Prima the first things, in reference to the middle and last things

The fifth step is a clear (I say not a general sight, which he had before) but The clear sight of Christ laid open to the eye of Faith; ⟨p. 34⟩no sooner is the poor wounded soul informed throughly in the mystery and mercy of the Gospel, but he then looks on his Saviour as the Jews on the brazen serpent, and seeing him lifted up on the cross, he cannot but see in him an infinite treasury of mercy and love, a boundless and bottomless sea of tender-heartedness and pity, a whole heaven of sweetness, happiness, peace and pleasures; After the spirit of bondage, enters the Spirit of adoption; the terrors of the Law leads him to the comforts of the Gospel, his sorrow for sin brings him to the clear light of his Saviour; and then as a man in deaths-pangs, that lifts up his eyes to heaven whence cometh his help, so he in births-pangs lifts up his eyes to Christ, who must either help him, or he sinks under his sin to the bottomless bottom of hell. And I must tell you, this sight of Christ Jesus to an humbled sinner (together with those glorious privileges which he brings with him, as Reconciliation to God, forgiveness of sins, adoption, justification, righteousness, wisdom, sanctification, ¹redemption, it is a most pleasant, ravishing, heavenly sight: Not Solomon in all his royalty, no, nor the lilies of the field arrayed better then Solomon; not all the curious sights on earth, nor all those glittering spangles in heaven, can possibly afford such pleasure or delight to the eye of man, as doth this one object (Christ bleeding on the cross) to the soul of a sinner. Imagine that you saw some malefactor (whose trial and doom were past) to be led to the doleful place of execution; imagine that you heard him wail and weep for his mis-spent time, for his bloody acts, for his heinous crimes; yea imagine his wailings and weepings so bitter, that they were able to force tears from others, and to make all eyes shoot and water that but looked upon him; if this man in this case should suddenly see his King running and riding towards him with his pardon in his hand, what a sight would this be? sure there is none to this.

The fifth step is a clear (I say not a general sight, which he had before) but The clear sight of Christ laid open to the eye of Faith; ⟨p. 34⟩no sooner is the poor wounded soul informed throughly in the mystery and mercy of the Gospel, but he then looks on his Savior as the Jews on the brazen serpent, and seeing him lifted up on the cross, he cannot but see in him an infinite treasury of mercy and love, a boundless and bottomless sea of tender-heartedness and pity, a whole heaven of sweetness, happiness, peace and pleasures; After the spirit of bondage, enters the Spirit of adoption; the terrors of the Law leads him to the comforts of the Gospel, his sorrow for sin brings him to the clear light of his Savior; and then as a man in deaths-pangs, that lifts up his eyes to heaven whence cometh his help, so he in births-pangs lifts up his eyes to Christ, who must either help him, or he sinks under his sin to the bottomless bottom of hell. And I must tell you, this sight of Christ Jesus to an humbled sinner (together with those glorious priviledges which he brings with him, as Reconciliation to God, forgiveness of sins, adoption, justification, righteousness, wisdom, sanctification,