you shall have peace of Conscience that passes understanding you shall have found Illumination and know God and Christ which is life eternall you shall have Christs wisdome Christs righteousnesse Christs sanctification Christ to be your Redemption you shall have the hidden Manna you shall have the white Stone you shall have the new name you shall be made a pillar in the Temple of God you shall be made a member of Christ you shall be made a Temple of the holy Spirit you shall have the Inhabitation of the Father and the Son and Spirit everlastingly in your soules would you have any thing that heaven hath that God hath that Christ hath come to Christ and you shall have it Againe Consider who it is that Invites you to Christ 't is not Moses 't is not Abraham 't is not Ahasuerush 't is not Hester but a greater then any of these a greater then all these when Moses spake to Pharaoh he prevailed with him to let the people goe to Mount Sinai Abraham and Lot prevailed with Angells to come in and eate and drinke with them Ahasuerush prevailed with the Nobles of 127 Provinces to come and feast with him Hester prevailed with Ahasuerush to shew mercy to Mordecai and the Jewes and to destroy Haman shall these prevaile and shall not the Lord Jesus Christ who is greater then all these prevaile Why Christ was greater then Moses Moses was a servant but Christ was a Son in the house Abraham rejoyced to see the day of Christ and he saw it Ahasuerush he was but an Earthly Prince but Christ is the Prince of life the Prince of all the Kings of the earth an eternall Prince Hester a poore captive and Christ is the Master of the marriage-feast And shall the Lord Christ now intreate Invite and beseech you to come in to come to him and will ye not hearken Pharaoh hearkens to Moses will not you hearken to Christ Angells hearken to Abraham and Lot will not you hearken to Christ Nobles hearken to Ahashuerush will not you hearken to Christ Ahasuerush hearkens to Hester and will not you hearken to Christ Let him that is athirst come come saith Christ 't is I that speake to you who am the Son of God who am the Saviour of the world who am the Everlasting Father who am the Lord of Glory who have Heaven at my dispose come come ô come in then to the Lord Jesus let not your sins let not Devills let not world let not your lusts keepe you backe from the Lord Jesus And what is it Christ calls you for why doth he Invite you is it for your hurt is it to upbraid you for your sin is it to check you for your infirmities is it to revile you and reproach you for any miscariages If it were so then you might demurre then you might argue the case then you might give a deniall but 't is for none of all these it is for your good and wholly for Your good God and Christ have no designes upon men as here men have designes one upon another If they invite you to a feast they have many times a designe upon you but God and Christ have no designes upon you 't is purely meerly totally for your good The Lord Invites you that you may pertake of his righteousnesse that you may have his wisdome his Spirit his fullnesse his Grace his Glory that you may be happie as he is happie Christ gets nothing by it you have all the gaine and all the benefit Againe Consider that Christs tendering himselfe unto you it is the greatest mercy that heaven hath to tender unto poore sinners what hath God in heaven now to doe your poore soules good withall besides Christ The Spirit comes not unless Christ send The Father hath promised him the sending of the Spirit But God he houlds out Christ to you God so loved the world that he gave his onely begotten Son c. 't is the greatest mercy I say that heaven hath to tender unto you And this day in the name of the great God I do tender Jesus Christ unto you all come in and receive Christ come in and receive Christ receive the Lord Jesus Christ to be your husband to be your King to be your Prophet to be your high Priest to be your Saviour to be all in all unto you and know that if you doe refuse and will not receive Christ now offered to you if you will not let goe your lusts your drunkenness whoredome envie malice slandering and the like if you will not let goe these for Christ your damnation will be upon your owne heads salvation is brought to your doores Christ is laid before you he is held out unto you The Golden Scepter this day is held out unto you ô receive the Lord Jesus Christ And if you doe not know you provoke God more in refusing of Christ then by all the sins that you ever committed This will be the sin that will be your damnation John 3. This is the Condemnation that light is come into the world and men love darknesse rather then light c. They love darknesse they love sin sinfull wayes sinfull lusts sinfull company and sinfull practises These you love this is The Condemnation when men will not receive Christ they make God a lyar and what an injurie is this to God that you will put the lie upon God as if God did not love the world as if God not hold out Christ to save sinners And if you receive him not you doe not bare witness to the truth of God and sett to your seales that God is true and so honour him Therefore be perswaded to come in and honour the Lord Jesus Christ What will make it so hard with those of Capernaum with those of Jerusalem at the last day but because Christ was their Prophet and there offered unto them and they would none of him We will not have this man to rule over us This is the Heire come let us kill him ô therefore it shall be easier for Sodom and Gomorrah at the day of Judgement easier it shall be for Constantinoble at the day of Judgement then for Stepney that will not leave your sinfull courses and fall in with Christ and live as Christ and looke for Glory hereafter Why you shall not be alwayes here and then comes an eternall condition and why will you loose Eternitie for momentary pleasures and momentary riches why will you loose Glory and loose all and have that which will a thousand times more aggravate your misery for had you not liv'd where the Gospel is preached when you come to die it would not have been so bad but when as you might have had Christ and might have had salvation and heaven and you have neglected this it will trouble you and lie sad upon you to all Eternitie and this will sinke you deeper into hell That mercy is your torment that mercy is your hell that mercy is
him who hath called us out of darkness into his marvellous light Therefore let us not walk after our own lusts but walk in the fear of God as the Churches did Acts 9.31 Yee are the children of the light 1 Thess 5.5 therefore let us walk in the light yee have a Spiritual life begotten in you who once were dead therefore let us walk in newness of life Rom. 6.4 let us walk in and after the Spirit Gal. 5.16 in good works Ephes 2.10 in love chap. 5.2 Circumspectly vers 15. yea let us walk honestly towards them that are without 1 Thes 4.12 Let us walk in the truth 3 Ep. Joh. 4. let us walk in the steps of good men Prov. 2.20 yea let us walk even as Christ himself walked 1 Joh. 2.6 And that me may do so let us mind our rule Gal. 6.16 and then we shall walk in some measure worthy of our Vocation Eph. 4.1 This will make much for the glory of God and Christ here in the World by it we shall adorn the Doctrin of God our Saviour Tit. 2.10 It will make much for the comfort and joy of him whom God hath set over us that watches for our souls Joh. 3.4 yea your holy walking and godly conversation may be a means for the conversion of others and bringing them in to Jesus Christ 1 Pet. 2.12 3.1 2. And by doing thus we shall not only maintain our Fellowship one with another but with the Father and the Son 1 Ep. Joh. chap. 1. Beloved Brethren I shall not need to put you on to the ready entertaining of these choice Truths that are here delivered they being already written in your hearts you cannot but receive them with joy and in so doing you answer the end and labours of him who is dear unto you that preacht them and likewise the end of him who did transcribe them Brethren farewell be perfect be of good comfort be of one mind live in peace 2 Cor. 1.12 and the God of love and peace shall be with you So prays your dear Brother who affectionately loveth you and is desirous to serve you in the Lord. R. VV. Errata PAg. 8. l. last r. back p. 19. l. 6. r. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 p. 23. l. last but one r. behold p. 62. l. 7. r. 14. p. 66. l. 6. r. the father l. 12. r. in Zech. l. 20. r. is p. 80. l. 13. after heads r. saying we shal befree l 20 dele have p 106. in marg r. proprieties l. last but one r. velleitie p. 107. l. 10. r. complaintive p. 110 l. 2. r no l 22 r power p. 1 11. l 2 r. of that is unknown p 112 l 26 27 r and is not like the Publican p. 115. l 4 5 r. all salvation is in him p. 122. l. 25. r lentile p 123. l last r bitter p. 125 l 25 make the Comma after the first it p. 328 l. 28 r break l 31 r required p 132 l 8. r are you hungry p 138 l 25 r hast forward p. 140. l 23. r come p 144 l 1 r hints of joy p 157. l. 26 r angry p 170 l 2 ◠room l 28 r will p 181 r Ahashuerosh p 186. in marg r. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 p 194 l 22 r here p 207. l. 4. r. you that are barren p 211 l 9 r have p 220 l 26 r club p. 323 l 26 r. acceptance p. 239 l 23. r let 's Christ the Root of all REV. 22.16 I am the Root and the Off-spring of David c. CHrist having sent his Angel to testifie several things unto the Churches Tells them what he is I am the Root and the Off-spring of David the bright and morning Star These words I am the Root and the Off-spring of David are a Riddle and a seeming contradiction For Christ to bee the Root of David and the Off-spring of David seems very improbable and contradictory much like that speech in the 22. of Matth. latter end where Christ said The Lord said unto my Lord If David call him Lord how is he then his Son They could not tell what to make of it So its probable when many read these words here Christ is the Root of David and the Off-spring of David too they know not how to untie this knot and to reconcile this seeming contradiction But if we plow with the Heifer of the Lord with his Spirit we many easily resolve it Christ is the Root of David as he is God in his Divine nature he is the Off-spring of David as he is man And in some sense Christ as he is man may be also the root of David For Christs Humane nature was as well in Jesse the Father of David as in David himself You see here Christ is termed a Root I am the root of David Of that I shall speak at this time and it is not in vain that the Scripture doth set out Christ by this expression a Root for there are sundry resemblances wherein the Lord Christ is like unto a Root First you know a Root is a thing hidden in the earth Wherein the resemblance lies between Christ and a Root secret and not obvious to any eye so the Lord Christ take him especially in his Divine nature that is a hidden thing As it s said of God He is the invisible God so of Christs Divine nature it is an invisible nature The Angels are not seen souls are not seen and God is not seen and the Deity of Christ was not seen It was hid under flesh under his humane nature And Christs humane nature Christ as man was a hidden thing Joh. 1.10 He was in the world and the world was made by him and the world knew him not The world did not know him to be the Messiah to be the root of David So in Joh. 16.3 These things will they do unto you because they have not known the Father nor me They have not known me Christ was not known but a hidden thing a secret thing like a root in the earth as he saith of the Spirit in Joh. 14.17 Whom the world cannot receive because it seeth him not neither knoweth him the world did not see the Spirit nor know the Spirit so the world did not see Christ nor know Christ why Christs humane nature Christ as man was hidden under afflictions under reproaches under poverty and meanness and under scorn and contempt so that he was a root in the earth he was a hidden thing 2 A Root hath life in it and the life is principally in the root of any thing so in the Lord Jesus there is life and life principally in him Joh. 5.26 As the Father hath life in himself so hath he given to the Son to have life in himself Christ hath life in himself principally and eminently as the Father had Joh. 1.4 In him was light and that light was the life of men In this Root was life in Christ was life 1 Cor.
you may see how they sparkle and send out their beams whereby they do dispel darkness so Christ having hid in him all the treasures of Wisdom and Knowledge he doth sparkle and send out his beams of Light whereby he doth dispel darkness and herein he is like to the Stars now Christ he sparkles and expels darkness by his Doctrin by his Miracles and by his Conversation First in his Doctrin the Lord Christ had the Spirit above measure and was full of Wisdom full of Grace full of Knowledge and hee gives out Divine truths sparkling truths truths that are very glorious he gave out the Gospel 2 Cor. 4.4 Lest saith he the light of the glorious Gospel of Christ the Gospel is glorious and full of light and it shines why it is the Gospel of Christ and in 1 Joh. 2.8 The darkness is past and the true Light now shines Christ is the true Light and he gave out the true Light the Gospel and saith he the darkness is past that is dispelled and driven away and the true Light shines Christ is a Star now upon this account that he sparkles in his Doctrin and dispels darkness Christ doth dispel the darkness of ignorance Matth. 4.16 The people which sate in darkness saw a great light when Christ came they saw â—â—en the darkness of ignorance and now this Star scattered the darkness and they saw a great light Hee scatters the darkness of wickedness of malice of corruption and sin in the hearts of men and women and in their lives Ephes 5.11 And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness but rather reprove them Here is light now brought to scatter the darkness of wickedness and of sin He scatters the darkness of death Luk. 2.29 Lord now lettest thou thy Servant depart in peace according to thy Word for mine eyes have seen thy Salvation saith old Simeon Now I fear no death nor the darkness of death Mine eyes have seen thy salvation Christ he came and he being the Salvation and the Consolation of Israel the darkness of death was no darkness unto Simeon He scatters the darkness of Afflictions 2 Cor. 4. For our light afflictions which is but for a moment worketh for us a farre more exceeding and eternal weight of glory While we look not at the things which are seen but at the things that are not seen when we look at Christ and the glory of Christ afflictions are no afflictions unto us so in 1 Cor. 5. for as the Sufferings of Christ abound in us so our Consolation abounds by Christ afflictions are no afflictions where this Light comes where this Star shineth so that Christ he gives in his Doctrin and expels darkness Christs Doctrin is a convincing Doctrin He shall convince men of sin of righteousness and of judgement so in Mat. 22. there he convinc'd them stop'd their mouthes Give unto Caesar the things that are Caesars and unto God the things that are Gods and they were all amazed at his Doctrin and Wisdom Christs light it was a distinguishing light Joh. 3. Verily verily I say unto you except a man be born again he cannot enter into the Kingdom of heaven so in Joh. 8. If Abraham were your Father you would do the works of Abraham but you are of your Father the Devil and his lusts you will do It is distinguishing Light His Doctrin is quickning and converting Joh. 6. The words that I speak are spirit and life His Doctrin is a comforting Doctrin full of comfort and consolation why this Star doth sparkle in the Gospel and there is abundance of glory and light therein so that Christ he is a Star upon that account So Secondly in his Miracles how did this Star sparkle there and fill the world with glory and light there Matth. 4.23 Jesus went about all Galilee teaching in their Synagogues and preaching the Gospel of the Kingdom and healing all manner of sickness and all manner of disease among the people and his same went throughout all Syria and they brought unto him all sick people c. His fame went throughout all Galilee and Syria and all the Countries round about And in Matth. 15. the Woman of Canaan comes to him and he healed her daughter and vers 30 31. Great multitudes came unto him having with them those that were Iame blinde dumb maimed and many others and cast them down at Jesus feet and he healed them insomuch that the multitude wondred when they saw the dumb to speak the maimed to be whole the lame to walk and the blinde to see and they glorified the God of Israel Here is the Lord Christ now sparkling in his power and Miracles and shewed himself to be a bright morning Star to be God indeed Thirdly Christ sparkles in his Conversation O how did this morning Star sparkle there 1 In his Humility how did hee shine there in the thirteenth of John Christ washes his Disciples feet and wipes them when hee had done Go saith he and do as I have done I that am your Lord and Master I have humbled my self to set you down and to wash your feet and to wipe them with a towel here is an example of Humility for you go and do as I have done 2 In his Meekness and Patience O how patient was Christ when they wronged him and abused him every way He was dumb as a sheep before the Shearer and opened not his mouth Matth. 11.29 Learn of me for I am meek and lowly 3 He sparkled in his Self-denial when they came to make him a King he would be no King he refused Honour and Greatness and Glory when they would have trumpeted his Fame hee forbad them and commanded them silence and to say nothing when they would have him to have divided the Inheritance among the Brethren he would not but denies himself yea he denied his own greatness in heaven 4 So likewise in his Obedience There he was a sparkling Star indeed never such obedience as the obedience of Christ Phil. 3. Hee humbled himself to the death of the Cross hee bare our infirmities he bare our sins he bare the wrath of God he was made an open shame and scorn O never such Humility as was in Christ he humbled himself to obey things contrary to flesh and bloud who would have obeyed as Christ obeyed when he had power in his hand and could have commanded twelve Legions of Angels yet he obeys unto death 5 So Christ he sparkles in his love to Mankind was there ever such love as Christ shews to the World Gods Love is set out with a So he loved the world and so hath Christ loved the world so as to dye for it Rev. 1.5 He hath loved us and washed us in his own bloud Did ever any Mother love the Childe so as to wash it in her own bloud Did there ever any Prince love his People so as to wash them in his own bloud But Christ hath so loved us as
of God is apprehended a man sees himself lost and undone this man is athirst now and this thirst is very troublesom unto him this is the nature and property of this Spiritual thirst it doth afflict and trouble the Soul 2 The nature of this thirst is that it is vehement it carries the Soul with a kind of vehemency after the thing thirsted for Give me children or else I dye there is a vehemency in the desire it makes the desire very violent earnest it is not a lasie sluggish desire as is in many Balaam desires to dye the death of the righteous the Sluggard lusteth and hath not that is a Voleitie as the School-men distinguish it from Voluntas but this is a vehement earnest desire saith Bartimeus in Mark 10. Jesus thou Son of David have mercy upon me he was carried out with a vehemency of spirit and when the Apostles and others charged him to hold his peace hee was more vehement Jesus thou Son of David have mercy on me he cries lowder so that this Spiritual thirst in the Soul is vehement and carries out the Soul with earnestness 3 This Spiritual thirst is Complanitive full of Complaints it cannot be silent 2 King 3.10 saith Jehoram there There was no water for the Host and for the Cattel that followed them And the King of Israel said Alas that the Lord hath called these three Kings together to deliver them into the hand of Moab And so in Numb 20.5 Wherefore have yee made us to come up out of Aegypt to bring us into this evil place it is no place of Seed or of Figgs or Vines or of Pomgranets neither is there any water to drink O wee are come into a place where there is no water so a Soul that hath this Spiritual thirst it complains and doth express it self Rom. 7. Paul there found sin in him that he was carnal sold under sin led Captive a Law in his Members warring against the Law of his minde and what saith he O wretched man that I am who shall deliver me he was thirsty now after deliverance and hee complains of his Corruption and inquires after deliverance so that a gracious Soul in this case it is complaining Psal 32.4 There David complains that his moysture was turned into the drought of Summer O when saith the Soul will this drought be taken a way and where where is there water to be had and where is there remedy the Soul is full of complaints 4 And lastly the nature of this thirst is such as that it is never satisfied without the Lord Christ A true Spiritual thirst is insatiable till it hath Christ himself saith Christ to the woman of Samaria I have water to give thee that thou having once drank shalt never thirst any more but it shall spring up as a fountain of living water in thee Lord evermore saith shee give me of that water A nd so Peter in Joh. 6. Thou hast the words of eternal life and to whom should we go O thou art a Fountain and thou art a Fountain of living waters Words of eternal life and to whom should we go wee will go to no other we are satisfied with thee Men that have Spiritual thirst will not be satisfied with honours with pleasures with gifts they will not be satisfied with any thing but the Lord Jesus Christ himself so then you see what this thirst is why it is required and the properties of it Application First of all is this thirst of this nature you have heard then here we may be informed there are few Spiritual thirsters it was in my thoughts to have made this an Observation and have prosecuted it but I rather referred it to the Use and here I say wee may see there are few Spiritual thirsters which I shall a little insist upon saith Christ here Let him that thirsteth c. If there be a man that thirsteth let him come So in Joh. 7.37 If any man thirst let him come unto me and drink And in the Philippians All men seek their own and no man the things of Christ there is no thirsting after Christ Now a little to insist upon this Few Spiritual Thirsters there are for few are afflicted in spirit few are sensible of the burden of sin so as to be afflicted in spirit Few have any vehement desires after Spiritual things few do complain of the corruption of their Nature few are restless till they have gotten Christ and are satisfied with him And to make it evident that they are few Consider First of all that a great number of men in the world are worldly and earthly minded these do not thirst after Christ no worldly no earthly-minded man is a Spiritual thirster after Christ the text is clear for it in Phil. 3.18 19. For many walk of whom I have told you often and now tell you even weeping that they are the enemies of the Cross of Christ whose end is destruction whose God is their belly and whose glory is in their shame who minde earthly things Mark those who minde earthly things are enemies to the Cross of Christ and do not Spiritually thirst after Christ no they are enemies to Christ Jam. 4. Yee Adulterers and Adulteresses know yee not saith he that the love of the World is enmity with God whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is an enemy to God If mens love be worldly and they earthly minded they do not thirst after Christ no they are enemies to God and Christ John tells you in his first Epistle ch 2.15 Love not the world neither the things that are in the world if any man love the world the love of the Father is not in him The love of the Father is not in him the love of Christ is not in him he hath no thirsting and desire after God and Christ Rich men 1 Tim. 6.9 Those that will bee rich pierce themselves through with many cares and sorrows and drown their souls in perdition Do these thirst after Christ no earthly minded man or woman hath any Spiritual thirst after Christ 2 None that do neglect the means of Grace do thirst after Christ and yet do not a multitude neglect the means they never read the Scriptures they never hear a Sermon or very seldom they never pray and do these thirst after Christ If they thirsted Spiritually after Christ they would use the means to come to Christ If a man were athirst he would use the means to get something to quench his thirst so if men do thirst after Christ they would read the Gospel study the Gospel call upon the name of God and Christ Jer. 10. Power out thy Wrath upon the men that call not upon thy name Now when men call not upon the name of God and Christ use not the means they are the enemies of God and Christ and wrath is their portion therefore you see whole Nations never looks after Christ multitudes in this place never look
backbite others Christ is none of thine the Scripture is clear none such shall enter into the Kingdom of Heaven therefore consider there is eternal woe for all those that dye in their Natural condition that have not this thirst in them after the Lord Christ and his Righteousness O therefore give no rest to God nor no rest to thy Soul until thou finde that thou art delivered 2 To you that are godly Direction to those that thirst after Christ and have some thirst in your Souls after Christ many times you grow luke-warm flat dead and secure you had need be quickned and to have your thirst stirred up in you and for that consider 1 Your own infirmities have you no infirmities is there no deadness dulness laziness how do you perform the Worship of God and the duties thereof Are you not more Carnal than Spiritual Do not your hearts wander Are you not sleepy are not you formal Do not you neglect many times your duty do not you come short surely these and many other things you know by your selves And whence came all these from the body of Sin from the Old man that is in you Paul he was sensible of this Rom. 7. he found a Law in his members warring against the Law of his minde he found he was Carnal sold under sin he found he was unspiritual and he is troubled at this and his thirst was increased what saith hee O wretched man who shall deliver me his thirst now is great Who shall deliver me I thank God through Jesus Christ I thirst after Christ and the coming of Christ to deliver me so that the serious consideration of your own infirmities and corruptions and the hinderances and cloggs and lets you have from them in your way of Christianity should cause your thirst to bee greater and greater daily 2 Consider what work you have to do and what little strength you have to do it Christians have a great deal of work to do here in the World they should pray continually they should stand and with-stand the Tempter and all his Temptations overcome the World work the Works of God they should side with Christ and his interest and help on the Gospel and the power of godliness they have their Lusts to mortifie and great things to do Now how will you do these saith Christ Without me you can do nothing will not you thirst after Christ now and strength from him and assurance from him and new influences from him and more of his Spirit daily Many do act in their own strength and therefore so little good comes thereof We pray by our own Natural abilities and Natural parts and through Power and Gifts acquired and therefore I say so little good comes of all but had wee Divine strength to pray and to do all we do did we go out in his Name and in his strength and work the Works of God who could stand before us then 3 Consider the great good that is to be had by Christ have you not wants why there is infinite good to be had by Christ In him is all fulness with him is plentious Redemption hee hath unsearchable riches of Grace he hath the residue of the Spirit he hath whatsoever may make our lives comfortable whatsoever may make our lives happy Christ hath all in his own hands and therefore you should hunger and thirst after Christ more and more 4 Consider what is promised unto you by Christ the Promise is That there shall be times of refreshing when Christ comes Acts 3.19 then the times of restitution of all things shall be there are times for these things And so when the Lamb shall be the Light then the Lamb shall lead you to the Fountain of living Waters then you shall hunger and thirst no more then all tears shall be wiped from your eyes Why do not you thirst after these things and after the Lord Jesus Christ and his coming The Spirit saith Come and the Bride saith come And what are your Souls asleep Should not we say Come Lord come quickly The times in which wee live are sad times but the coming of the Lord would change all and rectifie all and satisfie all therefore consider of these things and your thirst after Christ will be increased 5 Lastly If you that thirst would have your thirst more lively and inlarged remember what sweetness you have found in Christ at some time or other when men remember they have drunk admirable Wine the very remembrance of it makes them to thirst after that Wine the more the Wine that Christ made at the Marriage Feast and brought forth the people were so affected with it that they called the Governour and askt him why he kept the good Wine till then they were taken with the Wine so when Christians do remember what ravishments they have had from Christ sometimes what hits of joy what sound peace what sweet communion with the Father through him what out-lettings of his Spirit This will inlarge their hearts and their desires some Christians have had large experiences this way they have had flaggons of Wine to drink and apples of comfort to feed upon and the more they do remember these the larger will bee their thirstings after Christ Christ's willingness to save sinners Reve 22.17 Let him that is athirst come LEt him that is athirst come come Christ doth not say here Let him that is athirst seek out and yet that had been humanity and courtesie Christ doth not say Let him that is athirst goe to Jordan Christ doth not send them to Moses nor to any of the brooks or Cisterns but Christ saith Let him that is athirst come and whither should he come or to what should he come The meaning is let him come to me Let him come to me for drinke for satisfaction let him that is athirst come here 's exceeding kindness choice love peculiar mercy let him that is athirst come Come unto me as it 's said in the 7th of John and Drinke I have drinke for him water of life for him as it 's in the next words And whosoever will let him take of the water of life freely To open this word unto you what 's meant by come 't is not meant come bodily so you all know what coming is when the body removes out of one place and goes to another But it is meant spiritually 't is not the feete of the body but the feete of the soule are required and by coming in Scripture is meant beleiving unbeleife is departing from God Heb 9.12 Take heed Brethren least there be in any of you an evill heart of unbeleife in departing from the living God An heart of unbeleife is a heart departs from God and goes away from God So in the 10th Chap The Just shall live by Faith but if any man draw backe my soule shall have no pleasure in him An unbeleiving heart is a heart draws back and departs from God Now to
come to God is to beleive and to come to Christ is to heleive And this beleiving it is not an assent onely unto a truth An assent unto this that Christ is the Messiah that Christ is the Saviour of the world 't is not onely to assent for so Devills doe beleive so Antichrist beleives so many that perishâ—doe beleive they assent to the truth Neither is it an assurance as some doe make Faith a full perswasion or a through perswasion of the heart that it is so and so No Assurance is not Faith Assurance is a consequent or an effect of Faith and not of the nature and essence of Faith many shall be sav'd that never had Assurance and many are Justified that have no Assurance What then is this Faith what is this Coming There is assent unto Truth an assent unto Scripture which is in the understanding and so is Assurance Assurance of understanding But Faith is in the Understanding and in the Will also when upon cleere understanding of a truth my will comes to choose and close with that truth This is to beleive some call it a Resting a Rouling a Depending a Relying which are all metaphoricall expressions But if you will have it in the proper nature and sence Faith is the Assent of the understanding unto truth and unto Christ and the wills choosing of Christ It chooses Christ for its Righteousness for its salvation for grace for life for peace for all This is coming when the will puts forth an act that carries forth the soule to choose Christ saith Christ here Let him that thirsteth come By this it should seeme then that there is a power in man to come What power was there in Lazarus to come forth of the grave when Christ said Lazarus come forth there was as much power in Lazarus to come forth of the grave when Christ said come forth as there is in man now to come to Christ when he saith come There was none in Lazarus to come forth neither is there any in Man naturally to beleive John 6.44 saith Christ there No man can come to me except the Father which hath sent me draw him Christ saith No man can come unless the Father draw him What is in the drawing of the Father Say some It is this thirsting begotten in the soule but surely that cannot be the thing for Christ saith Let him that is athirst come a man may be athirst and yet not come to Christ Let him that is athirst come But this drawing then of the Father is a working of that power in the soule as to goe out to Christ It may see a need of Christ from sin and wrath and the like yet till God doth work a power in the soule to goe out to Christ it doth not come to Christ and therefore you will finde in the 6th of John that what is said in the 44. v No man can come to me except the Father which hath sent me draw him Gods drawing in the 65 v is said to be Gods gift Therefore said I unto you that no man can come unto me except it were given unto him of the Father that is unless God doth give him power to come to me to beleive in me So that the Fathers drawing is putting in that virtue and power into a thirsty soule as to close with Christ But then it will be said surely these Invitations are in vaine if a man cannot come when he is Invited to what end are they The Sun shines upon the Rock and the raine falls upon the Rocks yet no man lookes that the Sun should melt the Rocks or the raine should make the Rocks fruitfull But the adjacent parts and feilds have the benefit and so though Invitations fall upon Rocks yet the adjacent persons other persons may have the benefit But secondly Generally in these Invitations the Lord doth convey this power the Lord doth worke this Faith in their soules and gives them this power to close with Christ Lazarus come forth together with the Invitation the power was given to Lazarus to come forth You have an observable place in the 2 Ezek 1. And he said unto me Son of Man stand upon thy feete and I will speake unto thee marke And the Spirit entered in to me when he spake unto me and set me upon my feete Ezekiel was smitten so downe with the sight of Glory that he was not able to rise Now saith he Son of man stand upon thy feete but he could not stand up But the Spirit entered into me when he spake unto me saith Ezekiel and set me upon my feete So when Christ saith here come with Christs speaking the Spirit may be and is many times conveyed and causes a man to come There is that life that Grace communicated to the soule together with the Invitation as makes a man to doe the thing and inables him thereunto so that Invitations are not in vaine and so much for opening of the word come The poynt that I shall commend unto you is this Doct 1. That the Lord Christ is very desirous that sinners thirsty sinners should come to him for releife that they should be saved that they should have refreshing virtue from him Grace pardon peace and whatsoever will doe their soules good Let him that is athirst come Now because it lies in the hearts of all sinners to question the willingness of God and Christ to save them and to doe them good Therefore I shall insist the more upon this and make it out fully to you You know the Leper in the Gospel said Master if thou wilt thou canst make me cleane I know thou hast power but if thou wilt there lies the sticke and here lies that which sticks with sinners to question the willingness of God and Christ Now the Lord Christ is very willing that sinners should come unto him and this I shall make out severall wayes First Of Christs willingnes for sinners to come unto him from the Consideration of Christs laying downe his greatness and his Glory which would dant and discourage sinners when one appeares in majestie when a Judge comes into the Country with his greatness it makes your Delinquents and Malifactors afraid But now Christ lays downe his Majestie and his greatness and Glory and whatsoever is dreadfull and terrible unto us Joh 17.5 And now ô Father Glorifie thou me with thine owne selfe with the Glory which I had with thee before the world was Christ had laid aside his Glory when he came downe into the world he came in the forme of a servant in a meane and low condition When a Prince shall lay aside his greatness and come and converse with beggars and sinners then they can the more freely come unto him and speake to him the Lord Jesus Christ hath laid aside his Glory and greatness and came and converst with finners here in the world which is a great Argument that he was willing to doe sinners good that
and other waters you use which are healing waters The waters of the Gospel are healing waters He sent out his word and healed them Christ said to the Leper I will be thou cleane and he was cleane The word of God will heale all diseases of your soules 't is not onely a patterne of wholsome words but a patterne of healing words Seventhly and lastly Some waters are very Comfortable and Cordiall so are these waters of life They are very Cordiall waters is not this text very Cordiall to thinke upon Whosoever will let him come and take of the water of life freely It 's a very Cordiall the water of this text And so much for the Resemblance between water and it The water of Life Quest Upon what account is it call'd water of Life Answ First of all this water begets life take Christ for the water of life Christ himselfe is life He is the Prince of life and he is life Joh 14 6. And he is our life Col 3.3 When Christ who is our life shall appeare Christ brought life to the dead world he is water of life Take the Spirit for water of life The Spirit begets life in the soule it is a Spirit of life and it 's called living water In the 7th of Joh 38 39. He that beleiveth on me as the Scripture hath said out of his belly shall slow rivers of living water and this he spake of the Spirit the Spirit is water of life unto men and women Take it for the Gospel Phil 2.14 't is the word of life the very word begets life in men and women 1 Pet 1.23 Being borne not of Corruptible seede but of Incorruptible by the word of God which liveth and abideth for ever The word of God liveth and begets life in men and women It 's seede and all true seede hath life in it sow any Corne it hath life in it this is divine and heavenly Corne and when it is sowne in your hearts it begets life there And Grace is life Faith is life all Grace is life It is the life of the soule so that they are called waters of life because these waters beget life Secondly They are waters of life because they doe maintaine life begotten We are nourished of the same things of which we consist saith Philosophie And so saith Divinity wee consist of divine principles a godly man is made up of the word of God of the Divine nature and of the Graces of the Spirit and wee are maintained by the same we are maintained by Christ and by the Spirit and by the word and by this water of life we live upon the same Therefore Christ Grace and Spirit are compared in the Scripture unto things upon which men live Isa 55. Ho every one that thirsteth c. Water and wine and milke and marrow and bread by such things as these men live Incline your ear and come unto me heare and your soules shall live your life shall be maintained by these things Christ is the bread of life and the water of life and we must live by this bread and water live by the flesh of Christ and live by the blood of Christ live by the promises of Christ and live by the Graces of Christ and so by the Spirit these maintaine life in men and women Thirdly It 's water of life because it makes us more and more lively it doth not onely beget life and maintaine life but Increase life and makes us lively It 's said in the 4 â—h of John that this water shall be a Well of water springing up into everlasting life It increases life and springs up into more and more life This water doth make us lively John 10.10 saith Christ I came that ye might have life and have it in more abundance how lively was Peter after the water of the Spirit came upon him in Acts 2. and Peter it is that writes of living and lively stones Christians should not onely be living but lively this water makes lively full of Spirits Lastly 'T is water of life because it brings unto everlasting life he that hath the Gospel comes to be pertaker of the Spirit and he that hath the Spirit is pertaker of Christ and he that is pertaker of Christ comes to God See how this water of life springs up into everlasting life saith Christ in the 14 of Joh 6. I am the way the truth and the life and no man comes unto the Father but by me so that by Christ we come to the Father And in the 8 Rom 9. He that hath not the Spirit is none of Christs And he that hath not the Gospel hath not the ministration of the Spirit where the Gospel waters come and this water is conveyed to the soule there the Spirit is and there Christ is and there 's coming to the Father so that it springs up from the Gospel to the Spirit from the Spirit to Christ from Christ to the Father as in the 4 â—h of Joh 14. It is a Well springing up Into Everlasting life This water came from the Father and it will carry men up to the Father into everlasting life So then you see what this water of life is and why it 's said to be water of life and how water Let him take the water of life freely There 's something in this word Take of the water of life freely That notes first let a sinner be what he will there is no barre put in against him to keepe him off from this water let a man be a great sinner an old sinner let his sinnes be Crimsen and Scarlet sins God puts in no barre Christ saith not here let a little sinner or a young sinner or a sinner that hath sin'd once or twice or an hundred times or a thousand times onely come but he saith whosoever will let him take of the water of life freely let his sins be what they will All manner of Blasphemies saith Christ shall be forgiven There 's no barre but onely against the Impardonable sin But what sin soever though long continued in though of the most hainous nature cloathed with the most dreadfullest aggravations yet it shall be forgiven let that sinner come and take of this water of life freely A Leper a man leperous all over may as freely goe into the river or sea and wash himselfe as the man that is sound There is no barre in his way Secondly It imports thus much let him come and pertake freely that whatsoever qualification men have let them be honest morall civill sober righteous just and the like have good natures and dispositions yet no man doth deserve or merit any thing not one drop of this water Many thinke and it 's the Popish Doctrine that men may be made meete for this water and that men doe deserve this water and are worthy of it No let men be never so righteous just morall never so civill yet when they have done all that ever they
can they doe not deserve one drop of this water But whosoever will let him come and take it freely there 's no merit of thine there 's no desert of thine there 's no meetnesse in thee but it 's water that is freely prepared and freely given Thirdly It imports thus much likewise That men may come and take abundantly of this water As when you Invite persons into your Orchard Gardens into your Wine-sellers you say come eate and drinke what you will that notes your freedome and that they may take abundantly so here whosoever will let him come and take freely let him eate let him drinke let him satisfie himselfe there is no measure set you shall have so much and no more you shall have a pint a quart a pottle or a vessell full and the like No here 's no limitts are set but take as much as you will as much as you can carry away Joh 10.10 James 1.5 And lastly It imports this That what indeavours soever men use let men strive and indeavour never so much yet it is not for their indeavours that they have this water Men must strive must read heare and pray They must digg for wisdome as for Silver and Gold but when they have done all it 's God that gives in this water God gives it but in the use of meanes in their digging in their labouring in their waiting not for their digging for their labouring for their waiting Rom 9.16 It 's not in him that willeth or in him that runneth but in God that shews mercy It is water freely given Thus you see the words opened Now I come to the poynt I shall insist upon Doct That the offer or the tender of the water of life is free Whosoever will let him take the water of life freely It is freely offered unto men Take Christ for the water of life and Christ is freely offered unto the world Jo 3.16 God so loved the world that he gave his onely begotten Son that whosoever believeth in him should not perish What 's freer then gift God hath given him therefore Christ saith in the 4th of Joh 10. to the woman of Samaria Didest thou know the gift of God and who it is that saith unto thee give Me to drinke thou wouldest have asked of him and he would have given thee water of life Christ is the gift of God he is freely given freely tendered unto the sons of men Rom 8.32 He that spared not his owne Son but delivered him up for us all God did not spare him but freely delivered him up for us all so that this water of life is freely tendered and given unto you The Spirit is not that freely tendered unto men Ezek 26.25 I will sprinkle cleane water upon them and wash them from all their filthinesse I will put my Spirit into them In Joel I will powre out my Spirit upon all flesh the Lord tenders this water of life freely In the 11th of Luke saith Christ If ye that are evill can give good gifts unto your children how much more shall my Father give the Spirit to them that aske him The Gospel is freely given saith Christ to his Disciples Freely ye have received freely give and in the 16 of Mark Goe preach the Gospel to every creature The Gospel is the ministration of Grace the ministration of the Spirit So that all the water of life is freely given Revel 21.6 And he said unto me it is done I am Alpha and Omega the beginning and the end I will give unto him that is athirst of the Fountaine of the water of life freely I will give freely As this water of life is freely given so 't is freely revealed God made it knowne freely Math 13.11 To you its given to know c. none else made it knowne God might have kept this Fountaine shut up in heaven and never have discovered the Fountaine never have made knowne to the world any such water any such Grace any such mercy as here is held out to you hence is it that Christ saith to Peter in the 16th of Math 16 17. When Peter said Thou art the Son of the living God saith he Blessed art thou Symon Bar-Jona for flesh and blood hath not revealed this unto thee c. God revealed it unto him and in the 21 of Math I thanke thee ô Father Lord of heaven and earth that thou hast hid these things from the wise and prudent and hast revealed them unto Babes God reveales this water and makes it knowne And as God reveales it so it is the Lord that blesses this water and makes it a blessing to one and not unto another This water was a blessing unto Peter it was not a blessing unto Judas Judas had no blessing by the Gospel no blessing by Christ So those of Capernaum and other places they had no blessing it 's God gives the water reveales the water and blesses this water to whom he pleases Quest Why doth the Lord freely offer and tender this water of life unto the world unto sinners Answ This water of life is freely tendered first that so God might make knowne his goodnesse and make way for his Glory Things that come freely doe discover the goodnesse of any and redound most to their praise most to their honour when a parent shall out of his owne good will give unto a childe great matters unlookt for unsought for unthought of this argues the goodnesse of the parent and drawes more honour When a Prince shall give unto his Subjects out of his owne bounty and good will not being movâ—d by his Nobles or Princes or others about him this declares his goodnesse and makes way for his honour and every one saith What a good Prince is this or what a good King is this and how honourable is this he doth it freely none mooves him to it when men are moov'd to doe good those that moove them they share in the good they share in the honour had not the party moov'd it had nor been done Now God will have none to share in his honour God doth it freely according to the Counsell of his owne will for his owne name that so his goodnesse may be knowne and his honour may be great Be it knowne unto you saith God in the 36 of Ezek that not for your sakes doe I this but for mine owne Name sake I doe it not because you moove me or any moove me but from within for mine owne will and so his goodnesse appeares and his honour is the greater Secondly The Lord tenders water of life freely to sinners that so he may take away all objections all scruples and feares which usually lie in the hearts of sinners when people have sinn'd against God are guilty and unholy they are affraid of God Adam runs from God and hides himsele they have hard thoughts of God and thinke God will not be pacifyed towards them Now the Lord to prevent this and take away all such
no rest I say till you finde this willingnesse in you And a little to excite you unto it and then to shew you how you may come to this willingnesse First Consider that you have a willingnesse to other things and that willingnesse will doe you little good without this nay your willingnesse to other things it may prejudice you and will prejudice you unless you have this willingness men are willing to have honours riches greatness in the world willing to have all things about them in the best manner what will this doe you good unless you have a willingness to the vvaters of life Riches will not deliver in the day of wrath there will be a day of wrath and what will your Riches your honours and all doe then These will doe nothing for you but these may prejudice you 1 Tim 6.9 10. They that will be rich marke they that will be rich that have a willingness that way that see an excellency in Riches choose them and follow them They that will be rich fall into Temptations and a snare and into many foolish and hurtfull lusts which drowne men in destruction and perdition Marke these prejudice you For the love of money is the roote of all evill which while some coveted after they have erred from the faith and pierced themselves through with many sorrowes vvhen men have strong vvills to creatures they may prejudice themselves and undoe soule and body But if they have such a will to the water of life that will advantage them So in the 5 Chap 6 v She that liveth in pleasure is dead while she liveth Some their wills carry them to pleasure the pleasures of the body carnall delights and they are dead while they live have they waters of life no their vvills have slaine them They are dead while they live So in the 2d Ephe 3. Among whom we all had our Conversations in time past in the lusts of the flesh fullfilling the desires of the flesh or the wills of the flesh and of the minde vvhen we fullfill the wills of the flesh and of the minde wee are dead in sins and trespasses Children of wrath enemies to God So that to have a will that prizes other things that chooses and makes out after them this may damnifie you and undoe you The second Reason why you should labour to get this willingness is because it 's that which God requires and that which he doth onely require and all he doth requiâ—e under the Covenant of workes there was Doe this and live But now the last motion that Christ makes when he leaves the world and gives out the Scripture is this If any man have a will if there be willingness in you to waters of life that 's the thing I require and all I require and the onely thing I require He doth not require great matters at your hands he doth not say give me house and Lands give me your shops and ware give me your Ships give me your Limbs your blood your lives no saith he If any man will let me have but willingness in you this is all I require Pro 23. My Son give me thy heart Whatâ—s his meaning Let me but see a heart in thee prizing choosing and pursuing of the waters of life that 's all I require my Son give me thy heart he doth not meane that peice of flesh which is in your body that you call your heart But he would have you have so much understanding as to see an excellency in himselfe his Son his Spirit his Word and Grace and then to choose the same and to use the meanes to attaine them This is that that God requires and all he requires shall the Lord onely require your hearts nothing but your hearts and will not you study to have a heart willing to have God willing to have water of life The third and last Reason is because unlesse you are willing you shall have no water of life vvhosoever is willing let him take water of life 't is for him God will never force you to it If you leade a Beast to drinke you doe not force the Beast to drinke and God will never force men But if willingly they will prize Christ if they will choose Christ above all if they will close with him if they will use the meanes that he hath appointed to Injoy him Christ shall be their water of life the Spirit shall be theirs Take take presently saith he then take the water of life 't is for you and for none other By this time me thinks I heare you are ready to say ô that we had this willingnesse in us we hope we have it or if we have it not ô that we had hearts willing now to prize Christ to chuse Christ to close with Christ his Grace his Spirit his wayes and ordinances then we were made how shall we come by it I shall propound severall Considerations unto you whereby this willingnesse may be begotten First Consider your owne Condition Let every man and woman every son and servant seriously Consider with themselves in what Condition are we were we not all lost in Adam are we not all under the Law and the Curse of the Law Are we not all enemies to God through wicked workes in our minds have we not abundance of guilt in our hearts and Consciences Are we not afraid of hell if we should die that we should be damned are we not helpless in our selves and miserable creatures Is not God just holy and righteous doth not the greatest part goe the broad way and why may not I be in the broad way surely I am a wretched miserable a lost and undone creature If any poore soule in the world have need of water of life I am the creature For mine owne part I speake it freely here as in the presence of God I know none of your greater sinners then my selfe and none of you to have greater need of the waters of life then my owne soule let us not deceive our selves vve are all miserable and wretched creatures and we all have need of the water of life need of Christ need of Grace need of the Spirit need of promises need of all When a man sits downe and Considers I am in debt I owe this man 10 l another man a 100 l another man a 1000 and I am in danger of resting every day I have need of some friend to helpe me This is our Condition now if you would but seriously Consider it would make you thinke is there Grace mercy with God redemption salvation for sinners why not for me This would make you begin to have some willingness in you to have waters of life Secondly Consider two things of Christ First Consider the very end of Christs Incarnation the end of his coming the end of his being here in this world why did Christ come I will shew you two or three places of Scripture Math 18.10 For the Son of man is
15. he is said to be a quickning Spirit he hath life in him and quickens others Joh. 14.6 he is The life he is life emphatically above all others he is a Root he hath life principally and eminently in him 3 The Root you know bears up the tree the branches and the fruit of the tree the Root bears up all Thou bearest not the root but the root bears thee Rom. 11. So it is the Lord Jesus Christ this Root that bears up all Christ bears up the world Christ bears up the Church Christ bears up heaven he bears up all Heb. 1.3 Vpholding all things by the word of his power The Lord Jesus is the Root I say that bears and upholds all the whole Creation Sion it self and Heaven it self are upheld by this Root the Lord Jesus Christ but especially the Church here in this world especially Sion and the members of Sion beleeving souls Joh. 15. I am the Vine that is I am the Root of the Vine the Church is the Vine and Christ is its Root and he bears up the whole Vine and all the branches and all the clusters upon the Vine hee bears them up he is the Root of the Vine so that Christ is a Root that bears up all he did bear up David his family David and his Kingdome he bears up Sion and all the children of Sion 4 Lastly the Root doth convey life and sap and nourishment unto the whole body to all the branches so it is the Lord Jesus Christ that doth convey sap and life and nourishment unto all his body every branch in the Vine receives the vertue from the root of the Vine and all have life from Christ I am come that ye may have life Joh. 10. all life is from Christ and all light is from Christ He is the morning star which we may speak of afterwards and all nourishment is from Christ he is said to be the Head of the Church and the Head of the Church is the Root of the Church in the Scripture sense And from the Head is all influence of light and of direction and counsel and motion and comfort all is from the Head all is from this Root From Christ is conveyed all Without me yee can do nothing unless yee be in me and have vertue from me and derive all from me you can do nothing Thus you see that Christ is a Root the Root of David But there are some disparities What disparities there are between Christ and a Root or things wherein Christis not like a Root First A Root take it in the litteral sense the roots of trees and plants they are of a dying nature decaying nature and wil grow rotten and consume Job 14.8 Though the root thereof wax old in the earth and the stock thereof dye in the ground the root of a tree waxes old and will dye and perish and come to nothing but Christ is not like a root in that sense For Christ he lives for ever Heb. 7. This Root never dyes never decayes Christ the same yesterday the same to day the same to morrow and the same for ever The Root of Sion for ever and the Root of David for ever Secondly A root doth bear but one tree suffices one or two or three bodies at most the root of a Corn it may be will suffice for two or three or half a dosen stalks it cannot suffice for all But Christ is a Root that suffices for all for all Sion for the whole world for the Church for Heaven Hee is the Root of David the Root of Jesse the Root of Abraham of Isaac Hee is the Root of all the Prophets and Apostles of all beleevers of all that have spiritual life in them he is the Root of them all so that this Root is of another nature than those roots Thirdly Other roots are subject to the wills and humors and pleasures of men they can dig up the roots of things they can burn the roots and abuse the roots but Christ is not subject to the wills and humors of any to be spoyled to bee consumed The Scribes and Pharisees thought to root out this Root when they put him to death but when he was in the grave he saw no corruption he laid down his life and none took it from him without his leave And he rose again Rom. 1.4 and mightily declared himself to be the Son of God by the Spirit of holiness he declared himself to be a Root that man hath not power over So then you see for the opening of this word Root these things do clear it Object But here is an Objection You say Christ is the Root of David and the Root of all Why had not Christ himself a Root and was not he from a Root and how can he be the Root of all Isa 11.1 And there shall come forth a Rod out of the stem of Jesse and a branch shal grow out of his Roots This is meant of Christ that Christ should come out of Jesse and Jesse should be the Root of Christ and in the 10. v. it is said In that day there shall be a Root of Jesse which shall stand for an Ensign of the people The same is said to be the Root of Jesse which is said to be the stem or branch of Jesse How will these things accord Ans As I answered before Jesse is the Root of Christ according to his humane nature and Christ is the Root of Jesse according to his Divine nature or if you will Christ as Mediator was the Root of Jesse and of all the godly The words being opened I shall give you this Observation I am the Root of David Observ That the Lord Christ is the Root of Nature the Root of Grace and the Root of Glory How will that appear why he was the Root of David as a man the Root of David as a Saint and the Root of David as glorified David was now in heaven Hee was the root of David as a man Psal Christ thâ— root of Nature 119.73 Thy hands have made me and fashioned me O Lord saith David I did not make my self and my Parents did not make me But thy hands have made me and fashioned me Thy hand hath made me such a creature thy hand did curiously work me when I was in my mothers womb that framed me and moulded me that ordered all my bones and sinews and joynts and parts and faculties and the like Thy hand hath made me the work of nature was from him He was the Root of Nature And so likewise He was the Root of Grace Christ the root of Grace and Glory and the Root of Glory saith David Psal 110. The Lord said unto my Lord Why was Christ Davids Lord because he had given him Grace and made him his servant Why his Lord because he would give him Glory The Lord said unto my Lord sit thou at my right hand Christ was Davids Lord because he