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

5. Let us believe in Jesus carrying on the great work of our Salvation in his Life. Many Souls stand aloof, not daring to make a particular application of Christ, and his Life to themselves; but herein is the property of Faith, it brings all home, and makes use of whatsoever Christ is or does, for himself. To ponder Christ's actions during his Life, and the influence of his actions to all that are his, what is this to me, unless I believe my own part in all this? Oh I dare not believe (cries many a poor soul) is it credible that Jesus Christ the Son of God, the brightness of his Fathers Glory, the express Image of his Fathers Person, should be incarnate for me, and lead such a life upon Earth for my soul? What! to be baptized, to be tempted, to manifest himself in the form of man, to whip the Buyers and Sellers out of his Temple, to preach up and down the Gospel of the Kingdom, to work miracles among men, to send abroad his Apostles with a commission to preach, to invite sinners, to ease the burden of duties, and in a word, to publish the righteousness of his Nature and Life; and all this, and a thousand times more than all this, for my soul? O what am I, or what is my Fathers House? If God should let me live one year in Heaven, it were infinite mercy; but that the God of Heaven should live so many years on Earth, and that all that while he should empty himself, in watching, fasting, praying, preaching for my sake; Oh the depth! Oh the depth! I cannot believe.

5. LEt us believe in Jesus carrying on the great work of our Salvation in his Life. Many Souls stand aloof, not daring to make a particular application of Christ, and his Life to themselves; but herein is the property of Faith, it brings all home, and makes use of whatsoever Christ is or does, for himself. To ponder Christ's actions during his Life, and the influence of his actions to all that are his, what is this to me, unless I believe my own part in all this? Oh I dare not believe (cries many a poor soul) is it credible that Jesus Christ the Son of God, the brightness of his Fathers Glory, the express Image of his Fathers Person, should be incarnate for me, and lead such a life upon Earth for my soul? What! to be baptized, to be tempted, to manifest himself in the form of man, to whip the Buyers and Sellers out of his Temple, to preach up and down the Gospel of the Kingdom, to work miracles among men, to send abroad his Apostles with a commission to preach, to invite sinners, to ease the burden of duties, and in a word, to publish the righteousness of his Nature and Life; and all this, and a thousand times more than all this, for my soul? O what am I, or what is my Fathers House? If God should let me live one year in Heaven, it were infinite mercy; but that the God of Heaven should live so many years on Earth, and that all that while he should empty himself, in watching, fasting, praying, preaching for my sake; Oh the depth! Oh the depth! I cannot believe.