3. We must know Christ, because sin hath made a separation between God and us, Esa. 59. 2. so that we cannot be received into Gods favour, or have communion ⟨p. 43⟩with him, without a Mediator. Eph. 1. 3. 5. Rom. 3. 25. Eph. 2. 18. 1. Joh. 2. 1, 2. Heb. 10. 21. 22. Joh. 14. 6. and God in Christ, or God and Christ, is the object of Christian religion. Col. 3. 17. 1. Pet. 1. 21. Joh. 14. 1. Heb. 1. 6. Christ is the image of the invisible God, Col. 1. 15. the brightness of his glory, and the express image of his person, Heb. 1. 3. in whom, with open face we behold, as in a glass, the glory of the Lord, 2. Cor. 3. 18. Joh. 14. 9. in whom are hid all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge, Col. 2. 3. The Apostles who preached unto the world the whole counsel of God necessary to salvation, did preach nothing, Act. 8. 5. Rom. 10. 8, 9. Act. 28. 31. did desire to know nothing, but Jesus Christ and him crucified. 1. Cor. 2. 2. Phil. 3. 8. of him they wrote, that our joy might be full. 1. Joh. 1. 4. and the Lord who forbids us to glory in any thing beside, doth command us to glory in this, that we know him in Christ. Jer. 9. 23. 1. Cor. 1. 30, 31. so that this knowledge is necessary, easy, excellent, sufficient, sound and comfortable. 2. Cor. 4. 3. 4. Act. 8. 8.
3. We must know Christ, because sin hath made a separation betweene God and vs, Esa. 59. 2. so that we cannot bee receiued into Gods fauour, or haue communion ⟨p. 43⟩with him, without a Mediator. Eph. 1. 3. 5. Rom. 3. 25. Eph. 2. 18. 1. Ioh. 2. 1, 2. Heb. 10. 21. 22. Ioh. 14. 6. and God in Christ, or God and Christ, is the obiect of Christian religion. Col. 3. 17. 1. Pet. 1. 21. Ioh. 14. 1. Heb. 1. 6. Christ is the image of the inuisible God, Col. 1. 15. the brightnesse of his glorie, and the expresse image of his person, Heb. 1. 3. in whom, with open face we behold, as in a glasse, the glorie of the Lord, 2. Cor. 3. 18. Ioh. 14. 9. in whom are hid all the treasures of wisedome and knowledge, Col. 2. 3. The Apostles who preached vnto the world the whole counsell of God necessarie to saluation, did preach nothing, Act. 8. 5. Rom. 10. 8, 9. Act. 28. 31. did desire to knowe nothing, but Iesus Christ and him crucified.
