5.  This way is also life, and so can revive the faint and weary traveller.  “He giveth power to the faint, and to them that have no might he increaseth strength; yea, he renews their strength, and makes them mount up with wings as eagles, and run and not be weary, and walk and not be faint,” Isa. xl. 29, 31; “and so he giveth legs to the traveller, yea, he carrieth the lambs in his bosom,” Isa. xl. 11.  Oh! who would not walk in this way? what can discourage the man that walketh here? what can he fear?  No way can quicken and refresh the weary man.  This way can do it; yea, it can quicken one that is as dead, and cause him march on with fresh alacrity and vigour.

6.  From all these it followeth, that this way is a most pleasant, heartsome, desirable and comfortable way.  The man is safe here, and he may “sing in the ways of the Lord,” Psalm cxxxviii. 5.  “For wisdom’s ways are ways of pleasantness, and all her paths are peace,” Prov. iii. 17.  He is a way that is food, physic, cordials, and all that the poor traveller standeth in need of till he come hence.

From all which, ere we come to particulars, we shall in general point out those duties, which natively result thence, by way of use.

1.  O what cause is there here for all of us to fall a wondering, both that God should ever have condescended to have appointed a way how sinners and rebels, that had wickedly departed from him, and deserved to be cast out of his presence and favour for ever, might come back again, and enjoy happiness and felicity in the friendship and favour of that God that could have got the glory of his justice in our destruction, and stood in no need of us, or of any thing we could do:  as also, that he appointed such a way, that Jesus Christ his only Son, should, to speak so, lie as a bridge betwixt God and sinful rebels, and as a highway, that they might return to the great God upon him.  Let all the creation of God wonder at this wonderful condescending love of God, that appointed such a way; and of Christ, that was content to lout so low as to become this way to us, this new and living way; and that for this end he should have taken on flesh, and become Emmanuel, God with us, and tabernacled with us, that through this vail of his flesh, he might consecrate a way to us.  Let angels wonder at this condescendency.

2.  Hence we may see ground of being convinced of those things:  (1.) That naturally we are out of the way to peace and favour with God, and in a way that leadeth to death, and so that our misery and wretchedness, so long as it is so, cannot be expressed. (2.) That we can do nothing for ourselves; set all our wits a-work, we cannot fall upon a way that will bring us home. (3.) That it is madness for us to seek out another way, and to vex ourselves in vain, to run to this and to that mean or invention of our own, and be found fools in the end. (4.) That our madness is so much the greater in this, that we will turn to