Meditations and Discourses on the Glory of Christ

IT is with reference hereunto, that that great Promise concerning him is given unto the Church, Isa. 8. 14. He shall be for a Sanctuary (namely, unto all that believe, as it is expounded, 1 Pet. 2. 8.) but for a stone of stumbling, and a rock of offence, even to them that stumble at the Word, being disobedient, whereunto also they were appointed.

HE is herein a Sanctuary, an assured Refuge unto all that betake themselves unto him. What is it that any Man in distress, who flies thereunto may look for in a Sanctuary? A Supply of all his Wants, a Deliverance from all his Fears, a Defence against all his Dangers, is proposed unto him therein. Such is the Lord Christ herein unto sin-distressed Souls; he is a Refuge unto us in all spiritual Distresses and Disconsolations, Heb. 6. 18. See the Exposition of the Place. Are we or any of us burdened with a Sense of Sin? Are we perplexed with Temptations? Are we bowed down under the Oppression of any Spiritual Adversary? Do we on any of these accounts walk in Darkness and have no Light? One View of the Glory of Christ herein is able to support us and relieve us.

UNTO whom we betake our selves for Relief in any case, we have regard to nothing but their Will and their Power. If they have both, we are sure of Relief. And what shall we fear in the Will of Christ as unto this end? What will he not do for us? He who thus emptied and humbled himself, who so infinitely condescended from the Prerogative of his Glory in his Being and Self-sufficiency, in the Susception of our Nature for the Discharge of the Office of a Mediator on our Behalf; will he not relieve ⟨p. 72⟩