Chap. 3. Sett,2. Louking unto :fefus. Book I. viour as he hath negotated, or fhall yet negotiate in the great bufinefre of our falvation. 2. L ookjng unto,is the act; but how? it is fuch a look_ as includes all thefe acts, k._nvwing, confidering, defiring, hoping, beleeving_, loving, joying, . enjoying of (efm ·' ~nd conforming to 'fefm. It IS fuch a look as ibrs up affectiOns tn the heart and the effects thereof in our life; it is fuch a l~ok..as leaves ,a qui~kening and enlivening ~pon th~ fpirit; it. is fuch a look.. as works us into a warme affectiOn, rat fed refolutwn, an holy and upright converfation. Briefly it is an inw~rd , experimental looking unto[efm. . . . For contirmatton of the potnt ; thts was the Lords charge to the Gentiles ofold, Look,_unto me, and be yefaved all the ends ofECay 4 f·2.l. the e~~rth.-And I [~tid, beholdme,beholdme,unto It Nation that EC•y 65 · 1 • was not called by my N dme. And accordi_ng to this command was their practife;Mine eyes are ever tor~~ards the Lord,faithDavid,and P~alme 15· I the] lcokfd linto him andwere lightened, and their faces were not a- P,s!me 34· J foamed.--- Thus in the Gofpel, after-this command,. looking unto [efm,it follows, confider him th,rt hath endured fuch contrddiai- Hcb.xq. on of finners againft him[elf. And according to this command is the prad:ife of Gofpel-beleevers, We all with open face beholding tCor.p 8, . as in a gl11j[e the glory of the Lord, are changed into thefame image from glory to glory , even as by the Spirit ofthe Lord. Inftead of the vaile ofMofaical figures,God hath now given to his Church the clear glalfe of the Gofpel, and hence all beleevers undet the Gofpet do by contemplative faith, behold Chrift, together with the glorious light of his mercy, truth, goodnelfe and the reft of his divine attributes; and by means thereof they are made like unto him in the glory of holinelfe , and in newnelfe of li~ . · The reafons why we are thus to loo/z.unto {efm , will be as fo many motives, which we tball referve to an ufe of Exhortation; · but the reafons why this lookjng unto 'ft[m, is, I, An Ordinance.. 2. An Ordinan.ce ofChrift, may be thefe.--• I. Why an Ordinance? here is onely this reafon the will of the Lord : Even fo father for fo it fremedgood in thy fight. Ordinances are certain impofitions fet forth by an external mandate of a Lawgiver, having Authority. to command. It is the wil(of Chrift to impofe this Law on all the'fonnes of men , tha·t they fuould look.. up unto him; and concerning, this what have we tOJ
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