bISC. 1,11.3 FAITH IN IT,S LOWEST DEGREES. 225 shame and sorrow ; or if Jesus be not the object ofyour desire and love. 2. It must be such a look as changes the soul and tem- per into another image, even the image Of Christ. 2 Cor. iii. 18. /17é, beholding as in glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory. In the glass of the gospel beholding the glorious holiness of our Lord Jesias Christ, our very tempers are changed into his holy likeness, from one degree ofgrace to another, till it advance to complete glory ; and then we shall be made more perfectly like him by seeing him as he is, or face to face ; 1 John iii. 2. There will be a shine of holiness on our conversation in this world, as reflected from the glory and holiness of Christ, whom we have seen, even as the face of Moses shone when he had " seen God ;" Ex. xxxiv. 29, 30. That is, when he had seen the Son of God conversing with him in a visible glory. A saving look of faith to our Lord Jesus Christ, will happily influence all the powers of nature, and all the actions of life. This is seldom done indeed at once, but by slow degrees. The longer we behold him, and the oftener we look to him, the more we 'shall grow like him. We must look to Jesus as our example, as well as the " author and finisher of our faith ;" that we may lay aside the sin that "so easily besets us, and run with Patience the race" of holiness " that is set before us ;" lieb. xii. I, 2. In vain do we pretend to have seen Christ, if we do not find ourselves at all beginning to become new creatures. Thus I have finished my answer to the fourth enquiry; (viz.) Howwe are to come by this salvation ; and why the act of faith is expressed by looking toChrist, VOL. III.
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