A25241:1915
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 6: Of Loving in Jesus in that Respect.
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SECT. VI. Of Loving in Jesus in that Respect.
6. Let us love Jesus, as carrying on the great work of our salvation for us in his resurrection; surely if we hope in Christ, and believe in Christ, we cannot but love Christ; if Christ's resurrection be our justification, and so the ground both of our hope and faith, how should we but love him, who hath done such great things for us? she that had much forgiven her, loved much; and if by virtue of Christ's resurrection we are Justified from all our sins, how should we but love him much? but that I may let down some cords of Love, whereby to draw our loves to Christ in this respect, let us consider thus.—
6. LEt us love Jesus, as carrying on the great work of our salvation for us in his resurection; surely if we hope in Christ, and believe in Christ, we cannot but love Christ; if Christ's resurrection be our justification, and so the ground both of our hope and faith, how should we but love him, who hath done such great things for us? she that had much forgiven her, loved much; and if by vertue of Christ's resurrection we are Justified from all our sins, how should we but love him much? but that I may let down some cords of Love, whereby to draw our loves to Christ in this respect, let us consider thus.—
Love is a motion of the appetite, by which the mind unites it self to that which seems good to it. You may object that Christ is absent, how then should our souls be united to him? but if we consider that objects, though absent, may be united to the powers by their species and images, as well as by their true beings, we may then be said truly to love Christ as raised, though he be absent from us; come then, stir up thy appetite, bring into thy imagination the Idea of Christ as in his resurrection; present him to thy affection of Love, in that very form wherein he appeared to his Disciples; as gazing upon the dusty beauty of flesh, kindleth the fire of carnal love, so this gazing on Christ, and on the passages of Christ in his resurrection will kindle this spiritual love in thy soul: Draw near then, and behold him; Is he not white and ruddy, the chiefest among ten thousands? is not his head as the most fine gold? are not his locks bushy,