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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 9: Of conforming to Jesus in that respect.
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.
or if some of you standing in the relation of a Mother, should see your sucking Child fallen into a pit, and wrestling with the water, and crying for help, would you not stir, nor be moved in heart, nor run to deliver the Child from being drowned? Surely you would, and yet all this pity and compassion of yours is but as a shadow of the compassions and dear affections that were, and that are in the heart of Jesus Christ; O he had a mind devoid of sin, and therefore it could not but be full of pity, mercy, and tender bowels of compassion.
2. I look at the grace in Christ; O he was full of grace, yea, full of all the graces of the Spirit;1 A bundle of Myrrh, is my well-beloved to me:—My Beloved is unto me as a cluster of camphire in the vineyards of Engedi: a bundle of Myrrh, and a cluster of camphire denote all the graces of the Spirit; as many flowers are bound together in a nosegay, so the variety of the graces of the Spirit, concentered in the heart of Jesus Christ, ex. gr.
2. I look at the grace in Christ; O he was full of grace, yea, full of all the graces of the Spirit;1 A bundle of Mirrh, is my well-beloved to me:—My Beloved is unto me as a cluster of camphire in the vineyards of Engedi: a bundle of Myrrh, and a cluster of camphire denote all the graces of the Spirit; as many flowers are bound together in a nosegay, so the variety of the graces of the Spirit, concenter'd in the heart of Jesus Christ, ex. gr.