All the comforts of believers are streams from this fountain. Jesus Christ is the very object matter of a believer's joy.
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Eudoxus was so affected with the glory of the sun, that he thought he was born only to behold it; much more should a Christian judge himself born only to behold and delight in the glory of the Lord Jesus.
The knowledge of Jesus Christ is the very marrow and kernel of all the scriptures; the scope and centre of all divine revelations: both Testaments meet in Christ.
Christ is the peerless pearl hid in the field, Mat. 13:46. Will you be that wise merchant, that resolves to win and compass that treasure, whatever it shall cost you? Ah, Sir, Christ is a commodity that can never be boug…
Take away the knowledge of Christ, and a Christian is the most sad and melancholy creature in the world: again, let Christ but manifest himself, and dart the beams of his light into their souls, it will make them kiss th…
There is no doctrine more excellent in itself or more necessary to be preached and studied, than the doctrine of Jesus Christ, and him crucified.
The knowledge of Christ is profound and large; all other sciences are but shadows; this is a boundless, bottomless ocean.