Christ, that had no need of you, thirsted after you; and who would not but pant for Christ? Disclaim, all other things, they are nothing to his gain. What is it, so I may win Christ? Phil. iii. 8, all is nothing, all is but dung and dross. Who would leave the pearl of price, to trade for dung? Pursue hard after him. The Lord Christ sought you with bruises in his body and travail in his soul; and will you begrudge him an hour in duty, a little time in prayer? When Augustus refused the petition of one of his soldiers, he told him, I did not serve you so at the battle of Actium: so may Christ say to us.
Thomas Manton — A Practical Exposition upon the Fifty-Third Chapter of Isaiah, in The Complete Works of Thomas Manton, D.D., vol. 3 (London: James Nisbet & Co., 1870), on Isa. 53:11, p. 414
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