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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.
3. It may be they are in such company as may make them sad: the men of the World object against Saints, that they are heavy, and sour, and melancholy men; but in the mean time they consider not that their swearing, revelling, and dishonouring of God hath made them so pensive. Why sinners! your carriage grieves the very Spirit of God,1 You grieve God at the heart, as it is expressed, Gen. 6.6. and therefore no wonder if the godly cannot rejoice in your sinful society; you are the cause of their sadness; but admit them once into the company and fellowship of the Saints, and they know how to be joyful.
3. It may be they are in such company as may make them sad: the men of the World object against Saints, that they are heavy, and sowr, and melancholy men; but in the mean time they consider not that their swearing, revelling, and dishonouring of God hath made them so pensive. Why sinners! your carriage grieves the very Spirit of God,1 You grieve God at the heart, as it is expressed, Gen. 6.6. and therefore no wonder if the godly cannot rejoyce in your sinful society; you are the cause of their sadness; but admit them once into the company and fellowship of the Saints, and they know how to be joyful.
- 1Gen. 6.6.
4. If it be so, that usually they are pensive and sad, it is not because of Religion, but because they are not more Religious; because they find so much want of godliness in their own hearts;1