“Surely if there is loveliness enough in Christ to delight the heart of God, there may well be enough in Him to delight us.
Christ is the center where all the lines of His Father’s love do meet.
He is the Mirror of beauty, the Map of perfection, the Paradise of delight.
He is the crown of the gospel.
If the gospel is the field, Christ is the pearl hidden in this field.
If the gospel is the ring, Christ is the diamond in this ring.
He is the glory of heaven: ‘The Lamb is the light thereof.’ (Rev. 21:23)
Here is comfort to them who are by faith married to Christ: this is their glorious privilege, Christ’s beauty and loveliness shall be put upon them.
They shall shine by His beams. This is the apex and crown of honour.
The saints shall not only behold Christ’s glory, but be transformed into it (1 John 3:2).
‘We shall be like Him’ that is, irradiated and enamelled with His glory.”
-Thomas Watson, “Christ’s Loveliness,” in Discourses on Important and Interesting Subjects, Being the Select Works of the Rev. Thomas Watson, vol. 1 (Edinburgh; Glasgow: Blackie, Fullarton, & Co.; A. Fullarton & Co., 1829), 1: 308, 312, 324.
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