why should not a Christian be contented with a little seeing his little shall be blest unto him Gen. 26.12 Isaac tils the ground and sowes his seed and God blesses him with an hundred fold and Cain tils the ground Ch. 4.12 and sowes his seed but the earth is cursed to him and commanded not to yield to him his strength Oh therefore never let a Christian murmur because he hath but a little but rather let him be still a blessing of that God that hath blest his little and that doth blesse his little and that will blesse his little to him Again that little estate that a righteous man hath is most commonly a more lasting Prov. 15.16 ch 16.8 a more abiding a more permanent and a more induring estate than the great and large estates of the wicked are Psal 37.16 A little that a righteous man hath is better than the riches of many wicked One old piece of Gold is worth more than a thousand new Counters and one box of pearls is more worth than many loads of pibbles and one hundred pounds a year for ever is better than many hundreds in hand 'T is very observable the Psalmist doth not simply say the estate but the rich estate the riches not of one or a few but of many wicked are not comparable to that little that a righteous man hath From this word Hamon comes the word Mammon Luk. 16.9 the Hebrew word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Hamon that is here rendred riches signifies also a multitude or an abundance or store of riches a little that a righteous man hath is better than the multitude of riches or the abundance of riches or the store of riches that many wicked men have and he gives you the reason of this in the 17 v. For the armes of the wicked shall be broken but he upholdeth or under-props the righteous By the armes of the wicked you are to understand their strength their valour their power their wit their wealth their abundance which is all the arms they have to support and bare up themselves in the world with Now these armes shall be broken and when they are broken then even then will God uphold the righteous that is God will be a continual overflowing fountain of good to his righteous ones so that they shall never want though all the springs of the wicked are dried up round about them Oh Sirs there are so many mothes and so many dangers and so many crosses and so many losses and so many curses that daily attends the great estates of wicked men that they are very rarely long-liv'd ah how many in this great City are there that have built their nests on high and that have thought that they had laid up riches for many years and that have said in their hearts that their lands and stocks and trades and houses and pompous estates should abide for ever who are now broken in pieces like a potters vessel ah how often doth the pride the oppression the lying the cheating the over-reaching the swearing the cursing the whoring the covetousnesse the drunkennesse and the wantonnesse of the wicked cut the throat of all their mercies these are the wickednesses that as a fire burnes up all their outward enjoyments and that turnes their earthly paradise into a real hell 't is the wickednesse of the wicked that causeth their prosperity to wither and that provokes God to turn their plenty into scarcity their glory into contempt and their honour into shame 't is very observable that in the holy Scriptures the prosperous estates of the wicked are frequently compared to things of an abrupt existence to a shadow which soon passeth away Job 14.2 Ch. 21.17 18 Isa 29.5 to chaff which a puff a blast of wind easily disperseth and scattereth to grasse 2 Kings 19 26. Job 24.24 Ch. 15.33 ch 20.8 to grasse which quickly withereth before the Sun to tops of corn which in an instant are cut off to the unripe grape which on a sudden drops down yea to a dream in the night and what 's a dream but a quick fancy and a momentary vanity All the riches that the wicked gain either by their trades or by their friends or by their great places or by their high Offices or by their subtil contrivances or by their sinful compliances and all the honour they gain in the Court or in the Camp or in the School is but light and inconstant 't is but like the crackling of thorns under a pot they are fading vanities that commonly die before those that enjoy them are laid in the dust Oh therefore let all Christians be contented with their little seeing that their little shall outlast the large estates of wicked and ungodly men A man that hath God for his portion can truly say that which no wicked man in the world can say viz. Psal 23.6 Surely goodnesse and mercy shall follow me all the dayes of my life and I will dwell in the house of the Lord for ever The Psalmist doth not say that goodnesse and mercy should follow him a day or a few dayes or many dayes but that goodnesse and mercy should follow him all the dayes of his life the Hebrew word Radaph that is here rendered to follow signifies to persecute saith the Psalmist goodnesse and mercy shall follow me as the persecutor follows him he persecutes that is it shall follow me frequently it shall follow me constantly it shall follow me swiftly it shall follow me earnestly it shall follow me unweariedly the word signifies a studious anxious careful diligent following 't is a Metaphor that is taken from beasts birds of prey that follow and flie after their prey with the greatest cagernesse closenesse and unweariednesse imaginable Why thus should mercy and loving kindnesse follow David all the dayes of his life and if in a temptation he should prove so weak and so foolish as to run from goodnesse and mercy yet goodnesse and mercy should follow him like as the Sun going down followeth the passenger that goeth Eastward with his warm beams Oh but now the mercies of the wicked are short-liv'd Psal 37.35 36 37. though the wicked flourish and spread themselves like a green bay-tree one day yet they are cut down the next and there is neither root nor branch to be found tale nor tidings to be heard of them for in a moment they with all their greatnesse state pomp and glory are utterly vanished and banished out of the world And so Psal 34.10 The young lions do lack and suffer hunger but they that seek the Lord shall not want any good thing Young lions are lustie strong fierce and active to seek their prey and have it they will if it be to be had and yet for all that they shall lack and suffer hunger By young lions the learned understand First All wicked Rulers Prov. 28.15 Ezek. 32.2 men that are in the highest places
acted exercised strengthened and increased yea and the more your evidences for heaven will be cleared your gracious experiences multiplied your communion with God raised your way to glory facilitated and all your sufferings sweetned therefore never let noble precious thoughts of God die in your souls Though he frown upon thee O Christian yet say he is thy portion and though he chides thee yet say he is thy portion and though he corrects thee yet say he is thy portion and though he deserts thee and carries it strangely towards thee yet say he is thy portion and though he snatches many a mercy from thee yet say he is thy portion and though he multiplies thy burthens upon thee yet say he is thy portion and though he writes bitter things against thee yet say he is thy portion yea though he should passe a sentence of death upon thee yet still say he is thy portion O Christians this would still raise an heaven in your hearts if under all dispensations ' you would still look upon God as your portion and live upon God as your portion But Thirteenthly If God be a believers portion then never let a believer be afraid to die or unwilling to die See twenty Arguments in my String of Pearls to move you to be willing to die from pag. 169. to pag. 212. let them be afraid to die that have onely the world for their portion here and hell for their portion hereafter but let not a Saint be afraid of death that hath for his portion the Lord of life A man that hath God for his portion should rather court death than tremble at it he should rather sweetly welcome it than turn his back upon it for death to such an one is but the way to paradise the way to all heavenly delights the way to those everlasting springs of pleasure that are at Gods right hand Psal 16. ult the way to life immortality and glory and the way to a clear full constant and eternal fruition of God Bernard saith that he heard his brother Gorard when just in dying rejoyce and triumphingly say Jam mors mihi non stimulus sed jubilus Angustine upon those words Exod. 33.20 21. Thou canst not see my face and live makes this short but sweet reply Then Lord let me die that I may see thy face Death is a bridge that leads to the paradise of God all the hurt that it can do is to bring a believer to a full enjoyment of his portion When Modestus the Emperours Lieutenant threatned to kill Bazil he answered If that be all I fear not yea your Master cannot more pleasure me than in sending me unto my heavenly Father to whom I now live and to whom I desire to hasten Old Alderman Jordan used to say That Death would be the best friend he had in the world and that he would willingly go forth to meet it or rather say with holy Paul O Death where is thy sting triumphing over it What is a drop of vinegar put into an Ocean of wine what is it for one to have a rainy day who is going to take possession of a Kingdome Acts Mon. 813. A Dutch Martyr feeling the flame to come to his beard Ah said he what a small pain is this to be compared to the glory to come Lactantius boasts of the bravenesse of that spirit that was upon the Martyrs in his time our children and women not to speak of men saith he do in silence overcome their tormenters and the fire cannot so much as fetch a sigh from them John Noyes took up a fagot at the fire and kissed it saying Blessed be the time that ever I was born to come to this preferment Never did Neckarchief become me so well as this chain said Alice Driver when they fastened her to the stake to be burnt Mr. Bradford put off his cap and thanked God when the Keepers Wfie brought him word that he was to be burn't on the morrow Mr. Taylor fetcht a frisk when he was come neer the place where he was to suffer Henry and John two Augustine Monks being the first that were burnt in Germany and Mr. Rogers the first that was burnt in Queen Maries dayes did all sing in the flames and be of good cheer said the woman-martyr to her husband that was to suffer with her for though we have but an ill dinner on earth we shall sup with Christ in heaven and what said Justine Martyr to his murtherers in behalf of himself and his fellow-martyrs You may kill us but you can never hurt us Ah Christians how can you read over these choice instances and not blush and not be ashamed to consider what a readiness what a forwardnesse and what a noble willingness there was in these brave Worthies to die and go to heaven and to be fully possest of their God of their portion whil'st you shrug at the very thoughts of death and frequently put that day farre from you and had rather with Peter fall upon building of Tabernacles Mat. 17.4 Phil. 1.23 then with Paul desire to be dissolved and to be with Christ O Christians how justly may that father be angry with his child that is unwilling to come home and how justly may that husband be displeased with his wife who is unwilling to ride to him in a rainy day or to crosse the Sea to enjoy his company and is not this your case is not this just your case who have God for your portion and yet are unwilling to die that you may come to a full enjoyment of your portion But Fourteenthly and lastly If God be the Saints portion then let all the Saints give all diligence to make this clearly and fully out to their own souls 2 Pet. 1.5 6 7 8. that God is their portion Next to a mans having God for his portion 't is the greattest mercy in this world for a man to know that God is his portion and to be able groundedly to say with the Church The Lord is my portion saith my soul Now this is a work that may be done I suppose there is never a believer on earth but may attain unto this personal evidence and certainty of knowledge that God is his portion Heb. 10.37 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Here are two Diminutives in the Greek a little little while to note that God will not in the least delay his coming to his people express promises speaks out such a thing as this is Zech. 13.9 They shall call upon my Name and I will hear them I will say it is my people and they shall say it is my God so Ezek. 34.30 Thus shall they know that I the Lord their God am with them and that they even the house of Israel are my people saith the Lord Psal 9.18 For the patient abiding of the meek shall not be forgotten for ever God will as soon put the faith of reliance and the
overcome them for he is Lord of Lords and King of Kings and they that are with him are called and chosen and faithful If these Scriptures do not clearly evidence that the interest of Christ shall swallow up all other interests I understand nothing Now mark the people of God are the interest of God and the Gospel of God is the interest of God and the Ordinances of God are the interest of God and the institutions and pure worship of God are the interest of God c. And therefore all you that have an interest and propriety in God evidence it by your ready and resolute falling in with the interest of God Believe it they that fall in with the interest of God fall in with the strongest side and will be sure to carry it against ten thousand worlds What is the stubble to the flames what is weaknesse to strength what is impotency to omnipotency what is folly to wisdome what is emptinesse to fulnesse no more are all the carnal interests in the world to the interest of God and therefore thrice happy is that man that falls timely and cordially in with the interest of God But now if upon trial and examination any of you shall finde that yet the Lord is not your portion and this I believe will be the case of many of you I would exhort all such persons to labour with all their might yea to labour as for life to get the Lord to be their portion O Sirs this is the one thing necessary this is the Sun among the stars this is the work of works that lies upon your hands when this is done all is done till this be done there is nothing done that will do you good in another world O Sirs your lives lies upon it your souls lie upon it eternity lies upon it your all lies upon it and therefore you had need be restlesse till you have gained the Lord to be your portion Now that I may the more effectually provoke you and stir you up to this great and glorious this necessary and weighty work give me leave to propose these following Considerations First Consider that thy present portion thy present condition is but miserable and cursed Levit. 26. Deut. 28. All the earth was curst upon mans fall and till fallen man comes to be interested in God all his earthly enjoyments are curst unto him his honours are curst and his riches are curst and his preferments are curst and his pleasures are curst the whole portion of his cup is nothing but a little cursed vanity Job 20.23 24 25 28 29. When he is about to fill his belly God shall east the fury of his wrath upon him and shall rain it upon him while he is eating He shall flee from the iron weapon and the bowe of steel shall strike him through It is drawn and cometh out of the body yea the glistering sword cometh out of his gall terrours are upon him The increase of his house shall depart and his goods shall flow away in the day of his wrath This is the portion of a wicked man from God and the heritage appointed unto him by God And so Chap. 24.18 He is swift as the waters their portion is cursed in the earth he beholdeth not the way of the Vineyards Prov. 3.33 The curse of the Lord is in the house of the wicked Mal. 2.2 If ye will not hear and if ye will not lay it to heart to give glory unto my Name saith the Lord of hosts I will even send a curse upon you and I will curse your blessings yea I have cursed them already because ye do not lay it to heart There is a real curse and a secret curse an invisible curse and an insensible curse that lies upon all their souls that have not God for their portion Gal. 3.10 Cursed is every one that continueth not in all things which are written in the book of the Law to do them And as there is a curse upon all their souls so there is a curse upon all their comforts contentments and enjoyments that enjoy not God for their portion till a man comes to enjoy God for his portion all his earthly portions are curst unto him but when a man comes to enjoy God for his portion then all his earthly portions are blest unto him O Sirs there is no mitigating of the curse there is no reversing of the curse there is no altering of the curse nor there is no taking of the curse from off your souls nor from off your earthly portions but by gaining God to be your portion O Sirs you will live accursed and you will die accursed and you will appear before God accursed and you will be judged and sentenced by God accursed and you will be sent to hell accursed and you will remain to all eternity accursed if God be not your portion and therefore O how should this Consideration awaken every sinner to give God no rest till he hath given himself as a portion to him But Secondly Consider this that there is yet a possibility of attaining God to be thy portion Mark 14.36 Luk. 18.27 all the Angels in heaven and all the men on earth do not know to the contrary but that God may be thy portion even thine If thou art but heartily willing to be divorced from that wicked Trinity the World the Flesh and the Devil there is no doubt but God will be thy portion O Sirs why hath God laid open so clearly and so fully the nature and incomparable excellency of this portion above all other portions before you but to perswade your hearts and to draw out your souls to look after this portion and to make sure this portion as that wherein all your happinesse and blessednesse lies O that you were wise to consider that now a prize an opportunity is put into your hands that may make you for ever you have all the wayes and all the means and all the helps and all the advantages imaginable for the obtaining of God to be your portion so that if God be not your portion I shall be so bold to tell you Hos 13.9 that your destruction is from your selves O Sirs though God be a golden Myne Pro. 2.2 3 4 5 6 7. yet he is such a Myne that may be come at if you will but dig and sweat and take pains to purpose though he be a pearl of infinite price yet Christ can purchase this Pearl for you though he be a matchlesse and incomparable portion yet he is such a portion as may be yours as will be yours if you are not wanting to your own souls Why hath God sent his Ambassadours early and late and why hath he 2 Cor. 5.18 19 20. even to a miracle continued them amongst you to this very day but that they should acquaint you with his wonderful readinesse and willingnesse to bestow himself as a portion upon you Psa 105.8 Ephes
call upon my Name and I will hear them I will say it is my people and they shall say The Lord is my God O Sirs as ever you would have the great and glorious God for your portion plead out this noble promise cordially with God plead it out affectionately plead it out fervently plead it out frequently plead it out beleevingly plead it out resolutely plead it out incessantly O Sirs this choice promise is an hive full of heavenly honey 't is a paradise full of sweet flowers 't is a breast that is full of the milk of consolation Isa 66.11 and therefore be still a sucking at this breast be still a pleading of this promise follow God with this promise early and late follow him with this promise day and night Luk. 18.1 to the 9. v. follow him with this promise as the importunate Widow followed the unjust Judge and give him no rest till he hath made it good to your souls that he is your God and that he is your portion and that he is your salvation and that he is your all in all O tell him that above all things in this world your hearts are set on this to have God to be your God to have God to be your portion O tell him that you cannot tell him that you dare not tell him that you may not and tell him that you shall not be satisfied with any thing without God with any thing below God with any thing on this side God with any thing but God and therefore humbly intreat him and earnestly beseech him to be your God and to be your portion But Fourthly If you would have God for your portion Deut. 32.9 Jer. 12.10 Zech. 2.12 then you must be willing to be his portion God is resolved upon this that he will be no mans portion that is not willing to be his you must make a resignation of your selves to God if ever you would enjoy an interest in God you must be as willing to be his people as you are willing to have him to be your God you must be as much at Gods dispose as earthly portions are at your dispose or else there will be no enjoying of God to be your God God will ingage himself to none that are not willing to ingage themselves to him he that will not give his hand his heart to God shall never have any part or portion in God O Sirs as ever you would have God for your portion it highly concerns you to give up your selves to God with highest estimations and with most vigorous affections and with utmost indeavours according to that precious promise Isa 44.5 One shall say I am the Lords and another shall call himself by the name of Jacob and another shall subscribe with his hand to the Lord and sirname himself by the name of Israel God stands upon nothing so much as the giving up of your selves to him nor he is taken with nothing so much as the giving up of your selves to him Seneca do Benesic l. 1. I have read of Aeschines who seeing his fellow-scholars give great gifts viz. gold silver and jewels to his Master Socrates and he being poor and having nothing else to bestow he gave him himself which the Philosopher most kindly accepted esteeming this present above all those rich and costly presents that his other Scholars had presented to him and accordingly in love and sweetnesse he carried it towards him So there is nothing that God accepts loves likes and esteems like the giving up of a mans self unto him this is a present that God prefers above all the gold silver and sparkling jewels in the world Well Sirs remember this Such as are not as willing to say Lord we are thine as they are to say Lord thou art ours such shall never have God for their portion But Fifthly If you would have God for your portion then you must take up Christ in your arms and treat with God upon the credit of Christ there is no acquaintance with God Ephe. 2.16 Heb. 2.17 Col. 1.20 21. Ephes 1.6 7. there is no reconciliation to God there is no union nor communion with God there is no re-admission into the presence and favour of God without a Mediator God out of Christ is incomprehensible God out of Christ is exceeding terrible Heb. 12.9 an absolute God is a consuming fire and therefore sayes Luther Nolo Deum absolutum Let me have nothing to do with God himself The blood of Christ the blood of the Covenant is that and onely that that can cement re-unite and knit God and man together Themistocles understanding that King Admittus was highly displeased with him took up his young son into his armes Plutarch in Vita and treated with the father holding that his Darling in his bosome and thereby appeased the Kings wrath O Sirs the King of Kings is offended with you and upon the account of your sins he hath a very great controversie with you Now there is no way under heaven to pacifie his wrath and turn away his displeasure from you but by taking up Christ in your armes and by presenting all your suits in his name There is no Angel in heaven nor no Saint on earth that can or that dares to interpose between an angry God and poor sinners 't is only Christ Isa 9.6 the Prince of peace that can make up a sinners peace with God John 14.6 Jesus saith unto him I am the way the truth and the life no man cometh unto the Father but by me There is no way to the Father but by the meritorious blood of the Son Isa 33.14 there are none that can stand between everlasting burnings and us but Christ You shall not see my face except you bring your brother Benjamin with you said Joseph to his brethren so sayes God Sinners sinners you shall not see my face Gen. 43.3 6. except you bring Jesus with you except you bring Christ in your armes you shall never see my face with joy you shall never see my face and live There is a Writ of Vengeance that is issued out of the Court of Heaven against poor sinners and except Christ stops in they will certainly fall under an eternal arrest and be thrown into everlasting perdition and destruction But Sixthly If you would have God for your portion then you must break your league with sin you must fall out with sin if ever you fall in with God sin and you must be two or God and you can never be one there is no propriety to be had in God except your hearts rise against that which first dis-united and dis-joynted you from God sin and you must part or God and you can never meet You shall as soon make an accommodation between light and darknesse 2 Câ—â— 6.14 ult heaven and hell noon and midnight as ever you shall be able to make an accommodation between God and sinne So long
he did more wickedly than the very heathen whom the Lord abhorred in all his actings he seemed to be the first-born of Satans strength and yet the Lord freely bestowed himself as a portion upon him and so Ezek. 16.6 8. When I passed by thee and saw thee polluted in thine own blood I said unto thee when thou wast in thy blood live yea I said unto thee when thou wast in thy blood live Now when I passed by thee and looked upon thee behold thy time was a time of love and I spread my skirt over thee and covered thy nakednesse yea I swore unto thee and entered into a Covenant with thee saith the Lord God and thou becamest mine And so Isa 46.12 13. Hearken unto me ye stout-hearted that are far from righteousnesse I bring neer my righteousnesse it shall not be far off and my salvation shall not tarry and I will place salvation in Zion for Israel my glory Solomon Mary Magdalen Mathew Zacheus the Gaoler and the murderers of Christ were all very great and grievous sinners and yet the Lord bestowed himself as a portion upon them and so God bestowed himself as a portion upon those monstrous and prodigious sinners that are mentioned in 1 Cor. 6.9 10 11. whose souls were red with guilt and as black as hell with filth God hath been very good to those that have been very bad and therefore do not despair O sinner though thy sins are very great I have read a Story concerning a great Rebel that had made a great party against one of the Roman Emperours Joh. Bodin Com. weal. and Proclamation being sent abroad that whoever could bring in the Rebel dead or alive he should have a great summe of money for his reward the Rebel hearing of it comes and presenting himself before the Emperour demands the sum of money proposed the Emperour bethinking himself concludes that if he should put him to death all the world would be ready to say that he did it to save his money and so he freely pardoned the Rebel and gave him the money Here now was light in a dark Lanthorn here was rare mercy and pity in a very Heathen And shall an Heathen do thus and shall not the great God who is made up of all loves of all mercies of all compassions of all goodnesses and of all sweetnesses do much more certainly he will If the greatest Rebels if the greatest sinners will but come in whilst the white Flag of grace and mercy is held forth they shall finde a marvcilous readinesse and forwardnesse in God not onely to pardon them but also to bestow not onely money but himself as a portion upon them The greatest sinners should do well to make that great Scripture their greatest companion Psal 68.18 Thou hast ascended on high speaking of Christ thou hast led captivity captive thou hast received gifts for men yea for the rebellious also but to what purpose hath Christ received gifts spiritual gifts gracious gifts glorious gifts for men for the rebellious why 't is that the Lord God may dwell amongst them But Thirdly I answer that God hath given out an expresse promise that he will make such to be his people which were not his people Hos 2.23 I will have mercy upon her that had not obtained mercy and I will say to them which were not my people Thou art my people and they shall say Thou art my God In this precious promise God hath ingaged himself to have a most sweet harmony and a most intimate conjunction and communion with such a people as were not his people But Fourthly I answer that God gains the greatest glory by bestowing of himself as a portion upon the greatest sinners There is nothing that makes so much for the glory of free grace and for the exaltation of rich mercy and for the praise of divine goodnesse and for the honour of infinite fulnsse as Gods bestowing of himself upon the greatest of sinners O Sirs grace appears never so rich nor never so excellent nor never so glorious as when it triumphs over the greatest sins and when it falls upon the greatest sinners Grace never shines nor never sparkles nor never becomes so exceeding glorious as it doth when it lights upon the hearts of the greatest sinners The greatest sinnes do most and best set off the freenesse and the riches of Gods grace there is nothing that makes heaven and earth to ring and to sound out his praises so much as the fixing of his love upon those that are most unlovely and uncomely and as the bestowing of himself upon them that have given away themselves from him And 't is further observable that the greatest sinners when once they are converted do commonly prove the choicest Saints and the rarest Instruments of promoting the honour and glory of God in the world The Canaanites were a wicked and a cursed generation They were of the race of cursed Cain they were given over to all whoredome witchcraft and cruelty they offered their sons and daughters to Devils they were the very worst of sinners they were without God and without the Covenant and counted dogs among the Israelites and such an one was the Canaanite woman that you read of in that Matth. 15 21-29 till the Lord made it the day of his power upon her soul but when the Lord had brought her in to himself ah what a rare Christian did she prove for wisdome zeal humility self-denial love courage patience faith c. And so Mary Magdalen was a notorious Strumpet a common whore among all the harlots none to Mary Magdalen Mark 16 9 and she was one out of whom Christ cast seven Devils and yet when she was changed and converted Luke 7. O with what an inflamed love did she love the Lord Jesus Christ and with what a burning zeal did she follow after the Lord Jesus and how abundant was she in her lamenting and mourning after the Lord Jesus Christ Joh. 20. Some report that after our Saviours resurrection she spent thirty years in weeping for her sins in Galba And Paul you know was a very grievous sinner but after his conversion O what a rare what an eminent what a glorious instrument was he in bringing of souls to Christ and in building up of souls in Christ 2 Cor. 11. O what a noble drudge was he for Christ O how frequent O how fervent O how abundant was he in the work of the Lord c. And indeed in all ages the greatest sinners when once they have been converted they have commonly proved the choicest Saints and the rarest Instruments in the hand of God for the advancement of his glory and the carrying on of his work in the world I might instance in Luther and divers others but that I hasten to a Close And therefore Fifthly I answer that of all sinners the greatest sinners do undoubtedly stand in the greatest need of having of God for their