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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 7: Of joying 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. One cries thus, Oh I know not what will become of me, my sins are ever before me; against thee, thee only have I sinned, and done this evil in thy sight. 1I have sinned against a most dear, and gracious, and merciful God and Father in our Lord Jesus; O the aggravations of my sins! are they not sins above measure sinful.
It may be so, but the blood of Christ is a fountain opened for sins and for uncleanness; in him we have redemption through his blood, even the forgiveness of sins. 1— He by himself purged our sins.—And now once in the end of the world hath he appeared, put away sin by the sacrifice of himself.—And Christ was once offered to bear the sins of many. [Greek or Hebrew], to bear away the sins of many. As the Scape-coat under the Law had upon his head all the iniquities of the Children of Israel, and so was sent away by the hand of a fit man into the wilderness; so the Lord Jesus (of whom that Goat was a type) had all the iniquities of his Elect laid upon him by God his Father, and bearing them, he took them away, Behold the Lamb of God, 2that taketh away the sins of the world; he bore them, and bore them away; he went away with them into the wilderness, or into the land of forgetfulness. See what comfort is here.
It may be so, but the blood of Christ is a fountain opened for sins and for uncleanness; in him we have redemption through his blood, even the forgiveness of sins. 1— He by himself purged our sins.—And now once in the end of the world hath he appeared, put away sin by the sacrifice of himself.—And Christ was once offered to bear the sins of many. , to bear away the sins of many. As the Scape-coat under the Law had upon his head all the iniquities of the Children of Israel, and so was sent away by the hand of a fit man into the wilderness; so the Lord Jesus (of whom that Goat was a type) had all the iniquities of his Elect laid upon him by God his Father, and bearing them, he took them away, Behold the Lamb of God,