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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 6 › Chapter 3 › Section 4: Of hoping in 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.
4. Let us hope in Jesus, carrying on the great work of our Salvation in his sufferings and death.1 By this hope I intend only that which the Apostle calls full assurance of hope. The main question is, Whether I have any part in Christ's sufferings? they are of excellent use, and of great value to believers, but what am I the better for them, if I have no part in them? or if I say I hope well? Oh but what grounds of that hope? it is not every hope that is a well grounded hope; full assurance of hope is an high pitch of hope, and every Christian should strive and endeavour after it; now that we may do it, and that we may discern it, that our hope is not base, but right-born, that the grounds of our hope in Christ's death are not false, but of the right stamp; I shall lay down these signs.—
4. LEt us hope in Jesus, carrying on the great work of our Salvation in his sufferings and death.1 By this hope I intend only that which the Apostle calls full assurance of hope. The main question is, Whether I have any part in Christ's sufferings? they are of excellent use, and of great value to believers, but what am I the better for them, if I have no part in them? or if I say I hope well? Oh but what grounds of that hope? it is not every hope that is a well grounded hope; full assurance of hope is an high pitch of hope, and every Christian should strive and endeavour after it; now that we may do it, and that we may discern it, that our hope is not base, but right-born, that the grounds of our hope in Christ's death are not false, but of the right stamp; I shall lay down these signs.—
1. If Christ's death be mine, then is Christ's life mine; and converse, if Christ's death be mine, then is Christ's life mine. Christ's active and passive obedience cannot be severed; Christ is not divided: we must not seek one part of our righteousness in his birth, another in his habitual holiness, another in the integrity of his life, another in his obedience of death. They that endeavour to separate Christ's active and passive obedience, they do exceedingly derogate from Christ, and make him but half a Saviour;