Ralph Erskine (Self-conceit dissected), Sermons 1:387:
The second antidote against self-conceit is, “To take a look of Christ’s fair face in the glass of the gospel.” This would be a mighty preservative: “Beholding as in a glass the glory of God, we are changed,” 2 Cor. 3:18. When Job saw this sight, then he cries out, “Behold, I am vile: now I abhor myself, and repent in dust and ashes.” A sight of Christ’s matchless beauty would make us loathe our deformity. A sight of his perfect righteousness, in its glory, would make us see and be humbled for our own guiltiness and sin. – If a foul faced person, who thinks himself handsome enough, set himself with a very beautiful person, to look into a glass together, the beautiful face, which he sees beside his own, will make him think very little of himself, when compared with the other. O! how infinitely more, if, with one eye we look at our deformed picture, and with the other at the infinite perfection of beauty that is in Christ! We cannot but abhor ourselves. Never any man saw Christ’s beauty, but he looked upon himself as a monster, and sank into nothing in his own conceit. O then, sirs, seek a sight of the glory of Christ.
The second antidote against self-conceit is, “To take a look of Christ’s fair face in the glass of the gospel.” This would be a mighty preservative: “Beholding as in a glass the glory of God, we are changed,” 2 Cor. 3:18. When Job saw this sight, then he cries out, “Behold, I am vile: now I abhor myself, and repent in dust and ashes.” A sight of Christ’s matchless beauty would make us loathe our deformity. A sight of his perfect righteousness, in its glory, would make us see and be humbled for our own guiltiness and sin. – If a foul faced person, who thinks himself handsome enough, set himself with a very beautiful person, to look into a glass together, the beautiful face, which he sees beside his own, will make him think very little of himself, when compared with the other. O! how infinitely more, if, with one eye we look at our deformed picture, and with the other at the infinite perfection of beauty that is in Christ! We cannot but abhor ourselves. Never any man saw Christ’s beauty, but he looked upon himself as a monster, and sank into nothing in his own conceit. O then, sirs, seek a sight of the glory of Christ.