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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
Book 5 › Chapter 5 › Section 8: Of calling on Jesus in that respect.
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SECT. VIII. Of calling on Jesus in that respect.
8. Let us call on Jesus, or on God the Father in and through Jesus. Thus we read that looking up to Jesus, or lifting up the eyes to Jesus, goes also for Prayer in Gods Book:1 My prayer will I direct to thee (saith David) and will look up, and mine eyes fail with looking upwards. 2Faith in prayer will often come out at the eye in lieu of another door; our affections will often break out at the window, when the door is closed. Thus Stephen looked up to Heaven; he sent a Post, a greedy, pitiful and hungry look up to Jesus Christ out at the window,3 at the nearest passage, to tell him that a poor friend was coming to him: why thus let us look up to Jesus by calling on him; now this calling on him contains Prayer and Praise.
8. LEt us call on Jesus, or on God the Father in and through Jesus. Thus we read that looking up to Jesus, or lifting up the eyes to Jesus, goes also for Prayer in Gods Book:1 My prayer will I direct to thee (saith David) and will look up, and mine eyes fail with looking upwards. 2Faith in prayer will often come out at the eye in lieu of another door; our affections will often break out at the window, when the door is closed. Thus Stephen look'd up to Heaven; he sent a Post, a greedy, pitiful and hungry look up to Jesus Christ out at the window,3 at the nearest passage, to tell him that a poor friend was coming to him: why thus let us look up to Jesus by calling on him; now this calling on him contains Prayer and Praise.