“What should we rejoice in but Christ?
Christ’s beauty, like His coat, is without seam.
We read of Absalom, ‘In all Israel there was none to be so praised as Absalom for his beauty; from the sole of his foot, even to the crown of his head, there was no blemish in him’ (2 Sam. 14:25).
This may be far more truly applied to Christ.
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 diamond in this ring.
He is the glory of heaven. ‘The Lamb is the light thereof’ (Rev. 21:23).”
–Thomas Watson, The Loveliness of Christ, in The Works of Thomas Watson, Volume 3, Ed. J. Stephen Yuille and Matthew Elliot (Grand Rapids, MI: Reformation Heritage Books, 2026), 3: 528.
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