they in him as they are his and he Gods In him we are compleat Col. 2.9 10. And 3. In and through Christ in our persons in title and interest by promise as Abraham Isaack and Jacob did the Land of Canaan while yet they had it not in possession for Israel did not take away wrongfully the Land of Canaan from the Inhabitants they claimed but their own by the gift of him who is the Lord of all the earth and had sworn to give it them and so the Fathers that are said to dye in faith not having received the promises Heb. 11.13 are yet said to have received them Heb. 6.14 that is as to promise or covenant and the title that gave them thereto Thence too the believers are said to be heirs according to promise Gal. 3.29 4. In hope and expectation that being justified by faith ye might be made heirs according to the hope of eternal life which God that cannot lye hath promised before the world began Tit. 3.7 and 1.2 5. In usefulness and benefit all things working together for good to them that love him that are the called of God according to purpose Rom. 8.28 And so they that overcome and keep Christs words and keep with God are heirs of all things All that I have is thine Let us take a brief view or survey of their riches 1. God is theirs and all that he is not that he can be comprehended of and by them seeing he comprehends them and all things and is himself incomprehensible but by himself but he is their God their Father their Portion and Inheritance as to be worshipped and acknowledged by them so to inrich save and satisfie them The portion of Jacob is not like unto them he is the former of all things the Lord of Hosts is his name Jer. 10.16 and the Lord is my portion saith my soul therefore will I hope in him Lam. 3.24 I go to my God and your God my Father and your Father saith Christ John 20.17 an infinite portion for in having him we have infinite Wisdom to order and dispose of all things for us and our benefit and of us also for our own greatest happiness and to advise counsel and direct us in all our difficulties infinite power to effect and bring about what in the counsel of his will or wisdom he sees good to be effected and to prevent and hinder remove or destroy what he sees destructive to us infinite strength to bear up all things for us and us in all cases and to strengthen us in all services and sufferings infinite duration to continue and lengthen out our happiness for ever that we may never be deprived of it but enjoy it to eternity infinite goodness to lead him to exercise all his other attributes for our infinite and everlasting advantage infinite truth and holiness to perform all his words and promises to us c. and all this for us in and through Christ Jesus 2. Christ is Gods 1 Cor. 3.23 and he is theirs and all his infinite fulness I am my beloveds and my beloved is mine saith the Spouse Cant. 2.18 and 6.3 He that hath the Son hath life and he that abideth in the Doctrine of Christ that is that continueth in the belief and obedience of it He hath both the Father and the Son 1 John 5.11.2 2 John 9. and it s in having Christ that any man hath God his God and portion and hath all his fulness for him for he that transgresseth and abideth not in the Doctrine of Christ hath not God and it s in him he hath all things who hath and abideth in him even unsearchable riches in him infinite wisdom to order and manage all things with God for us and from God to over and about us and to direct and guide us in all conditions In him righteousness infinite and everlasting for presenting us just and acceptable in the sight of God and in him all the promises of God are yea and Amen affirmed and confirmed true and certain 2 Cor. 1.19 20. Isa 45.23 24. In him holiness infinitely for us and therein dedication to God and renewing into his image and likeness grace to make us holy and renew us and so to make us also Gods Inheritance his chosen generation Royal Priesthood Holy Nation peculiar people In him Redemption even forgiveness of sins through or in his blood Eph. 1.7 Col. 1.14 even infinite plenteousness of Redemption for redeeming us from all iniquities Psal 130.7 8. and so from all troubles miseries bondages death the fruits of sin lying upon us Psal 25.22 Yea even from bodily death and Grave yea from hell and destruction Rom. 8.23 Hosea 13.14 John 11.25 26. in him son-ship heir-ship title to the Inheritance John 1.12 Gal. 3.26 27. Yea in a word This is the record God hath given of his Son that God hath given us eternal life and this life is in his Son he that hath the Son hath life and he that hath not the Son hath not life 1 John 5.11 12. 3. God hath an infinitely Holy Spirit which he hath put upon Christ to bring forth Judgement to the Gentiles and this he also gives in and through Christ to them that obey him Acts 5.32 to help their infirmities teach and lead them into the knowledge of Christ glorifying him to them and so into all truth to bring his words to remembrance justifie them in their Consciences sanctifie and wash them in the Blood and Name of Jesus comfort them in their exercises tribulations and temptations be a Spirit of Holiness to and in them leading them in the way of and framing and quickning them to holiness teaching them to pray and groan after God and his Grace and Mercy in Christ for their helpfulness In a word to inhabit and dwell in them through the Word or Faith of Christ and be in them as a spring of living Waters springing up unto everlasting life and gifting them for usefulness to others and so to be as rivers of living waters flowing out of their bellies or inward man to seal them up also to the day of redemption and be to them the anointing and furnisher for Gods Service the earnest of conductor to and raiser up of their dead bodies to the enjoyment of the Inheritance Rom. 8.14.26 27. John 16.14 15. and 14.16 17 26. 1 Cor. 6.11 Isa 11.2 Gal. 5.16 Psal 143.10 and 119.37 and 51.10 11. Zech. 12.10 Eph. 2.22 and 5.18 19. with Col. 3.16 1 Cor. 12.7 John 4.14 and 7.37 38 39. 2 Cor. 1.21 22. Ephes 1 14. and 4.30 4. God hath an innumerable company of Angels to minister to him Dan. 7.10 11. and these are in and with Christ the Believers and Obeyers of him Pitching their tents about those that fear him to deliver and save them Psal 34.7 Bearing them up in their hands and keeping them in all their wayes Psal 91.11 12. Sent forth to minister to the heirs of salvation Heb. 1.14 Inâ—iâ—â—â—ing the
into that separation and with-drawing from his Father which brought upon him all this misery that befel him which now after so large a view taken of the elder Brothers state comes in the next place as the second Branch of this Text to be considered by us viz. CHAP. VIII The second state of wanderers from God in two Branches opened and applyed THE misery of departing and wandring from God implyed in these words This thy Brother was dead was lost a two-fold metaphorical expression to represent it by Let us briefly and but briefly consider them Branch 1. Was dead A sinner by leaving God and running after sin and Satan brings death upon himself becomes as a dead man So Solomon tells us too Prov. 21.16 He that wandereth out of the way of understanding shall abide in the congregation of the dead For as the Apostle saith also to the Believers Rom. 8.13 If ye walk after the flesh ye shall dye and it must needs be so for 1. With God is the fountain of life Psal 36.9 In his favour is liâ—e Psalm 30.5 and his eternal Word or Son is that eternal life that was with the Father in the beginning in whom was life and that was manifested in these last dayes more fully to us 1 John 1.2 with John 1 4. The Spirit of God is life and the spirit of life Rom 8.2.10 by whom God through Christ breaths in life and so this God this one Father Son and Spirit having life in himself gives life also to others as he pleases and hath given to all life and breath and all things and so in the beginning when he made man made him of the dust of the earth and breathed in him the breath of life and man became a living soul Gen. 2.7 both as his body and person was made alive in the world indued with breath sense motion and understanding and also as his soul or inward man being upright and having its dependance on God being in subjection to his Word and Spirit in his image and likeness and so in his favour while upright he was owned of him and in union with him and had peace and joy and spiritual life in himself as so deriving it from him but in departing from him his word and command which is life and tends to life also is death and man so doing he dyed Spiritually First as to the loss of the favour of God in which was his life and of his subjection to God and fellowship with his Word and Spirit the fountain and conveyor of life and he fell under his displeasure in and from which is death even the death of the spirit of man inasmuch as the favour and fellowship of God his Word and Spirit being withdrawn his life was withdrawn with them and inasmuch as it lay open to his anger to inflict misery upon it and so the inward state of the soul and spirit became unquiet dead without sense of the life of God the favour spirit and operations of his grace in it and was filled with fear shame guilt as the effects of the life withdrawn and misery deserved and exposed to and then bodily death as to its principles entred and so the sentence for dying at Gods pleasure bodily and for ever had not mercy looked upon man and prevented followed also Gen. 2.17 and 3.18 19 Rom. 5.12.18 2. But God rich in mercy looking back upon his prodigal Son man here devised his recovery and to that end sent his Son or Word that eternal life that was with him and made him flesh and in that flesh mortal and under the sentence of death that was upon man and accordingly delivered him up to death for our Sins who by his death destroyed him that had the power of death that is the Devil and swallowed up death from off the nature of man as it is in him and filled it with immortallity and eternal life so as he having dyed dyeth no more death hath no more dominion over him but the fulness of the God-head dwells in him bodily and all the fulness of his favour grace and blessing in which is life yea and the Spirit of Life is in and upon him so as he also in dying and by his death inasmuch as it was sustained by him for us even for all men hath obtained a release of all men from under that first Death and Judgement in which all universally and alike were condemned to dye as it did and must have stood upon us without his interposing and hath the ordering of Death and Grave and Hell in his hand and dispose with power and authority to bring us thereout and enliven and quicken soul and body yea and invest them with immortality and eternal life as pleases him he being in himself and for mankinde the resurrection and the life the deliverer and the raiser and the only ground or foundation cause and effector of the Resurrection in others either as to soul or body and the life quickning them and in which they being quickned live John 11.25 Yea in him is and God hath given to us even to the same us whom he commands to believe which is all men or men indefinitely eternal life so as that in partaking of him we partake of the Resurrection and are raised up in and by him in our spirits and partake of life spiritual life and so whosoever believeth in him though dead in himself is enlivened by him and shall live and being made alive in believing and going on yet to believe shall not dye shall not lose this life that he hath in and by him for ever but is alwayes in the raised state as to his state spiritually and shall be so at the last day bodily too and so alwayes in the favour of God in which is life in a justified state from sin and wrath curse and death and in a state of acceptation with God and heir-ship to the life promised further of God in and by him and hath his interest in and fellowship with God the fountain of life and the Spirit of God and its influences who is the Spirit of life and gives and upholds life as it is said He that hath the Son hath life and he that hath not the Son hath not life and so as all mankinde are in a released state from the destructiveness of the first death as in and of it self and in a possibility of life because in the hand of Christ where is life even spiritual and eternal life yea both for soul and body as in a root and fountain for them and communicable to them so all such of men as in hearing and receiving the Word and Doctrine of Christ which is called the word of life and life Acts 5.20 John 6.63 Prov. 4.13 because Christ objectively is in it as the matter of it set forth in and by it and his Spirit which is life and the Spirit of Life accompanies it and breaths in it are therein by the
not of his spirit that they may adde sin to sin Isa 30.1 2 15. When God calls to return to him they have no breath desire sense of motion after the things in him But we will ride upon horses say they and flee upon the swift and as in Hos 5.13 When Ephraim saw his sickness and Judah his wound then went Ephraim down to Assyria and sends to King Jareb c. No motion towards God but from him and therein 6. As from a dead body there issues forth filth and stinch blood and matter sometimes that is loathsome and abominable and makes it unfit to be amongst the living so is it with dead souls devoid of the life of God as Psal 14.1 2 3. The fool or fallen man fallen from God and Christ saith in his heart there is no God there 's his voidness of spiritual life sense or motion or faith towards him as also in that Rom. 3. â—2 There is none that understandeth none that seeketh after God but then beside it follows Corrupt are they and have done abominable works there is none that doth good no not one they are all become filthy or as in the Margin stinking loathsome And as in Rom. 3.13 Their threat is an open Sepulchre nothing breaths out thence but putrifaction and filth and stench things abomâ—nable to God and unacceptable to God and good men When the Doctrine of God and the Spirit of God and Christ are gone once and the savour of his Grace lost though there may be yet too a form of Prayers Fasting and outward formalities and observances yet then they are all dead works Heb. 9.14 as a menstruous cloth a filthy thing The sacrifices of the wicked are an abomination to the Lord Prov. 15.8 and 21.27 Isa 1.11 13 14. and unpleasing to men unsavory to those that are spiritually men indued with sense reason and understanding nay often gross prophaneness and debauchery issues from them 7. And then as dead bodies they are separated from the living from the living God and his living Houshold and Family God cannot endure to look towards them with any delight or likement of them or have them in his sight or presence they are condemned of him loathed and detested as to their dead estate by him cut off from him and and his justifying and approving Grace and then objects of his anger or displeasure as any evil or vain Spirit may bring them before him or make them come as dead carkasses possessed with evil spirits into his sight 2. And so if they be not through some miraculous mercy revived they be dead as to body not only in that they must as all others come to a natural death in the appointed time but often are also exposed to in danger of and sometimes taken away by judicial deaths as either in some judgement or testimony of wrath from God as Pharaoh when drowned in the Red Sea Saul conquered by the Philistines and slaying himself and many of the Rebellious Israelites destroyed in the Wilderness or else as sometimes by some judicial deaths from men as Zedekiah and Ahab whom the King of Babylon rosted in the fire Jer. 29.22 The two Malefactors that were put to death with Christ God sometimes permitting and in anger against his people for their voluntary goings from him giving them up so far to their own hearts lusts as Psal 81.11 12. as to suffer them to fall into notorious sins such as bring not only shame but exemplary punishments by death also or however persisting they dye in their sins as to their bodies also yea and if by these things mercy be not extended so as to turn them to God and pull them out of spiritual death there follows at length 3. Eternal death of body and soul wholly cast out and separated from God and from his presence into everlasting misery and torments both in souls and bodies for ever in which is both a perfect loss and deprival of all good things both bodily and spiritual and also a perfect and eternal subjection to all misery and mischief pain sorrow and unspeakable torment upon soul and body for ever a sad and doleful portion of the workers of iniquity and of those that having been quickned up to a spiritual life let it slip again and depart from it by going away from the Doctrine of Christ and so from Christ and the Holy Spirit and so finally persist but this last was through mercy here prevented This is one expression of the sad estate of the sad estate of such persons The wages of sin is death Rom. 6.23 The other is Branch 2. He was lost The word say some Criticks here translated Lost is at the best of a harsh signification 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 at the best to dye yea to dye by some miserable way to perish as in this parable I perish with hunger ver 17. and so the expression of coming to himself implyes that he was extinct for a time fainted and dyed away through hunger but that the mercy of God revived him he had quite perished which is worse then simply dead perisht as we properly say of those that dye of hunger and cold and are lost for want of help or looking to he being gone away from them that used to look to him or with reference to the other Parables where whatever the Criticks say the same word is used of the sheep and groat lost â—o as not forthcomâ—ng or found and so being a loose Son he was not only a loser but quite lost himself too Such the fruit of mens sinning and wandring from God Let us view it in some particulars 1. He was a loser though that 's not all he lost his Father and his Fathers house his portion and patrimony his enjoyments he was wont to have and his brother yet had all that entertainment food rayment harbour shelter lodging attendance respect and honour which he had in his Fathers house formerly these and all things of that nature were wholly lost and gone from him and from his enjoyment and interest and is this nothing for sinners to lose both livelihood and life yea such a livelihood and such a life as God in Christ is and gives such safety satisfaction content rest and refreshing hope and rejoycing as his Word and Spirit and Christ in and by both and God in and by all give to the abiding soul to lose a most sweet secure satisfying and abiding livelihood and life it cannot be expressed to lose a Kingdom with all its contents But 2. He was lost himself he was gone quite out of all these things and out of the way to them again as a sheep lost out of its pastures He was not to be found either in his Fathers house or Fields under none of his promises under no engagement of his shelter or protection in no way of his or of his servants and peoples walkings He was gone and so are sinners out of all Gods paths and so
from all Gods promises of protection mercy or blessing and so lay open to any danger that might befal him only meer undeserved yea uningaged mercy in God and Christ prevented his being actually torn in pieces and devoured for ever but as he was sound in none of Gods paths so he had no engagement from God that he could challenge to keep him from destruction even from dropping into Hell and everlasting damnation The servants of God might seek for him in the house of God amongst his Saints and Holy Ones but not finde him they might seek him in any of the wayes of the righteous and not finde him nay nor God nor his abiding Brethren could finde him there though they never so diligently seek for him 3. He was lost no endeavour or dispensation of God met with him for a time to work upon his heart and conscience and so in that sense to finde him out He was dead and deaf to all means used for a great while these many years saith the elder Son toward him neither those gifts and enjoyments which he had received from his Father and which were riotously mis-spent by him found him so as to work upon his heart and make him remember his Father from whom he had them Jesurun waxed fat and kicked thou art waxed fat thou art grown thick then he forsook God c. Of the Rock that begot thee thou art unmindeful and hast forgotten God that formed thee Deut. 32.15 18. And she remembred not that I gave her her Corn and Wine and Oyl and multiplyed her Silver and Gold which she prepared for Baal saith God to back-slidden Israel Hos 2.8 Nor did the Famine brought upon the Land and the emptiness proved in all enjoyments and the defect of them the want he was reduced to the pains and afflictions he met with work upon him to remember his Father but he thinks of other wayes to get a livelihood rather then of returning to him again This people returns not to him him that smites them neither do they seek the Lord of Hosts Isa 9.13 And God did this and that evil to Israel yet they returned not to him saith Amos 4.6 7 8. they have stricken me but I was not sick they have beaten me but I felt it not sayes the besotted Sinner Prov. 23. â—5 4. He was lost so as he knew not which way to get back again nay he had not a thought to return he wandered after satisfaction indeed but knew not the way to it nor could attain it but was like those in Psal 107.4 5. That wandered in the Wilderness and found no way hungry and thirsty their souls fainted in them they had not a City of habitation Such his estate till mercy saved him 5. He was lost he was miserably perisht through many foul sins and filthy transgressions and lewd courses and by many sad convincements convictions checks and bangs of conscience and as it were Devils and evil Spirits renting and tearing out his bowels wringing him with inward pains and sense of hellish miseries perplexities fears horrors despairs quite brought down as it were into the pit of destruction Manifold sorrows or great plagues as the vulgar reads it shall be to the wicked Psal 32.11 Yea they shall multiply sorrows to themselves that hasten from God after another their drink offerings of blood will not Christ offer nor take up their names into his lips Will not mediate nor intercede for any acceptance of any of their services in which thus bent they seek deliverance from their horrors and terrible perplexities no not any of the works of righteousness of their own with which perhaps they would establish their hearts before God they being but as things thrown to Dogs 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or Swine as these husks in the spirits account Phil. 3.8 9. Oh the misery of departing from God All they that forsake thee shall perish Psal 73.27 and thou destroyest all them that go a whoring from thee 7. He was lost perisht without God without hope in God and Christ had no hope to uphold him nothing of his former gifts part portion would now relieve him it was all spent and gone he had consumed that with riotous living and nothing this Citizen to whom he had bound or joyned himself affords him could give him any comfort but despair and destruction seize upon him and swallowed him up as it were so that he might say as in Ezek. 37.11 As for us our hope is lost we are cut off for our parts Or as those Lam. 4.17 As for us our eyes as yet failed for our vain help c or as David The sorrows of death compassed me about the pangs of hell caught hold upon me I found woe and sorrow Psal 116.3 4. 7. He might be and sinners oft are lost and perisht as to this life by falling into some notorious evils fall under the law or into some loathsome and foul disease bringing him into death here in a perishing way for this world and all the mercy he might have had and enjoyed therein had he kept Gods wayes and not departed from them for so sometimes the word perishing or lost is meant of perishing or being lost men here cast and condemned at law sentenced to dye or utterly cut off from the land of the living and this is the way sometimes between the Bridge and the Water to finde mercy So the Disciples cried out to Christ Matth. 8.25 Master save us we perish that is we are lost as to our lives here 8. And unless he had perished thus perhaps he had perished worse even eternally from the presence of God and from the glory of his power so as to be lost and perisht for ever with the Devil and damned spirits in unutterable unbearable endless remediless miseries and destruction for sinners turned aside from God are in the way to this and this unless mercy prevent will be their issue Such is the portion of all that forget God and the Hypocrites hope shall perish See Heb. 2.3 and 10.29 30 c. Use And is not this a sad portion and who would turn from such a portion as the former to such a portion as this latter who but mad men would run from God to the Devil from all to nothing or from all that 's good to nothing but what is unspeakably bad and sad from Heaven and Happiness to Hell and Destruction what is there in the pleasure of sin or in the profit of it that can countervail either the pleasure or Profit of the former portion lost or the pain and misery of this portion incurred Oh what 's an inch of pleasure to an immeasurable pain a minute of sweetness to an endless bitterness yea if it were but a months or years but how much more to many years gall and wormwood a superficial appearance of delight to a real deep heart-sinking torment and distress how vain is the pretence of sin that we shall step but a
and of them to the spirits of just men made perfect to be their brethren followers of their faith and to be in the hope of and to have the title and way to their enjoyments and to God the judge of all to protect bless reward and satisfie them And to Jesus the mediator of the New Testament and to the blood of sprinkling that speaks better things then the blood of Abel to be prepared for kept and brought to the enjoyment of the Glory of God by him and in the vertues of that his precious blood Yea coming to Christ the living stone they are made living stones too and are built up a spiritual house and an holy Priesthood c. A chosen generation a royal Priesthood an holy Nation and a peculiar people to shew forth the praises of God who hath called them out of darkness into his marvellous light Heb. 12.23 24. 1 Pet. 2.5 9. Can there be a better state and condition in a word it s the same condition that the person is in that keeps to God and never departs from him a state of Son-ship to God of being ever with God and having interest in and benefit by all that is his for as Blessed is the man that is undefiled in the way and walks in the Law of the Lord so also Blessed is the man whose iniquities are forgiven and whose sins are covered Psal 119.1 and 32.1 2. Blessed is he to whom the Lord will not impute sin c. Both of them are in a blessed state and what can be better then blessed wherin is a removing of all evil and an estating in all that is good either as to the way to it or end attained Such is this condition Good in it self and then it s 2. It s good to others also as 1. To God in such a sense as any thing besides himself can be good to him not as if it added to him who is infinitely perfect in himself and not to be added to by any thing but good to him as its pleasing to him as a satisfaction to his love an attainment of his desired end in all his goodness expressed and testified towards the sinner at least so far as he hath attained He would have all men saved he hath no pleasure in the death of the wicked but rather that he turn and live He hath pleasure then that a wicked man turn and live Ezek 33.11 1 Tim. 2.4 That 's good then to God that 's pleasing or a pleasure and delight to him That that he is glorified in and by even his mercy and truth in Christ are herein glorified Psal 1 â—5 1. Such a person will praise him The living the living they shall celebrate or shew forth thy praises Psal 115.17 18. Isa 38.19 Yea and others will glorifie God in and for such a person as they did in Saint Paul Gal. 2.23 and his house and kingdom is hereby increased and the Kings honour is in the multitude of his Subjects Prov. 14.28 2. To Christ also upon all the same accounts It s matter of joy to him when what he labours for and in succeeds That his Plantation thrives and that any tree of his setting revives and prospers John 15.12 3. To the Holy Spirit for as God is love and Christ the Son of the Father in love and truth so the Spirit is the Spirit of Love and its a rejoycing to love when it hath what it may love and when what it loves succeeds and is well as he is grieved and vexed in his peoples ill-doing and rebelling so he is delighted in their well-doing and repenting Isa 63.10 11. Ephes 4.30 4. To the holy Angels who loving men and their good desire it and in such persons have their desire answered and the number of their blessed company in a sort increased Luke 15.10 Heb. 12.23 5. To their Brerhren whose number is added to or preserved from being in such diminished and whose spiritual desires breathings prayers and endeavours are herein answered and they may have benefit by them in mutual fellowship with them if here surviving or if not yet edification however in the beholding or here-say of the Vertues of Christ and his Sacrifice and the power of the Grace of God appearing in them in their dying 6. Yea to all other men its good either as making them fit to pitty pray for and seek the good of them and be useful to them or as affording inducement to them to repent also and seek God and hope in him and it cannot but be 7. Good to a mans self such and so happy a condition as in which is the confluence of all good to a man Now that that is good and so good surely it is meet that all that are good and love what 's good or may have good by it should rejoyce and be glad for it And so God makes this mirth here and a feast hereat for all that can and will be glad of it and we should make merry by exhorting and exciting all to gladness by all means we can upon such occasions 2. It is meet we should make merry and be glad on such an occasion because of the relation the sinner stood and stands in to us to God and his people especially This thy Brother and ver 24. This my Son Love will lead us to be glad for strangers or enemies if they come to good to what 's truly good to what 's spiritually and eternally good but how much more for a mans own near relation The Lord rejoyces in his works the works of his hands as being all as his works good and holy and just but how much more in man his choice work for whose sake he made and to whose good he ordered all the rest made in his own likeness and image and so his Son but yet how much more for and in those that were and are again Sons in his Son in his only begotten and beloved Sonâ— Those whom he begot with such desire and love as through the gift of his Son and his Son bare and brought forth with the travail of his soul poured out to Death and brought to be his Sons by the Word thereof and by his Spirit breathing therein and whom he nourisht up with the flesh and blood of his Son and vertues thereof Should not the Father rejoyce and make merry to see his Son and so dear a Son in a good condition And should not Brethren make merry and be glad at the preferment good or recovery of their Brethren Would it not be unnatural for Brethren not to rejoyce in love for one another when they do well very well and one as well as another and all well Shall the Angels not so related to us Men be glad of our good and shall not we Men for one another and especially for such as have been our whole Brethren and so are Yea and should not all the Servants be glad of the happiness of their Masters Sons with