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

He that loveth not, knoweth not God, for God is love. 4. True faith purifies the heart, and purgeth ⟨p. 101⟩out sin; When God discovers this, that he will heal back-sliding, and love freely, and turn away his anger, then Ephraim shall say, What have I any more to do with Idols? ¹if ever Christ reveal himself as the object of our Justification, he will be sure to present himself as the pattern of our Sanctification: the knowledge of Gods Goodness will make us in love with holiness; they shall fear and tremble, for all the goodness, and for all the prosperity, ²that I procure unto them, saith the Lord: The golden chain of Mercy let down from Heaven, doth bind us faster to the service of our God. 5. Above all, observe the rise: true faith, if it be true, it is ever bottomed upon the sense and pain of a lost condition; spiritual poverty is the nearest capacity of believing: this is faiths method, be condemned to be saved: be sick and be healed. Faith is a flower of Christ's own planting, but it grows in no Soul but only on the margin and bank of the Lake of fire and brimstone; in regard there's none so fit for Christ and Heaven, as those who are self-sick, and self-condemned to Hell. They that be whole, need not a Physician (saith Christ) but they that are sick. ³This is a Foundation of Christ, that because the man is broken, and hath not bread, therefore he must be sold, and Christ must buy him, and take him home to his fire-side, and clothe him, and feed him there. I know Satan argues thus, Thou art not worthy of Christ, and therefore what hast thou to do with Christ? but Faith concludes otherwise, I am not worthy of Christ, I am out of measure sinful, I tremble at it, and I am sensible of it, and therefore ought I, and therefore must I come to Christ; this arguing is Gospel-logic, and the right method of a true and saving-faith: for what is faith, but the act of a sinner humbled, weary, laden, poor, and self-condemned? Oh take heed of their doctrine who make faith to act of some vile person never humbled, but applying with an immediate touch, his hot, boiling, and smoking Lusts, to the bleeding blessed Wounds, and Death of Jesus Christ.