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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.
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. 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.
3. The lives of Saints be our helps; we have not only Teachers in word, but the Saints in all Ages, as so many Stars, have given us light how to walk in the darkness of this life. The examples of the godly are very drawing, and much for our imitation, and therefore the Psalmist bids us, Mark the perfect man, and behold the upright,