and wash your feet, and wash your heart and this is the way he washeth, by giving pardon and repentance.He knows, the lower he stoops, the higher will he be honoured in the hearts of his people. Do you think the less of him, O believer, that he stoops and condescends to wash you? No; you think the higher of him. O sinner, do not through unbelief think him too high to look towards you; nay, the higher he is the lower doth he stoop: and therefore, the higher you conceive he is, the more hope you may conceive of his pity and favour towards you; and the more divine store you see he hath, the more let your expectation arise, for faith hath the more footing.

4. Hence see, how the infinite wisdom of God hath outwitted the policy of the devil, the old serpent, in robbing the first Adam of all his stock, and thereby thinking to destroy all mankind; but, behold, the second Adam appears with a stock incomparably greater than that which the first Adam lost! It was a dismal thing to hear such sad news upon the breach and violation of the old covenant, Behold, all things that man had are lost! But Christ, the new covenant Head, comes in with glad news, Behold, all things that God hath are mine! O happy change of Adams! Happy change of covenants, and covenant Heads! O what a well furnished Saviour is here! All things are mine. And, O how well is it secured in the hands both of the Father and of the Son: for, "All things that the Father hath are mine!" And, O how fully and divinely glorious is the treasure! What more full and extensive than all things? And what more divine than all the things of God? These glorious things, that could never have been seen otherwise, even all the glory of God, to be seen in the face and person of Christ, who is the Father's representative, not in some things, but in all things; here is all the glory of God represented, 2 Cor. iii. 18..

5. Hence see, what a great want it is to want Christ; for then they want all things. Oh! the miserable case of the wicked, ungodly, Christless world; they are cursed in the want of all things: they want all things

that God hath, while they are without Christ; without him, ordinances are nothing but an empty shell; the sacramental supper, without Christ, is but an empty table; sermons without Christ are but an empty sound; heaven without Christ would be but darkness, and if the Lamb were not the light of the place.-But, on the other hand, what a great thing must it be to have Christ? For, they that have him, have all things, Rom. viii. 31. When God gives Christ, he cannot but with him freely give us all things; all things that Christ hath, and all things that the Father hath. O how happy are believers!" All things are yours; for, ye are Christ's and Christ is God's:" you have wisdom, righteousness, sanctification, and redemption, and all things in Christ it is easy with Christ to supply all your needs, and to give you all-sufficiency in all things, 2 Cor. ix. 8. O what a well-furnished table is the Lord's table, when the Lord himself is presented upon it! There is an overflowing ocean of all good in Christ for sinners, infinitely exceeding all our sins and all our wants it is unbelief that doth diminish and limit the fulness of Christ; it reveals a multitude of sins and wants, but it conceals and overlooks the treasure of grace and fulness of all things, that are in Christ. But passing other inferences, at present,

6. Hence see the duty of all poor and needy sinners, and where they ought to go for supply, and for a share of all things they need and what a broad foundation, for faith is here. God in Christ is the fountain of living waters. God the Father hath all things; but how shall we come at them? Why, says Christ, come to me; for, they are all mine; mine to give out, mine to distribute among poor needy sinners. Here is enoughboth to excite and direct your faith.

[1.] To move and excite faith. O may the Spirit come for this end. See that whatever you can object here is answered.

(1.) Do you think with yourself, Ah! I am universally destitute; I have nothing? Well, but hear is all things; and they are all mine, says Christ; therefore come to me. But,

(2.) Do you think that God is displeased with you, because of your sin; and that the Father of Christ hath no favour for you? Nay, but the fulness here exhibited, is the fulness of God the Father; even ALL the things that the Father hath. But,

(3.) Do you think, O the Father is far away from me! how can I have all things that the Father hath? It is answered, They are all laid up in the hands of a near friend and kinsman; they are all mine, says Christ, for your use. But,

(4.) Do you think, Alas! I hear of these glorious things, but I do not apprehend them; I am blind and in the dark, so as I cannot see any of these all things that Christ and his Father hath? Well, but says Christ; My Spirit is at hand to receive of mine, and shew it unto you; and thus to glorify me: he would not glorify me, if he did not shew it unto you. But now, in so far as he is shewing it to you, he is glorifying me, by making me appear glorious to you, more glorious than all the mountains of prey.

The Spirit shews this glory of Christ just in this glass of the word, 2 Cor. iii. 18. And if he be shewing it to you, surely you must be moved to believe with application, that when Christ hath so much, you shall not want; and that he hath enough to spare unto you. Is it possible to believe his immense fulness, and that he hath all things, and yet hath nothing to spare for you? Nay, let faith say it is for me, for me: "He received gifts for men, even for the rebellious." O sirs, as the fulness of the Godhead is in him; so, if there were ten thousand millions of worlds, Christ could not be pinched to supply all their wants. Here is the well of life; but who knows how deep it is to the bottom? The due consideration of this, might provoke all the world to come and draw water out of this well of salvation with joy, this fountain opened for you.

[2.] Here is enough to direct your faith, in and by the same topics that are here before you in the text. (1.) Remember where all things are to be had; and that therefore, if you would believe, you must remember, that faith to believe in the Son of God is to be had

where all other things are. Faith is the gift of God; and Christ is the Author of faith; therefore seek not to bring faith out of your own bowels; for, as faith comes by hearing, so nothing but the power of God can produce it effectually; that is, by the gospel's coming, not in word only, but in power, and in the Holy Ghost. This power works secretly and silently upon the heart in hearing, when, perhaps, the person little knows that it is the power of God that is dealing with his heart; when yet, while the Spirit is in the word, shewing the things of Christ, there may be a heartbeating towards him: a heart-bleeding, a heart-bursting, a heart-burning towards him: and possibly, the heart that was hard like a rock, now melting like water before the Lord; yea, under this drawing power of the Spirit, there may be heart panting after the Lord, and yet the poor soul, perhaps, doth not know that the power of God is present. This faith cometh not by working or doing, or forcing yourselves up to some strong actings: but it comes by hearing the actings of faith come by hearing of the object of faith presented in the word, and by hearing what the Spirit says of his glory.

Why then do you stand poring upon your want of power to act faith, as if you were to pull it out of your own breast? You will be nearer to your purpose, if you pore upon the object of faith, wherein all things are. The soul, in believing, considers not, What can I do, but what can Christ do? not, What have I in me, but, what hath Christ in him? it is taken up with nothing but Christ; and it is the best act of faith that loses itself, and is swallowed up in his fulness.

(2.) The next direction to your faith, is, Let the claim of right that Christ hath to all things that the Father hath, be your claim. Christ is the first receiver of all things from the Father; and we can receive nothing but through his hand. We have no claim to any thing that the Father hath, but in him whom the Father loveth, and to whom he hath given all things ; they must be his before they can be ours. All is mine first, says Christ, before ever you can share; and they

are mine, that they may be yours: my mediatorial right to them is on your account: his love falls upon me, that it may descend upon you; his blessing lights upon me, that it may light on you; his Spirit is given to me, and put upon me, that it may be put upon you; his fulness dwelleth in me, that out of my fulness ye may receive, and grace for grace; his promise lights upon me, that it may be accomplished to you: Psalm ii. 9. Rev. ii. 27. Therefore, let your claim of right to any thing the Father hath, be grounded on my right; for, "All things that the Father hath are mine." He is your God, because he is my God; and your Father, because he is my Father: he is yours, because he is mine; and all things the Father hath are yours, because they are mine; all things are yours: for ye are Christ's and Christ is God's."-God's kindness toward us is only through Christ, Eph. ii. 7. We are blessed with all spiritual blessings only in Christ, Eph. i. 3.; and accepted only in the Beloved, verse 6.

(3.) The third direction to your faith is, O let faith take the testimony of Christ out of his own mouth concerning his own glory, which is here wrapped into the very midst of the Father's glory!" All things that the Father hath are mine," Christ, the Mediator, is the speaker here: and as he declares, to his Father's praise and honour, that all things he hath for us are originally the Father's, even that God, who so loved the world, as to give his only begotten Son, &c. so he proclaims his own glory that he hath from the Father: "All things that the Father hath are mine." We need not commend Christ to you, as if we could say more than he says himself; there is ten thousand times more in this very word, than men or angels can tell hear his commendation out of his own things that the Father hath are mine." where, "Come to me, and I will give you rest." Why? what rest? what happiness? what good things? Even all things that the Father hath, they are put in my hand to give. Christ himself is here the preacher, commending himself, and offering himself. O sirs, is there none here hearkening to him, and saying, O!" It is the

therefore, O mouth," All He says, else