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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 2 › Section 2: Of considering 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.
yes, as well as the death of one, five thousand six hundred years ago, is the cause of our dying; Adam, and Christ were two heads, two roots, two first-fruits, either of them in reference to his company whom they stand for. And now O my soul, thou mayst say with Job, I know that my Redeemer liveth, 1and that I shall see him at the last day, not with other, but with these same eyes. If Christ live, then must I live also; if he be risen, then though after my skin worms shall destroy this body, 2yet in my flesh I shall see God. Again, was it not that he might be declared to be the Son of God? was it not that he might be exalted, and glorified? this is the main reason of all the rest; see thou to this! O give him the glory, and praise of his resurrection; so muse, and meditate, and consider on this transaction, as to ascribe to his Name all honour, and glory; what, is he risen from the dead? Hath God highly exalted him, 3and given him a name above every name? O then let every tongue confess, that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.
- 1Job 19.25.
- 2Ver. 26.
- 3Psal. 2.11.
3. Consider of the manner of Christ's resurrection; he rose as a common person; in which respect his resurrection concerns us no less than himself. We must not think that when Christ was raised, it was no more than when Lazarus was raised; his resurrection was the resurrection of us all; it was in the name of us all, and had in it a seed-like virtue to work the resurrection of us all. O the privilege of this communion with Christ's resurrection! if I believe this truly, I cannot but believe the resurrection of my body, and the life everlasting; why, Jesus Christ hath led the dance, and though of my self I have no right to Heaven or Glory, yet in Christ my Head I have as good right to it as any heir apparent to his lands.—2. He rose by his own power; and so did none but Jesus Christ; from the beginning of the world it was never heard that any dead man raised himself; Indeed one Instance we have that a dead mans Corps should raise up another dead man, They cast the man into the Sepulchre of Elisha,