Is He found?

Isaac Ambrose has written:

“The most excellent subject to discourse or write of, is Jesus Christ. Augustine, having read Cicero’s works, commended them for their eloquence; but he passed this sentence upon them, “They are not sweet, because the name of Jesus is not in them.” And Bernard’s saying is near the same, “If thou writest, it doeth not relish with me, unless I read Jesus there; if thou disputest or conferrest, it doth not relish well with me, unless Jesus sound there.” Indeed all we say is but unsavory, if it be not seasoned with this salt, “I determined not to know any thing among you, (saith Paul,) save Jesus Christ, and him crucified.” He resolved with himself, before he preached among the Corinthians, that this should be the only point of knowledge that the would profess himself to have skill in; and that, in the course of his ministry he would labor to bring them to: this he made “the breadth, and length, and depth, and height of his knowledge;” “yea, doubtless, (saith he,) and I count all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord.” Eph. 3 : 18. Phil. 3 : 8.”

(Ambrose, Isaac, Looking Unto Jesus: A View of the Everlasting Gospel, Harrisonburg, Virginia: Sprinkle Publications, 1986, p. 17.)