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A CRY TO THE WHOLE EARTH. Luke xvi. In John v. Chriſt is ſaid to love his whole family, and here he is ſaid to come unto them; for whom he loveth he cannot but viſit, like the friends of Job, Job ii. that came to comfort him in his adverſity. Yea, and the greater love that Chriſt bears unto my the oftener he will reſort unto them : vea, he will come and dwell with them, John xiv. 25. Like Jacob, that came down into Egypt, Gen. xvii. to his beloved ſon Joſeph. and dwell in Goſhen. But Chriſt is yet more kind than Jacob was. for he came not till he was ſent for with horſes and chariots: But Chriſt came of his own accord to this beloved family. Thus doth he always prevent us with his manifold bleſſings. Before he was deſired, he came into the world; he called his apoſtles before they came unto him; and before he was invited he came into this noble houſe.

O happy houſe that entertained ſuch a gueſt; but thrice happy inhabitants to whom ſuch a gueſt would vouchaſe to come! When he came upto the ſwiniſh Gadarenes, they deſired him to depart out of their coaſts, Luke viii. preferring their ſwine above their Saviour: But this godly family gladly received him into their houſe preferred their God before their gold, and their ſouls' wealth before their worldly treaſure. They received him into their houſes, who had not a houſe of his own to put his head into, Mat. viii. 16 wherein their hoſpitality is commended, and ſhall moſt certainly be rewarded at that moſt dreadful day, Mat. xxv. For with theſe and ſuch like works of mercy, the Lord ſhall anſwer the ſentence of judgement which is to be denounced againſt the wicked, that never exerciſed theſe works of mercy. Let us therefore learn by their