The true Christians love of the unseen Christ, or, A discourse chiefly tending to…

Secondly Concerning the object of true Christians Love, and that is Jesus Christ whom they have never seen. This Jesus Christ whom they love is the Eternal Son of God, the second Person in the glorious Trinity, who in time assumed our Humane Nature, clothed himself with our mortal Flesh, lived like a servant in a mean condition, died like a malefactor the cursed Death of the Cross, and all for our sakes, for our sins, rose again the third day for our Justification, ascended up into heaven after forty days, and there is set down at the right hand of the throne of the Majesty on high, to make intercession for us, and to make preparation there for our reception, into the glorious Mansions and ⟨p. 12⟩Eternal Habitations, which are in the Fathers house. He is called Jesus from the Hebrew word [Greek or Hebrew] which signifieth to save because he saveth his people from their sins, Matth. 1. 21. He is called Christ from the Greek word [Greek or Hebrew] which signifieth to anoint, he being anointed by the Father with the Spirit and with Power, to be Mediator between God and Man, to be the great Prophet, and Priest, and King, of the Church. This Jesus Christ Christians have not seen with the eye of sense; indeed some Christians in the primitive times, as the Apostles who were of his family and other disciples who conversed with him frequently, did see Christ with the eye of sense, but it was in his state of Humiliation, when he was here upon the Earth, not in his state of Exaltation, now he is in Heaven; yet some have seen Christ after his Ascension namely Paul at his conversion, and Stephen the Proto Martyr before he dyed; but none have had a perfect sight with bodily eyes of the Glory which is upon Christ's body, the lustre of which is so great that none can behold it in this state of weakness and imperfection, and live. But whatever sight some Christians have had formerly, no Christians now have a sight of Christ's Person;