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

2. WE must consider Jesus carrying on the the great work of our Salvation in that dark time; it is not enough to study it and know it, but we must seriously muse, and meditate, and ponder, and consider of it, till we bring it to some profitable Issue: This is the Consideration I mean, when we hold our thoughts to this or that spiritual subject, till we perceive success, and the work do thrive and prosper in our hands. Now to help us in this, —

¹1. Consider Jesus in the first Promise made to man; It shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel. When all men were under guilt of sin, and in the power of Satan; and when thou, my Soul, wert in as bad a case as any other, then to hear the sound of this glad tidings, then to hear of Jesus, a Saviour, and Redeemer, sure this was welcome News. Come, draw the case nearer to thy self; thou wast in Adams Loins, suppose thou hadst been in Adams stead;² suppose thou hadst heard the Voice of the Lord walking in the Guarding, suppose thou hadst heard him call, Adam, where art thou? Peter, Andrew, Thomas, where art thou? What? hast thou eaten of the Tree whereof I commanded thee that thou shouldest not eat? Why then Appear and come to judgment, the Law is irrevocable,³ in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die; there is nothing to be looked for but death temporal, and death spiritual, and death eternal; O what a fearful condition is this! no sooner to come into the world, but presently to be turned over ⟨p. 91⟩into Hell? for one day to be Monarch of the World, and of all Creatures in the world, and the very next day to be a slave of Satan, and to be bound hand and foot in a darksome dungeon? for a few hours to live in Eden, to enjoy every tree in the Garden, Pleasant to the sight, and good for food, and then to enter into the confines of eternity, and ever, ever, ever to be tormented with the Devil and his Angels?