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shame and sorrow
;
or
if
Jesus
be
not
the object
of
your
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
of
grace
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.)
How
we
are
to come by this
salvation
;
and
why
the act of
faith
is
expressed
by
looking
to
Christ,
VOL.
III.