5. Consider Christs fullness and All sufficiency. Such as have large and plentiful Estates, are greatly beloved by the poor and indigent, if they find them also to have large Hearts and open Hands ready to distribute unto their wants and necessities; none have such fullness and plenty as the Lord Jesus Christ, and none so willing to communicate of his fullness unto the wants of such as are poor in Spirit, and sensible of their need, Col. 1. 19. It hath pleased the Father that in him all fullness should dwell. There is not only Plenty in him, but fullness: not the fullness of the cistern, but the fullness of the Fountain; not the fullness only of sufficiency for himself, but the fullness of redundancy for his people; not some fullness for some things, but all fullness for all things that are good; not fullness for some time and to continue but for a while, but all fullness doth dwell in him, and abide for all his people throughout all Generations; and this not to depend ⟨p. 69⟩upon the pleasure of men whose minds may alter, but it hath pleased the Father, it dependeth upon the pleasure of the Father who is always the same, and whose good will to his people is unchangeable. There is a twofold fullness in Christ for his people here; besides his fullness of Glory which hath a reference to Eternity. There is a fullness of Merit, and a fullness of Spirit, 1. A fullness of Merit, in that full and perfect Righteousness which he hath wrought out for them, and which he doth impute unto them for their Justification. 2. There is a fullness of Spirit in Christ, the Spirit being given unto him without measure, which he doth impart and communicate unto them, for their Sanctification and Consolation. Christians you are empty, Christ is full; you are poor, Christ is rich; you are indigent, Christ is All-sufficient; and will not you love Christ, who is able to do for you, beyond what you are able to ask or think, and is as willing as he is able to supply all your Spiritual necessities? will you not love Christ who is an Overflowing & Everflowing •ountain of Good, who hath inexhaustible treasures of Graces and Comforts in him, which are set open before you, and unto you, and every day you may freely come and fetch such jewels ⟨p. 70⟩out of this Treasury, as are of higher worth and greater use than any Earthly Riches in the greatest Plenty and abundance?
5. Consider Christs fulness and All sufficiency. Such as have large and plentiful Estates, are greatly beloved by the poor and indigent, if they find them also to have large Hearts and open Hands ready to distribute unto their wants and necessities; none have such fulness and plenty as the Lord Jesus Christ, and none so willing to communicate of his fulness unto the wants of such as are poor in Spirit, and sensible of their need, Col. 1. 19. It hath pleased the Father that in him all fulness should dwell. There is not only Plenty in him, but fulness: not the fulness of the cistern, but the fulness of the Fountain; not the fulness only of sufficiency for himself, but the fulness of redundancy for his people; not some fulness for some things, but all fulness for all things that are good; not fulness for some time and to continue but for a while, but all fulness doth dwell in him, and abide for all his people throughout all Generations; and this not to depend ⟨p. 69⟩upon the pleasure of men whose minds may alter, but it hath pleased the Father, it dependeth upon the pleasure of the Father who is always the same, and whose good will to his people is unchangeable. There is a twofold fulness in Christ for his people here; besides his fulness of Glory which hath a reference to Eternity. There is a fulness of Merit, and a fulness of Spirit, 1. A fulness of Merit, in that full and perfect Righteousness which he hath wrought out for them, and which he doth impute unto them for their Justification. 2. There is a fulness of Spirit in Christ, the Spirit being given unto him without measure, which he doth impart and communicate unto them, for their Sanctification and Consolation. Christians you are empty, Christ is full; you are poor, Christ is rich; you are indigent, Christ is All-sufficient; and will not you love Christ, who is able to do for you, beyond what you are able to ask or think, and is as willing as he is able to supply all your Spiritual necessities? will you not love Christ who is an Overflowing & Everflowing •ountain of Good, who hath inexhaustible treasures of Graces and Comforts in him, which are set open before you, and unto you, and every day you may freely come and fetch such jewels ⟨p. 70⟩out of this Treasury, as are of higher worth and greater use than any Earthly Riches in the greatest Plenty and abundance?
