Looking unto Jesus a view of the everlasting gospel, or, the souls eying of…

Well then, is inward experimental looking unto Jesus a choice, an high Gospel-Ordinance? Use 1 how may this reprove thousands? how many are there, that mind not this Duty? the truth is, that as the whole world lies in wickedness, ¹so the eyes of the whole world are misplaced; there's few that have a care of this choice, of this high Gospel-Ordinance: I shall therefore reprove both the ungodly, and godly.

WEll then, is inward experimental looking unto Jesus a choice, an high Gospel-Ordinance? Ʋse 1 how may this reprove thousands? how many are there, that mind not this Duty? the truth is, that as the whole world lies in wickedness, ¹so the eyes of the whole world are misplaced; there's few that have a care of this choice, of this high Gospel-Ordinance: I shall therefore reprove both the ungodly, and godly.

1. 11 John 5.19.

1. For the ungodly, not God, nor Christ is in all their thoughts. Alas!¹ they never heard of such a Duty as this; they cannot tell what it means, to Look unto Jesus. Nor speak I only of poor Indians, and other Savages of the unchristian world, whose souls are over clouded with the blackest mists of irreligion, that the Prince of darkness can possibly inwrap them in, who came into the world, not knowing wherefore; and go out of the world, not knowing whither, an heavy case, which cannot sufficiently be bewailed with tears of blood; But I speak of such as live with in the Paradise of the Christian Church, that have nothing to distinguish them from those Indian miscreants, but an outward conformity, outward formalities, the charity of others, and their own slight imaginations; why alas! these are they that the Lord complains of, that they have eyes, and see not;