We shall Appeal unto thee (whose eye is fixed on this full Book of Grace) Is not fullness in other things a Conquering golden Argument? Did not Josephs treasure of Corn prevail with good old Jacob and his Sons to go down into Egypt? And shall not this one Gospel Joseph (who alone is the ⟨image 3⟩Bread of Life that once came down from Heaven to feed hungry souls) engage thee (almost famished) to come unto him for this Staff of Life, that thou mayest live? Were they not the Floods of milk and honey that did run down the Promised Land, that did set the Israelites teeth on edge to be there? And shall not the overflowings of Christs heart in heaven towards sinners on earth, make thee to hunger and thirst after his Righteousness, who is the Lord our Righteousness? Was it not the Abundance of Solomons natural wisdom (which was as a constellation of Stars in his Crown) that invited the Queen of Sheba to travel from the utmost parts of Arabia to kneel before his Throne? And is there not a greater then Solomon here? who is the brightness of his Fathers glory, and the express Image of his person, full of grace and truth? Oh where, where then are the Spiritual actings of thy Soul upon him! Abraham's Faith was a very lively, vigorous, and a more then conquering Faith; when the Sentence of Death was apparent on the head of the Mercy, and the womb leading to it, and is thy faith like a tree twice dead, plucked up by the roots? God forbid. Oh remember the fullness of the Infiniteness of all Perfections that are originally in the Lord! being able to fill up all the empty chinks, void places, the unsatisfied gaspings and yawnings of the vast Spirit of-man. We shall seal up all with the Evangelical words of that voice of Christ echoed in a wilderness, as the great Motive of all Motives, The Kingdom of Heaven, of Grace, of Christ, and all his Benefits, is at hand, hath approached. ⟨image 4⟩Therefore Believe, Repent: Blessed is that Servant whom his Lord when he cometh shall find so doing.
We shall Appeal unto thee (whose eye is fixed on this full Book of Grace) Is not fulness in other things a Conquering golden Argument? Did not Josephs treasure of Corn prevail with good old Jacob and his Sons to go down into Egypt? And shall not this one Gospel Joseph (who alone is the ⟨image 3⟩Bread of Life that once came down from Heaven to feed hungry souls) engage thee (almost famished) to come unto him for this Staff of Life, that thou mayest live? Were they not the Floods of milk and honey that did run down the Promised Land, that did set the Israelites teeth on edge to be there? And shall not the overflowings of Christs heart in heaven towards sinners on earth, make thee to hunger and thirst after his Righteousness, who is the Lord our Righteousness? Was it not the Abundance of Solomons natural wisdom (which was as a constellation of Stars in his Crown) that invited the Queen of Sheba to travel from the utmost parts of Arabia to kneel before his Throne? And is there not a greater then Solomon here? who is the brightness of his Fathers glory, and the express Image of his person, full of grace and truth? Oh where, where then are the Spiritual actings of thy Soul upon him! Abrahams Faith was a very lively, vigorous, and a more then conquering Faith; when the Sentence of Death was apparant on the head of the Mercy, and the womb leading to it, and is thy faith like a tree twice dead, plucked up by the roots? God forbid. Oh remember the fulness of the Infiniteness of all Perfections that are originally in the Lord! being able to fill up all the empty chinks, void places, the unsatisfied gaspings and yawnings of the vast Spirit of-man. We shall seal up all with the Evangelical words of that voyce of Christ eccho'd in a wilderness, as the great Motive of all Motives, The Kingdom of Heaven, of Grace, of Christ, and all his Benefits, is at hand, hath approached. ⟨image 4⟩Therefore Believe, Repent: Blessed is that Servant whom his Lord when he cometh shall finde so doing.
