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

nor is it without use, for all the spirit and life which the Saints now have, or which the Saints shall have unto the end of the World, it is to be conveyed through that flesh, yea the Spirit it self dwells in it, and is conveyed through it, and therefore if they had so much Gospel-Spirit in the time of the Old Testament (which indeed was rare) how much more should we go to Christ as God in the flesh, and look upon it as a standing Ordinance, and believe perfectly on it?

3. Faith must go and lye at the feet of Christ; faith must fix and fasten it self on this God in our flesh: some go to Christ, and look on Jesus with loose and transient glances, they bring in but flashy, secondary, ordinary actings of faith, they have but course and common apprehensions of Jesus Christ. Oh but we should come to Christ with solemn serious spirits; we should look on Jesus piercingly, till we see him as God is in him, and as such a person thus and thus qualified from Heaven; we should labour to apprehend what is the riches of this glorious mystery of Christ's Incarnation; we should dive into the depths of his glorious actings; we should study this mystery above all other studies; nothing is so pleasant, and nothing is more deep; that one person should be God and Man, that God should be man in our nature, and yet not assume the person of a man; that blessedness should be made a curse, that Heaven should be let down into Hell, that the God of the world would shut himself up (as it were) in a body; that the invisible God should be made visible to sense; that all things should become nothing, and make it self of no reputation; that God should make our nature, which had sinned against him, to be the great Ordinance of Reconciling us unto himself, that God should take our flesh, and dwell in it with all his fullness, and make that flesh more Glorious than the Angels, and advance that flesh into oneness with himself, and through that flesh open all his counsels and rich discoveries of love and free-grace unto the Sons of men; that this Man-God, God-Man should be our Saviour, Redeemer, Reconciler, Father, Friend; Oh what mysteries are these! no wonder if when Christ was born,¹