another way when he is brought unto Jesus Christ; Isa. lxvi., "They
shall suck, and be satisfied." If you be born again, there is no
satisfaction till you get the milk of God's word into your souls; Isa.
lxvi. 11, "To suck, and be satisfied with the breasts of consolation."
O what is a promise to a carnal man; a whorehouse, it may be, is more
sweet to him; but if you be born again, you cannot live without the
milk of God's word. What is a woman's breast to a horse? But what is
it to a child? There is its comfort night and day, there is its
succour night and day. O how loath is he it should be taken from him.
Minding heavenly things, says a carnal man, is but vanity; but to a
child of God, there is his comfort.

Thirdly, A child that is newly born, if it have not other comforts to
keep it warm than it had in its mother's womb, it dies. It must have
something got for its succour; so Christ had swaddling clothes prepared
for him; so those that are born again, they must have some promise of
Christ to keep them alive. Those that are in a carnal state, they warm
themselves with other things; but those that are born again, they
cannot live without some promise of Christ to keep them alive, as he
did to the poor infant in Ezekiel xvii., "I covered thee with
embroidered gold." And when women are with child, what fine things
will they prepare for their child! O but what fine things has Christ
prepared to wrap all in that are born again! O what wrappings of gold
has Christ prepared for all that are born again! Women will dress
their children, that every one may see them how fine they are; so he in
Ezekiel xvi. 11--"I decked thee also with ornaments, and I also put
bracelets upon thine hands, and a chain on thy neck. And I put a jewel
on thy forehead, and ear-rings in thine ears, and a beautiful crown
upon thine head;" and, says he in the 13th verse, "thou didst prosper
to a kingdom." This is to set out nothing in the world but the