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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.
SECT. I. Of the fourth Year of Christ's Ministry, and generally of his Actings in that Year.
This was the last year of Christ's ministry, in which were thousands of passages: The Evangelist John relates more of Christ this year than in all the former; and if I studied not brevity, we might dwell more on his actings for us this year, than hitherto we have done from the beginning of his ministry. Now it was that he was transfigured; now it was that he instituted that Sacrament called the Lords Supper; now it was that after supper he made his farewell Sermon, rarely mixed of sadness and joys, and studded with mysteries as with Emeralds; now it was, that after Sermon he blessed his Disciples, and prayed for them, and then having sung an Hymn, he went out into the Mount of Olives, where in a Garden he began his sufferings. On these passages I had thought to have enlarged, but I see the Book swells under my hands, and now that I am drawing near Christ's sufferings, I shall only touch one point, which hitherto I have pretermitted, and is the most comprehensive of any passage I can touch.
THis was the last year of Christ's ministry, in which were thousands of passages: The Evangelist John relates more of Christ this year than in all the former; and if I studied not brevity, we might dwell more on his actings for us this year, than hitherto we have done from the beginning of his ministry. Now it was that he was tranfigured; now it was that he instituted that Sacrament called the Lords Supper; now it was that after supper he made his farewell Sermon, rarely mixt of sadness and joyes, and studed with mysteries as with Emeralds; now it was, that after Sermon he blessed his Disciples, and prayed for them, and then having sung an Hymn, he went out into the Mount of Olives, where in a Garden he began his sufferings. On these passages I had thought to have enlarged, but I see the Book swells under my hands, and now that I am drawing near Christ's sufferings, I shall only touch one point, which hitherto I have pretermitted, and is the most comprehensive of any passage I can touch.