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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 7 › Chapter 1 › Section 7: Of Christ's Apparition to all his Apostles.
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.
For omniscience, he needed not that any should testify of man, for he knew what was in man. For omnipresence, lo I am with you alway unto the end of the world.
For omniscience, he needed not that any should testifie of man, for he knew what was in man. For omnipresence, lo I am with you alway unto the end of the world.
Men, Brethren, and Fathers: I am forced to make this defence of the divinity of Christ, because of the blasphemy of those Arians, Photinians, Eunomians, now again raked out of hell. O who would think that such a generation of men should be amongst us in this Island, where the Gospel hath shined so brightly for so many years? we maintain Christ is God, and Christ is Lord; we say with Thomas, my Lord, and my God. Ah say blasphemers, Christ is God, and Christ is Lord, as Magistrates and Angels are called Gods and Lords: I hope I have said enough to difference betwixt Christ and them; howsoever I conclude with the Apostle, Though there be that are called Gods, whether in heaven or in earth (as there be Gods many, and Lords many) yet to us there is but one God, the Father of whom are all things, and we in him, and one Lord Jesus Christ, by whom are all things, and we by him,1
3. He acknowledgeth Christ to be his Lord, and his God; And Thomas answered, and said unto him, my Lord, and my God. Now his saith broke out; from the things seen and felt; he is raised up to believe things neither seen nor felt; he sees the prints and scars in the manhood of Christ, and now he believes that Christ is God, yea that Christ is his God; my Lord, and my God. Observe here, that faith gives the soul a propriety in God and Christ. As God loves some with a special and peculiar love, so faith answers God and Christ's particular love, by a particular application, my Lord, and my God, and my Christ. Faith is an appropriating, an applying, an uniting grace; in the actings of faith on God, or on Christ as God, we may observe these steps,—