Learning Christ and Putting on Christ

Here [in Christ] is the fairest representation that ever thi world had or that could be had, of this most delectable object. The Divine holiness incarnate did never shine so bright. And we may easily apprehend the great advantage of having so lively and perfect a model set before us of what we are to design and aim at. Rules and precepts could never have afforded so full a description or have furnished us with so perfect an idea.
Look steadily to Jesus, "with open face" behold the gory of the Word, and be "changed from glory to glory, as by the Spirit of the Lord" (II Cor. 3:18).
Truth is the means of holiness (John 17:17)… We have this practical truth not only exhibited in aphorisms and maxims in the Word, but we have it exemplified in the life of Christ. And when the great renovating work is to be done, the old man to be put off, the new man to be put o n, the spirit of our m ind to be renewed, our business is to learn Christ and the truth as it i in Jesus. (Eph. 4:20-24)
—John Howe "The Living Temple"