Christ the Sun and Centre

Christ the Sun and Centre

This is from Looking Unto Jesus, by Isaac Ambrose (1604 – 20 January 1664, an English Puritan).

“Christ is the sun and centre of all divine and revealed truths; we can preach nothing else as the object of our faith, which doth not some way or other either meet in Christ, or refer to Christ. Only Christ is the whole of man’s happiness; the sun to enlighten him, the physician to heal him, the wall of fire to defend him, the friend to comfort him, the pearl to enrich him, the ark to support him, the rock to sustain him under the heaviest pressures; 

‘As a hiding place from the wind, and a covert from the tempest, as rivers of waters in a dry place, and as the shadow of a great rock in a weary land.’ 

Only Christ is that ladder between earth and heaven, the Mediator betwixt God and man; a mystery which the angels of heaven desire to pry into.”