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

¹2. Such a one is without Grace, without Holiness; Christ is our wisdom and sanctification, as well as righteousness and redemption. Where Christ is not, there is no spiritual wisdom, no inclination to the ways and works of sanctification.

1. 11 Cor. 1.30.

3. Such a one is without contentation; the soul in this case finds nothing but emptiness and vanity, in the greatest abundance. Let a man have what the world can give, yet if he have not Christ, he is nothing worth; Christ is the marrow and fatness, the fullness and sweetness of all our endowments; separate Christ from them, and they are bitter, and do not please us; empty, and do not fill us.

3. Such a one is without contentation; the soul in this case finds nothing but emptiness and vanity, in the greatest abundance. Let a man have what the world can give, yet if he have not Christ, he is nothing worth; Christ is the marrow and fatness, the fulness and sweetness of all our endowments; separate Christ from them, and they are bitter, and do not please us; empty, and do not fill us.

¹4. Such a one is without any spiritual beauty; there is nothing in him but sores and swellings, and wounds and putrefaction; from the sole of his foot, to the crown of his head, there is nothing in him but loathsome and incurable maladies; hence the greatest sinner is the foulest monster; bodily beauty without Christ is but as green grass upon a rotten grave; did man see his uncomeliness and deformity without Jesus Christ, he would stile himself as the Prophet styled Pashur,