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

2. Let us consider Jesus, carrying on this great work of our Salvation at his first Coming or Incarnation. It is not enough to study and know these great Mysteries; but according to the Measure of Knowledge we have, we must Muse, Meditate, Ponder, and Consider of them. Now this Consideration brings Christ nearer and closer to the soul. Consideration gathers up all the long fore-passed Acts and Monuments of Christ, and finds a deal of sweetness and power to come flowing from them. Consideration fastens Christ more strongly to the Soul, and as it were, rivets the Soul to Jesus Christ, and fastens him in the heart. A soul that truly considers and meditates of Christ, thinks and talks of nothing else but Christ;¹ it takes hold, and will not let him go. I will keep to thee (saith the soul in meditation) for thou art my life. Why thus, O my Soul, consider thou of Christ, and of what he did for thee when he was incarnate! and that thou mayest not confound thy self in thy meditations, consider a part of these particulars. — As, —

2. LEt us consider Jesus, carrying on this great work of our Salvation at his first Coming or Incarnation. It is not enough to study and know these great Mysteries; but according to the Measure of Knowledge we have, we must Muse, Meditate, Ponder, and Consider of them. Now this Consideration brings Christ nearer and closer to the soul. Consideration gathers up all the long fore-passed Acts and Monuments of Christ, and finds a deal of sweetness and power to come flowing from them. Consideration fastens Christ more strongly to the Soul, and as it were, rivets the Soul to Jesus Christ, and fastens him in the heart. A soul that truly considers and meditates of Christ, thinks and talkes of nothing else but Christ;