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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
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.
Content Father, I will go, and fulfil thy pleasure, and they shall be mine for ever; I will in the fullness of time die for them, and they shall live in me; burnt-offerings, and sin-offerings thou hast not required, (no, it was self-offering) then said I, lo I Come, in the volume of the Book it is written of me, to do thy will O my God. In what Book was it written, that Christ should come to do the will of God? Not only in the Book of the Law and the Prophets, but also in the Book of Gods decrees: In this sense the Lamb was slain from the foundation of the world. 1His Father from before all time appointed him to be our high Priest, and he from all eternity subscribed to his Fathers pleasure in it.
Content Father, I will go, and fulfil thy pleasure, and they shall be mine for ever; I will in the fullness of time die for them, and they shall live in me; burnt-offerings, and sin-offerings thou hast not required, (no, it was self-offering) then said I, loe I Come, in the volume of the Book it is written of me, to do thy will O my God. In what Book was it written, that Christ should come to do the will of God? Not only in the Book of the Law and the Prophets, but also in the Book of Gods decrees: In this sense the Lamb was slain from the foundation of the world. 1His Father from before all time appointed him to be our high Priest, and he from all eternity subscribed to his Fathers pleasure in it.
In Galath. 3.15.1 Brethren, I speak after the manner of men; though it be but a mans Covenant, yet if it be confirmed, no man disannulleth, or addeth thereto. Now to Abraham & his seed were the promises made; he saith not, and to seeds, as of many, but as of one, and to thy seed, which is Christ. There is a question whether this Covenant here mentioned, was made only betwixt God and Christ, or only betwixt God and us, or both betwixt God and Christ, & betwixt God and us. The occasion of this question is in these words, Now to Abraham,