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

6. Such a one is without acceptation, with God the Father: Christ only is Gods beloved, and therefore as Josephs brethren might not look him in the face, unless they brought their brother Benjamin, so cannot we look God in the face with any confidence or acceptance, unless we bring Christ with us in the arms of our faith; without Christ man is stubble, and God is a consuming fire to destroy him; man is a guilty malefactor, and God a severe Judge to condemn him; the whole of man without Jesus Christ is a very abomination in Gods presence.

6. Such a one is without acceptation, with God the Father: Christ onely is Gods beloved, and therefore as Josephs brethren might not look him in the face, unless they brought their brother Benjamin, so cannot we look God in the face with any confidence or acceptance, unless we bring Christ with us in the armes of our faith; without Christ man is stubble, and God is a consuming fire to destroy him; man is a guilty malefactor, and God a severe Judge to condemn him; the whole of man without Jesus Christ is a very abomination in Gods presence.

7. Such a one is without life: he that hath not the Son, hath not life, saith John; ¹Christ lives not in that soul, it is a dead soul, dead in sins and trespasses. As the dead see nothing of all that sweet and glorious light which the Sun casts forth upon them, so the dead in sin have no comfortable apprehension of Christ, though he shine in the Gospel more gloriously than the Sun at noon. And as the dead know not any thing; ²so the dead in sin know nothing at all of the wisdom of Christ guiding them, or of the holiness of Christ sanctifying them, or of the fullness of Christ satisfying them, or of the death of Christ mortifying their lusts, or of the resurrection of Christ quickening their souls, or of the dominion of Christ reigning in their hearts. O what a misery is this!