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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 2 › 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.
2. Some other things God was a doing in relation to his creatures; they will fall in at our next consideration: only this by the way. As God and Christ rejoiced in the fruition of one another without communicating the notice thereof to any creature; so in the next verse we find them rejoicing in the salvation of men:1 and my delights were with the sons of men. Amidst the other considerations, O my soul think of this: what, that God from all eternity should delight in thy salvation; why this consideration sets out to purpose the heart and desire of God to save thy soul: for, 1. Delights arise out of the strongest and choicest desires; men are pleased with many things in which they delight not. 2 God and Christ are mentioned here to delight in this work, and in no other work of theirs, not in the Angels, not in the world, nor in any thing in it. 3. This their delight is mentioned next to their delighting in each other. 4. This delight is aforehand, whilst Gods heart was only in the expectation, and his mind but laying the plot of thy salvation, all these argue how great a matter this was in Gods esteem, and how much his heart was in it, even from everlasting. O let these fall into thy consideration?
2. Some other things God was a doing in relation to his creatures; they will fall in at our next consideration: only this by the way. As God and Christ rejoyced in the fruition of one another without communicating the notice thereof to any creature; so in the next verse we find them rejoycing in the salvation of men:1 and my delights were with the sons of men. Amidst the other considerations, O my soul think of this: what, that God from all eternity should delight in thy salvation; why this consideration sets out to purpose the heart and desire of God to save thy soul: for, 1. Delights arise out of the strongest and choycest desires; men are pleased with many things in which they delight not. 2 God and Christ are mentioned here to delight in this work, and in no other work of theirs, not in the Angels, not in the world, nor in any thing in it. 3. This their delight is mentioned next to their delighting in each other. 4. This delight is aforehand, whilest Gods heart was only in the expectation, and his mind but laying the plot of thy salvation, all these argue how great a matter this was in Gods esteem, and how much his heart was in it, even from everlasting. O let these fall into thy consideration?