Christ All in All: Christ is the Head

I'm reading a series of sermons by Philip Henry (Matthew Henry the Bible Commentator's father), and thought I would share some quotes as I go along. Using the book "Christ All in All" as a devotional, I'm reading just one sermon a day, but each one is full of rich doctrine!

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Christ is to His church the only sovereign and supreme head. The head has the preeminence in the body. It is placed by nature uppermost, and all the rest of the members below it. The Lord Jesus is uppermost, above all and over all.

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The office of the head is to show the body whither to go and what to do. There, the eyes are seated, as in a watchtower. Whereinsoever we have need at any time of guidance, we must look to Him.

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Many are tied to Christ by an outward profession that are not grafted into Him. There may be class eyes and wooden legs fastened by art to the body. And those wooden legs may have silk stockings, and yet they are not of the body.

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As the head sympathizes with the members, so the member sympathizes with the head. If a blow be offered at the head, the hand will venture a cut to save it. Are we affected with the dishonor done to the Lord Jesus by the wickedness that abounds in the midst of us?