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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 3 › Chapter 1 › Section 4: Of the Covenant of promise as manifested to Moses.
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. What are the good things Promised in this expressure of the Covenant? not to reckon up the temporal Promises of riches, honour, victory, peace, and protection in a land of Oil, Olive, and Honey, the great mercies of God are expressed in these terms, I am the Lord thy God which brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. This is the great Promise of the Covenant, it is as great as God himself: That we may better see it, and know it, I shall take it in pieces; the gold is so pure, that it is pity the least filing should be lost. Here God describes himself by these notes. 1. By his only eternal and Perfect Essence, I am the Lord. 2. By the Plurality of persons in that one essence, I am the Lord God, Jehovah Elohim. 3. By the propriety his people have in Jehovah Elohim, I am the Lord thy God. 4. By the fruit of that Propriety in reference to Israel, which brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.
5. What are the good things Promised in this expressure of the Covenant? not to reckon up the temporal Promises of riches, honour, victory, peace, and protection in a land of Oyle, Olive, and Honey, the great mercies of God are expressed in these terms, I am the Lord thy God which brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. This is the great Promise of the Covenant, it is as great as God himself: That we may better see it, and know it, I shall take it in pieces; the gold is so pure, that it is pity the least filing should be lost. Here God describes himself by these notes. 1. By his only eternal and Perfect Essence, I am the Lord. 2. By the Plurality of persons in that one essence, I am the Lord God, Jehovah Elohim. 3. By the propriety his people have in Jehovah Elohim, I am the Lord thy God. 4. By the fruit of that Propriety in reference to Israel, which brought thee out of the land of Eygpt, out of the house of bondage.
11. I am Jehovah: we read that he appeared to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob by the name of God Almighty, but now he was known to the Israelites by his name Jehovah, I am the Lord. Why, was it not by that name that he appeared to Abraham, Isaac,