As Newton liked to say, Christ is the soul’s all-sufficient sun beheld by faith in the gospel.50 And he is the sun of the soul, all-sufficient to give us fullness of spiritual joy now, for “if the whole creation around us were destroyed, and you or I were the only creatures in the universe—the Lord, the sun of the soul, could make us completely happy, and fill our capacities for happiness to the utmost, immediately from himself.
