The truly blessed man

3. He hath made a way for his being found by Sinful men. And there is nothing wherein God hath equally celebrated his goodness to man, as in this; that when Sin had shut us out of his presence, and raised Mountains between him and us, he hath been at the cost to remove them, and make a New and Living way for us to find him. For this it was that Christ came into the World, and made the Atonement with his own Blood, that he might pull down the wall of separation: And now he tells us that he is the way, Joh. 14.6. And so there is a new way Consecrated, Heb 10.20. This God would not have done, if he had not designed that some of the lost race should find him in it.

4. He hath given us directions how we may find this way, and him in it. All the Gospel Precepts are adapted to this end. As there could have been no way, if he had not opened it, so we could never have known it, if he had not shown it us, Mic. 6.8. And his Spirit is sent to influence and guide us into it, Isa. 30.21. The preceptive part of the Gospel is purposely given for our direction in this affair.

5. Jesus Christ came to seek lost Sinners, and bring them into this way; he himself tells us so, Luk. 19.10. True, he had a further design in coming, viz to make this way, by his Priestly Office; but yet in his Prophetical and Kingly he pursueth this design: for having purchased to himself a Church in the world, he sends forth his Spirit to gather them to himself; he seeks them up in their lost estate, and finds them, and so they find him,