the sure Place nothing of Good can be expected But if you would hang even the least Vessel the Vessel of least Quantity any where hang it upon Christ Hang it upon the Nail in the sure Place And if any of you have any Troubled Thoughts or Contest of Mind about these Things I beseech you That you would go up to this Nail that is fastned in a sure Place For that Vessel that we hang any where else it shall certainly be cut down and the Nail we hang it upon will certainly be cut down or removed for the Lord hath spoken it All our Lamps that shine in their own Light they will go out in that Day at the Appearance of Christ like Sparks that we compass our selves with of our own kindling All that do so shall lie down in Sorrow The Last Objection is But how shall we know that we are in Christ Can we discern it any otherwise than by the Marks and Signs of Grace that we find in our Selves If therefore we find not Faith if we find not Repentance and all the Fruits of Holiness How can we think or dare we think that we are in Christ Now therefore To this I would give you this Twofold Answer First It is certain That the Supream Witness to any of our Souls it must be from the Spirit of Christ it must be from the Spirit of Adoption crying Abba Father He is called the Spirit of the Son I beseech you seriously consider it Gal. 4. 6. Because ye are Sons God hath sent forth the Spirit of his Son into your Hearts crying Abba Father Why does he call it the Spirit of the Son But to shew that it is the Witness coming from Christ If therefore it comes from him The Great Witness of the Spirit is That we are in Christ It doth not come to us in our own Righteousness For then Why should it be called The Spirit of the Son No not in our own Sanctification does it come to us But it is The Spirit of the Son And It 's a sure Testimony of its Glorifying Christ in taking the Things that are Christ's and Giving to us even in its Testimony You may say This may Deceive us And we don't know Whether it is the Spirit or not Observe what the Apostle saith in 1 John 5. speaking of the Witness of the Spirit latter part of the 6th Verse And the Witness of the Spirit is Truth Why does he say The Witness of the Spirit is Truth but to meet with the Things that are in our Hearts that we are ready to say There are other Good Witnesses we dare not Believe the Spirit alone But we have other Good Witnesses and we must bring them in And if they say so too then we may Believe the Spirit or else not Now the Apostle saith The Witness of the Spirit is Truth To let us know there is a separate single Witness of the Spirit of God that is true I know no Reason at all That we should be afraid to Affirm this For If the Spirit of God dwells as Generally the Best and most Judicious Discoursers of these Things allow if the Spirit of God dwell in us Why should it be strange that the Spirit of God should whisper its Witness in this way And the Apostle speaks of this very Witness when he saith The Witness of the Spirit is True But then In the Second Place I do acknowledge this freely and abundantly That the Spirit of God doth make use of this or that particular Grace or Holiness in general in a Saint of Christ As he pleases sometimes he Witnesseth only by himself sometimes by such and such Graces And why Not because the Graces themselves are alone able to bear up the Witness That I plainly deny But then The Spirit Witnesseth not only of Grace of Faith of Repenâ—ance and Holiness c. but as they are in Christ Faith and Love in Christ Jesus And as they are made up of his Righteousness and flow from his Death Resurrection and Intercession And here is that that I said to you Christ takes any Grace of his Servants and shews it at the Day of Judgment Not as it is out of himself but as it is in himself and in his own Righteousness and by his Spirit He now shews to any of his Servants any of their Graces but not as out of Christ but as in Christ surrounded made up fill'd up with his Righteousness As I remember the Expression in the Book of Exodus where the Jewels that were in the Vrim and Thummim in the Breast-plate of the High-Priest Their setting is called Filling up They were filled up in the Gold the Receptacles and Lodgings of them were filled up Exod. 28. So I say In every Grace there 's the filling up of the Righteousness of Christ Take all the Graces of Paul and of Peter or any of the Servants of Christ And if they had not been Set in the Righteousness of Christ if there were not a Filling up by the Righteousness of Christ they would all come to nought And therefore they are filled up with his Righteousness And so I do acknowledge That it may be That the Spirit of God may give his Servants a Witness and a Testimony from their own Graces And so in 1 John 4. 17. Herein saith he is our Love made perfect That we may have Boldness in the Day of Judgment Because as he is so are we in this World There is no Fear in Love but perfect Love casteth out Fear He that feareth is not made perfect in Love Here the Apostle speaks of a Tormenting a Disturbing and Perplexing Fear The Power of Love to Christ drives it out Because as he was so are we in this World That is The more Christ is pleased to Sanctifie his People taking it still for a Sanctification in himself as he is made to us Wisdom in our Calling Righteousness in our Justification Holiness in our Sanctification and Eternal Glory stiled Redemption all in him and from him I shall therefore wind up This in these two Brief Applications The First is You see here as Solomon speaks in another Case When all is spoken that can be spoken We know saith he it is but Man It is nothing but Man That is speaking of the Weakness of Man All that can be said saith he you have nothing but Weak Frail Man And on the other side speaking of Christ There 's nothing to be said but this He is All All in All we are nothing Here 's the Sum of the Matter We are Nothing all that is in us is Nothing All that God or his Spirit hath wrought in us it is nothing if you could take it out of Christ it will be a Lamp put out in obscure Darkness Carry this constantly upon your Thoughts He that hath the Son hath Life And he that hath not the Son of God hath not Life We rest upon nothing when we rest upon our selves Let us
Hearts as it were with a Lamp lighting inwards and with Candles that we may know how it is with our own Souls And then 2. Let us look earnestly forward to that Appearance to that Kingdom of Heaven which our Lord hath here presented to us It is to come to another Being to another Representation than is now We see things now but in a very dim and a dark Light As I have often told you we are in the foul and in the dark place of the Apostacy yet The Time is near at hand when every thing shall be seen in its full Light and in its glorious Appearance and Representation And then Though it is a Day of Terrour to all wicked profane and dissolute Persons under general Profession of Christianity And though it be a terrible Day also to Virgins that have Oil in their Vessels that is who make a great deal of their Profession and have no Truth of Grace it will be terrible to them when they come to find themselves so sadly benighted and darkened in the very Heaven of their Profession as the Expression is in the Prophet Their very Lamp goes out in obscure darkness Yet it is a Day of Rejoycing and a Day of Glory in it self And what great Reason have we earnestly to pray every one for our selves and for them that are in such a dark and hopeless condition that they have not so much as Lamps even those that are under the Profession of Christianity and yet are in such a case Now I say in regard to the hopeless state of all those and that we who have a clearer Light of the Gospel breaking out may have more of the power We have Reason to pray for the Approach of that Time when the Kingdoms of this World shall be Proclaimed to be the Kingdoms of our Lord and of his Christ When the Spirit shall be poured out upon us from on high and the Everlasting Gospel shall be preached to every Nation and Tongue and People under Heaven O! that our Hearts were earnest for this Time and this State and that our Souls would give God â—â—orest till he come and Rain Righteousness upon us till he be pleased to open as it were the very Windows of Heaven and to Rain down great Showers of Gospel-Truth and Gospel-Grace and Peace as He will do before that Great and Illustrious Day of the Lord come SERMON II. On Matth. XXV Ver. 1. and so on Then shall the Kingdom of Heaven be likened unto Ten Virgins which took their Lamps and went forth to meet the Bridegroom c. I Have begun to lay before you the great Importance of this Parable and Reduced it to this Proposition as a Foundation of Discourse on the Particulars That even the Purest and most Virgin-Profession of Christianity should look well to it self and take great care that it does not trust even in the best of Appearance of Things I say in the very best of Appearances but that it should look to the inward Treasure and the intrinsick value of Christianity in the Heart Because here the Foolish Virgins were pleased with the Lamp of Profession without the Treasure of Oil in the Vessel and when it came to the great Up-shot and Result their Lamps quickly went out they failed even in the very time and so they were for ever shut out from the Glory and the Joy and the Happiness of the Solemnity of the Wedding Having laid out this Point in the Particulars of the Parable I came to the first Particular and that was to tell you That the Kingdom of Jesus Christ is throughout from first to last The Kingdom of Heaven whether you consider it in the Preaching of the Gospel it is the opening of Heaven and of the great Counsels of the Eternal Wisdom of God in the Heavens Or whether you consider it as it comes into the Heart of every particular Christian so it is the power of Heaven enabling them to set such a value upon Jesus Christ that all the Things of the World are of no Account compared with the Pearl of Great Price Or whether you consider it in the last Glorious Appearance of this Kingdom so it is Heaven It is not a State that doth so much as pretend to any Sensual Enjoyment to any worldly Satisfaction to any of the Grandeur of this World or the Delights of it but it is perfect Heaven it is Heaven throughout This I have spoken of and so I shall not add any Thing to it I come to a Second Particular in This General and that is to let you know from the Representation our Saviour hath here given That the very Intent of Christianity the Great Design and Purport of it is this It is a Preparation to the Enjoyment of Jesus Christ as the Great Bridegroom of our Souls and as the Bridegroom of his Church For so it is said here These Virgins They took their Lamps That is As soon as ever they began to make a Profession of Christ and a Profession of Christianity Immediately in that very moment they had an Eye to the Bridegroom So that this is the Great Purport of Christianity That we should have a Spiritual Marriage-Union with Jesus Christ and in Order to the Enjoyment of him in the Glory of his Kingdom as the Bridegroom of our Souls It is a very Great Emphasis and Weight that the Spirit of God has put upon this Resemblance or Similitude of the Marriage Union between Christ and the Soul and between Christ and his Church And if I should be any thing able to declare and to open it to you at this Time in the Spirituality of it and thereby solicit and draw the Affections of every one of us to Jesus Christ I should in some measure Answer that which John the Baptist Represents John 3. 29. He that hath the Bride is the Bridegroom but the Friend of the Bridegroom which standeth and heareth him rejoyceth greatly because of the Bridegroom's Voice This my Joy therefore is fullfilled That is There is no one Preaching the Gospel who ought to draw the Affection of Souls and of Spirits unto himself but he is to look only to the Great Bridegroom None of the Friends of the Bridegroom That is The Preachers of the Gospel of Jesus Christ They are not to draw the Hearts of Men to themselves For what are they as the Apostle saith if they are the most Excellent but Ministers by whom ye have believed But as the Apostle saith We preach Christ Jesus the Lord and our selves your Servants for Christ's sake We preach Christ the Bridegroom and our selves only the Friends of the Bridegroom And therefore every one should take heed that there be no Centring in himself that speaks of Christ but onely in Christ Himself And so every one of us should take heed that we do not Rest and Centre in an Ordinance or in a Discourse of Christ but that our Hearts go up to Christ Himself For he
World and forced out by the Power and by the Glory of Christ Then shall be this Glorious Solemnity of the Marriage of Christ Rev. 19. 1 2. And so on in the Chapter And after these things I heard a great voice of much people in Heaven saying Allelujah Salvation and Glory and Honour and Power unto the Lordour God For true and righteous are his Judgments for he hath judged the Great Whore What is the Great Whore but only False Christianity called Babylon the Great that hath defiled the Doctrine and defiled the Worship and defiled the Holiness of Conversation and defiled the Spirituality of the Enjoyment of Christ That 's the meaning of the Great Whore When therefore you see Christianity is All Spirit is All Heaven is All Life is All Purity and Truth and Glory and Babylon destroyed when you see that then Immediately shall the Marriage-Supper of the Lamb follow As you shall find in the 7th Verse Let us be glad and rejoice and give honour to him for the Marriage of the Lamb is come and his Wife hath made her self ready And to her was granted that she should be arrayed in fine Linnen clean and white For the fine Linnen is the Righteousness of Saints And he saith unto me Write Blessed are they which are called unto the Marriage Supper of the Lamb. And he saith unto me These are the true Sayings of God That you may not say as the World is ready to do even the Sober World even that which is the Professing World of Christians are ready to say these things are nothing but Whimsie nothing but Fancy it is said These are the true sayings of God To shew us that the things shall certainly and must needs come to pass And it shall be when Christianity shall be no longer in Form and it shall be no longer in Rites and Ceremonies when it shall be no longer in Humane Institutions and Commands and it shall be no longer in the shining Grandeur of the World For Men cannot see the Glory of Christianity because they see such a Glister of this World But all this must go off and what is Glorious indeed must come in its place It shall be all Spiritual Pure and Divine And If any of us can Love such a Jesus if we have such upright Hearts and are drawn with the Savour of His Good Oyntments and such a Name as His be to us as Oyntment poured forth It is certain our State is Good we are of those upright that do indeed Love Christ But If we say Here 's nothing of the Bravery of this World Here 's nothing of the Wit and of the Pass-time and of the Gaudery and of the Retinue and what the World is so pleased with and meeting together to talk of nothing that signifies any thing but shrivells into meer Emptiness and into perfect Vanity and Froth I say except we have these things we don't know what to make of this Jesus and of this Christianity VVhy then we are but Foolish Virgins that while we pretend we have nothing but a Lamp and our Lamp at the proper time for its shining in Glory will go out And so suitably and agreeably to this you may see and I desire you may take notice of it how Scriptures do agree and Breath the very same thing The Apostle John in the Revelation speaks as Solomon who lived many Hundred Years before John yet they both came into the very same Spirit and into the very same Representation For you see that which Solomon Celebrates under a Song of Marriage a Song of Love The Apostle John does in the very same manner Represent I saw saith he The New Jerusalem come down That is the State of Saints in this High and Pure and perfect Enjoyment of Christ I saw it come down as a Bride adorned for her Husband Chap. 22. 2. I saw the Holy City New Jerusalem Which is nothing but the Pure and Holy and Perfect and Happy State of Saints I saw it coming down from God out of Heaven as a Bride adorned for her Husband And now the earnestness of all our desires should be after it As it is said ver 17. The Spirit and the Bride say Come And let him that heareth say Come That is let them who hear say so as struck with a Symphony even as one Lute Answers another the Lute upon the Wall Answers that is struck and Tuned and Play'd upon So every Soul Tuned aright by Grace doth sound alike with the Spirit and with the Bride when he does but hear it say Come It immediately saith Come Thus I have shew'd you that this Allusion Representation and Figure is a Figure Representing this great thing Jesus Christ is the Bridegroom of the Church and every Particular Soul the Bride or Lambs Wife For it is a wild sort of Notion that some people have of a Church Who by it Principally mean a kind of Jurisdiction and Authority and Power and a sort and sett of Men who should enjoy it They mean this by the Church they speak so much of Whereas the Spirit of God means by the Church chiefly Real Christians sound sincere-hearted Professors of Jesus Christ and Lovers of him The upright Love thee This is the meaning of a Church by Christ and not a kind of Authority and Jurisdiction that looks more like a Train and a Court of this World than any thing of the Power of Christianity and the Power of the Gospel I shall therefore come in proceeding in this Discourse to open to you these two things First That there is a State of this Marriage-Relation to Christ understand every thing as I hope you do spiritually and of the Power of Holiness in our Hearts and of the free Communication of the Righteousness and Grace and Spirit of Christ Till all appears in Glory understanding it thus I say There are two great Spaces Two Great States of it one that is Here and then the other that shall be in the Glory of the Kingdom of Jesus Christ And it hath pleased God to take great care that both these should be Represented to us First of all the State of the Soul here It is like an Espousal it is like a Betrothing it is like that that we call among us a Contract of Marriage And according to Scripture there is a distance between it and the Solemnity and Compleating and Consummation of the Marriage And this is very necessary for us to consider that now is the time of preparing and fitting Souls for that Great Solemnity And therefore we read of a Virgin Betrothed to an Husband before the Solemnity of the Marriage upon which Account to the Jews it was appointed by Moses that there should be at least Thirty days between the one and the other And they looked upon it as a Breach and an Infraction upon the Mosaick-Law If there was not such a Time of Preparation And some very Conscientious Ministers of the Gospel have been
those that are brought before him whether we will or no. And then Thirdly By that Habit of Body wherein we shall be either a Body of Glory or a Body of Shame and Contempt And yet notwithstanding This which is the wonder of the Thing and I confess after my utmost thoughts and enquiry into it I cannot satisfie my self how it should be That notwithstanding this Men are just in the same Circumstances wherein they lay down and as if the Day of Judgment had taken them then in the State and Condition that they had been in in the World that which was their Prevalent and their Superiour and their Final State that which truely gave them their Denomination Now I shall only give you this Account of it though indeed I do not know how It is a Wonder of the mighty Wisdom and the mighty power of God that a man should so rise That these Foolish Virgins must have notice that they are Foolish Virgins by what I now Argue to you and that yet they should Endeavour to make the best of their Condition And I would do it in a word or two because I would discourse the Point of the Foolish Virgins especially to you at this time and according to this Parable Suppose a Man be a common Swearer a common Drunkard a common Impure Luxurious Person a Person that lives in Debauchery This Man suppose such an one die without having repented and having returned to God or the change of his course This Person shall rise he shall rise in all the horrour of such a state when Judgment comes upon him However Men will not be perswaded of it now or be brought to abhor or change such an insolent way of life as they live in nor will consider it now yet they shall be raised in circumstances suitable to that very state in which they died As now suppose a Man should be taken in an Earthquake or by such a Judgment as they in Jamaica or any other place and that he was sensible of it a little before what a danger he was in and that it should come upon him while he was in his Cups and Roar of Prophaneness when he was scoffing and laughing at Religion What do you think such a Person would do if he had but a little notice of it before I 'll give you a plain Representation what a Case such a Person would be in by the very same Case by a precedent as I may properly call it that hath been before If you look therefore into Dan. 5. you shall find the very same Case Belshazzar ver 1. made a great Feast to a Thousand of his Lords And they brought the Golden and Silver Vessels and they drank Wine and Praised the Gods of Gold and of Silver c. In the same hour came forth Fingers of a Mans Hand and wrote over against the Candlestick upon the Plaister of the Wall of the Kings Palace and the King saw part of the Hand that wrote Then the Kings Countenance was changed and his thoughts troubled him so that the Joints of his Loins were loosed and his Knees smote one against the other This is the very case of such Persons I may boldly pronounce it in the Name of Christ and in the Word of the Gospel and of Truth Look upon your Swaggerers and those that make nothing to scorn Religion That make a Scoff at Sin That never open their Mouths but with an Oath or in a Blasphemy That these very Persons supposing they die in this State and with these Sins unrepented of They shall rise in the very same and with the horrour of Judgment on them They shall see as it were the Fingers upon the Wall and their Joints shall be loosed and their Knees smite one against another They 'll say to the Rocks Fall on us and to the Mountains hide and cover us Distress and Anguish shall come upon them as it is said Prov. 1. It shall come like a Whirlwind Then shall they call upon me and I will not answer Men that scorn and scoff at Religion now they shall be forced then to cry but they shall not find God But then I 'll laugh saith God at their calamity and mock when their fear cometh In the second Place Take a covetous Worldling that does not so much as think there is any thing more but to look well to this World and he guilds his Covetousness over with so much Religion as is necessary for his present Concernment to secure him from any thing of danger I say he keeps all his Worldliness within compass with something of Religion but he does not really consider what a great state a state of Eternity is and what a little the present state of the World is Now would you know in what a Case such a Man shall rise in He shall rise in an amaze and say I never thought of the World to come I thought of the present World I knew how ill it would be with my Family if I did not take care of that but never thought of the other World I had so much Silver and Gold and Fruits of the Earth laid up for many years and said Take thine ease my Soul Eat Drink and be Merry and he never considered the greatness of this Eternal Condition Now Observe what Christ speaks Luke 12. 19. when he said Soul Take thine Ease Eat Drink and be Merry for thou hast much Goods laid up for many years Then God said to him Thou Fool This Night shall thy Soul be required of thee And then whose shall these things be which thou hast provided So is he that layeth up Treasure and is not rich towards God I never thought saith this Sensualist of such a thing as that this was a strange Notion in my life-time a Notion that I did not know how to understand or to think it any thing but Fancy and meer Discourse but now I find what it is not to be rich towards God And so I say By these two Persons I have briefly set out to you what the Circumstances shall be in which Men shall rise that have not minded God and their Eternal Condition But according to the Subject that is before me I shall open to you especially the Foolish Virgins that we may all take care for it is indeed a very nice Case I say a very nice Case That a Man should be a Virgin that any Person should be a Virgin in the account of Jesus Christ and yet because he is a foolish Virgin he is utterly undone That is a Virgin that hath the Truth of Religion that hath the Truth of Doctrine the Truth of Worship and he must needs be supposed to be a Person of a sober outward Conversation or else he could not deserve the Name or Appearance or Stile of a Virgin He must not be a Swearer Drunkard or Unclean Person He must not be one that wallows or tumbles in evil for who would call such an one
are in the whole Orb and the whole Body and Sphere of Light his own Righteousness and Perfection And they all are Communicated from him And therefore it is that these Graces are spoken so Graciously of because they are in him In the Third Place you may say But suppose I am satisfied and convinced That it is not what is in my Self but what is in Christ where all my Imperfections are made up and where every thing is in Purity and Perfection This is the Great Thing lies upon me That I don't know how to come to Christ that I may be his and that he may be mine And therefore this is that I shall Answer to you There are under the Profession of Christianity two Sorts of Men. First Those that never care for these Things that never mind them that never consider them that never ask the Question Whether Christ is theirs or not Nor have any Thought or any Trouble about it Now to such Persons there 's no great need of answering It is a vain Thing to Resolve Cases of Conscience to an Atheist to him that saith There 's no God There 's no Religion So it is in vain to answer such Scruples to the Man that never minds Christ or considers himself Whether in Christ or not But if there are any of us that are really under the Sense of the Want of Christ and of the Greatness of that Want If there be any such Why then there is not at any time such a Thought in our Hearts as this Whether we are Christ's or not but it is a Hopeful Argument That Jesus Christ doth Call us and does Invite us He doth Call and Invite us or else Why should it so be That we are concerned and troubled about our having or not having of him Our Case is just like the Case of that Blind Man in the Gospel that we read of Mark 10. 46. When they were come to Jericho there was a great Number of People And Blind Bartimeus the Son of Timeus sate by the Way-side Begging And when he heard that it was Jesus of Nazareth he began to cry out and say Jesus thou Son of David have Mercy on me And many charged him that he should hold his Peace They would not have him make such ado after Christ But he cry'd the more a great deal Thou Son of David have Mercy on me And Jesus stood still and commanded him to be called And they call the Blind-Man saying unto him Be of good Comfort rise he calleth thee I would only make an Allusion and so an Application of this Christ coming near him Invited his Desires and when he Desired Christ further Invited him When we find our Souls moved with any thing of the Sense of the Want of Christ or Desire after him It is a sign Christ is coming near to us and when we find that let us cry out more earnestly after him and though our own Corruptions our own Unbelief our own Fears our own Lusts say Don't make such a stir after Christ They charge us to hold our Peace and Satan charges us and many Doctrines in the World yea of some very good Men they charge us to hold our Peace and say First of all Get more Humiliation and Sense of Sin Get Holiness Get Resolutions of being better and don 't expect and ask for Salvation till you come so and so qualified Now I say in this Case Let us cry so much the more For if we want Humiliation where should we have it but only from Christ If we want Resolutions to Holiness where should we have them but from Christ It is not intended that you should be negligent of Humiliation or Sense of Sin or Sorrow for it or Resolutions for Holiness But the Question is Where shall we have these Now I say We can have them no where but from Christ From the First Item of coming to God even from first to last to an Everlasting Happiness it is from God it is from Christ He calleth all those whose Souls are moved and those that have had no more Sense of these things heretofore than the very Stones and Stocks than the very Heathen and Pagans To all these I say If Christ do but move and stir you fly ye to him and say If I perish I 'll perish here I know nothing in my want of Everlasting Life but only coming to Christ to help me may every Soul say Objection But then you 'll say There 's a Danger that Men should Sleep and do nothing but put off all with coming to Christ. Don't fear this If we are indeed in Motion to Christ be assured of this He 'll come to you and make himself further known to you And in that very Moment that you think to be doing something look upon Christ as the very Author and Finisher of our Faith and in his Strength go and do it For surely we may stand long enough fetching Water out of a Flint till Jesus Christ be pleased to turn the Flint into a standing Water Such an Expression is in the Psalms So I say The Flint in the Heart the Heart of Flint Christ will turn into a Standing-Water And it can never be done till Christ do it And therefore I know not how to advise such otherwise Many complain of the Want of this and that Grace What Advice would you give us Alas Many would say Be Industrious and Earnest I do not deny but there 's a Place for it But I say It is for a Man to begin at the Wrong End of the Thing to begin there without looking first to Christ Let us therefore go to Christ For Faith and Love are in him abundant And he 'll draw Souls to himself When I am lifted up saith he I will Draw all Men to me The Death of Christ upon the Cross was a Spiritual Emblem of this Drawing And the Father Draws and the Spirit Convinces That Persons may by it be Drawn to Christ It is therefore in the High and Supream Hand And when we have any Intimations and Motives upon us to move and to stir still go to the Fountain Go to him that is the Son of Oil These Rays and Beams lead to him that is the Spring of all Grace from the very first to the last It is worthy our Consideration that Place of the Prophet Isaiah Chap. 22. last Verses And I will fasten him as a Nail in a sure Place and he shall be for a Glorious Throne to his Father's House And they shall hang upon him all the Glory of his Father's House the Off-spring and the Issue The very Beginning and the End Vessels of all Quantities from the Vessels of Cups even to all the Vessels of Flagons They hang all upon him Now therefore If you would hang your Humiliation or Preparation that 's a Vessel of the Off-spring and it is a small Vessel a Vessel of small Quantity if you hang this any where but upon the Nail in