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A75538	Instructions about right beleeving: severall sermons leading unto Christ, directing unto faith, and incouraging thereto. Shewing the nature, measure, and necessitie of the sense of sinne. Christ the bread of life, a sufficient remedy for mans misery; with the way and meanes to obtain him; as also incouragements to come to him, from his abilitie and readinesse to give full soule-satisfaction. / By John Archer, Master of Art, sometime preacher of All-hallowes Lumbard-street. London.	Archer, John, Master of Art.	1645 (1645)	Wing A3613; Thomason E289_8; ESTC R200123	50,561	92

exprest So as cannot be conceived This Mercy farther appeares If we Consider that which also this Doctrine teacheth us it cost God and Christ somewhat before they helped Soules Christ must be bread That is not his up doing it But much must he doe and indure before he was fited for it As Bread doth before it become Bread Therefore we are the more bound to Him for his undertaking the Worke of Our Redemption And to God the Father For Giving Him to that Worke If a King should appoint his Sonne and his Sonne undertake to save Traytors onely by comming to the Prison fetching them out it were worthy of much Thankes But much more when the Sonne by much paines and cost shall doe it Ioseph procured Bread for Egypt But Cbrist was made Bread 2. USE For Incouragement to Such as droope in the Sence of their Misery and want of Life I may say to such of you as be amazed with the Sence of your Misery by Sinne As Iacob to his Sonnes Gen. 42. 1. 2. Why doe ye looke one upon another Behold I have heard that there is Corne in Egypt c. Whatever you want whether Gods Favour Or Image The Life of Comfort Or of Grace despaire not For God hath provided Bread for you I and ye need not be affraid to come to this Bread and take it For he loves to have People eate of Him as will clearely appeare by this which also followes from this Point Viz That Christ Came from Heaven for this End To recover Sinners out of their Misery And to helpe them to live For that is the End of Bread It is not directly for any other use It is so of Christs Comming Math. 18. 11. For the Sonne of Man is come to save that which was lost Iohn 3. 17. For God sent not his Sonne into the World to condemne the World but that the World through Him might be saved And Chap. 12. 47. I came not to judge the World but to Save the World Therefore they that feele their need of him need not feare Comming to Him or question his helping of them It was the End of His Comming and the Use God cheifly put Him to Therefore he will not be averse from it Hence it was in that Math. 18. 11. Having told them that this was the End of His Comming to Save He by a Parable shewes them what Ioy it was to Him to save any one How can He but joy in making good the End of his Comming Therefore they that droope in a Sence of their Misery and dare not goe to Christ for helpe doe not knowe Christ Nor the Mistery of his Incarnation Nor the End of his Comming That it was to Releive the Afflicted Learne it now therefore and come confidently to Him for Helpe He cannot but with all readines entertaine thee and the Opertunity of making good the End of his Comming Therefore in Scripture Christ was greedy of any opertunity to releive a distressed Soule And did not quench the smoaking flax c. Math. 20 most meeke and gentle and easily intreated therefore a Dove sate on him in His first Instalement into his Office This is a maine thing that is taught in the Gospel and may be observed through the whole Story that Christ with abundance of gentlencs willingnes entertained incouraged all that in sincerity came to him for helpe Feare not then Christs rejecting thee so thou have a right desire to him but presse him if he seeme to deny thee as the Woman did Marke 7 27. 28. Let not want of Life or Weakenes hinder thee for he came to helpe such as bread is for the empty and weake Therefore say ye as Moses Exod. 16. 15. 16. This is the bread which the Lord hath given you to eate c. 3. USE Vse 3 To teach us how much we should esteeme prize Christ and Labour for Him even as hunger starved people doe for Bread Israell desired a cruell Bondage for Breads sake Exod. 16. 3. the Egyptian bondage frō which they were freed And they Ioh. 6. 24 26. How did they follow Christ from one Coaste to another for Loaves What did Egypt doe for Bread-Corne not Bread nor fitted to their hands Gen 41. 55. They cryed to Pharaoh for bread And Cap. 47. 14. They parted with all their Mony for bread And Ver. 17. They parted with all their Cattle And Ver. 20. They parted with their Land And Ver. 23. They sould Themselves Would ye so doe for Christ ye should have him Isay 55. 1. Ho every one that thirsteth come yee to the waters and he that hath no mony come ye buy eate yea come buy wine milke without mony and without price and why should ye not since He is Bread not bread corne but ready fitted to your hands How did all Nations flock to Egypt Gen 41. 57. Because Bread Corne was there And why flock ye not to Christ since He is the Bread of Life Doe ye not manefestly give him the lye who calls Himselfe Bread And yee who so much care for Bread as if ye call it to mind ye did lately in the Famine yet prize not not care to get Him Though it may seeme not desirable as Bread oft doth to Children therefore when it is given them they cast it away Yet consider the case of your Soules hunger-starved And He the Bread of Life That I may quicken ye up to prize esteeme Christ Christ is better thē any bread in many perticulers more Consider in how many Perticulers He is better then any other Bread 1. Other Bread onely supports Life it doth not give Life as ye all knowe But Christ is a Bread that gives Life to them that be dead and therefore is called the Bread of Life Iohn 6. 53. 54. 57. 2. Other Bread preserves Life but for a while Gen 3. Eate it till thou turne to dust It doth but repreive as it were till an other Sessiōs It Corrupts and keepes not the Body from Corrupting But this Bread gives Eternall Life Iohn 6. 50. 51. This is the Bread which commeth downe from Heaven that a man may eate thereof and not dye But live for ever Therefore Christ by this Argument perswades them to prefer this before other meate Iohn 6. 27. Labour not for the meate which perisheth but for that meate which endureth unto everlasting life which the Sonne of man shall give unto you 3. Other Bread helpes but the Body in Point of Life and but in an earthly Life But this helps the Soule Body and that in a Spirituall Life 4 Other Bread is not enough to Life but with that there must be other things even in this sence is that true Man lives not by bread alone Therefore ye have Sampson not complaining of danger of Death for want of Bread but Water But this Bread is Allsufficient It alayes Hunger Thirst both as is in the Text Yea Its Wine Milke fat Things

Esay 55. 5. Other Bread may be kept from you or tooke from you when you need it and usually is ratest to be had when we most neede it as in Famine As Ponds which be full in Winter when we need no Water but dry in Summer when Water is most needed But this Bread None can keepe nor take away It s Ever free plentifully to be had 6. Other Bread oft costs deare and is not every ones Mony as in Dearths But the Price of This as ye shall fee heerafter is onely the Receiving it the Comming Taking and Eating as it s in our Text and It s free for any without restraint or limitation of Persons 7. Other Bread may possibly have somewhat found in its roome that may serve Nature though not all so well But this Bread can onely helpe our Soules None else can but this as ye heard in opening the Doctrine So that without this There is no Life to be had Now Considering all these Super-excellencyes in Christ Why should ye not prize Him and labour for Him more then for Bread remember what you did for bread in the dearth and doe more for Christ 4. USE Vse 4 To teach us That Christ is onely for hungry Soules Such as be sensible throughly of their Misery by Sinne and so Pant after a Remedy For therefore he is called Bread because It s onely for the hungry God hath provided him onely for such as ye heard before from Luke 5. 31 32. as the Table is spread for the empty not for the full For indeed none else desire prize or will receive him pleasant food is slighted by the full even the hony combe much more this which is hard of digestion and very grosse to Flesh Blouds pallat eye Therefore observe in Scripture who they were that so Prized Christ they were Soules hunger bitten with the sence of their spirituall Misery And who did slight him Who were they to whome God never gave him the Pharisees blind People who were not hungry after a spirituall Mercy as not being throughly sensible of a spirituall Misery And this is the very reason why Christ is so litle regarded in the World When one lookes in the Scripture and sees what Excellent Things are spoke of Christ and on the longing desires the Saints of old had after Christ and their abundant joy in Christ and looke now how slightly by how few he is esteemed one would thinke that which is writ of them is fabulous or they were foolish or our Christ is not the same Christ or why should he then be longed for and now being come and offred is despised But he ere is the truth of it He is Bread and they were hungry But now most are full Full with their Sinnes their Honours Profits Contents of this World and therefore care not for Christ And mervaile at the hunger bitten Soules which keepe such a doe for Christ But let all such knowe that Christ is not as yet for them God never prepared appointed or sent him for such but for the hungry as the Shew-bread was not for David himselfe but in case of great hunger Math. 12. 3. 4. If God had immediatly suddenly conveyed Christ to sinnfull Soules then might he have been injoyed by you without being first hungry But since he gives him as Bread you must so take him that is first being hungry This is the reason why many eate this Bread Christ and be never the better because they eate him without hunger first and soe digest him not but fill their Soules with crudy Humors Security Presumption c. which kill the Soule Let an hungry Soule eate of this Bread it exceedingly strengthens him to all Obedience filling the Soule with good Nourishment Spirits of Love Peace Hope Joy But if any that be not hungry doe eate of Christ that is apply him He is to them but as the foode to the Angells who were without stomacks Gen 18 8. they see 〈…〉 eate but eate not and so were never the better for it though the foode was good Hence the Soules of People be so starveling like though they oft injoy large Meales of this Bread Viz the Word oft preacht Sacraments oft administred because wanting Stomacks they onely seeme to eate but eate not If therefore ye How to get a hunger after Christ would be the better for Christ ye must get an Hunger which that ye may the better doe 1. Disgorge your Soules of that Surfet of Sinne earthly Vanityes which ye have taken in By Considering the vanity hurtfullnes of them 2. Get a strong Appetite to Christ Which is done Partly by drinking downe the Vineger of the Law eating the sower Hearbs By the Law laboring to see your Sinnfullnes Misery thereby And partly by looking into the Gospel and Christs Beauty and Desirablenes as Eve by Considering the Fruite was drawne to take eate it But I will not presse this because I have lately done it and shewed you how farr you must be Humbled the Signes Meanes of it All that I now say is this That as it was with the bitter Water in another sence So is it with Christ If they that hunger take eate him they are saved by Him If they that hunger not medle with Him It is their bane ruine Therefore thinke not those Preachers your enemyes who labor to humble you by pressing on you the Law and your miserable Estate by Nature for it is but to make you hungry and so fit for Christ the Bread of Life We are your Pastors Nurses and must seeke to get you Stomacks that ye may eate and not tread under foote this spirituall foode therefore thus and for this end to seeke to humble you is a part of our Duty Love to you should Preachers onely preach Christ to you it would but delude you for till you be hungry God will not give him nor will ye accept him because He is Bread Thus much for the First Thing in the Text The Description of Christ as the sufficient Remedy of Mans Misery THE SECOND THING in the TEXT Is The secōd Thing in the text the Meanes by which this Christ This Remedy of our Misery may be had That is by Comming to Christ He that comes to Me shall never hunger This is farther exprest in the Text by an other word Viz Beleeving in him So that comming to him and beleeving on him is all one and the same and he that comes to Christ or beleeves in Christ shall obtaine Christ and get him for else he could not be kept from hungring thristing as the Text saith he shall be And in other Scriptures This which is the Meanes by which Christ may be had is exprest in other words As Iohn 1. 12. A receiving Christ for there receiving Christ beleeving on him is made all one and receiving Christ is the meanes of geting Christ or else he that

that ye will not have all groūd of Hope Mercy to be in God and none in your Selfe For observe it you will not goe that way which makes you ground your Salvatiō onely on Christ and not at all in your Selfe but you must see somewhat in your Selfe before you will beleeve And partly it is not daring to venter your Soules on Gods bare Word but you must see somewhat done by him in you before you will credit him For though He saith that Whoever comes to Christ and beleeves in Him shall be Saved Sanctified yet you will not beleeve till you find he hath sanctified you and so dare not trust his Word and therefore it is that the Scripture makes every Vnbeleever to make God a Lyar Consider that 1. Ioh. 5. 10 of Thomas Iohn 20. 25. The Disciples said we have seene the Lord But he said except I shall see the print of the nayles and put in my fingers I will not beleeve then Verse 29. Iesus said because thou hast seene me thou hast beleeved blessed are they that have not seene me and yet have beleeved Yea farther By this meanes you hinder the shining forth of Gods free Grace For whilst that you will not First beleeve but first will be able to doe somewhat you make not Christ Heaven a free Gift nor can it be free Grace in God and so not seeing Gods free Grace ye doe not so magnifie Him as else you would nor find such sweetenes in the Gospel nor be so incouraged as ye might be but sinke perplexe wound your Soules by feares discouragemēts which indeede be groūdles Also you hinder your owne Certainty Assurāce For whilst you ground your Beleeving on somewhat in your Selfe and not onely on Gods free Promise Word of Truth It being grounded partly at the least on your Selfe who change it is uncertaine chāgeable By all this I beseech you see your Error who being so much humbled as is requisite labour for Humiliation Holynes c. and doe not first cheifly labour to Beleeve Objection It may be Objected by some But I have indeavored this Way as you teach and have beleeved and yet I find not Christ Holynes follow after Answer 1 I Answer First it is not possible to Beleeve in the least measure or degree but Christ Salvation must be had because God hath absolutely promised it to Beleeving And the Spirit Sanctification must be had for these be as inseperable as Light from the Sunne but these things be not ever sensible to them that Beleeve 1. Because they doe not knowe consider the first least weakest workes of Christ in the beleeving Soule but onely judge themselves by the more full strong workings of Christ in the Soule In trying the truth of Faith take the weakest Evidences so they be sure though rest not there for that true Grace will never doe as if a Man judgeth Life onely by walking eating he may thinke a Man that sleepes is dead 2. Because the Act of Faith is not strong enough to put forth it Selfe very sensibly as the Acts of the Soule in a Swound inasmuch as there is not a frequēt accustomed acting and exercising Faith till by practise the Heart is setled in it 3. Because there is not a reflect Act a Considering what it is to Beleeve and that thou hast so done and then a drawing the comfortable Conclusions to thy Selfe that flowe thence and from Faith a reasoning to quicken thee up for Faith produceth its Effects by reasōing As thus If Christ hath suffered in the flesh then must I make the flesh suffer in me If Christ rose againe then must I rise to newnes of Life If Christ loved me so as to give Himselfe for me Then shall not I love Him so as to give my Lusts for Him c. Let these Things be observed and there is none that doe in the least measure truly Beleeve But they shall find Christ Salvation made theirs Secondly I Answer If thou hast indeavored to Beleeve and yet obtainest not Christ It is not because this is not the way the onely Way Meanes to get Him But because thou hast not Beleeved thou hast not gon this Way nor used this Meanes rightly Therefore thou must not give over this Way but labour to find it out If there be many Pathes in a Feild and but one that leades to the House a Man is going to and he have gon to the end of one Path and finds not the House It is a good reason why he should thinke that is not the right Path and so seeke it out but no reason why he should leave that Feild and betake himselfe to āother for in that Feild onely is the Path So it is no reason that thou shouldst cease striving to Beleeve and take to some other Course but labour to find out what it is to Beleeve and then care to doe that And as this Doctrine shewes their Error who labour to Repent to be Holy c. and not first to Beleeve So it also shewes their Error who finding a decay in their Soules of Grace and an increase of Sinne cease their Faith and lay it aside and take to some other Course Whereas the onely way meanes for them to recover themselves is to recover strengthen increase their Faith for Faith is the onely Meanes to Christ Salvation 2. USE Vse 2 For Exhortation To exhort ye all to labour above all things to Beleeve that is To entertaine Christ and resigne up your Selves to Christ in all his Offices to be saved through them Mind this Worke most of all for it is the all in all to your Salvation Thus did Paul Phill. 3. 8. 9. Yea doubtles I count all things but losse for the excelency of the knowledg of Christ and doe count all but Dunge that I may winne Christ And be found in him not having mine owne Righteousnes which is of the Law but that which is through the Faith of Christ This is a worke I commend to you and Command you in Gods Name It is Gods Worke that which he most chargeth on you under the Gospel Iohn 6. 29. doe yee make it your cheife worke You that take up your Thoughts Hearts most with the World with the Honours Pleasures or Profits thereof I might exhort you to beleeve for till you doe it you cannot be saved but you are to farr off from Faith yet You are to be exhorted to get Preparations for Faith your Hearts to be so affected by the Law with a sight of your Sinnes and Misery by it that ye may be brought to thirst after Christ and willing to entertaine him on any Conditions Mind ye this above all because without this ye cannot come to Faith that onely brings Christ Salvatiō This Worlds Honours Pleasures Profits cannot give you Christ nor Salvation and why then shall they be prefered minded sought

which Christ is freely tendered to every one on the tearmes of beleeving and labour to beleeve Therefore against all malitious suggestions of Satan and against all carnall reasonings of thine owne Heart boldly indeavour to rely on Christs Merrit for thy Justification and so doing thou shalt be saved Thus reason with your Selfe Doth God freely offer Christ to save all that entertaine him and requireth nothing but our accepting him why then should not I venture my Soule on him and rest Confident How can the God of Truth but be as good as his Word And if he be so how can I but obtaine Salvation by Christ if I trust in Christ I would beleeve a Man whome I thought honest upon his word and shall I not God when I have his Word Oath 2. I am to speake to another sort of People Viz Such of you as mind not Christ at all or if you doe yet not so much as to let him raigne over you but are still bent on your Lusts your old former Wayes Yee are they who yet mind some thing in the World to much and are not willing to entertaine Christ for your King Be ye now exhorted to receive him and let him raigne over you He may be had upon these Tearmes even by you for he is free for every one on these tearmes therefore entertaine him let the World your Lusts goe and choose Christ Reason thus with your Selves Is not the Love of the World enmity to God so that He that is a friend to the World must be Gods Enemy The Things of the World they are but perishing uncertaine insufficient Helpers Comforters And as for my Lustes Wayes are they not deceitfull vanishing damnable Is not the Fruite of every Sinne Shame and the Wages Death must I not leave them get Pardon for them or goe to Hell Why then shall I prefer the World Sinne before Christ And as the Jewes in an other case choose Barrabas a Murderer and let Christ goe At the Day of Judgment I shall need Christ But how can I thinke Christ will owne me heerafter if I now will not owne him and let him rule over me Will he not one Day bid me depart and say He knowes me not if I be a Worker of Iniquity Wherefore since Christ is so free that I may receive him as well as any other so that I will but renounce all my sinnfull wayes and give up my Selfe to Him I will so doe What 's the World my Lusts to Heaven Christ which thus I may have Oh! that ye would be perswaded this Day to abandon the World your Sinnes and Entertaine Christ for your Lord King Doe it when as you heare that if you now accept Christ ye shall be wellcomed and though hitherto ye have been great Sinners Yet now if ye abandon your Lusts and embrace Christ ye shall have him given and all that is past freely forgiven Oh! why will ye neglect so great Salvation Doe not so but doe this Receive Christ and now doe it doe not defer the doing this But now make this Covenant with Christ even this Day at this Time Covenant in your Spirits with Christ that you will accept Him in all his Offices to be yours and give up your Selves to be his and rest on him for your Salvation Now I say doe it whilst it is called too Day and defer not if now you will indeavor to doe it Christ will helpe you forward Incline to this happy worke and the ministry of the Gospel shall promove farther you It is the Ministry of the Spirit and not of the Letter Gods Spirit accompanyes it both to worke in you a Will to doe thus and to Helpe them that are willing doe indeavor it But if ye shall defer Christ and excuse your not Comming and put him off ye can expect no other returne but that Luke 14. 24. For I say unto you that none of those men which were bidden shall tast of my Supper and ye may well feare it shall fare with you as with the Israelites who because They would not accept Gods offer enter Canaan when he tendred it allthough a while after they would have done it and did indeavor yet God would never let them come into it Where Gods Mercy is most free he is usually most quick severe and they that may will not goe free are served as the Servant that might and would not Deut. 15. 16. 17. No after Yeares of Jubile could free them Remarkeable is the Speech of Francis Spira one of whome I told you before when he languished under the torture of his Conscience for preferring the World before Christ Oh saith he that I could but hope in Gods Mercy Oh! what would I give for one of those sweete Motions of Gods Spirit to incline me which I have had before slighted A pittifull Case and yet the like and worse may yours be if ye neglect or defer to take Christ now that he is offered to you all Therefore if ye have any sence or apprehension of Things Spirituall Eternall to Come If ye have any feare of Hell or desire of Heaven If any respect or reverence to God who thus condescends stoopes low so as to Offer Christ Salvation to you and Invite you to come take it Be Exhorted to Come Beleeve in Iesus Christ But if all this will not move you then breifly Consider what the Lord saith in his Word where Christ is offered and not received Oh! how fearefull is that Peoples State 1. They are in a more Speciall desperate subjection to Sinne then others For Light is come into the World and such Men Loved Darkenes rather then Light because their deedes are evill Iohn 3. 19. Christ Who is set for the rising againe of many is set also for the fall of others Luke 2. 34. 35. And for a signe which shall be spoken against that the thoughts of many Hearts may be revealed And heerein the Iniquity of Sinne is discovered 2. They must Perish you heard before how they that were Invited and Came not should not tast of the Supper Therefore 2. Thes 1. 7. 8. The Lord Iesus shall be revealed from Heaven with his mighty Angells in flaming Fire to take Vengance But on whome On them that knowe not God and Obey not the Gospel of our Lord Iesus Christ And the same Apostle tells us If the Gospel be hid it is to them that perish 2. Cor. 4. 3. Such shall call for Christ Mercy as Pro. 1. 24. c. but shall be answered Him ye would not have Such shall have in them as much feare of Christ as of God and as much danger from Christ as from God For Christ will be Wroth and will certainely Have those his Enemyes which would not that he should raigne over them brought slaine before Him Luke 19. 27. Christ the Lambe will be wroth and such

shall be the day of his wrath so great terrible as that men shall say who shall be able to stand therefore unbeleevers of all rankes Kings Great men of the Earth Rich men and the Cheife Captaines Such as now dare looke Death in the Face shall then Call to the Mountaines Rockes to fall on them to cover them from that Wrath Revel 6. 15. 16. 17. And how can Such want ruine When the Gospel shall Iudge them as Christ tells you it shall doe those who heare it and doe not beleeve Iohn 12. 47. 48. The Word that I have spoken the same shall Iudge them at the Last Day And Such shall not onely perish but Perish worse thē Others The Gospel is a Savour of Death unto Death to them 2. Cor. 2. 15. 16. They are dead allready but shall dye worse They are fallen in Adam but shall fall farther Luke 2. 34. Therefore that Place is very Considerable Math. 10. 12. to 16. And when ye come into an house salute it And if the house be worthy let your peace come upon it but if it be not worthy let your peace returne to you And whosoever shall not receive you nor heare your wordes when ye depart out of that house or city shake off the dust of your feet Verily I say unto you It shall be more tolerable for the land of Sodome Gomorrha in the day of Iudgement then for that Citie Thus much for the third Thing in the Text Viz the Persons that may use these Meanes and so obtaine Christ Now the Last followes THE FOURTH Last THING in the Text is The 4. Thing in the Text. the MOTIVE by which People are perswaded to use this Meanes and so get Christ This Bread of Life The Allsufficient Remedy of Mans Misery That is taken frō the great Benifite that by so doing will redound to thē As appeares by these Wordes Shall never Hunger Shall never Thirst Whoever Comes to Christ or Beleeves in Christ shall never Hunger nor Thirst As Bread alayes Hunger So doth this Bread This Christ And that in a better manner then Bread doth For 1. Bread alayes Hunger not Thirst But Christ alayes Hunger Thirst more appetites then Bread doth 2. Bread alayes but for a while Christ alayes for ever Paralell to this latter is that Iohn 4. 13. 14. Whosoever drinketh of this Water shall thirst againe But whosoever drinketh of the Water that I shall give him shall never thirst Where the Comparison is made and Christ in this Respect is prefered For the understanding this Yee must knowe that although in some regard as ye shall see heerafter this may be taken Litterally in some regard of the Body that they that Beleeve in Christ shall never hunger nor thirst Yet Cheifly this is to be taken Metaphorically so largely and so including the Litterall Corporall Sence and the meaning is this That all their Wants shall be supplyed all Desires alayed satisfied But this is exprest by not hungering thirsting because of following the Metaphors of Bread Water by which Christ is exprest Hungering Thirsting are painfull Desires of some necessary good Thing that 's wanting the one of Meate the other of Drinke for the good of the Body Now every Person having a reasonable immortall Soule hath many great Desires which be as so many Hungerings Thirstings Now by Christ all these Desires shall be alayed by supplying all his Wants and Christ is had by Beleeving This is the Meaning The Doctrine arising hence is DOCTRINE Doctrine Whoever Beleeves in CHRIST shall have all his WANTS supplyed and so all his DESIRES alayed and his SOVLE fully satisfied He shall be sent away with a Compleate Satisfaction as the hungry Man when he is filled with Meate or the thirsty Man with Drinke The Point is plaine expresse in the Text If there were no other Proofes we might build our Faith on it But there are Divers This was Prophesied off under the same Metaphors Isay 49. 9. 10. That thou maist say to the Prisoners goe forth to thē that are in darknes shew your selves they shall feede in the wayes their pastures shall be in all high places they shall not hunger nor thirst neither shall the Heate nor Sunne smite thē for he that hath mercy on thē shall lead them even by the springs of Waters shall he guide them To which Christ hath reference Revel 7. 16. 17. Tbey shall hunger no more neither thirst any more c. And is in expresse wordes promised Ier. 31. 14. 25. And I will satiate the soules of the Preists with fatnes and my people shall be satisfied with goodnes saith the Lord And Verse 25. I have satiated the weary soule I have replenished every sorrowfull soule And so Ier. 50 19. I will bring Israell againe to his Habitation and he shall feede on Carmel Bashan and his soule shall be satisfied upō mount Ephraim Gilead And therefore it is affirmed as made good by in Christ Luke 1. 53. He hath filled the hungry wih good things therefore Psal 34. 8. 9. 10. The Beleever who is after exprest by the effects of Faith fearing seeking God is said to be Blessed and why because He shall want no good for that is Blessednes Thus much is also inplyed in Isa 55. 1. 2. 3. by Beleeving in Christ which is ment there by Comming Buying c. they shall come to injoy all good things that be requisite to their wellfare and so Consequently shall have All desires alayed Therefore it is that as all our Desires are in the Text exprest by Hūgering Thirsting so Christ is exprest by a Feast in Scripture and tipified by the Manna Rocke that yeilded Rivers of Water in the Wildernes to shew that as by comming to a rich full Feast there is a supply of all the wants an alaye of all the desires of an hūgry thirsty Man So by Beleeving in Christ all the Wants of People are supplyed and all their Desires alayed Therefore Math. 5. 6. They which Hunger be Blessed because they shall be Satisfied If not Satisfied they be not Blessed REASONS Reasons The Reason is grounded upon a two fold Proposition First That Beleeving possesseth a Man of Christ He that Beleeves in Christ hath Christ and is one with Christ Therefore as ye heard before Beleeving is compared to a Marrying and to an Ingrafting into Christ That looke as a Woman married to a Man injoyeth him as her owne and a Science grafted injoyeth possesseth the Tree for its owne So Whoever beleeveth in Christ Injoyeth Possesseth Christ for their owne Christ is the Gift of God Iohn 4. 12. and Faith is a receiving of this Gift Iohn 1. 12. Now as a Man that hath received a gift doth possesse injoye it as his owne So Beleevers receive Christ given of God and so injoye possesse him as their owne