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

Inward experimental looking unto Jesus, such as stirs up affections in the heart, Doctrine. 2 and the effects thereof in our life, it is an Ordinance of Christ; a choice, an high Gospel-ordinance.

Or thus, Inward experimental knowing, considering, desiring, hoping, believing, loving, joying, calling on Jesus, and conforming to Jesus, it is a complicate, folded, compounded Ordinance of Jesus Christ.

Or thus, Inward experimental knowing, considering, desiring, hoping, believing, loving, joying, calling on Jesus, and conforming to Jesus, it is a complicate, foulded, compounded Ordinance of Jesus Christ.

I need not much to explain the Point, you see here is an Ordinance, or a Gospel-duty held forth; many other Duties we have elsewhere described, but this we have kept for this place; and the rather for that this is a choice Duty, a compounded Duty, an high Gospel-ordinance. No question but Watchfulness, Self-trial, Self-denial, Experiences, Evidences, Meditation, Life of Faith, &c. do well in their place and order; yet as oars in a boat, (though it be carried with the tide) may help it to go faster; it is Jesus lifted up, (as Moses lifted up the Serpent) which strikes more soundly into the beholder, than any other way. Looking unto Jesus, is that great Ordinance appointed by God for our most especial good. How many souls have busied themselves in the use of other means, and though in them Christ hath communicated some virtue to them, yet because they did not trade more with him, they had little in comparison? such a one as deals immediately with Christ will do more in a day, than another in a year, and therefore I call it a choice, a complete, a complicate, an high Gospel-Ordinance. Now what this Ordinance is, the Text tells you, it is a Looking unto Jesus.

I need not much to explain the Point, you see here is an Ordinance, or a Gospel-duty held forth; many other Duties we have elsewhere described, but this we have kept for this place; and the rather for that this is a choice Duty, a compounded Duty, an high Gospel-ordinance. No question but Watchfulness, Self-trial, Self-denial, Experiences, Evidences, Meditation, Life of Faith, &c. do well in their place and order; yet as oars in a boat, (though it be carried with the tyde) may help it to go faster; it is Jesus lifted up, (as Moses lifted up the Serpent) which strikes more soundly into the beholder, than any other way. Looking unto Jesus, is that great Ordinance appointed by God for our most especial good. How many souls have busied themselves in the use of other means, and though in them Christ hath communicated some vertue to them, yet because they did not trade more with him, they had little in comparison? such a one as deals immediately with Christ will do more in a day, than another in a year, and therefore I call it a choice, a compleat, a complicate, an high Gospel-Ordinance. Now what this Ordinance is, the Text tells you, it is a Looking unto Jesus.