On Seeking Christ

I beseech you , in the Lord Jesus, beware, beware of unsound work in the matter of your salvation: ye may not, ye cannot,ye dare not want (lack)Christ. Convene all your lovers before your soul, and give them their leave; and strike hands with Christ, that there may be no happiness to you but Christ, no hunting for anything but Christ, no bed at night, when death cometh, but Christ.

Christ, Christ, who but Christ! I know this much of Christ, that he is not ill to be found, nor lordly of his love. I gave nothing for Christ. And now I protest before men and angels that Christ cannot be esxchanged, that Christ cannot be sold, that Christ cannot be weighed. Where would angels, or all the world, find a balance to weigh him in? All lovers blush when ye stand before Christ.

Oh, what is it that holdeth us asunder? Oh, that once we could have a fair meeting! Beware of a beguile in the matter of your salvation. Too many whole souls think that they have met with Christ, who had never a wearied night for the want of him.

~Samuel Rutherford