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

4. The Encouragements to bring on Souls to believe on Christ Incarnate, we may draw—

1. From the excellency of this Object. This very Incarnation of Christ is the Foundation of all other actings of God for us; it is the very Hinge or Pole on which all turn; it is the Cabinet wherein all the Designs of God do lie; Election, Redemption, Justification, Adoption, Glorification, are all wrapped up in it; it is the highest pitch of the Declaration of Gods Wisdom, Goodness, Power and Glory; Oh what a sweet Object of Faith is this! I know there are some other things in in Christ which are most proper for some Acts of Faith; as Christ dying is most proper for the pardon of actual sin; and Christ rising from the dead is most proper for the evidencing of our Justification; but the strongest purest Acts of Faith are those which take in Christ as such a Person, laid out in all this Glory. Christs Incarnation is more general than Christs Passion, or Christs Resurrection, and (as some would have it) includes all; Christs Incarnation holds forth in some sort Christ in his fullness, and so it is the full and complete subject of our Faith; or if it be only more comprehensive, why then it requires more comprehensive Acts of Faith, and by consequence we have more enjoyments of Christ this way, than any other way: Come poor Soul, I feel, I feel thy eyes are running to and fro the World, to find comforts and happiness on Earth: O come, cast thy eyes back, and see Heaven and Earth in one Object! look fixedly on Christ Incarnate! there is more in this, than in all the variety of this World, or of that World to come. Here is an Object of Faith, and Love, and Joy, and Delight; here is a Compendium of all Glories; here is one for a heart to be taken with to all Eternity. O lay thy mouth to this Fountain; suck and be satisfied with the breasts of his Consolation; ¹Milk out and be delighted with the brightness of his Glory.

1. From the excellency of this Object. This very Incarnation of Christ is the Foundation of all other actings of God for us; it is the very Hinge or Pole on which all turn; it is the Cabinet wherein all the Designs of God do lie; Election, Redemption, Justification, Adoption, Glorification, are all wrapt up in it; it is the highest pitch of the Declaration of Gods Wisdom, Goodness, Power and Glory; Oh what a sweet Object of Faith is this! I know there are some other things in in Christ which are most proper for some Acts of Faith; as Christ dying is most proper for the pardon of actual sin; and Christ rising from the dead is most proper for the evidencing of our Justification; but the strongest purest Acts of Faith are those which take in Christ as such a Person, laid out in all this Glory. Christs Incarnation is more general than Christs Passion, or Christs Resurrection, and (as some would have it) includes all; Christs Incarnation holds forth in some sort Christ in his fulness, and so it is the full and compleat subject of our Faith; or if it be only more comprehensive, why then it requires more comprehensive Acts of Faith, and by consequence we have more enjoyments of Christ this way, than any other way: Come poor Soul, I feel, I feel thy eyes are running to and fro the World, to find comforts and happiness on Earth: O come, cast thy eyes back, and see Heaven and Earth in one Object! look fixedly on Christ Incarnate! there is more in this, than in all the variety of this World, or of that World to come. Here is an Object of Faith, and Love, and Joy, and Delight; here is a Compendium of all Glories; here is one for a heart to be taken with to all Eternity. O lay thy mouth to this Fountain; suck and be satisfied with the brests of his Consolation;