“It is the interest that we have in Christ that endears Christ to us. But to come to more particular application of it.
Is Christ thus excellent, super-excellent, thus transcendently excellent, ‘white and ruddy, the chief of ten thousand?” (Song of Songs 5:10) This serves,
1. To draw those that are not yet in Christ unto him.
2. To comfort those that are in Christ.
Use 1. First, those that are not yet in Christ, not contracted to him, to draw them; what can prevail more than that which is in Christ? Beauty and excellencies, greatness and goodness.
And indeed one main end of our calling, the ministry, is, to lay open and unfold the unsearchable riches of Christ; to dig up the mine, thereby to draw the affections of those that belong to God to Christ.”
–Richard Sibbes, The Love of Christ (Carlisle, PA: Banner of Truth, 1639/2022), 259-260.
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