ye believe in him whom he hath fent. Are you content, however weak and impotent you are, to fet about this work at God's charges, and that it be the work of God in you? Are you joyfully content to believe on the Son of God, upon this condition and confideration, that the work is of God, and that the power is of God, and that the will is of God, and that all things relating to this work are of God?

All things relating to the new creation in Christ are of God. This believing is the work of God, as it is a part of the new creation, which you can no more effectuate of yourself, than you can create a world: but, though it be not of you, yet you may fall in with it hopefully and joyfully, because it is of God.

Upon no other terms was Chrift called to, or fell in with redeeming-work, than you are called this moment to fall in with believing-work. He fell in with it upon these terms, that all things relating to that redemptionwork, and all his redeeming power, fhould be of God : even fo, is there any foul here determined to fall in with this work of believing on the Son of God, upon thefe terms, that all things relating to this believingwork, and all your believing powers be of God? Then, I hope, believing power is at hand. Are you content this moment to open your heart and arms to embrace the Son of God upon thefe terms, that the heart-opening power be of God? Why, upon thefe terms only. this work of God can be done, and fhall be done : therefore, in the name of the great God, of whom are all things, and of whom is this power to believe and embrace Chrift, I call you, this moment, to ftretch out the withered hand, the withered heart, and all your withered arms to embrace the Son of God; for you have no more to do in this matter, but to know and believe that the work is of God, that the day of power is of God, that the word of power is of God, the Spirit of power is of God, that the heart-quickening power is of God; and to be content, this moment, that all things relating to this new creation-work be of God, and that God get the glory of this name upon you, in creating you in Chrift Jefus for himself, and making all VOL. VII.

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things new. Why then, it is to be hoped, the good work is begun, if you are glad to be put down, to be nothing, and that God in Chrift be fet up to be all in all, and glad to own that, in the whole of this work, from the beginning to the end, nothing is of you, but All things are of God.

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are of God; fo, here you have an ocular demonftration of it for, all the good and great things of the new covenant are here reprefented as in a glafs, and we may fee them all to be of God. Chrift, who is here represented, is the gift of God: his love that is here Commemorated, is the love of God: this table is the Lord's table, the table of God: the provifion laid upon it, is God's provifion; and he that hath provided fo far outwardly the figns reprefenting, will, we hope, provide inwardly the fpiritual bleffings reprefented: "Here is the fire and the wood, but where is the lamb for the burnt offering?" Why, the facrificing knife of juftice was, by the law, to be put to your own throat, O finner: but, behold, God will provide himself another fort of a Lamb for a burnt-offering. The name, the old name of our God, is his new name to this day, JEHOVAHJIREH, "In the mount of the Lord it fhall be feen; the Lord will provide."

In the fame night in which our Lord was betrayed, &c. Behold, my friends, as all things are of God; fo this bread is the bread of God that came down from heaven; look to it through this element: it is the bread of God's giving, who fo loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son. It is bread of God's breaking and bruifing;

"It pleafed the Lord to bruife him." It is bread of God's fending; "To you is the word of this falvation fent;" to you is this bread of life fent: to you, finner, it is fent in the word; to you, believer, it is fent in the facra ment a new: "He that eateth this bread fhall live for ever."

After fupper be took the cup, &c. I am the true vine, fays Chrift. Indeed, he is a bleeding vine; his blood is fqueezed into that cup: and as all things here are of God, fo this blood is the blood of God; and all things that relate to our falvation vent through this blood, being all the bleffings and purchase of this blood. Grace reigns through this righteousness of Jefus to eternal life. Grace does not ceafe to be the grace of God, because it reigns and runs through the righteoufnels of Chrift; for this righteoufnefs is of God. The bleffings of the Covenant do not ceafe to be the bleffings of God, because they vent through the blood of Chrift; for this blood is alfo the blood of God.

And now, what bleffings do you need or defire?Want you any facramental grace? Want you grace to believe, grace to love, grace to repent, grace to communicate worthily? All is of God. Do not think to extract them out of your own heart, as if they were of you; but look up to God in Chrift for them; for all things are of him.-Are you deftitute of ftrength and furniture for any work or warfare? All things relating to this are of God in Chrift: therefore you may fay, "I will go in the ftrength of the Lord, making mention of his righteoufnefs, even of his only."-Are you deftitute of light, life, liberty, comfort, peace, or pardon? Why, now you are at the fountain-head, whence you may draw fupply: All things are of God.

But, fay you, though all things be of God, what relief does that yield to me, while I find myfelf deftitute of all these good things, and kept empty-handed? Why, is it not good that all things that are of God are put in Chrift's hand, and that your flock lies furer there than if it were in your own hand? You know, believer, that you cannot keep it: what you get this moment, you are ready to lofe it the very next moment: and

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are you not obliged to God, who puts your all in a hand that can keep that which is committed to him?

What though you fhould be kept empty all this day? Čan you not truft him with your ftock all this day? Is it not as well in his hand as in yours? Whenever any comfortable fupply is given to you, you are apt to abuse it, and difhonour him, by trufting to the grace that he puts in your hand, more than to the grace that is in his hand; whereas you are called to be ftrong in the grace that is in Chrift Jefus, and not in the grace that is in you and, left you thus abufe it, and difhonour him, he keeps you, as it were, at fhort allowance, and that too very fcrimp. But, O Sirs, be content, that, as All things are of God, fo all the things of God are in Chrift your glorious head: and, if you can be glad of this, it fhall not be long ere you get what is needful from him, as well as have all your treafure always in

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Now, if Chrift and all things be of God, then let nothing vex and torment you, poor believing foul.-Let it not vex you, that you find a want of all things in you; but let it ease and please your mind, that all things are of God in Chrift.-Let it not trouble you, that you cannot communicate as you ought to do; but let it af ford relief to your heart, that communicating grace is of God.-Let it not grieve you, that you want a frame, fuch as you would have; let it fatisfy and please you that a communion frame is of God, and you must trust him with that, to give it when he pleafes. Let it not afflict you, that you have prayers and bills lying before the throne, and never yet anfwered: O let not your heart be troubled with this; let it fuffice, that the anfwering of them all is of God, as a prayer-hearing God in Chrift; as a reconciled God in him, who will take his own time and way to anfwer them.-Let it not dif quiet you, believer, that there are fome promises you were to hope upon, never yet accomplished: let it fuffice you, and quite eafe your mind, that they are all Yea and Amen in Chrift Jefus, and that the fulfilling them is of God, a promifing God in Chrift, who, in due time, will do as he hath faid.-Let it not make you

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uneafy, that you are guilty, guilty beyond all. may be grieved indeed for the affronts you have done to your Lord; but be not vexed fo as to think there is no hope. I think, Chrift is now faying to the foul, oppreffed with the fenfe of guilt, "Let it not vex and torment you, that you have been fo unkind to me; I can put up with a thoufand affronts you have done me. My foul was once vexed, and exceedingly troubled, even unto death, with your fins and guilt, and you need not be grieved to death with them again; only acknowledge your iniquities, and believe, that as all things, fo remif fion of fin and pardòn is of God, as a reconciled God in my blood."--Again, let it not vex and trouble your heart, that your lufts and corruptions are fo ftrong and mafterly, that you have been fo many hundred times conquered and captivated by them: but let it give eafe to your mind, and pleafure to your foul, that fin-conquering grace is of God, that fin-fubduing grace is of God, as a reconciled God in Chrift, who hath faid,

Sin fhall not have dominion over you."-Let it not perplex you, that you have fo many running fores, broken. bones, and deadly like difeafes about you: let it quiet your mind, and ease your foul that healing is of God, who fays, "I am the Lord that healeth thee." O! will you fing with the pfalmift, Pfal. ciii. 3. "Blefs the Lord, O my foul, who healeth all thy diseases?" He faith not, who hath healed them all, as if there were no more healing needful; nay, that will never be the fong in earth, but in heaven: but the fong of faith here, by the way, is of God in Chrift as a healer. I find the malady remaining, faith the foul; but I fee the remedy, and that healing is of God in Chrift: and let it give me prefent eafe, that there is a Healer, a Saviour here. Fellowship with God in Chrift above, is betwixt him and faints that are perfectly whole; but all the fellowship here is between the Saviour and the finner, the Phyfician and the diseased.

Let it not difquiet you, that many burdens feem to be laid upon your back, burden upon burden, preffure upon preffure; the Lord knows what your burdens are: but let it give real ease to your foul, that God hath provided a burden-bearer, Mat. xi. 27, 28. “All things,

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