Gospel-revelation in three treatises, viz, 1 The nature of God. 2 The excellencies of…

But Secondly, The main comfort that Believers may have from this glory of Christ, as hath been opened to you, is this, that hereby they may see Jesus Christ as a full object for their souls to rest upon, whatever their condition be; thou hast an All-sufficient Saviour, thou hast an object that thou mayest venture thy soul, thy eternal estate upon, for he is a wonderful Redeemer; conceive thy misery to the uttermost that possibly can be, suppose thou seest the guilt of all thy sins before thee, and apprehendest thy soul bound over to eternal death for thy sin; suppose thou seest the justice of God coming out against thee, to require satisfaction for thy sin; the curse of the Law, that likewise ⟨p. 157⟩brings thee under it, and thou seest the bottomless pit even ready open for thee, and the horrible vile iniquities that thou hast been guilty of, presenting themselves unto thee with all the aggravations of them; suppose all this, And thou standest now before the great God, ready to receive the sentence of thy eternal estate. Now these things may make thy heart to shake, and indeed they will where they are seen really; But in the midst of such a sight, if God do but give thee a sight of thy Redeemer that is so wonderful, here is enough to draw forth Faith, yea to beget Faith in the soul; let this be but presented, whatsoever thy misery be, yet know, here is a wonderful Redeemer, who cannot only cure ordinary diseases, and deliver in ordinary troubles, but can wonderfully deliver, and no cure can be too hard for him; Oh therefore thou troubled soul! that dost apprehend the evil of thy sin, and the dreadful danger that thou art in: Oh that thou couldest but see this wonderful Redeemer before thee! thou wouldest see him to be an object for the most vile wretchedest sinner that ever lived upon the face of the earth to rest upon; And because God the Father accounts wonderfully of his Son; therefore it is that he would not have us only to believe in his Son in ordinary cases, but in extraordinary cases; you that are believers, and hope you have any part in Christ, know, that God expects that you should sanctify his Son as a wonderful Redeemer; now, if you can only believe in Christ in an ordinary way, when your condition is ordinary, and your straights not very great, this is not to sanctify Christ as a wonderful Saviour.

But Secondly, The main comfort that Beleevers may have from this glory of Christ, as hath been opened to you, is this, that hereby they may see Jesus Christ as a full object for their souls to rest upon, whatever their condition bee; thou hast an All-sufficient Saviour, thou hast an object that thou mayest venture thy soul, thy eternal estate upon, for hee is a wonderful Redeemer; conceive thy misery to the uttermost that possibly can bee, suppose thou seest the guilt of all thy sins before thee, and apprehendest thy soul bound over to eternal death for thy sin; suppose thou seest the justice of God coming out against thee, to require satisfaction for thy sin; the curse of the Law, that likewise