The Godly Man's Picture

Oh then let us have endearing thoughts of Christ; let him be accounted our chief treasure and delight: This is the reason why millions perish, because they do not prize ⟨p. 68⟩Christ: Christ is the door by which men are to enter into heaven, John 10. 9. If they do not know this door, or are so proud that they will not stoop to go in at i•, how can they be saved? That we may have Christ-admiring thoughts: Let us consider,

Oh then let us have endearing thoughts of Christ; let him be accounted our chief treasure and delight: This is the reason why millions perish, because they do not prize ⟨p. 68⟩Christ: Christ is the door by which men are to enter into heaven, Iohn 10. 9. If they do not know this door, or are so proud that they will not stoop to go in at i•, how can they be saved? That we may have Christ-admiring thoughts: Let us consider,

1. We cannot prize Christ at too high a rate; we may prize other things above their worth; that is our sin, we commonly overrate the creature; we think there is more in it than there is; therefore God withers our gourd, because we over-prize it: But we cannot raise our esteem high enough of Christ, he is beyond all value: There is no Ruby or Diamond but the Jeweller can set a just price upon it, he can say it is worth so much, and no more; but Christs worth can never be fully known: No Seraphim can set a due value on him; his are unsearchable riches, Eph. 3. 8. Christ is more precious than the Soul, than the Angels, than