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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, ²Magor-Missabib, fear round about, every way a terror to himself.

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 loathsom 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 uncomliness and deformity without Jesus Christ, he would stile himselfe as the Prophet stiled Pashur,