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

3. Be more and better acquainted with Jesus Christ; get nearer to him, be more in communion with him, get more tastes of Christ and heaven, and earth will relish the worse for them. Oh when I look on Christ, and consider, that he that was the Lord of heaven and earth, put himself into so poor and low a condition, merely for the redeeming of his Elect, how should this but deaden my heart to the world?¹ I account all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord, and account them but dung that I may win Christ. If Christ be in view, all the world then is but dung, and dross, and loss in comparison; the Glory of Christ will darken all other things in the world.

3. Be more and better acquainted with Jesus Christ; get nearer to him, be more in communion with him, get more tastes of Christ and heaven, and earth will relish the worse for them. Oh when I look on Christ, and consider, that he that was the Lord of heaven and earth, put himself into so poor and low a condition, meerly for the redeeming of his Elect, how should this but deaden my heart to the world?¹ I account all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord, and account them but dung that I may win Christ. If Christ be in view, all the world then is but dung, and dross, and loss in comparison; the Glory of Christ will darken all other things in the world.

1. 1Phil. 3.8.

4. Set before you the examples of such Saints, who accounted themselves pilgrims and strangers upon earth. The Apostle gives you a Catalogue of such, who confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth, and see how they are used,¹