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 lairdſhip, that they call their all things: yet greedy Adam's ſons have more greedineſs here than wit. They run all upon their lordſhip, that they call the Lordſhip of many things, Luke x. "Martha, Martha, thou art troubled about many things;" worldings, ye are troubled about many things, to be called my lord of many things. But we ſhall ſee if the text be true, I am Alpha and Omega;,then, firſt, the apoſtle here puts in death. Death is the wages of ſin; I think death an ill mailing, better want it out of the charter. How then have they all things? I anſwer,

Death is alſo a part of the lordſhip this way; becauſe it is my lord of all things, and a coach to glory: Chriſt himſelf being the coachman, and driving the horſes; death is the ſervant; as the wind ſerveth to bring the ſeamen home, ſo death ſerveth him that hath the lordſhip. Death is Chriſt's ferry-boat to carry us home; for, in Chriſt to we ſet our foot on death's neck. It is a bridge o'er the river of hell that we walk on to heaven, and it is ours; the Chriſtian is advanced in Chriſt's court, and gets the new ſtile to be my lord of all things, the prince of all things, the prince, the duke of all things. Yet I ſhall get you a lordſhip beneath them all, but much fought for the lordſhip of vanity or nothing, Prov. xxiii. 5. wilt thou ſet thine eyes on that which is nought? for, verily, riches have wings; he that is rich hath nought.

Secondly, If he inherit all things, then the whole world is his, and ſo he wanteth nothing.

A third queſtion, How is it then that the ſaints are hungry and poor? Anſwer, This promiſe is taken from them. 2 Sam. iii 14. Pſalm lxxxix. 5. I will ſet his one hand on the ſea, and his right hand on the river.'—Then ſee how broad Chriſt's