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

2. For our riches, in case we are lively in this Duty: Oh the blessed incomes to such souls! we may reckon up here those very particulars which the others wanted. 1. That Christ gives Light unto them; as the receiving of the Sun gives light to the body, so the receiving of the Sun of Righteousness gives light, a spiritual, heavenly, and comfortable light to their souls. 2. That Christ gives grace and holiness unto them; of his fullness we receive grace for grace. As the print upon the wax answers to the seal, or as the characters upon the Son answers to the Father; so there are certain stamps of the grace of Christ upon the Saints, that what good they do, it springs not from external motives ⟨p. 17⟩only, as in hypocrites, but from Christ working in them an inward principle of new nature; and upon this account doth John ¹tell us, the Law was given by Moses, but grace & truth came by Jesus Christ. 3. That Christ gives contentation or satisfaction unto them: as the pearl satisfied the Merchant in the Parable with treasure, so Christ satisfieth the soul with wisdom in the understanding, with the sense of his love in the heart, with sure and blessed peace in the conscience; they that rightly look unto Jesus, may say as Jacob did,² I have enough. 4. That Christ gives glory unto them; he is the glory of Israel, he is both the Author, and the matter of their glory; he is the glory of their justification, as the garment is the glory of him that wears it; he is the glory of their redemption, as the ransomer is the glory of the captive: he is the glory of their sanctification, as Jordan cleansing him from his leprosy was the glory of Naaman; he is their all in all, in whom they glory, and to whom they give all honour, and glory, and power, and praise. 5. That Christ gives peace unto them, God is in Christ reconciling the world unto himself, he is the Author,³ and the world is the object of this reconciliation. Christ is our peace; and peace is preached by Jesus Christ; they that hear Christ in the Word, or that look unto Christ by the eye of faith, they have this peace; for Christ only in Ordinances is the revealer, and procurer, and the worker of peace in all the children of peace. 6. That Christ procures acceptation with God for them; he stands betwixt God and such believers;