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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 4: Of hoping 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. If we act by the rule of Christ. If ye love me keep my commandments.— He that hath my Commandments and keepeth them, 1he it is that loveth me.— If any man love me, he will keep my commandments. He that loves Christ, he will look upon every act, every service, every performance, whether it be according to the rule of Christ, and then on he goes with it.
1. If we act by the rule of Christ. If ye love me keep my commandements.— He that hath my Commandements and keepeth them, 1he it is that loveth me.— If any man love me, he will keep my commandements. He that loves Christ, he will look upon every act, every service, every performance, whether it be according to the rule of Christ, and then on he goes with it.
- 11 John 14.15, 21.23, 24.
2. If we act to the honour of Christ. We may pray, and hear, and preach, and act self more then the honour of Jesus Christ; whiles Christ showed miracles, and fed his followers to the full, they cried up Jesus, and none like Jesus; but when Christ was plain with them, ye seek me, not because ye saw the miracles, but because ye did eat of the loaves, 1and were filled; when he pressed sincerity upon them, and preparation for sufferings, from that time many of his Disciples went back, and walked no more with him. Its no news for men to fall off when their ends fail; only they that love Christ look not at these outward things in respect of the honour of Jesus Christ; and hence it is that in all their actings they will carry on the design of the Father in advancing the honour of the Son, whatever it cost them. O my soul apply this to thy self; if thou livest the life of love, if in all thy actings, duties, services, thou art carried on with a principle of love to Jesus Christ, it is a sure sign of thy vivification.