10. You have a Title to the Kingdom of Heaven from Christ. Through Christ you are Children, and through Christ you are Heirs. It is Christ that gives the first Fruits of the Heavenly Canaan, the earnest of the future Treasure and Inheritance which he hath promised, and the foretastes sometimes of those Soul ravishing Pleasures, which the Saints shall have in Fullness, and to Eternity, when they are received up into Glory. And it is Christ that hereafter will give Possession unto you, of the Kingdom of Heaven. At the Day of His Glorious Appearance, after he hath owned you before the whole World of Angels and Men, and Honoured you to be His Assessors in His Judging and Condemning the Wicked; he will receive you with Acclamations of Joy and Triumph, into the Glorious Palace of the New Jerusalem, where you shall have the Beatifical Vision and Fruition of the Glorious Jehovah, and be made partakers of such Glorious Felicity as hath not now entered into your Hearts to conceive. And will not the Consideration of all this set ⟨p. 96⟩your hearts on fire with love to Christ? Christians, is there any Person like to Christ's Person? is there any love like to Chri••'s love? are there any benefits like to Christs benefit•? No no he is incomparable in all; methinks then you should by this t•me •eel your love to Christ like Fire to burn within with […] flame? or methinks your love to Christ should be like water, I mean the waters of the Sanctuary spoken of Eze• 4. 7. 3 4, 5. which at en••ance were but to •he Ankles, a little further were up to the Loins, a little further a deep River over the head, where a man might swim; methinks you should perceive an increasing of your love under these various motives, if your love were more shallow at first, methinks by this time it should have got some depth; when such Winds do blow, the waters should flow and overflow, methinks your love to Christ should be raised unto a high tide, and run with a strong Stream. Thus for the motives drawn from the consideration of Christs Benefits, all which are so many Orators for your love.
10. You have a Title to the Kingdome of Heaven from Christ. Through Christ you are Children, and through Christ you are Heirs. It is Christ that gives the first Fruits of the Heavenly Canaan, the earnest of the future Treasure and Inheritance which he hath promised, and the foretastes sometimes of those Soul ravishing Pleasures, which the Saints shall have in Fulness, and to Eternity, when they are received up into Glory. And it is Christ that hereafter will give Possession unto you, of the Kingdome of Heaven. At the Day of His Glorious Appearance, after he hath owned you before the whole World of Angels and Men, and Honoured you to be His Assessors in His Judging and Condemning the Wicked; he will receive you with Acclamations of Joy and Triumph, into the Glorious Pallace of the New Ierusal•m, where you shall have the Beatifical Vision and Fruition of the Glorious Iehovah, and be made partakers of such Glorious Felicity as hath not now entred into your Hearts to conceive. And will not the Consideration of all this set ⟨p. 96⟩your hearts on fire with love to Christ? Christi••s, is there any Person like to Christ's Person? is there any love like to Chri••'s love? are there any benefits like to Christs benefit•? No no he is imcomparable in all; methinks then you should by this t•me •eel your love to Christ like Fire to burn within with 〈…〉 flame? or methinks your love to Christ should be like water, I mean the waters of the Sanctuary spoken of Eze• 4. 7. 3 4, 5. which at en••ance were but to •he Ankles, a little further were up to the Loyns, a little further a deep River over the head, where a man might swim; methinks you should perceive an encreasing of your love under these various motives, if your love were more shallow at first, methinks by this time it should have got some depth; when such Winds do blow, the waters should flow and overflow, methinks your love to Christ should be raised unto a high tide, and run with a strong Stream. Thus for the motives drawn from the consideration of Christs Benefits, all which are so many Orators for your love.
