An expository comment, doctrinal, controversial, and practical upon the whole first chapter to the…An expository comment, doctrinal, controversal, and practical upon the whole first chapter to the…

1. To look upon Christ revealed in the Gospel, as the full cause and ground of all our comfort, as well as on sin. Generally the people of God in the first workings of the soul, look upon nothing but their sins, behold nothing but sin; but God will not let them alone in this agony; he enlightens them further, that they shall see Christ as well as sin, the Gospel as well as the Law, he giveth them eyes to behold the brazen Serpent when stung. Hence the Spirit of God, John 16. 9, 10. doth not only convince of sin, but of righteousness also. The Devil he indeed moveth in those troubled waters of thy soul, and would keep thee off from Christ, as the Disciples did the blind man, but the Spirit of God will not leave the soul in these wounds, in these straits, but doth carry him up from the mount of cursing to the mount of blessing. And certainly the wise ⟨p. 159⟩men could not more rejoice to see the star, than the godly heart doth to behold Christ after the storms and tempests in his soul. Hence the Apostle Gal. 1. calleth it, The revealing of the Son in him. This then we are enabled to do by God, not only to know sin in the terror and sting of it, but also Christ in his fullness and excellency. How was Paul affected with this, 2 Cor. 2. 1. I desire to know nothing but Christ crucified? This therefore is a special work of God to make us look with both eyes, to make thee see sin as well as Christ, and Christ as well as sin.

1. To look upon Christ revealed in the Gospel, as the full cause and ground of all our comfort, as well as on sinne. Generally the people of God in the first workings of the soul, look upon nothing but their sins, behold nothing but sinne; but God will not let them alone in this agony; he enlightens them further, that they shall see Christ as well as sinne, the Gospel as well as the Law, he giveth them eyes to behold the brazen Serpent when stung. Hence the Spirit of God, John 16. 9, 10. doth not only convince of sinne, but of righteousness also. The Devil he indeed moveth in those troubled waters of thy soul, and would keep thee off from Christ, as the Disciples did the blind man, but the Spirit of God will not leave the soul in these wounds, in these straits, but doth carry him up from the mount of cursing to the mount of blessing. And certainly the wise