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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.
4. Consider the purpose of God concerning thy salvation:1 God hath not appointed (or purposed) us wrath, but to obtain salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ. As when we have a will to do any thing, there follows upon this in the mind a settled purpose to effect it; so when God hath loved some to life, there is in God a settled purpose of bringing them to it: that the purpose of God according to Election might stand, or be sure;2 it imports Gods stability, and steadiness, and constancy, and firmness in saving souls. There is much inconstancy and fickleness in the love of man, or in the love of a woman, but the love of God to his people is a steady love; as the Bridegroom rejoiceth over the Bride, 3so shall thy God rejoice over thee; not only so doth thy God, but so shall thy God rejoice over thee. Gods purposes are without any alteration, the love of Christ after thousands of years is still as the love of a Bridegroom upon the wedding day; indeed then ordinarily love is hot, and appears much; so is Christs love, and so is Gods love ever hot; there is no moment of time from Eternity to Eternity wherein God rejoiceth not over his Saints, as the Bridegroom over his Bride; not only as an husband over his wife, but as a Bridegroom over his Bride, we may say of this purpose of God, as it was in the beginning, is now and ever shall be World without end.
4. Consider the purpose of God concerning thy salvation:1 God hath not appointed (or purposed) us wrath, but to obtain salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ. As when we have a will to do any thing, there follows upon this in the mind a setled purpose to effect it; so when God hath loved some to life, there is in God a setled purpose of bringing them to it: that the purpose of God according to Election might stand, or be sure;2 it imports Gods stability, and steadiness, and constancy, and firmness in saving souls. There is much inconstancy and fickleness in the love of man, or in the love of a woman, but the love of God to his people is a steady love; as the Bridegroom rejoyceth over the Bride,