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Looking unto Jesus a view of the everlasting gospel, or, the souls eying of…
Looking unto Jesus a view of the everlasting gospel, or, the souls eying of Jesus as carrying on the great work of mans salvation from first to last / by Isaac Ambrose ...
London: printed for Richard Chiswel, 1680
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
1. The holy Scriptures be our helps; this was the very scope and aim for which the sacred Volume was sent from Heaven, viz. that we might decline from evil, and do good, that we might die to old Adam, and live to Christ; that we might crucify sin, and follow Virtue; what are the Scriptures but the Registers of God's Will, the letters of God's Love to invite us to Grace, and to dehort us from vice? O the persuasion, directions and commands of God that we might become holy; and O the dissuasions diversions, threatenings, and terrifying of God that we might fly profaneness!
1. The holy Scriptures be our helps; this was the very scope and aim for which the sacred Volume was sent from Heaven, viz. that we might decline from evil, and do good, that we might die to old Adam, and live to Christ; that we might crucifie sin, and follow Virtue; what are the Scriptures but the Registers of God's Will, the letters of God's Love to invite us to Grace, and to dehort us from vice? O the perswasion, directions and commands of God that we might become holy; and O the disswasions diversions, threatnings, and terrifying of God that we might fly prophaneness!
2. The Ministers of Christ be our helps: thou hast the Scriptures, but it may be thou canst not read, or thou canst not understand the sense and meaning thereof; Christ therefore for thy help hath set up a ministry for the edifying of the Body of Christ. 1These are the watchmen over the house of Israel to cry like trumpets, and to blazon the sins of the house of Israel; these are the suitors of God and Christ to speak out his good will in thine ears;2 they call, they cry, they wait, they woo, they Pray you in Christs stead, that you will be reconciled unto God.
2. The Ministers of Christ be our helps: thou hast the Scriptures, but it may be thou canst not read, or thou canst not understand the sence and meaning thereof; Christ therefore for thy help hath set up a ministry for the edifying of the Body of Christ.