The Godly Man's Picture

7. If we are prizers of Christ, we will be willing to help others to a part in him; that which we esteem excellent, we are desirous our friend should have a share in: If a man hath found a Spring of water, he will call others that they may drink, and satisfy their thirst. Do we commend Christ to others? Do we take them by the hand, and lead them to Christ? This shows how few prize Christ, because they strive no more that their Relations should have a part in him: They get land and riches for their posterity, but have no care to leave them the Pearl of Price for their portion.

7. If we are prizers of Christ, we will be willing to help others to a part in him; that which we esteem excellent, we are desirous our friend should have a share in: If a man hath found a Spring of water, he will call others that they may drink, and satisfie their thirst. Do we commend Christ to others? Do we take them by the hand, and lead them to Christ? This shows how few prize Christ, because they strive no more that their Relations should have a part in him: They get land and riches for their posterity, but have no care to leave them the Pearl of Price for their portion.

8. If we are prizers of Christ, then we prize him in health as well as in sickness; when we are enlarged, as well as when we are straitened: A friend is prized at all times▪ the Rose of Sharon is always sweet: He who values his Saviour aright, hath as precious thoughts of him in a day of prosperity, as in ⟨p. 67⟩a day of adversity: The wicked make use of Christ, only when they are in straits; as the Elders of Gilead went to Jeptha when they were in distress, Judg. 11. 7. Themistocles complained of the Athenians, that they ran to him but as to a Tree, to shelter them in a storm: Sinners desire Christ only for a shelter: The Hebrews never chose their Judges, but when they were in some imminent