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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 8: Of calling on Jesus in that respect.
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SECT. VIII. Of calling on Jesus in that respect.
8. Let us call on Jesus, or on God the Father in and through Jesus.
8. LEt us call on Jesus, or on God the Father in and through Jesus.
1. We must pray that all these Transactions of Christ in his sufferings and death may be ours; if we direct our prayers immediately to Jesus Christ, let us tell him what anguish and pains he hath suffered for our sakes; and let us complain against our selves, Oh what shall we do, who by our sins have so tormented our dearest Lord? what contrition can be great enough, what tears sufficiently expressive, what hatred and detestation equal, and commensurate to those sad and heavy sufferings of our Jesus? And then let us pray, that he would pity us, and forgive us those sins wherewith we crucified him, that he would bestow on us the virtue of his sufferings and death, that his wounds might heal us, his death might quicken us, and his blood might cleanse us from all our spiritual filth of sin; and lastly, that he would assure us that his death is ours; that he would persuade us, That neither death, nor life, nor Angels, 1nor principalities nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature should be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
1. We must pray that all these Transactions of Christ in his sufferings and death may be ours; if we direct our prayers immediately to Jesus Christ, let us tell him what anguish and pains he hath suffered for our sakes; and let us complain against our selves, Oh what shall we do, who by our sins have so tormented our dearest Lord? what contrition can be great enough, what tears sufficiently expressive, what hatred and detestation equal, and commensurate to those sad and heavy sufferings of our Jesus? And then let us pray, that he would pity us, and forgive us those sins wherewith we crucified him, that he would bestow on us the vertue of his sufferings and death, that his wounds might heal us, his death might quicken us, and his blood might cleanse us from all our spiritual filth of sin; and lastly, that he would assure us that his death is ours; that he would perswade us, That neither death, nor life, nor Angels,