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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.
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.
11. In him was meekness, He cometh unto thee meek: he had a sweet command and moderation of his anger;2 he was meek as Moses, nay, though Moses was very meek, and very meek above all the men that were upon the face of the earth, yet Christ's meekness exceeded Mose's, as the body doth exceed the shadow.