Christ inviting sinners to come to him for rest

RULE. II.

Secondly, In your seeking after Christ, be sure that you rather pitch your eye and your heart, upon the person of Christ himself, then upon the good things that come from Christ, that is the way to pitch your eye and your heart upon Christ himself, rather then upon the good things that come from Christ, for coming to Christ, and being in him, is only as being married to him. Now the party that marries, he looks more upon the person then upon the portion, he looks upon the excellency of the person; so should the Soul in coming to Christ, look upon him as the only great mediator of the Covenant, as the only reconciler of God and man, as the only person in whom all our good, happiness, and glory lies. Labour to see an excellency in Christ himself, as well as to come to Christ. There are many souls that would come to Christ, why? because they think there is no mercy but in Christ, and they would be loath to go to Hell, and therefore they cry to God for mercy in Christ, I but, they see not any excellency in Christ, but thou must look upon the excellencies of Christ, and look through the ordinances unto union with Christ, look after union with the person of Christ himself, and see an excellency and beauty in the very person of Jesus Christ, to be able to say, I see the glory of the Father in him, and my Soul makes after him to have union with him.

Secondly, In your seeking after Christ, be sure that you rather pitch your eye and your heart, upon the person of Christ himself, then upon the good things that come from Christ, that is the way to pitch your eye and your heart upon Christ himself, rather then upon the good things that come from Christ, for coming to Christ, and being in him, is only as being married to him. Now the party that marries, he looks more upon the person then upon the portion, he looks upon the excellency of the person; so should the Soul in coming to Christ, look upon him as the only great mediatour of the Covenant, as the only reconciler of God and man, as the only person in whom all our good, happiness, and glory lies. Labor to see an excellency in Christ himself, as wel as to come to Christ. There are many souls that would come to Christ, why? because they think there is no mercy but in Christ, and they would be loath to go to Hel, and therefore they cry to God for mercy in Christ, I but, they see not any excellency in Christ, but thou must look upon the excellencies of Christ, and look through the ordinances unto union with Christ, look after union with the person of Christ himself, and see an excellency and beauty in the very person of Jesus Christ, to be able to say, I see the glory of the Father in him, and my Soul makes after him to have union with him.