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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.
4. Christs Ordinances be our helpers; as the Word, and Sacraments, and Prayer, and Meditation, and Conference, &c. What are they but Fountains of grace, conduits and conveyances of the blood of Christ? To what end were they instituted, but for the watering of our souls to the increase of grace, and to the supplanting of sin and vice, and all manner of evil?
4. Christs Ordinances be our helpers; as the Word, and Sacraments, and Prayer, and Meditation, and Conference, &c. What are they but Fountains of grace, conduits and conveyances of the blood of Christ? To what end were they instituted, but for the watering of our souls to the encrease of grace, and to the supplanting of sin and vice, and all manner of evil?
5. The encouragements of reward be our helps. Now in the practise of Christian Religion there is a double reward. 1. The reward of duty,1 In the keeping of thy Commandments there is great reward; he saith not, for keeping them, but in keeping them there is great reward, there is a grace, a beauty, an excellency in every gracious acting. 2. The reward according to the duty; to this exercise of Religion Christ hath annexed many sweet and gracious Promises both for this life, and that to come; and these Promises may be used as helps; He had respect unto the recompense of reward. 2To this purpose are the glorious things of Heaven set open before us, that we may have an eye to them, and be encouraged by them. So run that ye may obtain.3
5. The encouragements of reward be our helps. Now in the practise of Christian Religion there is a double reward. 1. The reward of duty,1 In the keeping of thy Commandments there is great reward; he saith not, for keeping them, but in keeping them there is great reward, there is a grace, a beauty, an excellency in every gracious acting. 2. The reward according to the duty; to this exercise of Religion Christ hath annexed many sweet and gracious Promises both for this life, and that to come; and these Promises may be used as helps; He had respect unto the recompence of reward.