1.  That he is thoroughly furnished with all things we stand in need of; the way, the truth, and the life.  He hath eye-salve, clothing, gold tried in the fire, &c.  “For the Spirit of the Lord is upon him, and hath anointed him,” Isa. lxi. 1.

2.  He is suitably qualified, not only having a fulness, and an all-fulness, so that whatever we need is to be had in him, but also a suitable fulness answering our case to the life.  Are we out of the way?  He is the way.  Are we dead?  He is life, &c.

3.  He is richly qualified with this suitable good.  He hath not only “wisdom and knowledge,” but “treasures of it,” yea, “all the treasures” thereof, Col. ii. 3.  There is fulness in him; yea, “it hath pleased the Father that in him should all fulness dwell,” Col. i. 19.  Yea, “the fulness of the Godhead dwelleth in him bodily,” Col. ii. 9.

4.  Hence this is an up-making completeness and fulness; for we are said to be “complete in him,” Col. ii. 10.  And he is said to “be all in all,” Col. iv. 11.  “He filleth all in all,” Eph. i. 23.

5.  It is also a satisfying completeness.  The eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear with hearing.  The avaricious man is not satisfied with gold, nor the ambitious man with honour; but still they are crying with the loch leech, give, give!  But the man who getteth Christ is full; he sitteth down and cryeth, enough, enough!  And no wonder, for he hath all; he can desire no more; he can seek no more; for what can the man want that is complete in him?

6.  There is here that which will answer all the objections of a soul; and these sometimes are not few.  If they say they cannot know the way to the Father, then he is the truth to instruct and teach them that, and so to enter them into it.  And if they say they cannot walk in that way, nor advance in it one step, but will faint and sit up, succumb and fall by; he answereth that he is the life, to put life and keep life in them, and to cause them to walk, by putting a new principle of life in them, and breathing of new on that principle.

O thrice happy they who have fled to him for refuge!  It is easy for them to answer all objections and cavils of Satan, and of a false heart.  It is easy for them to put Christ to answer all.  And, on the other hand, who can tell the misery of such as are strangers to Jesus?  How shall their wants be made up?  How shall they answer challenges, accusations, temptations, doubts, fears, objections, and discouragements, cast up in their way?

Oh! should not this endear the way of the gospel to us, and make Christ precious unto us!  Is it not a wonder that such an all-sufficient mediator, who is able to save to the uttermost all that come to God through him, should be so little regarded and sought unto; and that there should be so few that embrace him, and take him as he is offered in the gospel.

How can this be answered in the day of accounts?  What excuse can unbelievers now have?  Is not all to be found in Christ that their case calleth for?  Is he not a complete mediator, thoroughly furnished with all necessaries?  Is not the riches of his fulness written on all his dispensations?  The mouths, then, of unbelievers, must be for ever stopped.