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

SECT. Of knowing Jesus, as carrying on the great work of our Salvation from the Creation until his first Coming.

Looking comprehends knowing, considering, desiring, &c. as you have heard; and accordingly that we may practise.

LOoking comprehends knowing, considering, desiring, &c. as you have heard; and accordingly that we may practise.

1. We must know Jesus carrying on the great work of our Salvation in the beginning, and from the beginning of the World: Come let us learn what he did for us so early in the morning of this World: He made it for us, and he made us more especially for his own Glory; but presently after we were made, we sinned and marred the Image wherein God made us; this was the saddest Act that ever was; it was the undoing of man, and (without the mercy of God) the damning of all Souls, both of men and women to all Eternity; and, O my Soul, know this for thy self, thou wast in the loins of Adam at that same time, so that what he did, thou didst; thou wast partaker of his Sins, and thou wast to partake with him in his punishment: but well mayest thou say, Blessed be God for Jesus Christ; at the very instant when all should have been, damned, Christ intervened; a Covenant of Grace is made with man, and Christ is the Foundation, in and through whom we must be reconciled unto God: Come soul, and study this Covenant of grace in reference to thy self; had not this been, where hadst thou been? nay, where had all the World been at this day? Surely it concerns thee to take notice of this great Transaction. After man had fallen by Sin, Christ is promised; & that all the Saints might partake of Christ, a Covenant is entered; this at the beginning of the World, was more dim, but the nearer to Christs coming in the Flesh, the more and more clearly it appeared: Howsoever dimly, or clearly, thus it pleased God in Christ to carry on the great work of our Salvation at that time, viz. by a Promise of Christ, and by a Covenant in Christ, and for thy better knowledge of it, study the Promise made to Adam, and Abraham, and Moses, and David, and Israel. Come Soul, study these several breakings out of the Covenant of Grace;