The Godly Man's Picture

2. If we are prizers of Christ, we cannot live without him; things which we value, we know not how to be without: A man may live without music, but not without food. A Child of God can want health and friends, but he cannot want Christ: In the absence of Christ he saith as Job, I went mourning without the Sun, Job 30. 28. I have the star-light of creature-comforts, but I want the Sun of Righteousness. Give me Children (said Rachel) or I die, Gen. 30. 1. So saith the Soul, Lord give me Christ, or I die; one drop of the Water of Life to quench my thirst: Let us try by this, do they prize Christ, who can make a shift well enough to be without him? Give a child a rattle, and it will not mind gold: If men have but worldly accommodations, corn and wine, they can be well enough content without Christ: Christ is a Spiritual Rock, 1 Cor. 10. 4. Let men have but oil in the cruse, they care not for honey out of this Rock: If their Trading be gone, they complain, but if God takes away the Gospel, which is the Ark wherein Christ the Manna is hid, they are quiet and tame enough: Do these prize Christ, who ⟨p. 64⟩can sit down content without him?

2. If we are prizers of Christ, we cannot live without him; things which we value, we know not how to be without: A man may live without musick, but not without food. A Childe of God can want health and friends, but he cannot want Christ: In the absence of Christ he saith as Iob, I went mourning without the Sun, Iob 30. 28. I have the star-light of creature-comforts, but I want the Sun of Righteousness. Give me Children (said Rachel) or I die, Gen. 30. 1. So saith the Soul, Lord give me Christ, or I die; one drop of the Water of Life to quench my thirst: Let us try by this, do they prize Christ, who can make a shift well enough to be without him? Give a childe a rattle, and it will not mind gold: If men have but worldly accommodations, corn and wine, they can be well enough content without Christ: Christ is a Spiritual Rock,