Twenty sermons preached at Oxford before His Majesty, and elsewhere

EPH. 1.13. In whom ye also trusted after that ye heard the Word of truth, the Gospel of your salvation, In whom also after you believed, you were sealed with the Holy Spirit of Promise.

THE last time I entered on the declaration of that main point, and part of Religion, which is the foundation of all our hopes and comfort, namely, the offering of Christ unto us; that as he did offer himself a Sacrifice to his Father for us upon the Cross, so that which is the basis, ground and foundation of our comfort is, that he offereth himself unto us. And here comes in that gracious gift of the Father which closes in with God: That as God saith, To us a child is born, to us a Son is given, &c. So there is grace given us to receive him. And as the greatest gift doth not enrich a man, unless he accept it, and receive it; so this is our case, God offers his Son unto us, as an earnest of his love; if we will not receive him, we cannot be the better for him: If we refuse him, and turn Gods Commodity, which he offers us, back upon his hand, then Gods storms, and his wrath abides on us for evermore. That it is his good pleasure that we should receive Christ, it is no doubt, we have his word for it: All the point is, how we may receive him, and that is by Faith.

THE last time I entred on the declaration of that main point, and part of Religion, which is the foundation of all our hopes and comfort, namely, the offering of Christ unto us; that as he did offer himself a Sacrifice to his Father for us upon the Cross, so that which is the basis, ground and foundation of our comfort is, that he offereth himself unto us. And here comes in th•t gracious gift of the Father which closes in with God: That as God saith, To us a child is born, to us a Son is given, &c. So there is grace given us to receive him. And as the greatest gift doth not enrich a man, unless he accept it, and receive it; so this is our case, God offers his Son unto us, as an earnest of his love; if we will not receive him, we cannot be the better for him: If we refuse him, and turn Gods Commodity, which he offers us, back upon his hand, then Gods storms, and his wrath abides on us for evermore. That it is his good pleasure that we should receive Christ, it is no doubt, we have his word for it: All the point is, how we may receive him, and that is by Faith.