Sermons preached

2. There is no removal of that Misery which we have incurred, which is the Death and Curse wherein we are involved by Sin. As long as the Curses of the Law stand in full force against us, we can have no firm confidence: if we look to time past, there is a huge heap of Sins, the least of which is enough to sink us into Hell: if we look to time present, our nature being not yet healed, our Hearts swarm with divers Lusts, and we are ready to sin again: if to time to come, Death, Hell, and Judgment affright us. Christ findeth us where Adam left us, in the High-way to Hell and Damnation, Joh. 3. 18. Condemned already; and to hope for any release unless it be upon God's Terms, is to make him untrue and unjust. Certainly God will not break his Word, and disturb the order of his Covenant for your sakes. Therefore ⟨p. 305⟩how will you escape the Curse and Condemnation of the Law, if Christ be not given to you?

3. There is no obtaining of what we should desire and pursue after, as our proper Happiness, but only by Christ. Man was made for God, and cannot be happy without him, and he is most completely happy in the full Enjoyment of him. Now there is no coming to that blessed State, but by Christ. Joh. 14. 6. He is the Way to the Father. The most eminent Sense is, with respect to our final Blessedness, when we come into his immediate Presence. So Joh. 5. 11. This is the Record, that God hath given us Eternal Life, and this Life is in his Son. It is Christ alone that can put us in the way, and bring us home to Eternal Bliss.

3. There is no obtaining of what we should desire and pursue after, as our proper Happiness, but only by Christ. Man was made for God, and cannot be happy without him, and he is most compleatly happy in the full Enjoyment of him. Now there is no coming to that blessed State, but by Christ.