are many who profefs love to Chrift in words,. but more that deny him in their works, God was never more in mens mouths, and never lefs in mens lives. Beloved, is your love like the grave, never fatisfied? Doft thou cry out more for Chrift, Oh give me Christ, and take the world who will? Is this flame in your fouls? For the Lords fake try yourfelves, deal cordially with your poor fouls.

Now Beloved, I have given you a taste of true fincere love, and bleffed are they who call their love into the sweet bofom of their maker.

8. I fhall now clofe all with a word of examination. Well, firs, if I fhould preach here till to-morrow morning, what can I say more to make you love Chrift; He is most lovely; he is altogether lovely; therefore love Chrift,love Chrift: All caufes of love are in him,. there may be particular causes of love in men and angels, but I fay all caufes of love are in Chrift: Oh firs, love Chrift, for if you do not, there is a dreadful curfe pronounced against you: There is no heaven, no happiness, no crown, without Chrift; for in him doth all fullness dwell, and all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge are in. Christ, and the father gives forth all his loving kindness through Chrift. Beloved, is it not better fwimming in the water-works of repentance, than burning in the fire-works of vengeance? One of them you muft:

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There's no coming to the fair heaven of glory, without failing through the norrow ftrait of repentance: And therefore fay what you will, unless you believe in your Saviour, your fouls will be miferable for ever; and therefore confider of what I have faid, and the Lord give you understanding in all things. Love Chrift more than ever, more than all, and above all, and then you fhall be happy for evermore.

SERMON IV.

The KING of KINGS.

CANT. V. 16. He is altogether Lovely. Chrift is a King, Priest and Prophet; a king for government and rule, a Prieft for facrifice and interceffion, a Prophet for preaching and revealing the fecrets of his Father's bofom.,

BELOVED, you know how far we pro

ceeded the laft Lord's day. I finished the fixth particular, wherein Jefus Chrift the King of Kings, doth furmount and excel all other kings, and it was that Jefus Chrift loves all his fubjects, and all his fubjects love him: And I fhewed you the wonderful love of Chrift to his fubjects, and his fubjects love to him in many particulars, I now proceed to

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other particulars, wherein Chrift excels all the kings of the earth.

7thly, Jefus Chrift makes all his fubjects, his fubjects do not make him: By him were all things created that are in heaven, and that are in the earth, Col. iv. 16. by him, by whom? By Jefus Chrift, by Chrift were all things created. He was in the world, and the world was made by him, and the world knew him not, John, i. 16. fo in the third verfe, All things were made by him, and without him was nothing made. There was not any thing made without Chrift, and all things were made by Chrift. Now, firs, there is no king in the world, but firft, either God from heaven did tell the people that he would have fuch a one to be king, or he was made by the people at firft; pray mark, their office is indeed venerable: What is the flesh of one man, more than another? And therefore Diogenes, told Alexander the Great, “There "was no difference in the grave, between

the bones of his father Philip, and the "bones of the meaneft ones:" So that the kingly power was by the people at first ; that is, men agreed amongst themfelves, that fuch an one fhould be king over them.

Beloved, if earthly kings could give beings to their fubjects, I confefs their right over them would be very much; but indeed their fubjects in a fenfe do give being to them; the fubjects are not made for the king, but the

king for the fubjects; a kingdom is not made for the king, but the king for the kingdom; but now Jelus Chrift he creates his fubjects, makes his fubjects; and gives being to his fubjects. In him we live, move, and have our being, Acts, xvii. 28. Our king gives us our being; he gives us a three-fold being: Our first being in the state of nature, our second being in the ftate of grace, and our third being in the ftate of glory. This is the feventh thing wherein Jefus Chrift excels all other kings, he makes his fubjects, which none elfe can do.

8thly, Chrift is the richeft of all kings: Oh firs, he is rich in love, he is rich in knowledge, rich in goods, rich in wifdom, rich in grace, rich in glory, he is as rich as the father himself; the riches of the deity are in him, in him dwells the fullness of the God-head bodily, Col. ii. 9. Mark, firs, in him there dwells a fullness Of what? Why of the God-head; and not only fo, but it dwells in him bodily Alas, firs, what are the Princes fingle crowns, or the Popes tripple crowns, to Chrifts many crowns; Christ hath not one, or two, or three crowns, but many crowns upon his head, Rev. xix. 12. His eyes were as a flame of fire, and on his head were many crowns; Chrift is richer than all the kings in the world, for he is heir of all things, Heb. 1. 2. He is the great heir of heaven and earth. The Spanish Ambaffador, coming to fee

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the Treafury of St. Mark at Venice, which was fo much cried up through the world for a famous Treasury; he fell a groping of it, to find whether it had any bottom, and being asked the reafon of it, fays he, My "great Mafter's Treafury differs from yours "in this, his hath no bottom, as I find

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yours hath," (alluding to the mines of the Indies) But alas! what is the proud Spaniards Treafure to Chrift's Treafure, and what are his mines to Chrifts mines? What are all the jewels, diamonds, crowns aud fcepters of all the kings of the earth to Chrift? The whole Turkish empire, fays Luther, is but a cruft that God throws to dogs, which is a great part of the world indeed; but it is no more than a bone or cruft, which God throws to dogs. O firs, Chrift's riches are fo many they cannot be numbered, they are fo precious they cannot be valued, fo great they cannot be measured: Oh, the infinite riches of our king: Chrift is a mine of gold, in which we mufl dig till we find heaven.

9. Chrift excels all other kings in this too, he is a king whofe power is abfolute over all nations, people, kindreds and tongues. Now beloved, though earthly kings have a great, power, yet not an abfolute power to do what they lift. And certainly no fubjects are

bound fo far to the humours of men, that they fhall do what they lift; there is no abfolute power that one man hath over another:

But