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

1. When he saw thee full of filth, he goes down into the waters of Baptism, that he might prepare a way for the cleansing of thy defiled and polluted soul.

2. When he saw the Devil ready to swallow thee up, or by his baits to draw and drag thy soul down to hell, he himself enters into the List with the Devil, and he overcomes him, that thou mightest overcome, and triumph with Christ in his Glory.

3. When he saw thee in danger of death through thy own unbelief, for (except thou sawest in his hands the print of the nails, and put thy finger into the print of the nails; except thou hadst clear manifestations of Christ even to thine own sense, thou wouldest not believe) he condescends so far to succour thy weakness, as to manifest himself by several witnesses; three in heaven, and three on earth: yea, he multiplies his three on earth to thousands of thousands; so many were the signs witnessing Christ, that the Disciple which testified of them,¹ could say, If they should be written every one, the world could not contain the Books that should be written.

3. When he saw thee in danger of death through thy own unbelief, for (except thou sawest in his hands the print of the nails, and put thy finger into the print of the nails; except thou hadst clear manifestations of Christ even to thine own sense, thou wouldest not believe) he condescends so far to succour thy weakness, as to manifest himself by several witnesses; three in heaven, and three on earth: yea, he multiplies his three on earth to thousands of thousands; so many were the signes witnessing Christ, that the Disciple which testified of them,