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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.
1. True mortification springs from a root of Faith. Every thing in the world proceeds from some cause or other; and if the cause be good, the effect must needs be good; but if the cause be evil, the effect must needs be evil: A good Tree cannot bring forth evil Fruit, and an evil Tree cannot bring forth good Fruit. 1In this case therefore let us examine the cause; if we can make out this truth, that we believe in Christ, that we roll our selves on the Lord Jesus Christ for life and for salvation, and that now we begin to feel in us the decay of sin, we may conclude from the cause or rise, that this decay of sin is true mortification; surely it hath received the deadly wound: it is a blessed effect arising from a good, and right, and genuine cause.
1. True mortification springs from a root of Faith. Every thing in the world proceeds from some cause or other; and if the cause be good, the effect must needs be good; but if the cause be evil, the effect must needs be evil: A good Tree cannot bring forth evil Fruit, and an evil Tree cannot bring forth good Fruit. 1In this case therefore let us examine the cause; if we can make out this truth, that we belive in Christ, that we roll our selves on the Lord Jesus Christ for life and for salvation, and that now we begin to feel in us the decay of sin, we may conclude from the cause or rise, that this decay of sin is true mortification; surely it hath received the deadly wound: it is a blessed effect arising from a good, and right, and genuine cause.
2. True mortification is general; not only one sin, but all sins are mortified in a true Believer. As death is unto the Members of the body, so is mortification unto the members of sin; now death seized upon every member, it leaves not life in any one member of the body; so neither doth mortification leave life in any one member of sin; my meaning is, it takes away the commanding power of sin in every member: Mortify your members which are upon the earth (saith the Apostle) your members,