Puritans on Christ

When Christ reveals Himself there is satisfaction in the slenderest portion, and without Christ there is emptiness in the greatest fulness.

— Alexander Grosse

They lose nothing who gain Christ. — Samuel Rutherford

The lawyer can deliver his client but from strife, the physician can deliver his patient but from sickness, the master can deliver his servant but from bondage, but the Lord delivereth US from all.

— Henry Smith

There are three things to be considered concerning the glory of Christ, three degrees of its manifestation, the shadow, the perfect image, and the substance itself. Those under the law had only the shadow of it and of the things that belong to it.... Under the Gospel we have the perfect image, which they had not…But the enjoyment of these things in their substance is reserved for heaven-, we must be “where He is, that we may behold His glory.”

— John Owen

Though Christ’s coat was once divided, He will never suffer His crown to be divided. — Thomas Brooks

In the Scriptures there is a draught of God, but in Christ there is God Himself. A coin bears the image of Caesar, but Caesar’s son is his own lively resemblance. Christ is the living Bible. —Thomas Manton

In nature, we see God, as it were, like the sun in a picture-, in the law, as the sun in a cloud-, in Christ we see Him in His beams-, He being “the brightness of His glory, and the exact image of His Person.” — stephen Charnock

Should the Lord ]esus appear now to any of us in His majesty and glory, it would not be to our edification nor consolation. For we are not meet nor able, by the power of any light or grace that we have received, or can receive, to bear the immediate appearance and representation of them. His beloved apostle ]ohn had leaned on His bosom probably many a time in his life, in the intimate familiarities of love; but when He afterward appeared to him in His glory, “he fell at His feet as dead.” — John Owen

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