"Come, buy wine and milk, without money, and without price. " - Isa. lv. 1.
Surely, no man can plead poverty as an excuse for not buying, when the
things sold are not only without money, but without even the proposals
for money; not only without ready money, but without any money. Here is
not even a price given. My soul, remember this. The poorer the wretch,
the more welcome to this market. But what are the things sold? Both
wine and milk. A blessed variety in the gospel feast - wine to cheer, and
milk to nourish. Yes, blessed Jesus, thy love is better than wine, and
thy salvation more healing than milk: Besides, it comes free, it comes
pure, it comes in plenty. And it far, very far, exceeds the strongest
wine, and the richest milk. For though wine may remove a temporary
heaviness, yet was it never known to raise the dead; but thy love,
blessed Jesus, hath raised, and will keep alive forever, sinners dead
in trespasses and sins, and preserve the languishing graces of thy
saints. Come then, my soul, obey the gospel invitation of this day, and
every day; come, buy these precious things without money, and without
price. Come, ye poor, needy, perishing, sinners; come, every one of
you, and buy, there is enough in Jesus for us all; and depend upon it,
not one of you will be sent empty away, if you come empty to be filled,
and hungry to be satisfied. This is the only mark and evidence of every
real purchaser. If Jesus, with all his blessings, be welcome to your
heart, you are welcome to take of his free salvation. Lord, I am come
this day, and every day. Now let me hear thy voice; "Eat, O friends;
yea, drink abundantly, O beloved."
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