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I say, Let not this Impediment ly in thy way, because we have no strength, or ability to do, or to please, or to serve him in any way, why, alas! do you think now that Jesus Christ calls for any price? invites people, and then they must bring money in their hands? No Brethren, you are much mistaken, Jesus Christ doth invite to come without money, or without any price:
Whoever you be, though you be never so weak and unable to perform any duty, or service, and never did any thing for the Lord, yet you should come. And Brethren, the more unfit we are in our selves, and the less we have of our selves, and the more sensible we are of our own unfitness, this should rather be so far from hindering, and discouraging us, as that it should encourage us to come, why? because that having nothing, and Christ being the fulness of all, we should go un∣to Christ for all, as Rev. 3.18. saith Christ, Thou art poor, and naked, blind, and miserable, and hast nothing, wherefore come to me, I counsel thee to come to me for Ey salve, and for rayment, gold, and treasure, and riches, — Why here now is Christs argument on the contrary, Why Brethren, he fills the hungry and the empty with good things, and they are to come to Christ. Jesus Christ invites such poor souls as have nothing at all, no ability at all, a poor blind creature, if one be more blind and unable, and more ignorant than another, here is the invitation, that Jesus Christ doth make this day to such a poor soul, that he shall, if he come, he shall drink, and he shall have of this Water of Life.