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 two arms are. His one hand upon all the ſea, and his other hand upon the river, and that promiſe is made to Chriſt as principal cautioner of the covenant. For, it is ſaid, verſe 26. "He ſhall ſay unto me, thou art my Father, and my God, and the rock of my ſalvation," verſe 27. Alſo, I will make him my firſt-born, higher than the kings of the earth." —Which is expounded of Chriſt, Heb. i. 5. Rev. X. 2. "He has his right-foot on the ſea, and his left-foot on the land." Put theſe two together, and ſee how wide his arms and legs and feet are, they go over the whole world as his inheritance which he wan to himſelf, and his heirs after him, with his blood. Now Chriſt got land not to himſelf: what needs he land to give his blood for clay? but he wan it to us, and he took inſeſtment in the earth in the name of his friends. And now it is true, they are not poſſeſſors of all things; bet ſecondly, for people's wants, ye fed their intereſt is in and over all things; yet their tutor lets them go with a toom purſe: he knows the heir is a young one, and cannot keep gold, and, therefore, he gives them food and raiment for the preſent neceſſity; but keeps the lordſhip for the preſent. Our tutor Chriſt is made of God out tutor, our purſe-maſter: it is all one whether we have it in our cheſt-neuk, or if it be in Chriſt's purſe to keep it while we need it, providing we want not.

Thirdly, A third queſtion, and a third is, at leaſt, ſeeing they are under ſo many troubles in this life, and have no eaſe, they have not things: I anſwer. Yet I muſt defend it, and ſay if they have the inheritance, that they have things, becauſe the ſweet of the comfort and troubles are theirs.