. Its said most truly, in respect of a Natural life, In him (meaning God) we live, and move, and have our beings, Act. 17. 28. We live; Now as God hath made the heart the spring of natural life, and hath drawn from thence a multitude of arteries, to carry the vital spirits through the whole body, and disperse life through every part of it. So he hath made the Mediator, the spring of spiritual life, and his Ordinances the Arteries, to convey life to every part of the soul. In whom we move; As God hath from the head derived ⟨p. 760⟩manifold sinews, to carry out thence the animal spirits, and with them the faculty both of sense and motion over all. So the Lord, from Jesus Christ the Churches head, through the sinews of sacred duties, conveyeth spiritual sense and motion to all his members. And have our being; To preserve our being, he hath made the Liver a fountain of blood, and from thence drawn the Veins to convey it over the body, to the nourishment of the whole; Ordinances are those Veins which convey and disperse gracious spirits over the whole new man; With him is the well of life, Psa. 36.
The Wife that hath frequent occasions for money, for provision for her Self, and Children, and Servants, and for Cloaths and all Family necessaries, and not a penny but what comes out of her Husbands ⟨p. 759⟩purse, and he fearing she should be prodigal, lets her have money by driplets, but from hand to mouth, must be always going or sending to him, or otherwise starve. The Shopkeeper that drives a great trade in the Country, must go often to London, or abroad in other parts, to fetch in commodities. The Israelites in the Wilderness were maintained for water by the Rock. They drank of the Rock that followed them, and that Rock was Christ. The Rock followed them, they did not only drink of it at first, but had a constant mornings draught, and drank of it often in the day, it ran i• a stream after them, and every day supplied them. Its no marvail the Apostle commandeth us, Pray continually, Pray without ceasing, Pray evermore, when he knew all our living was got by begging, that all our supplies must be from above, and we must expect nothing without asking; Ordinances are the food of the soul. As Cows afford us both Milk and Beef; so Ordinances are Milk to Babes, and Meat for strong Men. Our God is the Fountain of Spiritual, as well as of natural life. Its said most truly, in respect of a Natural life, In him (meaning God) we live, and move, and have our beings, Act. 17. 28. We live; Now as God hath made the heart the spring of natural life, and hath drawn from thence a multitude of arteries, to carry the vital spirits through the whole body, and disperse life through every part of it. So he hath made the Mediatour, the spring of spiritual life, and his Ordinances the Arteries, to convey life to every part of the soul. In whom we move; As God hath from the head derived ⟨p. 760⟩manifold sinews, to carry out thence the animal spirits, and with them the faculty both of sense and motion over all. So the Lord, from Jesus Christ the Churches head, through the sinews of sacred duties, conveyeth spiritual sense and motion to all his members. And have our being; To preserve our being, he hath made the Liver a fountain of blood, and from thence drawn the Veins to convey it over the body, to the nourishment of the whole; Ordinances are those Veins which convey and disperse gracious spirits over the whole new man; With him is the well of life, Psa. 36.
