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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 9: On conforming to 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.
5. God and Christ loved us with an everlasting Love. So must we love him who hath first loved us: this is the nature of spiritual Love: that it runs into its own Ocean, O love the Lord all ye his Saints! who hath more cause to love him then you have? who hath been loved so much? or who hath so much come under the power of love as you have?1 hath not Christ loved you, not only with a love of well-wishing, which is from everlasting (some call it the love of Election, the fountain-love, the well-head of salvation) but also with a love of complacency? hath not Christ shed abroad his love into your hearts, and shall he lose by it; will not these cords of love draw up your hearts to love him again? sure it's but reason to love him, who hath first loved you, yea, and loved you when you were unlovely, and had nothing in you worthy of love. Christians! then it was that Christ loved you in rags, it is meet therefore that you should love him in Robes.
6. God and Christ appointed, or purposed us unto salvation, his love was a sure, and settled, and firm, and constant love: the purpose of God according to Election must stand. 1So must we love him, and cleave unto him for ever: I have inclined my heart to perform thy Statutes always even to the end. Davids heart was much taken with the Statutes of God, and therefore he gives this expression of the fullness of his heart, alway and even to the end. it is a kind of pleonasm, his resolutions were such that he would never depart from his God.
6. God and Christ appointed, or purposed us unto salvation, his love was a sure, and setled, and firme, and constant love: the purpose of God according to Election must stand.