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

1. For our wants; if Christ be not in view, there is nothing but wants.

Suppose first a Christless soul, a poor creature without any beam or ray of this Sun of righteousness, and what a sad condition is he in? I may say of such a one that—

1. He is without light: there is no oil of saving knowledge, no star of spiritual light arising in his soul; ye were once darkness, saith the Apostle to his Ephesians: not only dark,¹ but darkness it self; they were wholly dark, universally dark, having no mixture, nor glimpse (whilst without Christ) of spiritual light in them. Of such carnal wretches,² saith our Saviour, they have not known the Father, nor me; they have not known the Father in his Word, nor Me in my Natures, Offices, Sufferings, Exaltations, Communications: very miserable is the carnal mans Ignorance of God and Christ, he hath no saving knowledge of Jesus.

1. He is without light: there is no oyl of saving knowledge, no star of spiritual light arising in his soul; ye were once darkness, saith the Apostle to his Ephesians: not only dark,¹ but darkness it self; they were wholly dark, universally dark, having no mixture, nor glimpse (whilest without Christ) of spiritual light in them. Of such carnal wretches,² saith our Saviour, they have not known the Father, nor me; they have not known the Father in his Word, nor Me in my Natures, Offices, Sufferings, Exaltations, Communications: very miserable is the carnal mans Ignorance of God and Christ, he hath no saving knowledge of Jesus.