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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 5: Of the Covenant of Promise, as manifested to David.
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.
1. Christ hath been from all eternity? and thou, as an Elect Vessel hadst thy being in ⟨p. 80⟩him, as he was thy Head. 2. Christ is able to perform the Covenant, and being contractor, it lies upon his score to satisfy his Father; he that first made the bargain, must look to fulfil it; and for thy part, if thou dost any thing, it must be through him. Without me ye can do nothing. 1Why, see now, see how the Covenant repels all thy oppositions in respect of the Persons interested in it from all eternity; God hath his place, and Christ his place, and Faith his place, and the Sinner his place.
1. Christ hath been from all eternity? and thou, as an Elect Vessel hadst thy being in ⟨p. 80⟩him, as he was thy Head. 2. Christ is able to perform the Covenant, and being contractor, it lies upon his score to satisfie his Father; he that first made the bargain, must look to fulfill it; and for thy part, if thou dost any thing, it must be through him. Without me ye can do nothing. 1Why, see now, see how the Covenant repels all thy oppositions in respect of the Persons interested in it from all eternity; God hath his place, and Christ his place, and Faith his place, and the Sinner his place.
3. It is well ordered in respect of the method of the Articles in their several workings? first God begins, then we come on: first, God, on his part, gives Grace and Glory, and then we, on our parts, act Faith and Obedience: God hath ever the first work; as first,