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

1. Go to the Cross of Jesus Christ. It is not all our purposes, resolutions, promises, vows, covenants endeavours, without this, that will effect our conformity to Christ in his sufferings and death; no, no, this conformity is a fruit and effect of the death of Christ; and therefore whosoever would have this work wrought in him, let him first have recourse to Christ's Cross: O go we more immediately to the Cross of Jesus.

2. Look up to him that hangs upon it, contemplate the death of Jesus Christ, consider seriously and sadly his bitter shameful, painful sufferings: Much hath been said, only here draw it into some Epitome: As, 1. Consider who he was. 2. What he suffered. 3. Why he suffered. 4. For whom he suffered. 5. For what end he suffered. 6. With what mind he suffered: Every one of these will make some discoveries either of his Graces, or of his gracious actings in our behalf; and who can tell how far this very Look may work on us to change us, and transform us into the very image of Jesus Christ?

3. Let us humbly bewail our defect, exorbitancy, irregularity, and inconformity either to the graces, sufferings, or death of Christ. As thus; Lo here the profound humility, wonderful patience, fervent love, abundant mercy, admirable meekness, constant obedience of Jesus Christ! Lo here the tortures, torments, agonies, conflicts, extreme sufferings of Christ for the spiritual, immortal good of the precious souls of his redeemed ones: Lo here the death of Christ, see how he bowed the head, and gave up the Ghost! why these are the particulars to which I should conform: But Oh alas! what a wide, vast, utter distance, disproportion is there betwixt me and them? Christ in his sufferings shined with graces, his graces appeared in his sufferings, like so many stars in a bright winter's night; but how dim are the faint weak Graces in my Soul? Christ in his sufferings endured