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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. IV. Of Hoping in Jesus in that respect.
SECT. IV. Of Hopeing in Jesus in that respect.
4. Let us hope in Jesus carrying on the great work of our Salvation in his Life. By this hope I mean not a fluctuating, wavering, doubtful hope, but an assured hope; an hope well grounded. The main soul question is, whether Christ's life be mine? whether all those passages of his life l•id open, belong unto me? whether the habitual righteousness, and actual holiness of Christ be imputed to my justification? and what are the grounds and foundations on which my hope is built? The Apostle tells us, that God gives good hopes through Grace; if hope be right and good,1 it will manifest it self by operations of saving Grace: O look into thy soul! what gracious effects of the life of Christ are there? certainly his life is not with out some influence on our spirits, if we be his Members, and he be our Head. The Head we say, communicates life and sense, and motion to his members; and so doth Christ communicate a spiritual life and sense, and motion to his members; O the glorious effects flowing out of Christ's life into a Believers soul! I shall lay down these. As,—
4. LEt us hope in Jesus carrying on the great work of our Salvation in his Life. By this hope I mean not a fluctuating, wavering, doubtful hope, but an assured hope; an hope well grounded. The main soul question is, whether Christ's life be mine? whether all those passages of his life l•id open, belong unto me? whether the habitual righteousness, and actual holiness of Christ be imputed to my justification? and what are the grounds and foundations on which my hope is built? The Apostle tells us, that God gives good hopes through Grace; if hope be right and good,1 it will manifest it self by operations of saving Grace: O look into thy soul! what gracious effects of the life of Christ are there? certainly his life is not with out some influence on our spirits, if we be his Members, and he be our Head. The Head we say, communicates life and sense, and motion to his members; and so doth Christ communicate a spiritual life and sense, and motion to his members; O the glorious effects flowing out of Christ's life into a Believers soul! I shall lay down these. As,—