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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 9: Of conforming to Jesus in that respect.
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SECT. IX. Of conforming to Jesus in that respect.
9. Let us conform to Jesus in respect of his sufferings and death, looking unto Jesus is effective of this; objects have an attractive power, that do assimilate, or make like unto them. I have read of a woman, that by fixing the strength of her imagination upon a Blackamore on the wall, she brought forth a black and swarthy child. And no question but there is a kind of spiritual-imaginative of power in faith to be like to Christ by looking on Christ; come then, and let us look on Christ, and conform to Christ in this respect.
9. LEt us conform to Jesus in respect of his sufferings and death, looking unto Jesus is effective of this; objects have an attractive power, that do assimulate, or make like unto them. I have read of a woman, that by fixing the strength of her imagination upon a Blackamore on the wall, she brought forth a black and swarthy child. And no question but there is a kind of spiritual-imaginative of power in faith to be like to Christ by looking on Christ; come then, and let us look on Christ, and conform to Christ in this respect.
In this particular I shall examine these Queries: 1. Wherein we must conform? 2. What is the cause of this conformity? 3. What are the means of this conformity as on our parts?