A fourth volume containing one hundred and fifty sermons on several texts of Scripture…

1. If we would see God, let us look on Christ, as we look on the Sun in a Bas•n of Water. Christ is the Character of his Father's Person; Heb. 1.3. Who is the Brightness of his Glory, and the express Image of his Person.

2. If we would see Sin without Horror and Despair, let us look on Christ; all the heavenly Powers could not bring us into favour with God again.

Secondly; For the Title of Mercy and Love. Christ is a Saviour as well as the great God. How is Christ the Saviour? Take it thus, Positively as well as Privatively; he doth not only free us from Misery, but gives us all spiritual Blessings; Ephes. 1.3. Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us with all spiritual Blessings in Heavenly Places in Christ. As he frees us from Misery, so he gives us everlasting Life: John 3.16. That whosoever believeth in him, should not perish, but have everlasting Life. Then he is a Saviour, not only by way of Deliverance, but by way of Prevention; he doth not only break the Snare, but keeps our Feet from falling; he not only cures our Diseases, as a Physician, when we are sick, but he leads, guides and keeps us as a Shepherd. We do not take notice of preventive Mercy; How many times might we fall if we had not a Saviour? Prevention is better than Escape; better never meet with Danger, than be delivered out of Danger. There is an invisible Guard, we are not sensible of it, but the Devil knows and is sensible of it;